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Atterberg constructed his seventh symphony (1941-42) from music from his opera Fanal (like Prokofiev with his third
symphony and The Fiery Angel or Vaughan Williams with his fifth symphony and The Pilgrim's Progress); with malice
aforethought toward the composers and critics who championed atonal music to the exclusion of everything else, the
composer gave it the title Sinfonia Romantica. Romantic it certainly is; its three movements (a long fourth movement was
dropped by Atterberg when revising the work in 1972) are headed Drammatico, Semplice and Feroce, the latter an orgiastic
dance-fantasy which brings a work seething with heart-on-sleeve melodies to a dizzying conclusion. This is its World Premiere
Recording. (Excerpts)
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