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  1984 RARE BOXED SIGNED SET OF 3 STEREO LPS BY ERLING BLONDAL BENGTSSON DANISH DANA-CORD NEAR MINT CONDITION. 

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We have on offer an original amazingly scarce & highly sought after 1984 boxed set of 3 LP's by the renowned Scandinavian cellist, Erling Blondal Bengtsson, performing J S Bach's Suites for Violoncello.

In 1985, his recordings of the 6 Cello Suites of J.S.Bach on the Danish label Danacord, was selected as "The choice of the year" by the American recording magazine Fanfare.

Erling Blöndal Bengtsson

Erling Blöndal Bengtsson (March 8, 1932 – June 6, 2013) was a Danish cellist.[1]

Born in Copenhagen, Bengtsson gave his first public performance there in 1936, when he was four years old. He was admitted at the age of sixteen to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky, who engaged him as a teaching assistant in 1949. From 1950 to 1953, Bengtsson taught his own cello class at the Institute, before being appointed to the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In 1980, he became a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. He returned to America in 1990 and taught at the University of Michigan School of Music until his retirement from academia in 2006.

Bengtsson was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and was conferred the title "Chevalier du Violoncelle" by Indiana University in 1993. Bengtsson made most of his phonograph and CD recordings with the Danish label DANACORD. In November 2006, DANACORD released the DVD The Cello and I, which presented a comprehensive portrait of Bengtsson's career on the seventieth anniversary of his debut. He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, aged 81.

Cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson dies aged 81

June 7, 2013

Danish cellist and teacher Erling Blöndal Bengtsson has died at the age of 81. A student of Gregor Piatigorsky at the Curtis Institute of Music, he went on to become an international soloist and a champion of new works. 

Born in 1932 in Copenhagen, Bengtsson began studying the cello with Fritz Dietzmann at the age of five. He was accepted into the Curtis Institute in 1948 after he wrote to Piatigorsky, who invited him to perform with the Tanglewood orchestra in the same year. He later became Piatigorsky’s teaching assistant, and from 1950 to 1953 taught his own cello class at Curtis. He also played in concerts with the Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra.

In a March 2012 interview for The Strad marking his 80th birthday, Bengtsson described his practice regime to fellow cellist Jeffrey Solow: ‘For quite a few years I played a different Bach suite every day, and then Piatti’s twelve caprices on the seventh day. That is a very satisfying way to stay in shape.’ 

In a performing career that spanned the globe, Bengtsson performed from memory a concert repertoire that encompassed the entire cello literature. He also commissioned and introduced many new works, including 14 cello concertos by Scandinavian composers. Among his recordings are complete Beethoven sonatas and Bach Cello Suites.

Bengtsson taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Swedish Radio Music School, Hochschule für Musik Köln and University of Michigan School of Music, where he remained from 1990 to 2006. In his later years he gave masterclasses in Norway and Iceland, where he was a celebrated soloist: a statue of him performing was erected in front of the University Concert Hall in Reykjavík in 1970 (pictured). 

‘There have never been as many good cellists as there are today, because there are so many more good teachers,’ Bengtsson said in the 2012 interview. ‘But I don’t think one can say the performance style has changed. I don’t find any particular difference between students and the US. Maybe there was a difference once, but now it doesn’t matter whether a student is educated in London or New York.’

                                                                                                                                              OTHER DETAILS:

                                                                           Maker: Dana-Cord, Denmark.

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     His repertoire is all-encompassing and he has championed the works of leading Scandinavian composers, as well as performing the Scandinavian premieres of cello concertos by Britten, Barber, Khatchaturian, Delius, Lutoslawsky and Walton and, indeed, the latter two, themselves, conducted several performances each with Mr. Bengtsson as soloist.

     A consistent recording artist, with over 50 albums, he has, along with the 

     He has appeared with most of the world´s leading orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Salzburg´s Mazarteum Orchestra, the Hague´s Residentie Orchestra under the direction of many of today´s leading maestros, such as Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons, David Zinmann, Sixten Ehrling, Herbert Blomstedt Sergiu Commissiona.

     His repertoire is all-encompassing and he has championed the works of leading Scandinavian composers, as well as performing the Scandinavian premieres of cello concertos by Britten, Barber, Khatchaturian, Delius, Lutoslawsky and Walton and, indeed, the latter two, themselves, conducted several performances each with Mr. Bengtsson as soloist.

     A consistent recording artist, with over 50 albums, he has, along with the complete standard repertoire for cello and orchestra, recorded many contemporary concertos, most of which were dedicated to him. In 1985, his recordings of the six Cello Suites of J.S. Bach on the Danish label DANACORD, was selected as "The choice of the year" by the American recording magazine Fanfare. In 1998 his recording of the Zoltán Kodály Solo Sonata, was chosen by the "GUINNESS CLASSICAL 1000" as being one of the top 1000 recordings of all time.

     At the age 16, Erling Blöndal Bengtsson was accepted by the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he took up studies with Gregor Piatigorsky. One year later, he became Piatigorsky´s instrustitute.

 label DANACORD, was selected as "The choice of the year" by the American recording magazine Fanfare. In 1998 his recording of the Zoltán Kodály Solo Sonata, was GUINNESS CLASSICAL 1000" as being