Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra * Alfven & Rautavaara: Orchestral Works [New CD] Box Set Who Needs Enemies When These

Who Needs Enemies When These Are Your Allies

At age eleven

and to allow life to unfold

Forgive This Fool

and a reproduction of the 1969 7” mono single of “Honky Tonk Women”/ ”You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra * Alfven & Rautavaara: Orchestral Works [New CD] Box Set Who Needs Enemies When TheseHugo Alfven was an accomplished writer and painter as well as musician and composer. Born in Stockholm in 1872, he studied first at Kungliga Musikhogskolan (the Royal College of Music) and then in Berlin, Dresden, Paris, and Brussels. Influenced by Wagner and Richard Strauss, Alfven's style is also permeated with the influence of Swedish folk music. Festspel (Festival Play) was commissioned to inaugurate the new art nouveau building for Kungliga