Lindberg EXPO - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Al largo Alan Gilbert

• 1 EXPO 10:08
• 2 1st movement – 11:49
• 3 2nd movement – 08:43
• 4 3rd movement – 08:07
• 5 Al largo 23:43
• Total Runtime 01:02:30

Info for Lindberg EXPO - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Al largo

This album presents the world premiere recordings of three works by Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) written for and premiered by the New York Philharmonic under Music Director Alan Gilbert. The opening work, EXPO, was the overture in Gilbert’s very first concert as the Philharmonic’s new Music Director and Lindberg’s first season as their composer-in-residence in 2009. The symphonic piece Al largo and the virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 2 – premiered by the Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman – bear further witness to three remarkable years of artistic collaboration between the legendary orchestra, its celebrated music director and one of today’s strongest Nordic composers.

“The performance [of EXPO] by the NYPO in the première, recorded here, is quite wonderful, reminding us what a very great ensemble this is. They are matched by the astonishing pianism of Bronfman in the concerto...This is an exciting CD, brilliantly performed and recorded; as an introduction to one of the most approachable and individual voices in contemporary music, it could hardly be bettered.” (MusicWeb International)

Yefim Bronfman, piano
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor

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