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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Christian Lindberg, Roland Pöntinen and Per Egland – The Best of Tchaikovsky Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:44 minutes | 337 MB | Genre: Classical
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
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Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg – Allan Pettersson: Symphony No. 9 (1970) (Gehrmans) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:11 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Allan Pettersson composed his Ninth Symphony in 1970, two years after the Seventh had been given a triumphant première conducted by Antal Dorati. This had brought him greater recognition than ever before, but at the same time his health was deteriorating even further, and shortly after completing the Ninth Pettersson was hospitalized for a period of nine months. It is striking that he at such a time should have chosen to compose what is the longest of all his works – in the score Pettersson himself estimated the duration to ‘65–70 minutes’, and the first recording of the work actually lasted for more than 80 minutes. As so many of the symphonies, the work is in one single movement which may be described as an extended struggle in which harmony is the ultimate winner. As Pettersson himself had said about an earlier work: ‘If one fights one’s way through a symphony one needs to achieve consonance and harmony even if it takes twenty hours to do so.’ In the case of the Ninth, this harmony is summed up more concisely than ever before or after, in the final two chords which form a plagal or ‘Amen’ cadence in F major. Completing a cycle for BIS of Pettersson’s symphonies, Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra have been receiving great critical acclaim for previous instalments – most recently a Sixth described in International Record Review as ‘a release that could well be the ideal introduction to Pettersson’s singular musical vision’. About the same disc, the reviewer in Gramophone wrote: ‘Lindberg’s empathy for Pettersson’s music is once again shown in the Sixth, where he catches its dark atmosphere to perfection, pacing its progress through the succession of climaxes superbly well.’
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Franz Schubert, Christian Lindberg, Israel NK orchestra – Schubert: Symphony No. 5 D.485 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:20 minutes | 146 MB | Genre: Classical
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Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B♭ major, D. 485, was written mainly in September 1816 and completed on 3 October 1816. It was finished six months after the completion of his previous symphony.
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Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg – Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 “The Dead in the Square” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:40 minutes | 1009 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Twelfth Symphony forms an exception in Allan Pettersson’s output. When he agreed to compose a work for the 500th anniversary of Uppsala University, it was one of the few commissions that he ever accepted. Having written purely orchestral scores for the past 30 years, he decided to incorporate a choir and a text. Pablo Neruda had received the Nobel Prize in 1971, and acknowledging the poet’s ‘deeply felt compassion for the outcasts of society’, Pettersson selected nine poems from the huge collection Canto general for his new work. As Pettersson was composing the symphony, Neruda died during the tumultuous aftermath of the military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973. The poems deal with an incident in Santiago de Chile in 1946 when six demonstrators were killed by the police during a workers’ manifestation. Pettersson, who came from a working-class background, commented on the subject matter: ‘My heart was, and is, with the poor of Chile, so like the worker in the ‘third world’ in which I grew up.’ Typically Pettersson, the symphony is in one movement. The choral parts are highly demanding – the choir sings almost without interruption, and often very forcefully and in difficult registers. The Swedish Radio Choir and Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, two of Sweden’s finest choirs, have combined their forces for this recording and join the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Christian Lindberg on the latest installment in the team’s acclaimed Pettersson cycle.
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Norrköpings Symfoniorkester & Christian Lindberg – Pettersson: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:48 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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A characteristic trait in Allan Pettersson’s music is the use of strong contrasts – shifts between an enormous intensity and calm relaxation, between complex and violently dissonant passages and peaceful, simple melodies and harmonies. This certainly applies to both works recorded here by the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Christian Lindberg – the composer’s Fifth and Seventh Symphonies. Premièred in 1963 and 1968 respectively, these two symphonies contributed substantially to Pettersson’s public standing during the 1960s. The Fifth earned him the music prize of the newspaper Expressen, while at the same time Pettersson’s extensive use of traditional harmony, particularly in the slow ending of the work, caused a number of commentators to criticize it as ‘outmoded’. In 1964, the symphony probably contributed to Pettersson being selected as one of the first recipients of a public remuneration scheme for composers which guaranteed them a lifelong minimum income. Four years later, the first performance of Symphony No. 7 was conducted by Antal Doráti, the dedicatee of the work. The event is often described as Pettersson’s ‘breakthrough’, and Doráti’s recording of the work in 1969 with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra earned the performers and the composer a ‘Swedish Grammy’ Award each. Pettersson’s Seventh remains the most recorded and most frequently performed of all of his works. It is heard here in a performance from what are widely regarded as the leading Pettersson interpreters of our time.
