Lisa Larsson, Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mägi - Into Eternity (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The music on Presentiment, a 2018 release with four orchestral works by Rolf Martinsson, was described by one critic as bold and uncompromisingly personal, eschewing avant-garde modernism and engaging us with solidly expert conventional techniques of composition and orchestration (MusicWeb International.com). The present disc features more of Martinssons music, performed by the Malmö Symphony Orchestra a body with which Martinsson has enjoyed a close relationship as its composer in residence. In two of the recorded works, the orchestra conducted by Paul Mägi is joined by another of Martinssons regular collaborators, the soprano Lisa Larsson. Larsson is the soloist in Ich denke Dein…, a song cycle setting five poems by Goethe, Rilke and von Eichendorff, and in Into Eternity, a longer work which in its second half incorporates two poems by the Swedish poet Karin Boye. Into Eternity was composed for the opening of the Malmö orchestra's new concert hall in 2015, and Martinsson wrote it, as well as Ich denke Dein…, with Lisa Larsson in mind. Larsson also appears on the composer's previous monograph on BIS, in his settings of poems by Emily Dickinson.

Tracklist:
1 Opening Sounds, Op. 94 06:33
2 Ich denke Dein…, Op. 1 No. 1, Nähe des Geliebten 05:26
3 Ich denke Dein…, Op. 1 No. 2, Liebes-Lied 05:06
4 Ich denke Dein…, Op. 1 No. 3, Blaue Hortensie 03:51
5 Ich denke Dein…, Op. 1 No. 4, Die Liebende schreibt 05:23
6 Ich denke Dein…, Op. 1 No. 5, Mondnacht 08:21
7 Tour de force, Op. 95 10:14
8 Into Eternity, Op. 103 21:46

Personnel:
Lisa Larsson, soprano
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mägi, conductor