1. Roy Goodman with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1995.
2. Okko Kamu with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra in 1995.
3. Thomas Dausgaard with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2000 to 2004.
(All digital downloads, flacs, cover, inlay and booklet scans)
01. Overture to 'Estrella de Soria' [7'56]
02. - 04. Symphony No.3 in C major 'Sinfonie singuliere' [27'53]
05. Overture to 'The Queen of Golconda' [7'41]
06. - 08. Symphony No.2 in D major 'Sinfonie capricieuse' [27'20]
Disc Two:
01. Symphony in A major (fragment completed by Duncan Druce)[16'34]
02. - 05. Symphony No.1 in G minor 'Sinfonie serieuse' [30'38]
06. - 09. Symphony No.4 in E-flat major 'Sinfonie naive' [27'21]
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roy Goodman
Hyperion Dyad CDD22043 (Recorded at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, in May and October 1995; originally issued as Hyperion CDA67081/2 in 1996. Recording engineer: Tony Faulkner; Producers: Oliver Rivers* and Andrew Keener)
01. Overture to 'Estrella de Soria' [7'57]
02. - 05. Symphony No.1 in G minor 'Sinfonie serieuse' [31'26]
06. - 08. Symphony No.2 in D major 'Sinfonie capricieuse' [31'36]
Naxos 8.553052
01. - 03. Symphony No.3 in C major 'Sinfonie singuliere' [29'00]
04.- 06. Piano Concerto in D major* [20'31]
07. - 10. Symphony No.4 in E-flat major ' Sinfonie naive' [27'35]
Niklas Sivelov- piano*; Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Okko Kamu.
Naxos 8.553051 and 8.553052 (Recorded at Helsingborg Concert Hall, Sweden in May and June 1995; CDs issued 1995. Recording engineer: Tor Bjorn Samuelsson; Producer: Paul Myers)
01. - 03. Symphony No.3 in C major 'Sinfonie singuliere' [28'25]
04. Play of the Elves 'Elfenspiel [8'44]
05. - 08. Symphony No.4 in E-flat major ' Sinfonie naive' [29'05]
Vol. Two
01. - 04. Symphony No. 1 in G minor 'Sinfonie serieuse' [30'05]
05. Memory of the Norwegian Alps [8'12]
06. - 08. Symphony No.2 in D major 'Sinfonie capricieuse' [27'48]
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard.
Chandos CHAN9921 and CHAN10303 (Recorded at Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen in August 2000, April 2001, May 2003 and May 2004. Recording engineers: Jørn Jacobsen; Producer: Chris Hazell.
Downloads from MEGA.
The Swedish composer Franz Berwald (1796 - 1868) composed his four delightful and innovative numbered symphonies in the early 1840s. The first complete set as far as I know was recorded by EMI in 1976 with Ulf Bjorlin and the Royal Philharmonic and was followed by the first digital set made by Neeme Jarvi and the Gothenberg Symphony in 1985 (to be found on a number of download sites). The three sets featured here appeared in relatively swift succession after that. There is also a set recorded by BIS in 1996 with Sixten Ehrling and the Malmo Symphony but I have never seen nor heard that. Since Thomas Dausgaard's set recorded in the early noughties there has been nothing further (although an obscure set by David Montgomery and the Jena Symphony was issued by Arte Nova around the same time as Dausgaard's second disc).
All three of these sets are excellent but if pushed to select a favourite it would be for Okko Kamu's with the Helsingborg orchestra. That set also includes the Piano Concerto which, unfortunately, exhibits a lower level of invention than the symphonies. Roy Goodman's set has the advantage of including the remaining fragment of an earlier Symphony in A major.