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Arctic Philharmonic & Christian Lindberg – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Swan Lake Suite (2013/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:48 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Classique
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Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony was the first symphony Christian Lindberg ever heard, at the age of ten. Nine years later it was the first he performed as a professional musician – in the brass section of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Having embarked on a successful conducting career, the trombonist-turned-international-soloist has since had the opportunity also to conduct the work, most memorably at the Mariinskij Theatre in St Petersburg, the city where the composer himself gave the first performance in 1888. With his Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, based in the Norwegian city of Bodø well north of the Arctic Circle, Lindberg has now recorded this symphony, which has become one of the composer’s best-loved works. Especially the hauntingly beautiful second movement has gripped audiences, while the work’s very clear exposition of the idea of ’ultimate victory through strife’ especially during World War II made it a staple in the concert halls. The symphony is here coupled with the equally popular six-movement suite from the Swan Lake, the first of the composer’s three great ballets. The suite was compiled and published after the death of the composer, but provides a faithful reflection of the atmosphere, colour, melody and, above all, rhythmic invention that made Tchaikovsky such a master of music for the dance.
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Arctic Philharmonic & Christian Lindberg – Olsen: Symphony No. 1 – Trombone Concerto – Asgaardsreien (2011/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:56 minutes | 569 MB | Genre: Classique
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The colourful music of fascinating composer Ole Olsen is portrayed here in the first recording by what must surely be the northernmost of symphony orchestras, the Arctic Philharmonic. The orchestra’s flamboyant chief conductor, Christian Lindberg, also appears as virtuoso trombone soloist on the world premiere of Olsen’s Concerto for Tenor Trombone and Orchestra, written in 1886. A contemporary of Grieg and Svendsen, Olsen regarded himself as holding third place among Norway’s musical elite.
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Christian Lindberg – The Best of Mozart (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:16 minutes | 263 MB | Genre: Classical
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Christian Lindberg is perhaps the first classical trombonist to maintain a successful full-time performing career as a soloist, now considered among the instrument’s foremost exponents. Since 2015, Christian Lindberg has been chief conductor of the Israel NK Orchestra, which is now visiting Konserthuset Stockholm for the first time ever. The ensemble has been ranked by the Israeli Ministry of Culture as the country’s most prominent orchestra, side by side with the Israel Philharmonic. Lindberg is one of Sweden’s most established names in music internationally. His career as a trombone player is unparalleled and in 2015, British Classical FM named him “The Greatest Brass Player in History.”
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Christian Lindberg – Nutcracker Suite (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 23:44 minutes | 216 MB | Genre: Classical
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Christian Lindberg (born 15 February 1958) is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer.
Lindberg was born in Danderyd. As a youth, he learned to play the trumpet, and subsequently began to learn the trombone at age 16. He originally borrowed a trombone to join his friends’ Dixieland jazz group, inspired by records of Jack Teagarden. He attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, where his teachers included Sven-Erik Eriksson. By age 18, he had obtained a professional position in the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra. At age 20, he left his orchestral career behind to study to become a full-time soloist. He studied with John Iveson at the Royal College of Music (1979-1980) and with Ralph Sauer and Roger Bobo in Los Angeles (1983).
