25.08.2025
The new album Breaking waves (BIS) is out now
-- Evocative, moving and exciting works by three women composers
The Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra (OCO) and violinist-conductor Malin Broman have released a new album: ‘Breaking Waves’ (BIS) which features works by three female composers who were active during the first half of the 20th century.
MÖK's artistic director, Swedish violinist Malin Broman, conducts the orchestra from the concertmaster's seat on the album. The album was recorded in the spring and summer of 2024 and was released on streaming services on 8 August 2025.
Press release by record label BIS:
Three works by three women composers from three different countries, each piece with its own original idiom, are performed here by the Ostrobothnian
Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its dynamic conductor and artistic director Malin Broman. Three works that assuredly deserve a wider audience!
The Sea Sketches by Welsh composer Grace Williams open the programme. Inspired by the beaches of Glamorganshire and by its seascape, this five-movement
work seems in constant motion and evolution. One can practically taste the salt spray and feel the power of the waves.
The second work is Grażyna Bacewicz’s Fourth String Quartet, played here in an arrangement for string orchestra. Bacewicz was an important figure on the
Polish music scene in the mid-20th century, and her quartet is an approachable work – something that has undoubtedly contributed to making it her best-known composition – with influences of folk music and passages which, according to Malin Broman, can only be described as heavenly.
Vienna-born Johanna Müller-Hermann’s String Quartet, also in an arrangement for string orchestra, concludes the programme. Exciting, beautiful and powerful, this work with its post-romantic language is a testimony to the golden age of Vienna, when the music of Mahler, Strauss and her teacher Zemlinsky reigned supreme.
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in the photo: Malin Broman, credits: Ulla Nisonen
