In terms of genre, Allan Pettersson was uniquely single-minded: during his entire career as a composer 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 Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.
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