Magnus Lindberg: Aura, Marea & Related Rocks (Live)

Featuring

Hannu Lintu
Emil Holmström
Joonas Ahonen
Jani Niinimäki
Jerry Piipponen
Magnus Lindberg

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Composition History

Magnus Lindberg's work Aura was dedicated to the memory of Witold Lutosławski, a Polish composer, after Lindberg learned of Lutosławski's death while writing the piece.

Composition History

The works on this album, Marea, Aura, and Related Rocks, offer three views of Magnus Lindberg's output from the 1990s, showcasing his new serialist-spectral approach, symphonic mastery, and chamber music writing.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The title of Related Rocks was inspired by a geological exhibition, where Magnus Lindberg saw a unified assemblage of diverse rocks and minerals, which he viewed as a metaphor for composing.

Compositional Technique

All three works on this album share a 'definite dramaturgy' or 'plotline,' which fuses and distills the music's energy towards a final culmination, reminiscent of composers like Beethoven or Sibelius.

Composer Biography

Magnus Lindberg, the composer, experienced a severe tropical disease that prevented him from working for 18 months, leading to a significant shift in his compositional style.

Compositional Technique

Related Rocks for two pianos, two percussionists, and electronics, incorporates a wide variety of material in its electronic part, including sounds from a Chinese cymbal, a Baroque cello, and even an old piano being dismantled.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Lindberg's new harmonic approach, after his illness, merged serialist and spectral techniques, which he described as 'reflecting a tightly structured harmonic model against a kind of natural way of hearing and organising harmony, based on the overtone series'.