Magnus Lindberg

Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and first performed there in 2018 by the Zebra Trio: Ernst Kovacic (violin), Steven Dann (viola) and Anssi Karttunen (cello). Maguey de tlalcoyote i...

Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and first performed there in 2018 by the Zebra Trio: Ernst Kovacic (violin), Steven Dann (viola) and Anssi Karttunen (cello). Maguey de tlalcoyote i...

A substantial suite in six movements, composed in 2001 as a commission for the Turku Cello Competition. The title has its roots in the original manuscript of Bach's partitas for violin in which he use...

Work for Piano and Orchestra, commissioned by the Helsinki Festival.

Orchestral work commissioned by the BBC, and premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Davis, The Barbican Hall, November 1992. Quoting Lindberg: 'After having written a Pi...

Commissioned by the first Sibelius Conductor's Competition held in Helsinki in May 1995, as an obligatory piece to be rehearsed by all the competitors, Arena was performed in its totality at the annua...

Related Rocks for two pianos, two percussionists and electronics was commissioned by Ircam and the Musica Festival, Strasbourg. The world premiere took place on 24th June 1997. Magnus Lindberg wrote t...

By the age of forty, Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg was one of the busiest concert composers in the world. His music avails itself of all manner of modern innovations, but there is a Neo-Classical o...

Completed in 1992, Corrente was commissioned by the Swedish Literature Society Of Finland. As the title suggests, the piece bids a nod to the Baroque dance form, the Courante, based upon an ever-shift...

Lindberg's explosive and highly complex 1981 work for an ensemble of Flute, Guitar, Alto Saxophone (or Clarinet) and Percussion, with two Voices. A set of parts is available: Catalogue No. KP00620

Work for Accordion and Percussion.

An arrangement of Ablauf for Saxophone with Percussion. Originally for clarinet and two bass drums, the piece is a swift, violent and breath-taking rollercoaster that is explores the full polyphonic p...

This work shows the composer's need to move in another musical direction away from the Urban Jungle style he had sought in previous works such as Kraft and UR. The piece is based upon the composer's i...

The full score of Arena II, written in 1996 by Magnus Lindberg, for Chamber Orchestra. The work is a version for sixteen instruments, derived from it's predecessor Arena, and was commissioned by the L...

Songs From North And South by Magnus Lindberg. 5 songs for upper voices unaccompanied.

New edition of this 1999-2000 dialogue between the two orchestral families of woodwind and brass, each with their respective material. Their initial characters, equating to the poetic stereotypes of '...

Scored for 12-piece symphonic brass ensemble this 13-minute work was commissioned for MusicNOW, the new music series of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed by the brass of the Chica...

Aldeburgh Trilogy consists of the separate works Bubo bubo (2002), Counter Phrases (2002-03) and Red House (2013). Bubo bubo was composed as a tribute to Oliver Knussen on his 50th birthday and is bas...

Scored for horn and chamber orchestra Campana in Aria was composed in 1998 to mark the 40th birthday of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Salonen conducted the first performance; his musical career began as a horn p...

Composed in 2020 to commission by Ensemble intercontemporain and the Théâtre du Châtelet. This is a demanding trio in two movements totalling seven minutes' duration. May be performed from the set of...

Composed in 2020 to commission by Ensemble intercontemporain and the Théâtre du Châtelet. This is a demanding trio in two movements totalling seven minutes' duration. May be performed from the set of...

17-minute work for full orchestra commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. First performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in August 1997. The composer comments:'The...

TEMPUS FUGIT was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Finnish independence on 6 December 2017 and it received its first performance in Helsinki on that day, given by the Finnish Radio Symphony O...