22 seconds until he answered the very first question. "That's not a question I can answer". Then complains about the lamps etc... I can already tell this will be tough. What a troubled soul he seemed to be?! The 6th symphony is tough, but such a rewarding, tragic and dark piece. It's for me almost as important as Shostakovich Sym. # 8.
Many Thanks to LuleNorrbotten and Christian Lindberg for this very long awaited film. I knew of it's existence, but only now can it be viewed thanks to the sponsorship of Bis Records for the English sub-titles!🙂
Thank you Michael. Like you, I am also very thankful to Christian Lindberg and Bis records, not least for their generosity to let these subtitled videos remain on TH-cam. Pettersson's music and personal story deserves all international exposure it can get.
yes Michael , I am also grateful for this interview. I wish the word ''HELL'' was not in its title question. I have a feeling that the ruling elites of Sweden did give the deserved recognition to Allan Pettersson, because he was from working class, and he let everybody know about his social class and his childhood sufferings. Greetings from California.
@@sanramondublin I have studied new music ever since my teens during the 1960s. I discovered Pettersson from a solitary LP I found in a record store. The second LP I only found much later in 1982. Pettersson was a member of the many new composers whose music was regarded as unacceptable because it did not conform with the conventional unadventurous standards of the time. I made a big collection of the music which was very rarely aired even on radio, for example Charles Ives and Arnold Schoenberg. My family and friends regarded these works as breaking the ":rules of proper music", and regarded Pettersson ( and myself) as one of them. So I believe this is the reason why he was regarded as one of the outsiders. It was not just a "Swedish" eccentricity. I have always been one of the outsiders to this very day. But very fortunately the public attitude changed at the turn of this Century, and Pettersson is now rightfully regarded as a genius who wrote unconventional music which dealt with unpopular aspects of our very "wayward" society in a most brilliant way, and under the most adverse circumstances. I believe he has now become a "cult figure", and I fantasize that somehow he can see how much his work has come to be revered and appreciated. His works always give me compensation and sustenance during the troubled periods of my own life.
1984 I recorded professionally the first time the 5th in Berlin. I was student for soundengineering. Andreas Peer Kähler discovered the forgotten score and conducted it to life. I hated the music and I thought while sitting in the studio of HdK: „Damned! I am wasting my time with that bullshit.“ In spite of the fact, that the Orchestra of Andreas was not the best - Intonation was awfull - it was not the worst idea, to run away… After three hours of noise I was so happy, to roll up the cables and lock the studio behind me! Andreas produced an LP of this master and I had a MC-copy of that symphony for years in the sidebox of my car. This MC rushed over the years deeper and deeper beyond Stones and Michael Jackson. It was a dark cloudy sky with a daring thunderstorm at the horrizon, when I drove my car across the Autobahn for a long distance journey. The sun broke devilish through the black clouds and I was the most lonely and forgotten human on this planet… So I played the MC with the Fifth Petterson. It was one of my scariest appointements with God and Devil shaking hands each other. This ride into the thunderstorm, directly into the hell of apocalypsis and directly into the glory of heavens sun was an Impression that I will remember even on my dying bed. YESSS! Peterson is not a composer to understand at the first glance! To listen and understand Petterson, you first have to listen and understand YOURSELF !!! He is a Lucifer! („Lucem ferre“)
Allan en släkting till mig.
Älskar Allans sympati med Dom fattiga som fick gå från hus och hem.
22 seconds until he answered the very first question. "That's not a question I can answer". Then complains about the lamps etc... I can already tell this will be tough. What a troubled soul he seemed to be?! The 6th symphony is tough, but such a rewarding, tragic and dark piece. It's for me almost as important as Shostakovich Sym. # 8.
Incomparable!
As intense as I expected him too be.
Für mich einer der größten Komponisten.
Very interesting. Thanks!
THis is very interesting. Thank you for sharing!
Many Thanks to LuleNorrbotten and Christian Lindberg for this very long awaited film. I knew of it's existence, but only now can it be viewed thanks to the sponsorship of Bis Records for the English sub-titles!🙂
Thank you Michael. Like you, I am also very thankful to Christian Lindberg and Bis records, not least for their generosity to let these subtitled videos remain on TH-cam. Pettersson's music and personal story deserves all international exposure it can get.
yes Michael , I am also grateful for this interview. I wish the word ''HELL'' was not in its title question.
I have a feeling that the ruling elites of Sweden did give the deserved recognition to Allan Pettersson, because he was from working class, and he let everybody know about his social class and his childhood sufferings.
Greetings from California.
@@sanramondublin I have studied new music ever since my teens during the 1960s. I discovered Pettersson from a solitary LP I found in a record store. The second LP I only found much later in 1982. Pettersson was a member of the many new composers whose music was regarded as unacceptable because it did not conform with the conventional unadventurous standards of the time. I made a big collection of the music which was very rarely aired even on radio, for example Charles Ives and Arnold Schoenberg. My family and friends regarded these works as breaking the ":rules of proper music", and regarded Pettersson ( and myself) as one of them. So I believe this is the reason why he was regarded as one of the outsiders. It was not just a "Swedish" eccentricity. I have always been one of the outsiders to this very day. But very fortunately the public attitude changed at the turn of this Century, and Pettersson is now rightfully regarded as a genius who wrote unconventional music which dealt with unpopular aspects of our very "wayward" society in a most brilliant way, and under the most adverse circumstances. I believe he has now become a "cult figure", and I fantasize that somehow he can see how much his work has come to be revered and appreciated. His works always give me compensation and sustenance during the troubled periods of my own life.
1984 I recorded professionally the first time the 5th in Berlin. I was student for soundengineering. Andreas Peer Kähler discovered the forgotten score and conducted it to life.
I hated the music and I thought while sitting in the studio of HdK:
„Damned! I am wasting my time with that bullshit.“ In spite of the fact, that the Orchestra of Andreas was not the best - Intonation was awfull - it was not the worst idea, to run away…
After three hours of noise I was so happy, to roll up the cables and lock the studio behind me!
Andreas produced an LP of this master and I had a MC-copy of that symphony for years in the sidebox of my car.
This MC rushed over the years deeper and deeper beyond Stones and Michael Jackson.
It was a dark cloudy sky with a daring thunderstorm at the horrizon, when I drove my car across the Autobahn for a long distance journey. The sun broke devilish through the black clouds and I was the most lonely and forgotten human on this planet…
So I played the MC with the Fifth Petterson.
It was one of my scariest appointements with God and Devil shaking hands each other. This ride into the thunderstorm, directly into the hell of apocalypsis and directly into the glory of heavens sun was an Impression that I will remember even on my dying bed.
YESSS! Peterson is not a composer to understand at the first glance!
To listen and understand Petterson, you first have to listen and understand YOURSELF !!!
He is a Lucifer! („Lucem ferre“)
This is great, but I need to take it in short bursts ! 1. up to 17:30 .....
Could someone tell me what piece of music is playing when the title comes up (around 1:50)?
It's from his 10th symphony, around 6-7 minutes into the piece.
@@LuleNorrbotten Thanks