Peter Mattei, Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barfotasånger (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Peter Mattei, Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barfotasånger (2022)
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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.

Tracklist:

01. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 1, Det blir stilla då kråkorna dör (02:09)
02. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 2, En visa i ensamhet (01:00)
03. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 3, Pinjen och blixten (01:19)
04. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 4, Resignation (02:26)
05. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 5, Tillflykt (01:52)
06. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: 6 Songs: No. 6, Mitt hjärta behöver ett litet barn (05:25)
07. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 1, Visa i sorgton (02:43)
08. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 2, Klokar och knythänder (02:31)
09. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 3, Fattig är mor (01:14)
10. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 4, Kärleken går vilse (03:11)
11. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 5, Stjärnan och gallret (01:52)
12. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 6, Nånting man mist (01:48)
13. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 7, Blomma säj (02:07)
14. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 8, Vintervisa (01:34)
15. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 9, Liten ska vänta (02:24)
16. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 10, Jungfrun och ljugarpust (05:07)
17. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 11, En spelekarls himlafärd (02:11)
18. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 12, Du vet (02:14)
19. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 13, Du lögnar (01:55)
20. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 14, Herren går på ängen (02:05)
21. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 15, Hundarna vid havet (02:19)
22. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 16, Kivlynnte liten (03:21)
23. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 17, Jag tänker på ting (00:47)
24. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 18, Blomma vid min fot (01:55)
25. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 19, Rymmaren (02:09)
26. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 20, Min längtan (02:16)
27. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 21, Nu väntar man vinter (03:41)
28. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 22, Vännen i Söndagslandet (02:47)
29. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 23, Mens flugorna surra (02:43)
30. Peter Mattei & Bengt-Åke Lundin – Pettersson: Barefoot Songs: No. 24, Han ska släcka min lykta (01:57)

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