Concerto for String Orchestra No.3 - Allan Pettersson

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss conducted by Johannes Goritzki I - Allegro con moto: 0:00 II - Mesto: 17:28 III - Allegro con moto: 46:40 Petterson’s third concerto for strings was written between 1956 and 1957. Being premiered in 14 March of 1958 by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tor Mann. This work is clearly, even at a superficial level, owing to the sizeable proportions of the piece, which far exceed any of the conventions associated with the genre, indeed, lay claim to symphonic weight. Nonetheless, this large-scale work, characterized by dynamic culminations and passages of extremely detailed writing (although it is often pervaded by melody as well), is based on just a few motifs. These are woven together into a dense network of musical crossreferences that sometimes extend beyond the confines of a single move ment. This delicate balance thus achieved, intricate development and formal density on the one hand, and wide-ranging lines and large-scale structu