The three items on this program of works by Anders Eliasson were recorded in 2011, 2017, and 2020, with two different orchestras and conductors, and perhaps collected in 2022 to fill gaps in pandemic-era recording catalogs. They may have remained in the vault because Eliasson is not much known outside Sweden, although the Trombone Concerto here was premiered by the Berlin Philharmonic and trombonist Christian Lindberg, its dedicatee (who also plays it here). Because his language is essentially tonal, he is sometimes taken ...
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The three items on this program of works by Anders Eliasson were recorded in 2011, 2017, and 2020, with two different orchestras and conductors, and perhaps collected in 2022 to fill gaps in pandemic-era recording catalogs. They may have remained in the vault because Eliasson is not much known outside Sweden, although the Trombone Concerto here was premiered by the Berlin Philharmonic and trombonist Christian Lindberg, its dedicatee (who also plays it here). Because his language is essentially tonal, he is sometimes taken for a conservative or neo-Romantic, and indeed, he presented himself this way. However, such labels don't quite capture the abstract, rigorously detailed features of his music, which unfolds in complex swirls around a tonal center. All of the works here are world premieres on recordings. The Symphony No. 4 of 2005 has attracted attention thanks to its highly dramatic quality, but to these ears, it is the Symphony No. 3, written in 1989 and revised in 2010, that is most interesting....
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