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Cover: Magnus Lindberg – Arena 2 · Coyote Blues · Tendenza · Corrente

Magnus Lindberg

Arena 2

Coyote Blues · Tendenza · Corrente

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

ODE 882-2 · CD · September 1996

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Track listing

4 tracks · 49:36

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Magnus Lindberg

  1. 1 Arena 2 (1996) 15:01
  2. 2 Coyote Blues (1993) 11:53
  3. 3 Tendenza (1982) 11:54
  4. 4 Corrente (1992) 10:48

About this recording

This CD includes four orchestral chamber works by Magnus Lindberg, written between 1982 and 1996. Sakari Oramo conducts the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra.

Features

Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish

Press

This Ondine release confirms (...) Magnus Lindberg as one of the most talented, exciting, and challenging young composers. (...) The performance (...) are extraordinary, committed, and expressive. This disc is a must-have for those interested in the direction of contemporary music.
American Record Guide, July/August 1998

This is contemporary music at its most approachable without trying to mesmerize its audience into submission, and I urge anyone who feels alienated by the extremes of late-twentieth-century composition to try it.
Gramophone, March 1998

Lindberg's recent compositions are both challenging and accessible, and this is a superb disc.
Andy Hamilton, Classic CD, December 1997, *****

Magnus Lindberg is undoubtedly the world's best composer of his generation.
Patrick Szersnovicz, Le Monde de la Musique, Choc du mois

The artists

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra

The Avanti! Chamber Orchestra was founded at the initiative of Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jukka-Pekka Saraste in 1983. It was founded to satisfy a need for high-quality ensemble work by enthusiastic and highly skilled musicians, and because it was recognized that a great deal of contemporary music and other rare repertoire would remain unperformed otherwise. Avanti! has responded admirably to the challenge that it set itself: many new musical ideas in Finland have been channelled through it.

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