BBC Proms Highlights 2008: Lindberg

Seht die Sonne (UK premiere) Prom 59

Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Oslo Philharmonic bring Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg's "Seht die Sonne" on the 30th August 2008 (Prom 59).

Magnus Lindberg is one of Europe's most talented composers, particularly admired for his orchestral scores. Energy, colour and a thrilling density of material are the hallmarks of his recent style, which defines a new classical modernism. Lindberg’s scoring places an emphasis on a large woodwind section, two harps and rich string sonorities. The title of the work makes a Viennese connection, being the opening text for the final sunrise chorus of Schoenberg's epic cantata Gurrelieder

“A work that liberally mixes the exquisite colours of the orchestra… and that in its luminescent excess is indeed reminiscent of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder: as a revolving sphere of sound in which opulence follows upon opulence." --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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