Pettersson - Violin Concerto No 2 (revised version) | CPO 7771992

Pettersson - Violin Concerto No 2 (revised version)

Label: CPO

Cat No: 7771992

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 29th January 2007

Contents

Artists

Isabelle van Keulen (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Thomas Dausgaard

Works

Pettersson, Allan

Violin Concerto no.2

Artists

Isabelle van Keulen (violin)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Thomas Dausgaard

About

Allan Pettersson is best known, even notorious in some circles, for having composed some of the bleakest symphonic music of the post-war era. Written between 1977 and 1979, Allan Pettersson’s Violin Concerto No. 2 is an excellent example of the composer’s weighty yet lucid writing style, in which the violinist is not so much a soloist as a prominent part, consistently fighting against the orchestra to make herself heard.
 
After the first version premièred in 1980, Pettersson re-wrote his second violin concerto, creating a version of greater listening transparency, and it is the première of this second version, with Isabelle van Keulen, that is recorded here. 
 
Classics Today described Isabelle van Keulen as an artist possessing “considerable talent, experience, and professionalism.”

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