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Christian Lindberg – C. Lindberg: Steppenwolf, Tales of Galamanta & Peking Twilight (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:23 minutes | 986 MB | Genre: Classical
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For the past twenty years, while maintaining an unsurpassed career as a trombone soloist and in tandem with being a sought-after conductor, Christian Lindberg has also been composing. Previous releases of his music have earned him critical praise: the reviewer in American Record Guide ‘was captivated by his interesting ideas and rich harmonic language’ while his counterpart on German website Klassik-Heute characterised Lindberg as ‘a marvellously deft, self-reliant composer’. The present album is the third BIS release dedicated entirely to Lindberg’s music, and features some of his more recent works. In his own liner notes, Lindberg describes his method of working, and explains the background of the three pieces recorded here with the Odense Symphony Orchestra. In regards to Steppenwolf, his viola concerto, he was attracted by the solo instrument’s ‘melancholic and deep qualities … offering an opportunity to compose something that could never be expressed in the same way with, for instance, a violin’. In a classical, three-movement concerto form, the work isn’t programmatic as such, but while composing it, Lindberg was reminded of the novel by Hermann Hesse. The title of the following piece, on the other hand, refers to a previous composition by Lindberg himself. Composed for a television project involving music as well as dance, the fifteen-minute Tales of Galamanta uses material from the ‘arte commedia’ Dawn from Galamanta.
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Christian Lindberg – Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:58 minutes | 315 MB | Genre: Classical
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Christian Lindberg is perhaps the first classical trombonist to maintain a successful full-time performing career as a soloist, now considered among the instrument’s foremost exponents.
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Christian Lindberg – 40 Years on Stage (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:00 minutes | 642 MB | Genre: Classical
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Christian Lindberg (born 15 February 1958) is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer.
In 1981, Lindberg won the Nordic Soloists’ Biennale competition. His concert debut was in 1984 with the Trombone Concerto by Henri Tomasi. That same year, he signed a 3-CD recording contract with BIS Records. His first solo recording was “The Virtuoso Trombone”. Lindberg has recorded over 60 albums, for BIS[4] and several other labels. His musical collaborators in Sweden have included pianist Roland P”ontinen and composer Jan Sandstr”om.
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Christian Lindberg, Franz Schubert – Best of Schubert Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 18:54 minutes | 148 MB | Genre: Classical
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Franz Peter Schubert (* 31. Jänner 1797 in der Gemeinde Himmelpfortgrund, heute im 9. Bezirk Wiens; † 19. November 1828 in Wieden, jetzt 4. Bezirk) war ein österreichischer Komponist.
Obwohl Franz Schubert schon im Alter von 31 Jahren starb, hinterließ er ein reiches und vielfältiges Werk. Er komponierte über 600 Lieder, weltliche und geistliche Chormusik, sieben vollständige und fünf unvollendete Sinfonien, Ouvertüren, Bühnenwerke, Klaviermusik und Kammermusik.
Zu seinen Lebzeiten war die Zahl seiner Bewunderer noch begrenzt. Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms und andere Komponisten der Romantik entdeckten und rühmten das Werk ihres Vorgängers. Heute ist Schuberts Rang als herausragender Vertreter der frühen Romantik unbestritten.
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Christian Lindberg, Franz Schubert – Best of Schubert Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:18 minutes | 194 MB | Genre: Classical
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Franz Peter Schubert (* 31. Jänner 1797 in der Gemeinde Himmelpfortgrund, heute im 9. Bezirk Wiens; † 19. November 1828 in Wieden, jetzt 4. Bezirk) war ein österreichischer Komponist.
Obwohl Franz Schubert schon im Alter von 31 Jahren starb, hinterließ er ein reiches und vielfältiges Werk. Er komponierte über 600 Lieder, weltliche und geistliche Chormusik, sieben vollständige und fünf unvollendete Sinfonien, Ouvertüren, Bühnenwerke, Klaviermusik und Kammermusik.
Zu seinen Lebzeiten war die Zahl seiner Bewunderer noch begrenzt. Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms und andere Komponisten der Romantik entdeckten und rühmten das Werk ihres Vorgängers. Heute ist Schuberts Rang als herausragender Vertreter der frühen Romantik unbestritten.
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Ellen Nisbeth, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg – Pettersson: Symphony No. 15 & Viola Concerto (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 15 is characterized by a high degree of tension right from the striking opening: brief, emphatic chords from horns and trombones above the tremolo of a side drum. Soon an expressive melodic subject is heard from the first violins, followed by contrasting rapid scales – at which point Pettersson has presented the greater part of the symphony’s building blocks. Like so many of the composer’s symphonies, the 15th is in one movement, but with clearly defined sections. It was completed in 1978, two years before Pettersson’s death, and was followed in 1979, by the sixteenth symphony, the last work that the composer submitted for performance.
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