Artist: Christian Lindberg
Album: C. Lindberg: Steppenwolf, Tales of Galamanta & Peking Twilight
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 58:23
Total Tracks: 5
Total Size: 986 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Rafael Altino, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg – Steppenwolf: I. No Man’s Land (08:47)
1-02. Rafael Altino, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg – Steppenwolf: II. Soothing Empathy (07:36)
1-03. Rafael Altino, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg – Steppenwolf: III. Searching for Light (04:21)
1-04. Rafael Altino, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg – Tales of Galamanta (15:59)
1-05. Rafael Altino, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg – Peking Twilight (21:38)

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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.