Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist completed Landscape in 1978. It was commissioned by the Swedish Concert Institute and dedicated to the soloist Michael Lind, who also gave the first performance in Örebro the same year. The composer has given the following comment to the work: “The textbooks are completely unanimous; the tuba is not suited to fast passages, its expressive register is non-existent, it can hardly play legato and it is even less capable of producing a singing tone, etc, etc. I have tried to ...