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Sep 1, 2018

Austrian Premiere

25 May 2007

Fairlight - Trombone Concerto No. 1

  • Christian Lindberg
  • Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Bertrand de Billy

"At the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra's concert under the baton of principal conductor Bertrand de Billy, the focus of the programme was clearly on more recent music: for example the Swedish composer Rolf Martinsson's trombone concerto "Fairlight" (2004), an analogue tribute to the eponymous first sampling synthesizer. A piece that is multi-coloured, noisy, humorous and effusive like several street fairs going on at the same time. And only a soloist of the calibre of Christian Lindberg can dance at them all. Sonorous legatos, capricious leaps, rumbling extreme depths: like some Paganini of the trombone Christian Lindberg places a range of expressions at the disposal of the work.....entertaining in the best sense and, thanks to Lindberg's effortless virtuosity, a thrilling experience."

Rolf Martinsson is represented by Gehrmans Musikförlag

Photography by Louise Martinsson and video by Tord Martinsson

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