
This music grows on you. Unlike most of Pettersson’s other […]
Listeners familiar with Allan Pettersson’s monomanical and bleakly obsessive symphonies will be surprised at the plain-spoken quality of his art songs, all of which date
We didn’t really need this release. BIS has perfectly fine versions of these two symphonies already. Indeed, the Seventh, conducted by Leif Segerstam, is a
We have been following BIS’ ongoing Allan Pettersson symphony cycle
Who ever knew that music could capture such a wide
Allan Pettersson’s Ninth Symphony lasts 70 brutal, continuous minutes. The
Slowly and steadily, BIS continues its advocacy of the works
The performances here are uniformly excellent, though whether or not
Most discussions of Allan Pettersson’s music maintain that he only reaches the apogee of musical darkness and misery in his later symphonies, a reflection of
Allan Pettersson is best known, even notorious in some circles, for having composed some of the bleakest symphonic music of the post-war era, especially those
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