Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence & Serenades Lawrence Power, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon

• Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958): Viola Concerto (2023-24):
• 1 Lindberg: Viola Concerto (2023-24): 1st movement 09:29
• 2 Lindberg: Viola Concerto (2023-24): 2nd movement 07:13
• 3 Lindberg: Viola Concerto (2023-24): 2nd movement: Trio 03:07
• 4 Lindberg: Viola Concerto (2023-24): 2nd movement: Quasi una Cadenza 00:43
• 5 Lindberg: Viola Concerto (2023-24): 2nd movement: Interlude 02:44
• 6 Lindberg: Viola Concerto (2023-24): 2nd movement: Cadenza 04:53
• 7 Lindberg: Viola Concerto (2023-24): 3rd movement 05:25
• Absence (2020):
• 8 Lindberg: Absence (2020) 11:18
• Serenades (2020):
• 9 Lindberg: Serenades (2020) 17:09
• Total Runtime 01:02:01

Info for Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence & Serenades

Composer Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) is one of Europe's leading names in contemporary music. Having travelled a long road as a composer, from the steely and edgy modernism of his early period to the soft and sonorous sound worlds of his most recent output, Lindberg's new, more emollient sound world building on a harmonic environment rooted in pentatonic scales at times seem to hark back even to Debussy and Impressionism. This new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and it's chief conductor Nicholas Collon features some of the most recent orchestral compositions by Magnus Lindberg culminating with his new Viola Concerto, a substantial new work masterfully performed by Lawrence Power as soloist.

Lawrence Power, viola
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor

Lawrence Power
is one of the leading violists of our time, in demand worldwide both as a soloist and as a chamber music partner. He is particularly passionate about new music and, with the help of the Viola Commissioning Circle, which he founded, he is constantly expanding the repertoire for viola to include works by important contemporary composers. Power has premiered viola concertos by David Philip Hefti, Anders Hillborg, Magnus Lindberg, James MacMillan, Cassandra Miller and Ryan Wigglesworth as well as works by Thomas Adès, Garth Knox, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Mark-Anthony Turnage, among others.

In the 2023/24 season, Power performs the world premiere of Magnus Lindberg's Viola Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nick Collon, Hindemith's Schwanendreher with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under Christian Thielemann, Sofia Gubaidulina's Viola Concerto in Munich and Frankfurt, and he opens the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele with Cassandra Miller's Viola Concerto. In the upcoming seasons, Power’s orchestra debuts in Berlin and Hamburg are planned with the Konzerthausorchester under the direction of Ivan Fischer and with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester under Alan Gilbert.

"Power [has an] ability to transform the most commonplace phrase into something magically eloquent and memorable." (The Guardian)

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