Composer: Allan Pettersson
Performer: Peter Mattei, Bengt-Åke Lundin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BIS2584
Release: 2022
Size: 1.19 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
6 Songs
01. No. 1, Det blir stilla då kråkorna dör
02. No. 2, En visa i ensamhet
03. No. 3, Pinjen och blixten
04. No. 4, Resignation
05. No. 5, Tillflykt
06. No. 6, Mitt hjärta behöver ett litet barn
Barefoot Songs
07. No. 1, Visa i sorgton
08. No. 2, Klokar och knythänder
09. No. 3, Fattig är mor
10. No. 4, Kärleken går vilse
11. No. 5, Stjärnan och gallret
12. No. 6, Nånting man mist
13. No. 7, Blomma säj
14. No. 8, Vintervisa
15. No. 9, Liten ska vänta
16. No. 10, Jungfrun och ljugarpust
17. No. 11, En spelekarls himlafärd
18. No. 12, Du vet
19. No. 13, Du lögnar
20. No. 14, Herren går på ängen
21. No. 15, Hundarna vid havet
22. No. 16, Kivlynnte liten
23. No. 17, Jag tänker på ting
24. No. 18, Blomma vid min fot
25. No. 19, Rymmaren
26. No. 20, Min längtan
27. No. 21, Nu väntar man vinter
28. No. 22, Vännen i Söndagslandet
29. No. 23, Mens flugorna surra
30. No. 24, Han ska släcka min lykta
From 1950 and onwards, Allan Pettersson was mainly occupied with working on the monolithic symphonies for which he is best known. But before that, while still a student at the Conservatory in Stockholm and later a viola player in the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, he composed two sets of songs: Six Songs and Barfotasånger (“Barefoot Songs”). Of these two, the second would become especially important for the composer, who returned to it throughout his life, quoting various songs from it in his symphonies.
In Barfotasånger he set his own poems, full of autobiographical detail and using a highly personal, archaic language. Several of the songs reflect his childhood, as the youngest of four children growing up in a poor working-class neighbourhood in Stockholm. All but two of them are in a minor key, in an idiom which alludes to folk songs, hymns and popular songs.
They are here brought to sometimes painful life by Peter Mattei, one of the great singer-actors of our time, supported by Bengt-Åke Lundin, with whom he first collaborated almost 30 years ago, on an album of songs by Wilhelm Stenhammar.