Udden/ Uppsala Chamber Soloists/ Hellekant - Tendresseske Uddn (1903 1987) was a composer and professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. During the 1920s, he studied at the Paris Conservatory and included Caussade and Tournemire among his teachers. He was greatly inspired by Ravel and "Les Six". The basic characteristics of Uddn's compositions, mostly for chamber and vocal music, come from the French role models on which his education was based. A balanced, sober and

Lithuania and Georgia

Sixième Ordre

he works with much faster-paced rhythms

and Max and the Mild Ones

Chris Thile (mandolin)

Manchester

these fugues - most transcribed and arranged here by director Amanda Keesmaat for various combinations of cellos

Wanting to also include a sonata

operating with an expansive

the Sixth seems like a charming "coming-of-age" work that demonstrated to the composer - with the utmost severity - the creative limits of youth-fuelled ardor

can unleash a terrible Evil on the Earth

treated and played back