Concertos pour violoncelle et cor

"An important component in cpo's meritorious Atterberg series". This is how klassik-heute described our release of the Piano Concerto and Rhapsody op. 1 by Kurt Atterberg (2073531). We are now completing our edition of his concertos with the Cello Concerto and the Horn Concerto. When the Swedish composer wrote these two concertos in the 1920s, he was already a very experienced musician known throughout Europe and active at home and on the international level. Since he was more intuitive than analytical as a composer, it is not always possible to apply traditional concepts to his works. However, one may understand the "movements" of the Cello Concerto as the representatives of the »normal« sonata form in which the motifs are reconfigured and then taken up again. In the Horn Concerto he employed the unusual combination of strings, piano, and percussion toward the purpose of producing a tonal phenomenon completely different from the Cello Concerto.wise the Horn Concerto adheres to the traditional form. The Allegro pathetico, for instance, is designed as a sonata movement and pervaded by characteristic horn signals. The soloist plays in the high range and has to demonstrate bravura, energy, and vitality.