Magnus Lindberg

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...

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...

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

Set of six piano works, the first of which was commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall in London as a birthday present for Pierre Boulez in 2000. The composer then continued the series so that the who...

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...

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...

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...

Work for Accordion and Percussion.

Work for Bass Clarinet (Contra-Bass Clarinet), Percussion, Cello and Live Electronics. Commissioned by the Jyväskylä Arts Festival. Four player's scores and CD.

Work for Bass Clarinet (Contra-Bass Clarinet), Percussion, Cello and Live Electronics. Commissioned by the Jyväskylä Arts Festival.

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...

The concept of this piece is based on a harmonic lay-out, it has been composed using huge chordal succsessions out of which the music follows meanderlike paths alternating between layers. Duo Concerta...

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...