This release completes the important BIS survey of Allan Pettersson's profound and deeply moving symphonies. The longest in duration of Pettersson's symphonies, composed during a time of increasing...
Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 15 is characterized by a high degree of tension right from the striking opening: brief, emphatic chords from horns and trombones above the tremolo of a side drum. Soon...
A characteristic trait in Allan Pettersson's music is the use of strong contrasts - shifts between an enormous intensity and calm relaxation, between complex and violently dissonant passages and...
Beginning his first (never completed) symphony in 1951 and working on his 17th when he died in 1980, Allan Pettersson during three decades concerned himself almost exclusively with the symphonic...