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2.0 out of 5 stars
The Quotes from Barber are the Best Parts, June 21, 2009
This review is from: Allan Pettersson: The Concertos For String Orchestra (Audio CD)
The only thing in favor of this is that it isn't as bad as his symphonies, which, after the second or third symphony, tend ever-increasingly to be self-indulgent vats of lard. I bought this and was not too put off, then sprang for the symphonies, but was that ever a mistake. Studying with Rene Leibowitz and playing in an orchestra (which he couldn't sustain), didn't succeed in making Pettersson a professional composer. He is the biggest amateur ever to get boxed sets. In these string pieces there are too many details that sound like the Bartok MUSIC, and the program notes make no mention of the extensive quotation of the Barber Adagio for Strings that Pettersson makes in one of them. I guess if you like Pettersson you're supposed to ignore his quotations. But that would seem to mean they are thefts, and not quotes...
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