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This album comprises three works by three composers of three different nationalities performed by Finland’s Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra led by artistic director Malin Broman (who is also an accomplished violinist). The Sea Sketches by Welsh composer Grace Williams opens the program, inspired by the beaches of Glamorganshire and by its seascape. Grażyna Bacewicz’s Fourth String Quartet is played here in an arrangement for string orchestra. Bacewicz was an important figure on the Polish music scene in the mid-20th century, and this quartet is her best-known composition: an approachable work with folk music influences. Vienna-born Johanna Müller-Hermann’s post-romantic String Quartet, also in an arrangement for string orchestra, concludes the program, evoking the golden age of Vienna and the music of Mahler, Strauss, and Müller-Hermann’s teacher Zemlinsky.

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