Pettersson - Sym No 7 - Gerd Albrecht, Hamburg Ph City Orch (1991) [Philidor; WAV]

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.

This third volume contains the Seventh Symphony, in one very long movement. It was in some sense of the word a breakthrough work for the composer; and when conductor Antal Dorati died, his recording of the work was played over loudspeakers at his funeral.

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