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Monday, September 17, 2018

Allan Pettersson - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 (Christian Lindberg)


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Composer: Allan Pettersson
  • Symphony No. 5
  • Symphony No. 7

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Christian Lindberg, conductor

Date: 2018
Label: BIS
http://bis.se/conductors/lindberg-christian/allan-pettersson-symphonies-nos-5-7

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Review

I doubt whether many in the audience at the premiere of Pettersson’s Seventh Symphony (1966 67), 50 years ago this autumn, could have dreamt that a half-century later it would be receiving its fifth recording. In a climate where most forward-looking commentators were declaring that the symphony as a form was dead, Pettersson (a not unknown but fairly marginal figure) could hardly have hoped for one. Of course, the first followed quickly – by those premiere performers, the then Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati (5/72 – sadly nla) – bringing this work and its composer to international attention. The benchmark recording, this is how I came to know the work and have been in its thrall ever since.

Dorati’s is the fastest on disc and – until now – the most urgent, gripping in ways that eluded even Comissiona, Pettersson’s other great early champion, and Albrecht; Segerstam’s account (the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra’s previous recording of the work) loses impetus as it progresses. The Seventh has needed a good modern recording for some time, and finally it has one. Only a minute behind Dorati, Lindberg gets the pacing absolutely right, even while taking a different line, quicker and more urgent at the outset, almost taking my breath away where his predecessors do not. The Norrköping players are once again on superb form, responding to Lindberg’s advocacy just as keenly; but then this music is in their blood.

This understanding shows also in their compelling account of the Fifth (1960 62) – its fourth recording – a performance of complete authority which the valiant competition from Berlin, Malmö and Saarbrücken could not achieve. It also made a mark at its premiere in 1963 but not such a popular one. Lindberg’s understanding of the idiom may be incontestably the deepest of any previous interpreter; but what caught my ear as much in both symphonies was the orchestral balance, with so much of the detail coming through as never before. Simply wonderful.

-- Guy Rickards, Gramophone

More reviews:
ClassicsToday  ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 10
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/May/Pettersson_sys57_BIS2240.htm
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/reviews/pettersson-symphonies-nos-5-and-7-norrkoping-symphony-orchestra-lindberg/
https://www.allmusic.com/album/allan-pettersson-symphonies-5-7-mw0003159265
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pettersson-Symphonies-Norrk%C3%B6ping-Orchestra-Christian/dp/B079P95KCC

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Allan Pettersson (19 September 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist. Pettersson studied violin and viola at the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and composition in Paris with René Leibowitz, Arthur Honegger, Olivier Messiaen, and Darius Milhaud. Today he is considered one of the most important Swedish composers of the 20th century. His symphonies developed a devoted international following, starting in the final decade of his life. Most of his music has now been recorded at least once and much of it is now available in published score.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pettersson

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Christian Lindberg (born 15 February 1958 in Danderyd) is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer. Lindberg studied with John Iveson at the Royal College of Music (1979–1980) and with Ralph Sauer and Roger Bobo in Los Angeles (1983). In 2000, Lindberg made his conducting debut with the Northern Sinfonia in the UK and is currently principal conductor of the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also chief conductor of the Nordic Chamber Orchestra (2005–2010) and the Swedish Wind Ensemble (2005–2012). Lindberg has recorded over 60 albums, for BIS and other labels such as Onyx.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Lindberg

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