Viola Concerto Absence Serenades [CD]

Composer Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) is one of Europe's leading names in contemporary music. Having travelled a long road as a composer, from the steely and edgy modernism of his early period to the soft and sonorous sound worlds of his most recent output, Lindberg's new, more emollient sound world building on a harmonic environment rooted in pentatonic scales at times seem to hark back even to Debussy and Impressionism. This new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and it's chief conductor Nicholas Collon features some of the most recent orchestral compositions by Magnus Lindberg culminating with his new Viola Concerto, a substantial new work masterfully performed by Lawrence Power as soloist.