Browse: SACD, Pettersson (composer)

Two intriguing 1960s symphonies by Swedish composer Allan Pettersson. Christian Lindberg elicits playing of clarity and conviction in the questing No. 5 and brooding No. 7. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pettersson’s Symphony No. 15 of 1978, written two years before he died, is a tense, terse half-hour work in one movement. It’s paired here with his dense Viola Concerto that he worked on in 1979... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The choirs are excellent, having lived with this music now for a few years. The men’s voices emerging from the orchestral soundscape in the first poem sound quite magical...It is indeed a powerful... — Fanfare, July/August 2021 More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2016 More…

Pettersson's longest symphony becomes a focused 70-minute rollercoaster in Lindberg's hands. Comes with fascinating DVD bonus of a 1970s Swedish documentary on the composer. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Mattei] His voice is most attractive and he uses it eloquently. He captures the text’s bitterness and pathos, and also its occasional black humor, without descending into self-absorption. His... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

propelled constantly onwards by the sheer force of musical argument and expression - always fundamentally tonal too - the listener's mind is unable to wander...a terrific performance under Lindberg... — MusicWeb International, 25th September 2013 More…

Lindberg moulds the structure [of the Violin Concerto] convincingly, driving the music forwards without overwhelming his soloist…Thoroughly engrossing, [the Symphony’s] sudden finish is dismaying... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019 More…

Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Orchestra present a meticulous and fervent engagement with the score, and their efforts must be fully rewarded by attention in the listener — Diapason, June 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Dissonant and febrile, Pettersson’s Concerto for Violin and String Quartet is not easy to love – but gripping on its own terms, and played here with great commitment. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…