SACD, Pettersson (composer)
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What's never in doubt is this music's strange power and magnificence, qualities amplified by the polish and dedication of Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping orchestra, a team that has spent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Two intriguing 1960s symphonies by Swedish composer Allan Pettersson. Christian Lindberg elicits playing of clarity and conviction in the questing No. 5 and brooding No. 7. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Allan Pettersson: Symphony No. 12, 'The Dead in the Square'
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Christian Lindberg
The choirs are excellent, having lived with this music now for a few years. The men’s voices emerging from the orchestral soundscape in the first poem sound quite magical...It is indeed a powerful... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Pettersson: Concerto for Violin and String Quartet
Ulf Wallin (violin), Sueye Park (violin), Daniel Vlashi Lukaçi (violin), German Tcakulov (viola), Alexander Wollheim (cello), Thomas Hoppec (piano)
Dissonant and febrile, Pettersson’s Concerto for Violin and String Quartet is not easy to love – but gripping on its own terms, and played here with great commitment. —
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The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra articulate the music's 'soaring melodies and grippingly searing polyphony' [convincingly] and Lindberg shapes the structure compellingly…[Lindberg seems to... —
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propelled constantly onwards by the sheer force of musical argument and expression - always fundamentally tonal too - the listener's mind is unable to wander...a terrific performance under Lindberg... —
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Pettersson: Symphony No. 15 & Viola Concerto
Ellen Nisbeth (viola), Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg
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... —
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Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 17 (fragment)
Ulf Wallin (violin)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg
Lindberg moulds the structure [of the Violin Concerto] convincingly, driving the music forwards without overwhelming his soloist…Thoroughly engrossing, [the Symphony’s] sudden finish is dismaying... —
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Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Orchestra present a meticulous and fervent engagement with the score, and their efforts must be fully rewarded by attention in the listener —
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[Mattei] His voice is most attractive and he uses it eloquently. He captures the text’s bitterness and pathos, and also its occasional black humor, without descending into self-absorption. His... —