This Opus 3 catalogue contains a highly personnel selection of music. We seek out and record music and musicians with, in our view, unique qualities. All the music is acoustic and performed "unplugged" and includes both jazz, classical and folk music, while the performers range from internationally acclaimed instrumentalists to youngsters with a promising carreer ahead of them. For example: The Stockholm Guitar Quartet is the only guitar quartet in the world to play on four differently tuned instruments. The quartet was formed in 1975 and its first recording, under the Opus 3 label, appeared in 1978. In this way the quartet spanned almost 6 full octaves, in contrast with the 3 -of the conventional 6 -stringed guitar. This unique combination of forces brought within range the kind of chamber and orchestral music which, under normal conditions, is beyond the scope of the ordinary guitar. The Stockholm Guitar Quartet has aroused considerable attention far outside the guitar community as well, through this genuine and unique expansion of the guitar repertoir. Omnibus Wind Ensemble
is a unique group because
In the recordings of Mozart´s
Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet, the solo part is taken,
most unusually, by a basset clarinet -an instrument whose range
exstands four semitones below that of the ordinary clarinet. It is not
commonly known that Mozart actually wrote his Concerto and Quintet for
this very instrument -played here by bassette clarinet specialist Kjell
Fagéus.
Sweden
has also several top flight musicians in classical jazz! Tomas Örnberg´s
BLUE FIVE, or the Swedish Jazz Kings as they sometimes label
themselves, which today preserves the twenties and the thirties music of
Louis Armstrong, features in three recordings under the Opus 3 label. American
clarinettist
Kenny Davern, of Soprano Summit and other fame and
Bob Barnard on trumpet from Australia is joined by one
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