LETIZIA MICHIELON WROTE
IN, IL GAZZETTINO, VENICE:
“Le sonorità svedesi ai Frari - The Swedish
sonority at Frari - The Swedish ensemble,
Camerata Mandolino Classico, who appeared at
the Frari in the concert series organised in
collaboration with the newspaper Il Gazzettino,
brought harmony, tonal variety, and music on the
edge of thought and imagination. The musicality of
Lars Forslund was revealed especially in the
Sonatina in C minor for mandolin and harpsichord
by Beethoven, which was rendered with subtlety of
phrasing and fine nuances of expression”.
LARS FORSLUND
Mandolin Pioneer in Sweden
LARS FORSLUND
completed his studies of the classical mandolin
under the guidance of Keith Harris, Takashi Ochi,
and Yasuo Kuwahara at the Institute for Chamber
Music in Kobe, Japan. Intense concert activity as
soloist followed, and he made tours to Japan,
Germany, Belgium, Spain, Scandinavia and Italy.
He has participated as a mandolin soloist with
L’Opera da Camera di Venezia, Collegium Ducale,
L’Offerta Musicale, the orchestra “Collegium
Antonín Dvořák” from the Czech Republic and
various orchestras in Sweden. He also played in
the DZO (German Mandolin Orchestra) conducted
by the great guitarist, Siegfried Behrend.
PRESS REVIEWS
About Lars Forslund
Carrying wave - oil painting by
Sonia Monica, 2012.
MICHEL MILLER WROTE IN, BERKSHIRE
REVIEW, VENICE:
Opera da Camera di Venezia - mandolin,
harpsichord and cello. “At five there was an
excellent free concert, just less than an hour long,
with mandolin sonatas by Vivaldi and Scarlatti,
organized by the Scuola di Musica Antica and
played by Lars Forslund, accompanied by Lorenzo
and Mario Parravicini, cello and harpsichord.
Forslund was the master of about every nuance of
dynamics and tone you could imagine in the
mandolin, as well as some you might not. He could
make the instrument sharp and piercing, as well as
muted and dark. The accompaniment was spirited
and sensitive, and the acoustics produced a robust,
present sound, perfectly right for this music, which
might well have been played in the palazzo during
the composers’ lifetimes”.
MARCO ROSA SALVA WROTE:
"received the review of your concert at the Palazzo
Grimani and the Querini Foundation, published in
the Berkshire Review, by Michel Miller, in which he
makes extensive reference to the concert in the
museum last September 18, 2010 (Sonatas for
Mandolin). The reviewer (whom I see in other
articles reviewing recent performances of Die
Meistersinger in Bayreuth, La Traviata at La
Fenice, the Kronos Quartet at the Edinburgh
Festival), defines the concert as literally
““outstanding”” and in particular: (from Berkshire
Review - www.berkshirereview.net).
I congratulate and thank the musicians who play
with artistic commitment, passion and who produce
results that go far beyond mere simple professional
correctness. I would forward these remarks to the
leaders of the Foundation”.
Marco Rosa Salva, Scuola di
Musica Antica di Venezia
School of Ancient Music in Venice