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Friday, July 26, 2019

Allan Pettersson - Violin Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 17 (Ulf Wallin; Christian Lindberg)


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Composer: Allan Pettersson
  • (01) Violin Concerto No. 2 (revised version)
  • (05) Symphony No. 17 (fragment)

Ulf Wallin, violin
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Christian Lindberg, conductor

Date: 2019
Label: BIS Records
https://bis.se/conductors/lindberg-christian/allan-pettersson-violin-concerto-symphony-no-17-fragment

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Review

Michael Oliver described Pettersson’s Second Violin Concerto (1977 79) in these pages as ‘perplexing but absorbing, infuriatingly chaotic but somehow unified by sheer eloquence’, noting how in the original version Ida Haendel had to ‘fight against a texture in which two or three strands of argument are continually interweaving’. That was the composer’s intention, of course, in what is less a concerto than a symphony with solo violin. Pettersson’s revised score (1980) lightened the orchestral string textures, as Isabelle van Keulen’s recording a quarter of a century later confirmed.

What stands out most in its third recording is the sustained lyricism of this very long (53 minutes), intense and demanding meditation on one of Pettersson’s own Barefoot Songs. He may have originally intended the soloist to be the orchestral leader, and the strong-toned Ulf Wallin – as commanding as Haendel and van Keulen – does seem slightly more integrated into the whole than his predecessors. Lindberg moulds the structure convincingly, driving the music forwards without overwhelming his soloist; the emergence of the song theme, Cantando (track 4), is magical. The result is less perplexing, just as absorbing and eloquent but not at all chaotic. BIS’s crystal-clear recording enhances the lighter and more transparent textures still further.

Pettersson enthusiasts will be most excited by the coupling, the premiere recording of the seven-minute untitled fragment begun in the composer’s final months and generally thought of as the opening of an unfinished Seventeenth Symphony. In this performing edition, made by Lindberg with Pettersson expert Markus Brylka, it feels exactly like the exposition and initial development of a symphony. Thoroughly engrossing, its sudden finish is dismaying but it is wonderful to hear this final utterance in such an idiomatic account. Needless to say, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra are on top form; no one plays Pettersson like them!

-- Guy Rickards, Gramophone

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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.

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Ulf Wallin is a Swedish violinist who was born in Växjö and grew up in Linköping. He studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He has particular interest in contemporary music and close collaboration with composers such as Anders Eliasson, Alfred Schnittke and Rodion Shchedrin. Wallin has made numerous recordings for radio and television, and recorded over 40 CD recordings for labels BIS, cpo, EMI and BMG. He is professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin since 1996, and a member of the Royal Music Academy since 2015.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf_Wallin

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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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