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Linde - Orchestral Works Volume 1: Violin Concerto Op 18, Cello Concerto Op 29

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Label: Proprius

Cat No: SSACD1131

Barcode: 0822359311312

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 26th February 2007

Artists

Karen Gomyo (violin)
Maria Kliegel (cello)
Gävle Symfoniorkester

Conductor

Petter Sundkvist

Artists

Karen Gomyo (violin)
Maria Kliegel (cello)
Gävle Symfoniorkester

Conductor

Petter Sundkvist

About

“I write in very beautiful triads” Bo Linde explained during an interview for the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation after he had been accepted as a student in Lars Erik Larsson’s composition class at the Academy of Music in Stockholm at the tender age of fifteen. Bo Linde was not only a precocious talent but, from an early age, he had a clear idea of what he wanted to do in music. For example he submitted his first piano concerto as part of his application for admission to the Academy.

Despite being a quite technically gifted pianist, Bo Linde rapidly abandoned the idea of a solo career. That would merely interfere with his work as a composer. Most of all he wanted to write organ music and music for the theatre. In point of fact he was only to write a couple of small-scale organ pieces and a children’s opera in these genres. Instead, he devoted his powers to writing orchestral music, chamber music as well as songs. Just like Benjamin Britten, whom he greatly admired, Bo Linde had an unfailing sense of how poetry and music could be united.

The Violin Concerto is dedicated to the violinist Josef Grünfarb. Forty years after its première Josef Grünfarb explained that this violin concerto differed from other concertos which various composers had offered him in that “Everything was complete. It was just a matter of playing the elegant passagework and cantilenas. The concerto is remarkably violinistic. His feeling for the instrument was unique for someone who did not play it himself.” Grünfarb’s pupil Karl-Ove Mannberg has claimed that Linde’s violin concerto ought to be part of the standard repertoire alongside those of the great masters.

Bo Linde counted his Cello Concerto among his very finest works. In a newspaper interview prior to the première he explained that “I am hopelessly in love with this noble and beautiful instrument”. Bo Linde wrote the concerto for Guido Vecchi who was the principal cellist of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and who also premièred the work in 1965.