Pettersson

Christian Lindberg, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra - Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.15; Viola Concerto (2022)

Christian Lindberg, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra - Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.15; Viola Concerto (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 347 Mb | Total time: 67:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-SACD-2480 | Recorded: 2020

Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 15 is characterized 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.
Ellen Nisbeth, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg - Pettersson: Symphony No. 15 & Viola Concerto (2022)

Ellen Nisbeth, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg - Pettersson: Symphony No. 15 & Viola Concerto (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 67:13 | 329 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: BIS

Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 15 is characterized 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.

Johanna Pettersson - The Show Must Go On (2021)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Oct. 17, 2021
Johanna Pettersson - The Show Must Go On (2021)

Johanna Pettersson - The Show Must Go On (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 281.43 Mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps ~ 106.58 Mb | 46:20 | Cover
Jazz, Vocal Jazz | Country: Sweden | Label: Naxos Sweden / Prophone Records

It was a cold day in January 2021 that I started preparing the album. Amanda Ginsbury's "The Little Things (I det lilla händer det mesta)" (Ladybird 79556855) pianist Philip Ekestube worked on the composition of the program and once studied to learn composition "American"・ Mainly on the songs of "Songbook", I chose songs that reflect the colorful appearance of "woman".
Isabelle van Keulen - Allan Pettersson - Violin Concerto No.2 (2006) (Repost)

Isabelle van Keulen - Allan Pettersson - Violin Concerto No.2 (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 00:55:21 | 301 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 777199

With this superlative 1999 recording by violinist Isabelle van Keulen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard, the Swedish modernist Allan Pettersson's late Second Violin Concerto receives its first digital recording. The only previous recording on Capriccio from 1980 had been performed by the forces that gave the work its premiere early that year, violinist Ida Haendel with the Swedish Radio Symphony under Herbert Blomstedt, and it stood inviolate for almost 20 years until the arrival of this disc.
Ulf Wallin - Pettersson: Concerto for Violin and String Quartet (2023)

Ulf Wallin - Pettersson: Concerto for Violin and String Quartet (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 269 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:59:09
Classical | Label: BIS

Between 1934 and 1949, Allan Pettersson, one of Sweden’s foremost composers of symphonies, wrote chamber works that differ greatly from his later production. With his Two Elegies, composed at the tender age of 17, Pettersson drew the enthusiasm of his teacher, who saw in him the makings of a composer. The Four Improvisations for string trio recall Bartók’s music with their rhythmic vitality. The Andante espressivo is more personal with its experimental melodic and harmonic leanings. After his forced return from Paris in 1939, where he had gone to study, Pettersson composed a tender and lyrical Romanza and, three years later, his only piece for solo piano, the elegiac and meditative Lamento.
Norrköpings Symfoniorkester, Christian Lindberg - Pettersson: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 (2018)

Norrköpings Symfoniorkester, Christian Lindberg - Pettersson: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 (2018)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 357 MB
Label: BIS | Tracks: 17 | Time: 82:40 min

A characteristic trait in Allan Pettersson’s music is the use of strong contrasts – shifts between an enormous intensity and calm relaxation, between complex and violently dissonant passages and peaceful, simple melodies and harmonies. This certainly applies to both works recorded here by the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Christian Lindberg – the composer’s Fifth and Seventh Symphonies. Premièred in 1963 and 1968 respectively, these two symphonies contributed substantially to Pettersson’s public standing during the 1960s.
Peter Mattei, Bengt-Åke Lundin - Allan Pettersson: Barfotasånger (Complete Songs) (2022)

Peter Mattei, Bengt-Åke Lundin - Allan Pettersson: Barfotasånger (Complete Songs) (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 71:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-SACD-2584 | Recorded: 2021

From 1950 and onwards, Allan Pettersson was mainly occupied with working on the monolithic symphonies for which he is best known. But before that, while still a student at the Conservatory in Stockholm and later a viola player in the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, he composed two sets of songs: Six Songs and Barfotasånger (Barefoot Songs). Of these two, the second would become especially important for the composer, who returned to it throughout his life, quoting various songs from it in his symphonies.
Swedish Radio Choir - Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 "The Dead in the Square" (2021)

Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg - Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 "The Dead in the Square" (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 273 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:40
Classical, Choral | Label: BIS

The Twelfth Symphony forms an exception in Allan Pettersson’s output. When he agreed to compose a work for the 500th anniversary of Uppsala University, it was one of the few commissions that he ever accepted. Having written purely orchestral scores for the past 30 years, he decided to incorporate a choir and a text. Pablo Neruda had received the Nobel Prize in 1971, and acknowledging the poet’s ‘deeply felt compassion for the outcasts of society’, Pettersson selected nine poems from the huge collection Canto general for his new work.
Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin - Pettersson: Barfotasånger (2022)

Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin - Pettersson: Barfotasånger (2022)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Digital booklet | 01:11:16 | 167 Mb
Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS

From 1950 and onwards, Allan Pettersson was mainly occupied with working on the monolithic symphonies for which he is best known. But before that, while still a student at the Conservatory in Stockholm and later a viola player in the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, he composed two sets of songs: Six Songs and Barfotasånger (Barefoot Songs). Of these two, the second would become especially important for the composer, who returned to it throughout his life, quoting various songs from it in his symphonies.

Alun Francis - Pettersson: Symphonies Nos. 10 & 11 (2000)  Music

Posted by varrock at May 28, 2019
Alun Francis - Pettersson: Symphonies Nos. 10 & 11 (2000)

Alun Francis - Pettersson: Symphonies Nos. 10 & 11 (2000)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 273 MB | Tracks: 10 | 52:38 min
Style: Classical | Label: CPO

CPO’s highly acclaimed complete edition of Allan Pettersson’s symphonies is now complete! In response to great demand, CPO are immediately offering this collection as a boxed set. “A magnificent interpretative feat!” was how FonoForum described the edition, which is the end result of over thirteen years hard work by several orchestras and conductors.