Pettersson: Symphony No. 15 & Viola Concerto

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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…

Release Date: 5th Aug 2022
Catalogue No: BIS2480
Label: BIS
Length: 67 minutes

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Pettersson: Symphony No. 15

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Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra
Christian Lindberg

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Pettersson: Fantasy for solo viola

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Ellen Nisbeth (viola)

Pettersson: Viola Concerto

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Ellen Nisbeth (viola)
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra
Christian Lindberg

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Allan Pettersson’s Symphony no.15 is characterised by a high degree of tension right from the striking opening: brief, emphatic chords from horns and trombones above the tremolo of a side drum. Soon an expressive melodic subject is heard from the first violins, followed by contrasting rapid scales – at which point Pettersson has presented the greater part of the symphony’s building blocks. Like so many of the composer’s symphonies, the 15th is in one movement, but with clearly defined sections. It was completed in 1978, two years before Pettersson’s death, and was followed in 1979, by the Sixteenth Symphony, the last work that the composer submitted for performance.

Only later did it become known that Pettersson had also been working on a Viola Concerto – a work that, if not fully completed, was so far advanced that it has been accepted as part of his œuvre. It is presented here by the Swedish violist Ellen Nisbeth, who also performs one of Pettersson’s very earliest compositions – a Fantaisie pour alto seul, dated June 1936, when the composer himself was about to embark on a career as violist. On this the tenth disc in their acclaimed Pettersson cycle, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Christian Lindberg bring their combined expertise to bear on the orchestral scores.

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October 2022

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 but left, some argue, without its finishing touches. Ellen Nisbeth is the excellent soloist.

October 2022

Lindberg finds more light and shade than his rivals, securing the best attributes of both: tightness of performance (the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra are once more on scintillating form) and illumination of the knottier tangles in the composer’s polyphony without making the whole seem an incoherent rant.

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