Ingvar Lidholm, the composer, was a member of the 'Monday Group,' a legendary group of radical Swedish composers in the 1940s.
Performer Biography
Lü Jia, the conductor, won the Antonio Pedrotti Competition in Trento, Italy in 1990 and is now based in Italy, regularly conducting leading Italian orchestras and opera companies.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ingvar Lidholm's early works show a subjective, Scandinavian romanticism, but also reveal influences from composers like Hindemith and Bartók.
Composer Biography
Ingvar Lidholm was the first Swede to visit the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt in 1949, where he met pioneering composers like Lutosławski, Ligeti, and Messiaen.
Performer Biography
The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1912, is one of Sweden's seven professional orchestras and is considered one of the most exciting in Scandinavia.
Album & Artwork
This CD is part of a trilogy dedicated to Ingvar Lidholm's orchestral music, with the other two discs covering later periods of his work.
