Atterberg, Swedish symphonic, a revelation ...

This is browsing the music videos of Youtube I found the 9 symphonies of a certain Kurt Atterberg. I listened to some of them and then, packed, I ordered the full CD: a nice sturdy box with a max explanations on each of the five booklets CD, not a small cardboard box with paper bags No, the class, as always with the CPO label. And thank you to the commentators who have preceded me have done to persuade me of the merits of this acquisition.

After decades, we listen to the unknown or forgotten composers from taste revival without much expect to renew the magical experience of his first hearing a Beethoven symphony, his first Mahler symphony or a passion Bach. And indeed the friends, the beginning was promising, and came to the symphony No. 3, the slap !! Hence my choice to share the discovery with the most jaded classical music lovers blog deblocnot (or profile), and also the other, why not.
And since I would mention Richard Strauss, I wonder if at Atterberg, we do not find the same power and orchestral madness, the same sense of cataclysm in the Bavarian but "less nag" if I may ... Finally I speak of Strauss secondary works as Aus Italian or calamitous domestic symphony, no Heidenleben (A Hero's Life) ...

Kurt Atterberg found favor among musicians and thank you and congratulations to Ari Rasilainen to have achieve this integral with the orchestras of the NDR Hannover or those of Stuttgart and Frankfurt. More than respectable phalanxes. The head Rasilainen Ari, born in 1959, studied at the Sibelius Academy of Helsinki whence came many major Finnish conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, or composer Kaija Saariaho who made a blog for the freshness of its contemporary compositions. Rasilainen is also a violinist. All symphonies are directed with elegance and clarity, even in very energetic and richly orchestrated passages like second movement of the third symphony.
This integral 9 symphonies is available in either single CD, is available in the price box. The recordings have ranged from 1998 to 2003. A mammoth task because the scores are rarer than the grail. The sound is excellent.

There is currently no other integral. The largest Estonian conductor Neeme Jarvi began what could be a new integral Chandos with the orchestra of Gothenburg he knows well, having led from 1982 to 2004. Hopefully in 76 years, Neeme Jarvi will complete a second integral confirming the true recognition of a major Scandinavian symphonic '