Oskar Lindberg was a significant choral conductor in Sweden, one of the architects behind the Swedish Hymnal of 1939 and an occasional composer of orchestral music in a heavily nationalistic vein. Sterling's Oskar Lindberg: Symphony in F major features the Örebro Symphony Orchestra under Stig Westerberg in two never before recorded works of Lindberg, the Symphony in F major, Op. 16 (1913-1916), and his Rhapsody on Swedish Folk-Tunes (1930). Barely more familiar is the piece rounding out the collection, Three Impressions of ...
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Oskar Lindberg was a significant choral conductor in Sweden, one of the architects behind the Swedish Hymnal of 1939 and an occasional composer of orchestral music in a heavily nationalistic vein. Sterling's Oskar Lindberg: Symphony in F major features the Örebro Symphony Orchestra under Stig Westerberg in two never before recorded works of Lindberg, the Symphony in F major, Op. 16 (1913-1916), and his Rhapsody on Swedish Folk-Tunes (1930). Barely more familiar is the piece rounding out the collection, Three Impressions of Travel, Op. 30 (1919). The Symphony in F major makes for pleasant, but none too challenging, listening -- while thoroughly Swedish in character, stylistically it owes much to Rimsky-Korsakov and is formally episodic to a degree that is distracting. Anyone hoping to find something similar to Alfvén's popular Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 in Lindberg's Rhapsody on Swedish Folk-Tunes are likely to be disappointed, as it is not so much rhapsody as a suite of very short pieces based on...
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