Browse: Orchestral, Symphonies, 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…

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…

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…

Invaluable and often challenging reminders of Pettersson's monumental contribution to challenging yet rewarding twentieth century symphonism. — MusicWeb International, 19th July 2016 More…