Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 "The Dead in the Square"

Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Christian Lindberg

Publicado el 08/01/21 por BIS
Artistas principales: Swedish Radio Choir Eric Ericson Chamber Choir Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra Christian Lindberg
Género Clásica

Libreto digital

Disponible en

24-Bit/96 kHz Estéreo

Streaming ilimitado

Escuche este álbum ahora en alta calidad en nuestras apps

Comenzar mi periodo de prueba gratis y escuchar este álbum

Disfrute de este álbum en las apps Qobuz con sususcripción

In more ways than one, the Twelfth Symphony forms an exception in Allan Pettersson’s output. When he agreed to compose a work for the 500th anniversary of Uppsala University, it was one of the few commissions that he ever accepted. And what’s more, he now – after having written purely orchestral scores for the past 30 years – decided to incorporate a choir and a text. Pablo Neruda had received the Nobel Prize in 1971, and acknowledging the poet’s ‘deeply felt compassion for the outcasts of society’, Pettersson selected nine poems from the huge collection Canto general for his new work. (As Pettersson was composing the symphony, Neruda died during the tumultuous aftermath of the military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973.) The poems deal with an incident in Santiago de Chile in 1946 when six demonstrators were killed by the police during a workers’ manifestation. Pettersson, who came from a working-class background, commented on the subject matter: ‘My heart was, and is, with the poor of Chile, so like the worker in the ‘third world’ in which I grew up’.

But even though Symphony No. 12 includes both text and singing, it was never a question of it turning into anything other than a true ‘Pettersson symphony’ – like so many of its predecessors it is in one movement, and the composer considered the words to be ‘part of a purely symphonic context’. The choral parts are highly demanding – the choir sings almost without interruption, and often very forcefully and in difficult registers.

The Swedish Radio Choir and Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, two of Sweden’s finest choirs, have combined their forces for this recording and join the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Christian Lindberg on the latest instalment in the team’s acclaimed Pettersson cycle. © BIS Records

Más información

Pettersson: Symphony No. 12 "The Dead in the Square"

Swedish Radio Choir

Está escuchando muestras.

Escuche más de 100 millones de pistas con un plan de streaming ilimitado.

Escuche esta playlist y más de 100 millones de pistas con nuestros planes de streaming ilimitado.

Desde $ 124.90/mes

Symphony No. 12 "De döda på torget" (Allan Pettersson)

Beginning. De döda på torget