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Christian Lindberg, Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo, Tadaaki Otaka - Toru Takemitsu: How Slow the Wind, etc (2001)

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Christian Lindberg, Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo, Tadaaki Otaka - Toru Takemitsu: How Slow the Wind, etc (2001)

Toru Takemitsu: How Slow the Wind, etc (2001)
Christian Lindberg (trombone); Kioi Sinfonietta, Tokyo; Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 254 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 174 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-301078 | Time: 01:11:37

It is rare to find a disc as creatively programmed as this BIS release. Enhanced by lovely performances, played with great devotion to the memory of the recently-deceased Japanese master, the repertoire was chosen by conductor Tadaaki Otaka and producer Robert Suff, who organized it not only in the most effective succesion, but in a manner that illustrates the works’ individual meaning and illuminates Takemitsu’s career. All but one of the compositions are from Takemitsu’s late period. The other, the Requiem for Strings, is one of the earliest works to win him fame. Fantasma/Cantos II, for trombone and orchestra, is among the last Takemitsu compositions. Both it and the Requiem provide considerably more forward harmonic motion than the other four works, which are in Takemitsu’s typical “Japanese garden” meditative style, a kind of revival of French impressionism using harmonies that are more like Messiaen’s than Debussy’s.

Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Symphony No.9, Concerto for cello & orchestra (1995)

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Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Symphony No.9,  Concerto for cello & orchestra (1995)

Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Symphony No.9, Concerto for cello & orchestra (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 220 Mb | Total time: 61:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-706 | Recorded: 1993, 1995

In her liner-notes Anne Weller points out that the Eighth and Ninth symphonies – paired at the latter’s premiere – are musical opposites, one dark the other light. A quick run-through of the Ninth rather confirms this, with Christian Lindberg’s mellifluous entry in the first movement quite without angst or aggression. Even the animated orchestration suggests an altogether more optimistic mood. In fact just listen to the passage that begins at 2:44, a lightly sprung piece of baroquerie with some beautifully articulated playing from the soloist.

Christian Lindberg, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra - Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.15; Viola Concerto (2022)

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Christian Lindberg, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra - Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.15; Viola Concerto (2022)

Christian Lindberg, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra - Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.15; Viola Concerto (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 347 Mb | Total time: 67:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-SACD-2480 | Recorded: 2020

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.

Christian Lindberg, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti - Classical Trombone Concertos (2004)

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Christian Lindberg, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti - Classical Trombone Concertos (2004)

Christian Lindberg, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti - Classical Trombone Concertos (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:28 | 293 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-1248

His most loyal fans are trombone teachers and students, but Christian Lindberg deserves a much wider following, not only for his extraordinary technical gifts, but also for his refined and deeply felt interpretations of music from many periods. Classical Concertos is an excursion into charming eighteenth century works by Michael Haydn, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, and Leopold Mozart second-tier composers, admittedly, but competent craftsmen who turned out admirable works for their day.

Christian Lindberg - Christian Lindberg conducts the Swedish Wind Ensemble (2004)

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Christian Lindberg - Christian Lindberg conducts the Swedish Wind Ensemble (2004)

Christian Lindberg - Christian Lindberg conducts the Swedish Wind Ensemble (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 70:00 | 299 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-1268

Christian Lindberg is perhaps the first classical trombonist to maintain a successful full-time performing career as a soloist. Though now considered among the instrument's foremost exponents, he actually took up the trombone fairly late, only starting playing at age 17 after hearing recordings by the great jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden. By 19, Lindberg was the principle trombonist of the Royal Opera Orchestra in Stockholm. But he left that position after just a year, saying he was bored playing in an orchestra.

Christian Lindberg, Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (2016)

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Christian Lindberg, Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (2016)

Christian Lindberg, Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (2016)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:08:50 | 625 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-SACD-2178

This double album consists of Tchaikovsky performances that have been issued in several different forms. The Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 was recorded in 2012, when the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, a joint project of the cities of Tromsø and Bodø, was still called the Nordic Philharmonic; from a marketing point of view, with graphics showing the orchestra members, instruments and all, standing in the snow, the name change was a good one.

Christian Lindberg, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra - Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony No.2; Music to 'Ett drömspel' (2018)

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Christian Lindberg, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra - Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony No.2; Music to 'Ett drömspel' (2018)

Christian Lindberg, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra - Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony No.2; Music to 'Ett drömspel' (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 262 Mb | Total time: 58:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-SACD-2329 | Recorded: 2017

Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar wrote three symphonies, of which the first was withdrawn from public performance and the third was left incomplete. As a result, the Symphony No. 2 in G minor (1911-1915) stands alone as a fully realized and representative example of Stenhammar's symphonic thinking, showing considerable formal innovation and a rugged personal style, though he seems to have derived much of his inspiration from the Symphony No. 2 in D major of Jean Sibelius. In this performance by Christian Lindberg and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the symphony receives a robust performance that doesn't downplay the Sibelius influence, but seems to revel in it, especially in the organic development of long-breathed themes and extended crescendos.

Christian Lindberg, Iceland Symphony Orchestra - Christian Lindberg Conducts Jan Sandstrom (2011)

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Christian Lindberg, Iceland Symphony Orchestra - Christian Lindberg Conducts Jan Sandstrom (2011)

Christian Lindberg, Iceland Symphony Orchestra - Christian Lindberg Conducts Jan Sandstrom (2011)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 247 MB | 01:01:42
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS

Jan Sandström (b. 1954) is among the most frequently performed Swedish composers on the international scene today. His ‘Motorbike Concerto’ for trombone and orchestra is for instance one of the most played Swedish orchestral works of all times, with more than 600 performances since its première in 1989. The Motorbike Concerto was the first major result of the collaboration between Sandström and the trombone virtuoso Christian Lindberg – a collaboration which has evolved over the years, to the point that Lindberg here conducts the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in four works reflecting Sandström’s trajectory as composer for orchestra, from Éra (1979–80) to Ocean Child in its revised 2004 version.

Claude Delangle, Swedish Wind Ensemble, Christian Lindberg - La Création du monde (2013)

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Claude Delangle, Swedish Wind Ensemble, Christian Lindberg - La Création du monde (2013)

Claude Delangle, Swedish Wind Ensemble, Christian Lindberg - La Création du monde (2013)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 266 MB | 01:08:26
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS

Chronologically, this programme of music for wind ensemble is framed by Darius Milhaud’s La création du monde, a ballet score from 1923, and the composer Anders Emilsson’s Salute the band, commissioned for the 2006 centenary of the Swedish Wind Ensemble. The remaining four compositions are all concertante works, featuring the French saxophone virtuoso Claude Delangle. The disc opens with Catch Me If You Can, based on a film score by John Williams, inspired by the progressive jazz movement of the 1960s. Jazz was an important source of inspiration for Milhaud as well, but in the case of La création – a retelling of an African creational myth – it was the kind of jazz that he heard in Harlem during a visit to New York in the early 1920’s.

Swedish Radio Choir - Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 "The Dead in the Square" (2021)

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Swedish Radio Choir - Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 "The Dead in the Square" (2021)

Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg - Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 "The Dead in the Square" (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 273 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:40
Classical, Choral | Label: BIS

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.