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"Fine performances and a composer who never disappoints ..." - Gramophone "Five Stars ... If you’re looking for orchestral music that’s dramatic, harmonically lucid, gloriously colourful, exuberant and powerfully immediate, this disc is for you ... Lindberg is clearly one of the most significant of several major living Finnish composers. Throughout this stunningly performed and recorded disc, Lindberg shines as one of the most brilliant orchestrators of symphonic music of our time." - Audiophile Audition Magnus Lindberg is considered one of the most important voices in contemporary European classical music. This recording includes orchestral works written during and after his composer-in-residence years with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, between 2009 and 2012. Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen is the featured soloist on the world premiere of the Cello Concerto No. 2, performed with the Finnish Radio Orchestra under Hannu Lintu. Al largo, an extensive piece running over 20 minutes long, was written for and dedicated to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Despite its title, Lindberg himself considers it as the fastest music he has ever written. The programme concludes with another premiere, Era, described as a tone poem even though it has no narrative content.