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Lindberg premiere of Parada by Salonen

(April 2002)

One of the highlights of the season’s Lindberg festivities in London, Paris and Brussels was the premiere of Parada for orchestra, toured in February by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, who also conducted its North American premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in April. While being primarily an independent work, Parada can also provide the central panel of a 50-minute orchestral triptych with Spanish titles. It was first heard in this form, surrounded by Feria and Cantigas, at the Ars Musica festival in Belgium in March.

"In this scheme [Parada] has to function as both slow movement and scherzo, and the piece combines these two characters – massive slow-moving blocks of sound, which sometimes coalesce into a single melodic line, and anarchic rapid figurations. The two alternate and are never reconciled, but the effect is luminous and compelling."
The Guardian

"Parada seems to define and defy gravity."
Los Angeles Times

"Parada’s gorgeous opening sequence of string-dominated chords launched a superbly controlled and paced single-movement structure, at once sombre and bursting with invention… while Lindberg’s style hasn’t exactly mellowed, it has found room for reflection and space beside all that eruptive orchestral virtuosity."
Sunday Telegraph

"Within [Parada’s] slow trajectory, moments of rapid action and clarity – brass explosions and woodwind ripples – unsettle the hazy stillness, dying away with simple cello pizzicatos. Lindberg achieves luminous orchestral effects, holding the sounds poised as if centrifugally. The Philharmonia made masterly work of its subtleties."
The Observer

Parada can be heard on an exciting new recording from Sony (SK 89810) together with Fresco, Cantigas and the Cello Concerto, featuring Anssi Karttunen as soloist and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

To purchase the new Lindberg disc click here.

Also premiered at the Related Rocks festival in February was Lindberg’s new Chorale, written to be played in conjunction with the Berg Violin Concerto. The Bach chorale Es ist genug, which emerges in the final section of Berg’s concerto, can be heard threading its way through Lindberg’s work, described in The Guardian as "full of sumptious harmonies and orchestral colours".

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Photo: Esa-Pekka Salonen and Magnus Lindberg © Kira Gluschkoff

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