For much of the nineteenth century in Sweden, music-making was confined to small-scale chamber music at home. Ambitious composers had to move abroad to seek acceptance of their work. Berwald’s Violin Concerto was performed only once in Sweden during his lifetime, and on that occasion the audience laughed. It was not until a century later, when Tor Aulin and Wilhelm Stenhammar led a Berwald revival, that this sparkling work was performed throughout Europe. Stenhammar’s two Romances were written during one of the most creative periods of his life. Full of feeling, they are models of the genre. The two Romances were given their first performance by Tor Aulin, whose own Violin Concerto No. 3 belongs firmly to the world of Brahms and the central European romantic tradition.