John Fernström: Wind Quintet, Op. 59 (1943)

00:00 - I. Allegro molto 05:49 - II. Adagio 11:47 - III. Scherzo: Allegro molto 14:51 - IV. Finale-Rondo: Vivace _____ Ensemble: Pollux Wind Quintet Bassoon: Magnus Nilsson Clarinet: Per Johansson Flute: Johan Skeppstedt Andersson Horn: Åshilld Henriksen Oboe: Carl Andersson Year of Recording: 2008 _____ “Fernström was born in Yichang, China, where he also spent most part of the first ten years of his life at the mission his father directed, except for a couple of years in Sweden. He resided permanently in the Swedish province of Skåne from 1907 and started to study the violin at the conservatory in Malmö. He was with the symphony orchestra of Helsingborg from 1916 until 1932, with some interruptions for studies; first as a violinist, later as one of its leading conductors. From 1941 he conducted the Lund Women’s Student Choir at Lund University and took part in restructuring it, in 1948, into a mixed ensemble named Lund Academic Choir (Lunds