Lundquist: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 5

Malmö Symphony Orchestra;
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

CDM 3007

Symphony No. 8 “Kroumata Symphony” was written with the percussion group Kroumata in mind, and here Torbjörn has partly linked to his experimental music from the 1960’s and also the early influences of the Indonesian gamelan music. Unfortunately he never got the chance to hear his work. It was posthumously premiered in 2002 by the Kroumata Ensemble and Malmö Symphony Orchestraconducted by B. Tommy Andersson.

The fifth symphony is much more classical in its structure than Lundquist's previous symphonies. The symphony has three movements. Lundquist aptly called it Die Wienerische, probably not so much referring to the city of Vienna, as to the formally structured Viennese classical music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. There are no Viennese waltzes to find here, but an elaborated structure of a classic sonata.

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Muzyka klasyczna

Sterling

31-08-2020

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