Cello Concerto & Horn Concerto [CD]

The cpo label now completes it's edition of the concertos of Kurt Atterberg with the Cello Concerto and the Horn Concerto, both written in the 1920s when Atterberg was already a very experienced musician known throughout Europe and active at home and abroad. More intuitive than analytical as a composer, one may understand the 'movements' of the Cello Concerto as representatives of 'normal' sonata form in which the motifs are reconfigured and then taken up again, whereas the Horn Concerto, despite it's unusual but purposeful employment of forces, adheres to traditional form.