Composer: Allan Pettersson
Performer: Ulf Wallin
Orchestra: Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Lindberg
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BIS2290
Release: 2019
Size: 1.17 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra (1977, revised version)
01. Opening
02. Tempo II (After Fig. 54)
03. A tempo (After Fig. 93)
04. Cantando (Fig. 117)
05. Symphony No. 17, fragment (1980)
In terms of genre, Allan Pettersson was uniquely single-minded: during his entire career as a composer (1953–80) he produced only a dozen or so works that were not symphonies. By name, Violin Concerto No. 2 is one of these, but it is fair to say that it straddles the divide. Pettersson himself remarked: ‘In reality my work was a Symphony for violin and orchestra. From this results the fact that the solo violin is incorporated into the orchestra like any other instrument.’ It should therefore not come as a surprise that Christian Lindberg has chosen to include this massive 53-minute work in his acclaimed and award-winning series of Pettersson’s symphonies, realised in collaboration with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.