Wallin/Norrkoping/Lindberg - Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No. 2, Symphoy No. 17 (fragment)

In terms of genre, Allan Pettersson was uniquely single-minded: during his entire career as a composer (1953�80) he produced only a dozen or so works that were not symphonies. By name, Violin Concerto No. 2 is one of these, but it is fair to say that it straddles the divide. Pettersson himself remarked: �In reality my work was a Symphony for violin and orchestra. From this results the fact that the solo violin is incorporated into the orchestra like any other instrument.� It should therefore not come as a surprise that Christian Lindberg has chosen to include this massive 53-minute work in his acclaimed and award-winning series of Pettersson�s symphonies, realised in collaboration with the Norrk�ping Symphony Orchestra.