Credits:

Halat / Rathaus

Description:

Péter Mattei sings Pettechon's songs "Barefoot Song" and "Six Songs" on this SACD hybrid disc. Swedish composer Allan Pettechon is known exclusively for his solid symphonic works, which he wrote intensively after 1950. However, earlier, when he was a student at the College of Music in Stockholm and a viola player at the Stockholm Philharmonic, he composed chamber music and song cycles. One of these song cycles, "Barefoot Songs," written between 1943 and 1945, would remain important to him for the rest of his life, with several songs quoted in later symphonic works. The "Barefoot Songs" are autobiographical in content, reflecting his childhood in a poor working-class neighborhood, and were composed on 24 poems written by Pétesson himself, in a very personal and old-fashioned language. The "Six Songs" of 1935, written on five poems by Gunnar Björling and Ingeborg Björklund, was not intended to be a "song cycle. The recording was made by baritone Peter Mattei and pianist Bengt-Oke Lundin, with whom he has collaborated for nearly 30 years.Mattei's recording of Schubert's "Winterreise" (BIS SA-2444), which shares the same keynote of "pain," is an album that was highly acclaimed by the German media, which is said to be a dedicated audience for Pettechon's music. King International

Tracklisting:

1.Sex sanger for rost och piano / Six Songs for voice and piano~1. Det blir stilla da krakorna dor
2.Sex sanger for rost och piano / Six Songs for voice and piano~2. En visa i ensamhet
3.Sex sanger for rost och piano / Six Songs for voice and piano~3. Pinjen och blixten
4.Sex sanger for rost och piano / Six Songs for voice and piano~4. Resignation
5.Sex sanger for rost och piano / Six Songs for voice and piano~5. Tillflykt
6.Sex sanger for rost och piano / Six Songs for voice and piano~6. Mitt hjarta behover ett litet barn
7.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~1. Visa i sorgton
8.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~2. Klokar och knythander
9.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~3. Fattig ar Mor
10.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~4. Karleken gar vilse
11.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~5. Stjarnan och gallret
12.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~6. Nanting man mist
13.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~7. Blomma saj
14.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~8. Vintervisa
15.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~9. Liten ska vanta
16.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~10. Jungfrun och ljugarpust
17.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~11. En spelekarls himlafard
18.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~12. Du vet
19.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~13. Du lognar
20.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~14. Herren gar pa angen
21.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~15. Hundarna vid havet
22.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~16. Kivlynnte liten
23.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~17. Jag tanker pa ting
24.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~18. Blomma vid min fot
25.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~19. Rymmaren
26.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~20. Min langtan
27.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~21. Nu vantar man vinter
28.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~22. Vannen i Sondagslandet
29.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~23. Mens flugorna surra
30.Barfotasanger / Barefoot Songs~24. Han ska slacka min lykta