REPRINT SERIES Hugo Alfvén's "Vallflickans Dans" (The Shepherd’s Girl’s Dance) is one of the most celebrated excerpts from his ballet Bergakungen (The Mountain King), composed in 1916-1923. This orchestral piece captures the essence...

REPRINT SERIES The large collection of rocky islands in the Baltic off Stockholm, known as the "Skerries" in English, inspired special affection in Alfvén, who spent many fine days there in his youth. In 1903, after writing Midsummer Vigil, the...

Hugo Alfvén regarded his Symphony No 1 (1896) as the first ‘written in the Swedish language’. It gets a little tied up in the closing pages of its otherwise clearly argued opening Allegro; the Andante is at its best when it breaks...