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Festival

Performers:
Trio ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen,
Margareta Bengtsson: soprano and harp,
Mats Zetterqvist and Klara Hellgren: violin,
Royal Wind Quintet,
Bertold Grosse: bassoon, Kristina Kärlin: horn,
Staffan Mårtensson: clarinet,
Mats Widlund and artistic director Bengt Forsberg: piano
Program - Thursday, September 3, 19.00
Bernard Crusell - Concert trio in F for clarinet, horn & bassoon
Franz Berwald - Quartet in E flat for clarinet, horn, bassoon & piano
Gunnar de Frumerie - Piano sonatas nr 1 & 2
Jean Sibelius - "Voces intimae" for string quartet Op 56
Program - Friday, September 4, 19.00
Sebastian Fagerlund - String trio
Pauline Hall - Suite for wind quintet
Axel Raoul Wachtmeister - Trio for violin, harp & piano
Kaija Saariaho - "Je suis un deuxieme Coeur" for viola, cello & piano
Jean Sibelius - Theme with variations for solo cello
Bo Linde - Violin sonata
Program - Saturday, September 5, 19.00
Anders Eliasson - String trio
Carl Nielsen - Violin sonata
Anders Annerholm - Three songs to texts by Nelly Sachs
Emil Sjögren - Violin sonata nr 2 in e-minor
Per Nørgård - "Pastorale", music from the film "Babettes gästabud"
Gunnar de Frumerie - Piano quartet
Program - Sunday September 6, 14.00
Ylva Fred - "For the Mouse is a Crea"
Ylva Fred - "Svaga nerver" for piano (premier)
Gösta Nystroem - Pa reveln, three songs
Allan Pettersson - Selections from Seven sonatas for 2 violins
Edvard Grieg - Norwegian dances for 4-handed piano
Carl Nielsen - Two fantasies op 2 for oboe & piano
Carl Nielsen - Canto serioso for horn & piano
Carl Nielsen - Wind quintet
September children's program

The program consisted of short pieces by Shostakovich, Bach and Nielsen, plus easy pieces where the children sang along and danced. 25 children between 3 and 9 brought 23 adults with them (or was it vice-versa).
After the 35 minute long program the children queued to try out the instruments.
Performers
MalvaKvartetten The Quartet was formed in 2008 at the Academy of Music and Drama at Gothenburg University. 2010 they were admitted to exchange studies at the Hochschule für Musik "Hans Eisler" in Berlin as the first ensemble at bachelor level. 2013 starred Malva Quartet as finalists in the Chamber Music Association's Young & Promising contest. The members are Linnea Hällqvist and Knapp Brita Pettersson, violin; Maria Jonsson, viola and Maja Molander, cello.
Link to MalvaKvartetten's home page in Swedish:
Oktober concert

Performers:
Ellen Nisbeth, viola and Bengt Forsberg, piano
Program:
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): Cello suite nr 3 op 87 (arr for viola)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958): Romance
- Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979): Viola sonata
Intermission - Frank Bridge (1879-1941): A Sea Idyl for piano
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: 4 songs < Songs of Travel
- Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae - Reflections on a song of Dowland, op 48
encore - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Youth and Love < Songs of Travel

November 14, 2015 Chamber music by Gabriel Fauré

Performers:
Andreas Brantelid, cello and Bengt Forsberg, piano
Program:
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924):
- Sonata nr 1 in d-minor op.109
- Elegi in c-minor op.24
- Romance op.69
- Berceuse (Lullaby) op.16
Paus - Nocturne nr 1 in e-flat minor op. 33:1
- Serenade op.98
- Sonata nr 2 in g-minor op.117
encores - Sicilienne for cello & piano, op.78
- Papillon, op.77

Sibelius anniversary concert

Program
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
- 6 impromptus op 5
- Songs - "Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte" och "Lasse liten"
- Piano sonata in F op 12
Intermission
Anders Emilsson (b 1963) - 3 songs with text by Dan Andersson
Jean Sibelius - 3 Melodramas
- Svartsjukans nätter
- Ett ensamt skidspår
- Skogsrået
encore - Julvisa, op 1:4
Performers
Bengt Forsberg and Jeannette Bjurling: soprano performed in the first section.
After the intermission they were joined by
Gunnel Fred: recitation and a chamber orchestra consisting of
Ingrid Olsson and Berit Mattsson: violin, Mikael Sjögren: viola,
Sara Wijk: cello, Katarina Trollhagen: double bass,
Ellen Holmström: horn and Anders Emilsson: clarinet
Between Christmas and New Year's Eve

Program
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - French suite nr 1 in d minor
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Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) - Suite, op 45
Paus
- Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) -
Melodie for cello & piano op 20 nr 1 with Filip Graden, cello
Etyd 'La Nuit' op 31:3
Preludium - Improvisation nr 2 - Alexander Skrjabin (1872-1915) -
Etyd i ciss-moll op 2:1
Etyd i H-dur op 8:4
Poem op 32:1
Etyd op 42:1
2 danser 'Guirlandes' op 73:1 - Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Finlandia, pianoarrangemang
Encore
- J S Bach - In dulci jubilo, BWV 729
Performers
Bengt Forsberg: piano and ""Filip Graden"": cello