Pettersson - Sym No 14 - Johann M Arnell, RSO Berlin (1988) [Philidor; FLAC]

Allan Pettersson is now considered one of the most important Swedish composers of the 20th century. In his lifetime, he had several champions but stood outside the musical mainstream, with his large-scaled, expressively grim scores. A Honegger pupil, his life wasn't easy: a violent, alcoholic father, and a mid-life diagnosis of crippling arthritis. Still, he continued composing to the end. His entire symphonic legacy--effectively 15, since the first and seventeenth were unfinished--have now been recorded complete, though a few have multiple recordings to their credit.

Pettersson's Fourteenth Symphony saw a change in circumstance. Poverty-stricken all his life, crippled with severe arthritis and newly diagnosed with cancer, the Swedish government at last realized that he was an important culture asset. As a result he was taken out of the lower class housing he'd lived in his life, and moved into a relatively comfortable apartment with its own garden. This in no way lessened the sense of conflict and striving in his music, but did alleviate the financial burden of his final years.

Note that all the cuts are really points of access in one very long movement.

Bio enclosed. All transfers are made at a ridiculous 768 kBits/s, directly from the disc.

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