Clas Pehrsson

Despite a past due begin in his job, Clas Pehrsson were able to become among the leading recorder players from Scandinavia. He’s mainly self-taught and among a small amount of recorder players to frequently perform both early and contemporary works. He’s also one of the most prolific in the documenting studio, with more than 30 recordings to his credit. And in a global often connected with starched collars and dead-serious overall performance practices, he offers demonstrated a relatively self-effacing love of life, as evidenced by his present around the cover of his BIS Compact disc, Clas Pehrsson Performs Contemporary Recorder Music, wherein he’s sitting at a desk, silverware at hand, going to dine on many recorders! Pehrsson provides frequently concertized through the mid-’60s, generally being a recitalist and chamber participant, though he in addition has appeared being a soloist with orchestra. Pehrsson provides performed as an associate from the trio Musica Intima and in the recorder quintet he founded, Musica Dolce. He provides concertized throughout European countries as well as the U.S. and documented solely for the BIS label. Clas Pehrsson was created in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1942. He researched the violin and viola in early stages, but by the first ’60s he previously made a decision to play the recorder, a musical instrument he generally learned by himself. He had afterwards research in early music efficiency procedures with Nicolas Harnoncourt, Ferdinand Conrad, and Hans-Martin Linde. In 1965 Pehrsson started teaching recorder efficiency at the College or university University of Music in Stockholm. But he was also energetic on the concert stage through the entire 1960s. In 1969 he founded Musica Dolce and provides since offered as music movie director. With the 1970s he was producing headway for the worldwide picture with such initiatives being a 1975 BIS LP basically entitled Clas Pehrsson, which highlighted him with Musica Dolce in functions by Telemann, A. Scarlatti, Heinichen, and Boismortier. 1975 was also the entire year Pehrsson founded the Swedish Recorder Instructors’ Society. For this period, he was delving into modern functions by Hans-Martin Linde (Amarilli, mia bella, from 1971), Makoto Shinohara (Fragmente for Recorder, 1973), and many more. Pehrsson was also raising the range of his repertory in even more mainstream ways, much like his 1979 BIS LP Recorder & Acoustic guitar, which presented a assortment of functions by Dowland, Ferrabosco, Milano, Ortiz, as well as others, with guitarist Cecilia Peijel. From the 1980s Pehrsson was a significant presence around the worldwide picture. He received high compliment for his Oct 1985 appearance in Carnegie Hall using the Drottningholm Baroque Outfit in shows of Sammartini’s Concerto in F and Johan Helmich Roman’s Drottningholms-musiquen collection. Pehrsson was specifically occupied in the documenting studio room for BIS in the 1990s. In 1994 only three quantities of the entire recorder music of Telemann had been issued. In the brand new hundred years Pehrsson remained energetic on the concert stage, even though recordings continued to seem, they have mainly been reissues, much like the 2011 six-CD BIS assortment of the recorder music of Telemann offering Pehrsson and a bunch of other performers.