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Hear Monrad Johansen’s great chamber works!<\/p>\n
David Monrad Johansen was central in the development of a nationally oriented music during the interwar period in Norway. His Piano Quartet, Op. 26 and the incidental music for \u201cDen store freden\u201d (The Great Peace) was composed during this period. To this day they have just existed in manuscript form, and this recording will be the first recording ever to feature these two works. The violinist Tor Johan B\u00f8en has made new editions of Monrad Johansen\u00b4s Piano Quartet, Op. 26 and the incidental music for \u201cDen store freden\u201d based on the composer\u00b4s manuscripts. As head of the ensemble Fragaria Vesca, B\u00f8en makes sure these hitherto unknown works gets the attention they deserve when presented in inspired performances.<\/p>\n
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David Monrad Johansen was central in the development of a nationally oriented music during the interwar period in Norway. His Piano Quartet, Op. 26 and the incidental music for \u201cThe Great Peace\u201d was composed during this period. To this day they have just existed in manuscript form, and this recording is the first recording ever to feature these two works.<\/p>\n
n November 1913, Monrad Johansen finished his first and only Violin Sonata. The sonata was given a lukewarm reception at the time \u2013 hard to understand when heard today. For the composer himself, the elegiac second movement was an example of how the longing he felt for his childhood home-county Nordland could be expressed musically, a longing which for him would become a source of inspiration and a creative force throughout his life.<\/p>\n
The writer Hulda Garborg made a journey to the USA in 1913. Here she became occupied with the fate of the Indian culture, and subsequently worked for three years with a large lyrical drama about the peace-loving Sioux-chief Hiawatha. Commissioned by Det Norske Teatret, Monrad Johansen began setting music to the drama, but the work was never realised on stage. Besides a version for mixed choir of the movement \u201cIndiansk kj\u00e6rlighetssang\u201d (\u201cIndian love song\u201d), the music has rested in the archives of the Norwegian Natonal Library \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n
The 1940s was a troublesome time for the composer, due to his membership in the Norwegian fascist party, Nasjonal Samling, and the post-war sentence for treason. The Piano Quartet, Op. 26, was written during his imprisonment, inspired by thorough studies of fugues by Bach, H\u00e4ndel and Reger, and Beethoven\u00b4s string quartets. The Piano Quartet is a hidden gem in the Norwegian chamber music repertoire of the 20th century. In 1967, Monrad Johansen was asked to contribute a musical piece to the Norwegian Society of Composers\u00b4 50th anniversary, for which the composer wrote a grand Flute Quintet. It was to be his penultimate work, a piece of music which undoubtedly shows a composer forever searching for new musical expressions with imaginative development even to his very last years.<\/p>\n
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