beautiful and complete in itself

the composer Hans Eklund

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commissioned for Stockholm's Student Singers' 100th anniversary in 2005

total duration nearly six minutes

Concertino for Marimba and Strings cello + piano beautiful and complete in itselfIn the late 1940s, the Swedish composer Lars Erik Larsson wrote 12 Concertini twelve smaller solo concertos for various instruments accompanied by a string orchestra, all composed to be performed by amateur orchestras, while the solo parts made higher demands on the skill of the instrumentalists. With inspiration from Lars Erik Larsson, Daniel Berg has written a work in two movements for a virtuoso solo marimba in combination with a soft string sound