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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Justin on Thursday 10 June 2021, 03:21

Title: The Swedish Smorgasbord in Orchestral Music
Post by: Justin on Thursday 10 June 2021, 03:21
This upcoming Sterling CD is a compilation of Swedish orchestral music that was previously released on LPs. Includes music by Alfvén, Peterson-Berger, Liljefors and Söderman. To be released on July 2nd:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8918105--the-swedish-smorgasbord-in-orchestral-music (https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8918105--the-swedish-smorgasbord-in-orchestral-music)

Obviously, the sound quality is going to vary among tracks.
Title: Re: The Swedish Smorgasbord in Orchestral Music
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 10 June 2021, 12:06
Thanks for flagging this up.
Title: Re: The Swedish Smorgasbord in Orchestral Music
Post by: ewk on Thursday 10 June 2021, 14:44
Can anyone with more swedish skills than I have enlighten us about why a CD would be called The smörgåsbord "in" orchestral Music? I understand it is kind of a buffet (meaning "butter-bread table"), so it is a buffet full of different music, but is there anything more to it? And even if that's all, I would have rather called it  "a smörgåsbord of orchestral music"?
Title: Re: The Swedish Smorgasbord in Orchestral Music
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 10 June 2021, 16:23
I'm sure this is a translation issue. The title should surely read 'A Swedish Smörgåsbord of Orchestral Music'.
Title: Re: The Swedish Smorgasbord in Orchestral Music
Post by: ewk on Thursday 10 June 2021, 18:10
Yeah, probably true. My first association was "wow a CD with orchestral works featuring an obscure swedish instrument", or even a joke CD (given "smörgås" means "butter bread")...
Title: Re: The Swedish Smorgasbord in Orchestral Music
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 10 June 2021, 18:14
Sterling has another sampler/smorgåsborg CD with tracks (unfortunately only) by Hans Huber and others (as I know from access to just that sampler but no more at this time via NML, though I fortunately have access to more, iirc, over Amazon Music- will have to check.)