Pettersson: Barfotasånger Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin

• Allan Pettersson (1911 – 1980): 6 Songs:
• 1 Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 1, Det blir stilla då kråkorna dör 02:03
• 2 Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 2, En visa i ensamhet 00:55
• 3 Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 3, Pinjen och blixten 01:13
• 4 Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 4, Resignation 02:21
• 5 Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 5, Tillflykt 01:47
• 6 Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 6, Mitt hjärta behöver ett litet barn 05:10
• Barefoot Songs:
• 7 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 1, Visa i sorgton 02:38
• 8 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 2, Klokar och knythänder 02:27
• 9 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 3, Fattig är mor 01:10
• 10 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 4, Kärleken går vilse 03:05
• 11 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 5, Stjärnan och gallret 01:45
• 12 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 6, Nånting man mist 01:41
• 13 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 7, Blomma säj 02:04
• 14 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 8, Vintervisa 01:29
• 15 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 9, Liten ska vänta 02:19
• 16 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 10, Jungfrun och ljugarpust 05:02
• 17 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 11, En spelekarls himlafärd 02:08
• 18 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 12, Du vet 02:09
• 19 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 13, Du lögnar 01:51
• 20 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 14, Herren går på ängen 01:59
• 21 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 15, Hundarna vid havet 02:16
• 22 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 16, Kivlynnte liten 03:18
• 23 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 17, Jag tänker på ting 00:45
• 24 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 18, Blomma vid min fot 01:49
• 25 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 19, Rymmaren 02:04
• 26 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 20, Min längtan 02:11
• 27 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 21, Nu väntar man vinter 03:36
• 28 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 22, Vännen i Söndagslandet 02:42
• 29 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 23, Mens flugorna surra 02:36
• 30 Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 24, Han ska släcka min lykta 01:44
• Total Runtime 01:08:17

Info for Pettersson: Barfotasånger

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.

Peter Mattei, baritone
Bengt-Åke Lundin, piano

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