Stenhammar's affective shimmer: landscape, form and subjectivity in the Serenade, op. 31, first movement by Grimley, DM

“…Hearing Stenhammar’s music affectively, particularly through his powerfully transformative response to landscape, sheds renewed light on vital questions of place, form, and subject position. Inspired by Herbert Blomstedt’s radiant live recording of the work with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the article assesses the opening movement of the Serenade in order to begin to sketch an affective methodology for interpreting Stenhammar’s work.…”