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Wilhelm Peterson-Berger - Symphony No. 2; Violin Romance (Michail Jurowski)


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Composer: Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  • (01) Symphony No. 2, 'Sunnanfärd' (The Journey to the South)
  • (04) Romance in D minor for violin and orchestra
  • (05) Oriental Dance
  • (06) Førspel till 'Sveagaldrar'

Ulf Wallin, violin
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Michail Jurowski, conductor

Date: 1998
Label: cpo

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Review

Strindberg loved the music of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, so it’s good to see one of the dramatist’s paintings adorning the front of this disc. But the music of which Strindberg was so fond was the songs and piano miniatures which still represent Peterson-Berger at his most beguiling. The symphonies are something else besides. The somewhat featureless landscapes of the First and Fifth have been valiantly recorded by the Swedish Royal Opera Orchestra (Sterling, 1/98); now the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra turns to the Second.

The Journey to the South, as it’s called, is an episodic and expressively fitful dream-fantasy voyage, written ten years before Peterson-Berger made his own obligatory Italian journey. As the music leaves the limping rhythms of northern discontent, the melodic span broadens, orchestration becomes livelier, if hardly more subtle – and we arrive in Greece. This provokes a little percussive Dionysian delirium, a chaste Debussian Adagio in ‘The Temple of Eros’, and a tarantella of a Platonic ‘Symposium’.

By the third movement it’s quite a relief that the composer has a touch of ‘Homesickness’ and, after a thematic recollection or two, returns north. Home to a melancholy, salonesque violin Romance, sensitively played by Ulf Wallin, to an orchestration of a winsome little Oriental Dance, originally for piano, and to the pomp and circumstance of the Prelude to his cantata Sveagaldrar.

Neither the playing nor the sound quality is of the most sophisticated here; but this is none the less a useful documentation of yet another manifestation of the cultural Zeitgeist of turn-of-the-century Sweden.


More reviews:
ClassicsToday  ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 9

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Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (27 February 1867, Ullånger, Ångermanland – 3 December 1942, Östersund) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom. He is best known for three albums of national romantic piano pieces (Frösöblomster I, II, III), which were composed over a period of 18 years (1896-1914). His other works include five symphonies, four operas and about eighty songs. His songs for vocal ensemble are also still regularly performed, and are part of the core repertoire of Swedish choirs.

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Michail Jurowski (born 25 December 1945 in Moscow) is a Russian conductor. He is the son of Soviet composer Vladimir Jurowski (1915-1972), and the father of Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski (b. 1972). Jurowski studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev Ginzburg and Alexey Kandinsky, and also worked as assistant to Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Jurowski was music director and principal conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (1992-1998), the Leipzig Opera (1999-2001), and the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln (2006-2008). He is currently principal guest conductor of the Sinfonia Iuventus in Warsaw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Jurowski
https://imgartists.com/roster/michail-jurowski/

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