Bo Linde was a promising Swedish composer, based for most of his professional life in Gävle, reckoned as a member of a group known as "50-talisterna" -- belonging to the 1950s -- Swedish composers that looked back to the 1930s, and to neo-classicism, for inspiration. Beginning as a child prodigy at the piano, Linde decided in early adulthood to devote himself to composition. He worked closely with the Gävle County Orchestra -- the predecessor to the modern-day Gävle Symphony, heard here under Petter Sundkvist -- wrote music ...
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Bo Linde was a promising Swedish composer, based for most of his professional life in Gävle, reckoned as a member of a group known as "50-talisterna" -- belonging to the 1950s -- Swedish composers that looked back to the 1930s, and to neo-classicism, for inspiration. Beginning as a child prodigy at the piano, Linde decided in early adulthood to devote himself to composition. He worked closely with the Gävle County Orchestra -- the predecessor to the modern-day Gävle Symphony, heard here under Petter Sundkvist -- wrote music criticism and produced a small but tidy number of works notable for their spontaneity, humor, and popular appeal. In 1970, Bo Linde inexplicably committed suicide at the age of 37, robbing Sweden of his own prodigious gifts.This Swedish Society disc is called Bo Linde: Orchestral Works Vol. 2, which might confuse some listeners outside of Sweden; what happened to Vol. 1? Outside Sweden, that disc, featuring Linde's Violin Concerto -- his most celebrated work -- and Cello Concerto,...
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