"Editor's choice: Lindberg gets the pacing absolutely right in No. 7 ... The Norrköping players are once again on superb form, responding to Lindberg's advocacy just as keenly; but then this music is in their blood. This understanding shows also in their compelling account of the Fifth, a performance of complete authority ... What caught my ear as much in both symphonies was the orchestral balance, with so much of the detail coming through as never before. Simply wonderful"

"This disc presents two of the seventeen symphonies ... The Fifth presents as more episodic than the Seventh ... There is no other disc coupling these two works but in any event the playing and the lucid recording (played on a standard CD player) are wonderful in music that in any event is not about brash display ... Quite apart from its own substantive excellence this disc now stands as the single best place to start an immersion in Pettersson"

"Two intriguing 1960s symphonies by Swedish composer Allan Pettersson. Christian Lindberg elicits playing of clarity and conviction in the questing No. 5 and brooding No. 7"