Magnus Lindberg - Chamber Works
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Label: Ondine
Cat No: ODE11992
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 3rd September 2012
Contents
Works
Clarinet TrioDos Coyotes, for cello and piano
Partia for solo cello
Santa Fe Project (Konzertstuck), for cello and piano
Artists
Kari Kriikku (clarinet)Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Magnus Lindberg (piano)
Works
Clarinet TrioDos Coyotes, for cello and piano
Partia for solo cello
Santa Fe Project (Konzertstuck), for cello and piano
Artists
Kari Kriikku (clarinet)Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Magnus Lindberg (piano)
About
Europadisc DISC OF THE WEEK 21st September 2012 - see review below
Ondine continues its series of recordings of Magnus Lindberg’s music – this time chamber music from the 2000s.
Magnus Lindberg has written many pieces for clarinettist Kari Kriikku and cellist Anssi Karttunen, two important figures on the contemporary music scene in Finland. The Clarinet Trio – including fine reminiscences of Brahms and Ravel – now brings these two musicians together, joined by the composer himself on the piano.
Kari Kriikku has premiered all of Magnus Lindberg’s works for clarinet. His recording of the Clarinet Concerto earned him both a Gramophone Award and a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2006.
Anssi Karttunen is a passionate advocate for contemporary music. 24 concertos have been written for him and he premiered Magnus Lindberg’s cello concerto.
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The Europadisc Review
Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg is best known for his dazzlingly scored orchestral music, ranging from the tough, hard-edged modernism of earlier works like the still enormously impressive Kraft (1985) to the more eclectic language and harmonic sensibilities of his more recent output, such as the brilliantly engaging Clarinet Concerto (2002). This new disc in Ondine’s excellent ongoing Lindberg series takes us to less familiar territory, with four of the composer’s chamber works from the 2000s. Lindberg himself is at the piano, alongside two of his most trusted long-term collaborators, clarinettist Kari Kriiku and cellist Anssi Karttunen, both of them virtuoso veterans of the flourishing Scandinavian new-music scene.
The scale of these works might be more intimate and less expansive, but there is the same prodigious sensitivity to instrumental timbre as in Lindberg’s orchestral music, the same coupling of technical mastery with formal clarity. The combination of these particular instruments tends to emphasise a richly reflective vein that is heard at its best in the most recent work, the three-movement Trio (2008), its evocative movement titles taken from the modernist poetry of Gunnar Björling. Textures range from the sparse to the opulent, the musical language frequently recalling a late Romantic soundworld that is at its most appealing towards the work’s serene close.
Both Dos Coyotes (2002) and the Santa Fe Project (2006) make full use of the varied timbral possibilities offered by the pairing of cello and piano. The later work is the more opulent, but with apparently quixotic mood changes masking a sure underlying instinct for musical architecture and pacing; as in the Trio, the final fast movement is rounded off by a more introspective coda. Dos Coyotes is an arrangement by Karttunen and Lindberg of the latter’s Coyote Blues (1993). There are occasional nods towards minimalism, but also a strong melodic aspect to the timbral play that hints at the music’s vocal roots; in many ways this is the most entertaining work on the disc, and it certainly sounds like a joy to play.
Playfulness is also in evidence in the Partia for solo cello (2001), written for the Turku Cello Competition. If the outward form suggests Baroque roots, and specifically Bach’s cello suites, the music itself is more by way of a postmodern take on neoclassicism, with little evidence of the dance forms hinted at in the movement titles, but abundant in inventiveness.
Lindberg’s music, a beguiling mixture of the tonal, modern and postmodern, has already earned him a wider following than most contemporary composers. This disc, with its vivid, dedicated and authoritative performances, and with fine recorded sound, is sure to appeal to the composer’s many admirers — and also to those chamber music aficionados as yet unfamiliar with his tantalisingly rich soundworld.
Ondine continues its series of recordings of Magnus Lindberg’s music – this time chamber music from the 2000s.
Magnus Lindberg has written many pieces for clarinettist Kari Kriikku and cellist Anssi Karttunen, two important figures on the contemporary music scene in Finland. The Clarinet Trio – including fine reminiscences of Brahms and Ravel – now brings these two musicians together, joined by the composer himself on the piano.
Kari Kriikku has premiered all of Magnus Lindberg’s works for clarinet. His recording of the Clarinet Concerto earned him both a Gramophone Award and a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2006.
Anssi Karttunen is a passionate advocate for contemporary music. 24 concertos have been written for him and he premiered Magnus Lindberg’s cello concerto.
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The Europadisc Review
Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg is best known for his dazzlingly scored orchestral music, ranging from the tough, hard-edged modernism of earlier works like the still enormously impressive Kraft (1985) to the more eclectic language and harmonic sensibilities of his more recent output, such as the brilliantly engaging Clarinet Concerto (2002). This new disc in Ondine’s excellent ongoing Lindberg series takes us to less familiar territory, with four of the composer’s chamber works from the 2000s. Lindberg himself is at the piano, alongside two of his most trusted long-term collaborators, clarinettist Kari Kriiku and cellist Anssi Karttunen, both of them virtuoso veterans of the flourishing Scandinavian new-music scene.
The scale of these works might be more intimate and less expansive, but there is the same prodigious sensitivity to instrumental timbre as in Lindberg’s orchestral music, the same coupling of technical mastery with formal clarity. The combination of these particular instruments tends to emphasise a richly reflective vein that is heard at its best in the most recent work, the three-movement Trio (2008), its evocative movement titles taken from the modernist poetry of Gunnar Björling. Textures range from the sparse to the opulent, the musical language frequently recalling a late Romantic soundworld that is at its most appealing towards the work’s serene close.
Both Dos Coyotes (2002) and the Santa Fe Project (2006) make full use of the varied timbral possibilities offered by the pairing of cello and piano. The later work is the more opulent, but with apparently quixotic mood changes masking a sure underlying instinct for musical architecture and pacing; as in the Trio, the final fast movement is rounded off by a more introspective coda. Dos Coyotes is an arrangement by Karttunen and Lindberg of the latter’s Coyote Blues (1993). There are occasional nods towards minimalism, but also a strong melodic aspect to the timbral play that hints at the music’s vocal roots; in many ways this is the most entertaining work on the disc, and it certainly sounds like a joy to play.
Playfulness is also in evidence in the Partia for solo cello (2001), written for the Turku Cello Competition. If the outward form suggests Baroque roots, and specifically Bach’s cello suites, the music itself is more by way of a postmodern take on neoclassicism, with little evidence of the dance forms hinted at in the movement titles, but abundant in inventiveness.
Lindberg’s music, a beguiling mixture of the tonal, modern and postmodern, has already earned him a wider following than most contemporary composers. This disc, with its vivid, dedicated and authoritative performances, and with fine recorded sound, is sure to appeal to the composer’s many admirers — and also to those chamber music aficionados as yet unfamiliar with his tantalisingly rich soundworld.
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1Partia - I. Sinfonia
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2Partia - II. Coranto
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3Partia - III. Aria
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4Partia - IV. Boria
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5Partia - V. Double
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6Partia - VI. Giga
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72 Coyotes - I.
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82 Coyotes - II.
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92 Coyotes - IV.
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10Trio - I. Sound Big, Sound
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11Trio - II. Like The Tranquility We Seek
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122 Coyotes - III.
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13Santa Fe Project - III.
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14Santa Fe Project - I.
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15Santa Fe Project - II.
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16Trio - III. Crash Wave, Crash
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