Lindberg / Glennie / New Trombone Collective 2017 Super-Audio CD

As a performer and conductor, Christian Lindberg has a rare ability to electrify an audience, and as reviewers attest, the same applies to his compositions. Released on disc in 2018, his viola concerto Steppenwolf was described as 'one of those rare contemporary works that captures the attention from the first notes' (Fanfare) while the five-star review in BBC Music Magazine spoke of 'thrilling orchestral storytelling' and 'glorious musical cavalcades'. The present album offers further opportunity to acquaint oneself with the unstoppable energy of Lindberg in all of his three incarnations. The album is named after the closing work, 2017, described by Lindberg as his testimony about a year when the world changed, as a result of the US presidential election. Starting work on it on 1st January he followed the news in the media and let it feed his creative process throughout the course of the year. The opening work is an earlier one, commissioned for the nine trombones of The New Trombone Collective, and inspired by the spectacle of great waves rolling in at the beach in Wollongong, Australia. Framed by these two is Liverpool Lullabies, a concertante work for percussion and trombone which Lindberg composed with Evelyn Glennie and himself in mind. They are also the soloists on this recording, supported by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra which also shines in the other two works on the album.

1. The Waves of Wollongong 2. 1. Beginning: quarter note = 50 3. 2. Bar 61 4. 3. Bar 159 5. 4. Bar 220 6. 5. Bar 281 7. 6. Bar 330 8. 7. Bar 405 9. 8. Bar 467 10. Liverpool Lullabies 11. 9. Beginning: quarter note = 54 12. 10. Bar 25 13. 11. Bar 80 14. 12. Bar 134 15. 13. Bar 169 16. 14. Bar 243 17. 15. Bar 335 18. 2017 19. 16. I. The World Upside Down 20. 17. II. Lonely Creatures 21. 18. III. Fake News 22. 19. IV. Inner Soul 23. 20. V. The Bragger 24. 21. VI. Reflection 25. 22. VII. Train from Hell