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Into Eternity

Lisa Larsson (soprano)

Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mägi

Into Eternity
The playing of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Mägi is superb. And, as with every BIS release I have ever heard, the sound quality is wonderful.

Into Eternity

Lisa Larsson (soprano)

Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mägi

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The playing of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Mägi is superb. And, as with every BIS release I have ever heard, the sound quality is wonderful.

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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.

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, Nähe des Geliebten
Track length5:26
No. 2, Liebes-Lied
Track length5:06
No. 3, Blaue Hortensie
Track length3:51
No. 4, Die Liebende schreibt
Track length5:23
No. 5, Mondnacht
Track length8:21

Awards and reviews

January/February 2020

The playing of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Mägi is superb. And, as with every BIS release I have ever heard, the sound quality is wonderful.

September 2019

There is no doubting Martinsson’s gift as an orchestrator. His ability to control, combine and blend instrumental colours imaginatively and creatively is evident throughout…Martinsson also has a gift for text-setting, as heard in the intensely expressive Into Eternity, which features Lisa Larsson’s impressively haunting soprano voice.
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