With a change of the guard imminent at the New York Philharmonic, Santtu-Matias Rouvali is the only guest conductor leading two programs this season. By Zachary Woolfe At the San Francisco Symphony, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall this ...

The Finn has become a concert hall staple – but his best works predate his embrace of colour and hyper-romanticism It’s a long way from here to here. The first is from Magnus Lindberg’s 1985 piece ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Call it a preview of sorts. The Finnish composer/pianist Magnus Lindberg is a relatively unknown artist hereabouts, a ...

Magnus Lindberg, the innovative Finnish composer, has finally cracked choral music – with a work commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra that takes its text from choice graffiti found in Pompeii ...

Miles Davis had a mean streak. Picasso was worse. Art, they say, has little to do with the character of the artist. But I’ll bet you, anyway, that the obsessive, orderly and occasionally serene music ...

As he moves through his 50s, the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg has been undergoing an extraordinary transformation — one in which his music seems to grow ever more ambitious, sure-footed and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Composer Magnus Lindberg’s evolution has been fascinating, parallel to some other lapsed modernists but somehow ...

Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg writes in large, monolithic blocks of sound, with dense harmonies and melodies that often move in short, crabbed steps. That hasn't changed, but the two recent pieces ...