Magnus Lindberg: Graffiti - Seht die Sonne Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Sakari Oramo

• 1 Beginning 04:12
• 2 Bar 111 04:16
• 3 Bar 232 06:13
• 4 Bar 403 04:41
• 5 Bar 518 06:28
• 6 Bar 682 05:37
• 7 I. — 12:17
• 8 II. — 07:41
• 9 III. — 05:43
• Total Runtime 57:08

Info for Magnus Lindberg: Graffiti - Seht die Sonne

Magnus Lindberg is widely recognized as one of the top composers of our time. He currently serves as the New York Philharmonic's Composer-in-Residence. The present recording of GRAFFITI earned Lindberg a 2010 GRAMMY award nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

This recording showcases his famed skills as an orchestral composer. Seht die Sonne ('Behold the Sun'; 2007) borrows its title from the final chorus in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder; it is an ideal example of his recent, more approachable style. GRAFFITI (2009) is Magnus Lindberg's first large-scale choral work with orchestra, which earned him the 2009 Finnish Composer Society's Award. The sung texts (performed by the Helsinki Chamber Choir) are a selection of 2000-year-old Latin graffiti inscriptions from the walls of excavated Pompeii houses. Their themes cover a range of aspects of domestic, political or civic life, including even some graphic language. International performances of this vital music (with hints of Stravinsky, Britten and Orff) have been received with great public and critical acclaim.

„Lindberg's conviction, and technical resourcefulness, in creating this sound world can inspire rapturous enjoyment or alienated bafflement (...). The effect is always upbeat, exuberant and laid down with immense panache by the Finnish forces involved, in spectacularly vivid sound.“ (Arnold Whittall, Gramophone)

„Graffiti is as intelligent as it is beautiful, appealing, and exciting (...). Seht die Sonne (...) is an absolutely bewitching piece of orchestral writing. (...) The performances are vivid, even thrilling, the engineering outstandingly lifelike and (...) well-balanced. Hot stuff!“ (David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com)

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Helsinki Chamber Choir
Sakari Oramo, conductor

Recorded at House of Culture, Helsinki 4-5 September 2008, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki 23 May 2009

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