With this superlative 1999 recording by violinist Isabelle van Keulen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard, the Swedish modernist Allan Pettersson's late Second Violin Concerto receives its first digital recording. The only previous recording on Capriccio from 1980 had been performed by the forces that gave the work its premiere early that year, violinist Ida Haendel with the Swedish Radio Symphony under Herbert Blomstedt, and it stood inviolate for almost 20 years until the arrival of this disc. ...
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With this superlative 1999 recording by violinist Isabelle van Keulen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard, the Swedish modernist Allan Pettersson's late Second Violin Concerto receives its first digital recording. The only previous recording on Capriccio from 1980 had been performed by the forces that gave the work its premiere early that year, violinist Ida Haendel with the Swedish Radio Symphony under Herbert Blomstedt, and it stood inviolate for almost 20 years until the arrival of this disc. It is clearly an improvement. For all her dedication, Haendel had neither Keulen's virtuoso technique nor her refined tone and Keulen brings as much or more conviction to the part, and in her hands, the Concerto's stark lines come closer to lyricism than they did in Haendel's. Additionally, the Swedish Radio Symphony has only gotten better at making music of Pettersson's idiosyncratic orchestral writing, and versatile Dausgaard seems much more in control of Pettersson's enormous...
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