ペッテション:協奏曲～ヴァイオリンと弦楽四重奏のための

若きペッテションの室内楽曲集

SACDハイブリッド盤。交響曲で有名なスウェーデンの作曲家アラン・ペッテション(1911-1980)。交響曲は1950年代から書き始めましたが、ストックホルム王立音楽院の学生時代、またパリへの留学時代の作品は後期作品のイメージとは一線を画す作品を作曲していました。当アルバムには1934年から1949年にかけての室内楽曲、ピアノ独奏作品を収録しております。

1939年、留学先のパリから強制的に帰国したペッテションは、緩やかで叙情的なロマンツァを、3年後にはペッテション唯一のピアノ独奏曲である典雅で瞑想的なラメントを、そして1949年にはヴァイオリン独奏と弦楽四重奏のための協奏曲を書き上げています。ペッテッションの作品に魅了されたウルフ・ヴァリーンが現代の名手とペッテッションのもう一つの「顔」を聴かせてくれます。
キングインターナショナル

Allan Pettersson is among the highest-regarded symphonists of the 20th century, but his chamber music output is considerably less known. These early works have only been recorded a handful of times, yet they can offer insight into the composers growth before he devoted himself almost exclusively to symphonic music. Spearheaded by violinist Ulf Wallin, this program provides high-quality readings of each of these works and should be illuminating for listeners only familiar with Petterssons larger, later-life works. The main draw for many will be the Concerto for Violin and String Quartet of 1949, which opens the program and makes up over half of the albums run time. This is a lush work with numerous challenges for performers, both technically and harmonically, that from the outside would seem likely to limit the scope of listeners who would enjoy it. However, credit to the present performers, for these demands are met, and the results are thoroughly interesting and thought-provoking. The Concerto is the latest included work, chronologically, and it is a clear step toward the composers symphonic writing. The earliest works here are the Two Elegies for Violin and Piano, from 1934. The 17-year-old Pettersson had survived a difficult upbringing and was finding support as a young composer, and these lovely, short tunes reflect the schooling the composer had undertaken; one could perhaps mistake these as having been written in the previous century. Pianist Thomas Hoppe, Wallins fellow professor at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, is another draw. Aside from ideal backing on the violin and piano works, Hoppe delivers a beautiful reading of Petterssons Lamento for Solo Piano. There is a lot to take in here, and listeners will be rewarded with subsequent hearings. ~ Keith Finke