#ulf wallin

[lesser-known-composers]

Wilhelm Peterson Berger, Violin Concerto in F sharp minor 1. Allegro moderato, ma appassionata 2. Andante tranquillo e cantabile - attacca 3. Finale: Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco Ulf Wallin, violin Norrköping Symphony Orchestra Michail Jurowsky, conductor

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Sinfonía número 3 en si bemol mayor, opus 48, de Richard Wetz (1922). Versión de Ulf Wallin en violín, y la Orquesta Filarmónica de Renania-Palatinado, dirigida por el maestro Werner Andreas Albert.

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Kurt Atterberg | Sinfonia for strings

Lately I've been listening a lot to Swedish composer and engineer Kurt Atterberg (1887–1974).

His father was an engineer and his brother a chemist, so perhaps it was his mother, Elvira Uddman—the daughter of a famous male opera singer— who got Kurt Atterberg into music.

The music I've been focusing on is his Sinfonia For Strings, Op 53. Violinist Ulf Wallin and the chamber orchestra Camerata Nordica (from Oskarshamn) plays.

The first movement is quickly up on its sensitively pacing feet, showing a lot of will and zest.

While listening to the 2nd movement the other night—which is dramatic in its allegro molto (very quick) tempo—I thought to myself that I'd like to watch a film in the crime genre with that kind of suspenseful music. I wouldn't be surprised if it would be in the line of Alfred Hitchcock.

(I guess it's in its place to mention that »very quick« isn't like tempo of speed metal. Not at all.)

The 3rd movements tranquillamente tempo brings relief and pause, while the 4th movement takes us back to the »very quick« tempo, with e ritmico added.

Especially when it comes to the quicker parts of the symphony, I can't help but having Arvo Pärt pass through my mind for some occasional seconds. And that's good in my book.

It's at some parts emotional music, moody and suggestive in others, and all in all it's some well spent 30 minutes. And I know I will listen to more of Kurt Atterbergs music, that's for sure.

Side note: as an online reference help, wikipedia has a good section on tempo.