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I am very worried about Magnus Lindberg's recent output. I adore the spiky, frenetic modernism of his early pieces such as the masterpieces Kraft and Kinetics, but his recent works including the clarinet concerto show a stylistic shift away from that highly original modernist language towards a simpler and more conservative language, a more diatonic harmonic idiom and neo-romantic gestures... Of course Lindberg's compositional craftmanship and brilliant orchestration are still impressive, but nonetheless I found the clarinet concerto quite disappointing, because of its mellow and diatonic idiom. I wonder, is Lindberg losing his genius?
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