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Pettersson: Symphony No. 13 / Lindberg, Norrkoping Symphony
BIS

Pettersson: Symphony No. 13 / Lindberg, Norrkoping Symphony

$21.99

Details

Composer
PETTERSSON, ALLAN
Artist
Lindberg
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Jan 08, 2016
Catalog #
BIS-2190
UPC
7318599921907

About

Beginning his first (never completed) symphony in 1951 and working on his 17th when he died in 1980, Allan Pettersson during three decades concerned himself almost exclusively with the symphonic genre – and this at a time when many composers considered the symphony (and indeed the symphony orchestra) to be hopelessly old-fashioned. Pettersson, however, was deeply committed to the genre, something which in Sweden during the early 1960s was so unusual that he was called ‘the last symphonist’. He completed his Symphony No.13 in August 1976, as a commission by the Bergen Festival for its 25th anniversary the following year. The complexity and large scale of the work was such that the first performance was postponed for another year, however – and in fact the work had never been performed in Sweden until Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra played it in concert in 2014. As the majority of Pettersson’s symphonies it is in one movement, harbouring the great contrasts between an atonal and a traditional, tonal idiom that characterize the composer’s musical language. A noteworthy feature in the present work is the presence of many brief allusions to other composers – from Beethoven (with the theme to the Fifth Symphony) to D-S-C-H, the musical cryptogram of Shostakovich’s name. Over the course of four previous discs, Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra have demonstrated a true affinity with Pettersson’s music, an affinity that deepens with each new recording.

Review:

The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra articulate the music's 'soaring melodies and grippingly searing polyphony' [convincingly] and Lindberg shapes the structure compellingly. Lindberg seems to feel keenly the work's intense range of mood - the ferocity and depth of its emotion, the consolation that this engenders - and communicates this to his orchestra in masterly fashion.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Beginning - 05:06
    Track
    1
    Title
    Beginning -
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  2. 2 5 Bars after Fig. 15 - 06:27
    Track
    2
    Title
    5 Bars after Fig. 15 -
    Duration
    06:27
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  3. 3 3 Bars after Fig. 35 - 11:30
    Track
    3
    Title
    3 Bars after Fig. 35 -
    Duration
    11:30
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  4. 4 5 Bars after Fig. 70 (Tempo I) - 05:13
    Track
    4
    Title
    5 Bars after Fig. 70 (Tempo I) -
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  5. 5 3 Bars before Fig. 87 - 03:52
    Track
    5
    Title
    3 Bars before Fig. 87 -
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  6. 6 4 Bars before Fig. 99 - 09:43
    Track
    6
    Title
    4 Bars before Fig. 99 -
    Duration
    09:43
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  7. 7 5 Bars after Fig. 128 - 06:50
    Track
    7
    Title
    5 Bars after Fig. 128 -
    Duration
    06:50
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  8. 8 4 Bars after Fig. 152 - 03:02
    Track
    8
    Title
    4 Bars after Fig. 152 -
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  9. 9 3 Bars after Fig. 165 (Tempo I) - 01:17
    Track
    9
    Title
    3 Bars after Fig. 165 (Tempo I) -
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  10. 10 4 Bars after Fig. 169 - 01:41
    Track
    10
    Title
    4 Bars after Fig. 169 -
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  11. 11 5 Bars after Fig. 174 - 07:43
    Track
    11
    Title
    5 Bars after Fig. 174 -
    Duration
    07:43
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg
  12. 12 4 Bars after Fig. 194 03:44
    Track
    12
    Title
    4 Bars after Fig. 194
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Allan Pettersson
    Ensemble
    Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
    Conductor
    Christian Lindberg