Utwory na płycie:

• Symphony No 7- Op 45 Sinfonia romantica (1941-42) - Drammatico Lento - Molto vivo - Andante - Andante molto tranquillo - Molto vivo - Cantando - Lento - Vivacissimo
• Symphony No 7- Op 45 Sinfonia romantica (1941-42) - Semplice Andante - Un poco più lento - A tempo I - Tranquillo
• Symphony No 7- Op 45 Sinfonia romantica (1941-42) - Feroce Allegro - Listesso tempo- pesante - (Un poco meno mosso) - (Tranquillo) - (Con moto) - (Tempo I) - Animando al fine
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Adagio -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Andante Barden- Heid hon hette- till vad hus hon kom - Tranquillo Valan- Varom frâgen I mig? -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Con moto Valan- Jag jättarna minns- i urtid avlade - Poco tranquillo Valan- Gapande svalg fanns men gräs icke -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Valan- En ask ser jag stånda- den Yggdrasil heter - Molto tranquillo -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Con moto Barden- Väl vet hon- att Odens öga är gömt i Mimes brunn -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Poco più mosso Barden- Med spjut sprängde Oden mot hotande horder -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Un poco più mosso Valan- Vid heta källors kittel i lunden -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Tempo [Un poco più mosso] Barden- Öster i Järnskogen dvaldes den åldriga -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Con moto Kör- Bröder varandras ban varda -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Con moto Barden- Hur är det med asar? -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Vivo - Tempo martellato Kör- Rym styr ur östern - Allegro molto -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Allegro Kör- Barden- Nu stundar Friggas sorg den största -
• Symphony No 9- Op 54 Sinfonia visionaria (1955-56) - Barden- Solen svartner- land sjunker i havet - Molto tranquillo Barden- Då kommer dunklets drake och glider

Symphony No. 7, Op. 45 Sinfonia romantica
Symphony No. 9, Op. 54 Sinfonia visionaria*

The final volume in our Atterberg series with Neeme Järvi and his Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra is finally out. Recorded on SACD like most of the previous ones, it features two late, again rarely performed symphonies.

The seventh, featured here in its final, threemovement form, was written in 1942, fourteen years after its famous predecessor, the Dollar Symphony. Originally in four movements, the work was received dismissively by the critics, and only acquired its final shape in 1969, when Atterberg decided to tear out the last movement from the original score (it became Vittorioso, see Vol. 4). In response to what he regarded as a critical insult, he also decided to baptise the work Sinfonia romantica, just to infuriate the modernistically inclined critics even further.

The composer himself referred to his Ninth and last Symphony as ‘evil’. Setting parts of the Old Icelandic poem Völuspá, it recounts indeed how evil came into the world and how it in the end will lead to total destruction. By this time he had become a very conservative composer, rejecting atonality and dodecaphony. Composed in 1955 and 1956, during a period of much administrative travel in Europe, it is one of his longest works, yet structured as a single movement in large-scale rondo form.