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Composer: Allan Pettersson
- Sex sånger
- Barfotasånger
Peter Mattei, baritone
Bengt-Åke Lundin, piano
Date: 2022
Label: BIS
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ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 9
Listeners familiar with Allan Pettersson’s monomanical and bleakly obsessive symphonies will be surprised at the plain-spoken quality of his art songs, all of which date from early in the composer’s career. His six 1935 songs are quirky and episodic, as if Hugo Wolf had rewritten Edvard Grieg. The 24 Barefoot Songs from 1943-45 set to Pettersson’s own texts convey a charming, folk-like simplicity in their strophic structures and modest performing demands, although the composer’s subtle harmonic twists and turns avoid blandness. Peter Mattei’s attractive baritone voice retains clarity and fullness in all registers, abetted by superb diction and Bengt-Åke Lundin’s deft handling of the piano parts.
That said, I slightly prefer the suaver vocal quality and more intimate characterizations that tenor Torsten Mossberg brings to his Pettersson song survey on the Sterling label. For a female voice, Monica Groop’s wonderful CPO release with pianist Cord Garben remains a point of reference. The latter is hard to source via physical CD, but is available on streaming platforms, as is a 1990 Swedish Society release for which the songs are divided between a man and a woman. Clearly we are spoiled for choice! In all, you certainly won’t go wrong with the BIS edition’s superb musical and technical production values.
-- Jed Distler, ClassicsToday
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Allan Pettersson (19 September 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist. Pettersson studied violin and viola at the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and composition in Paris with René Leibowitz, Arthur Honegger, Olivier Messiaen, and Darius Milhaud. Today he is considered one of the most important Swedish composers of the 20th century. His symphonies developed a devoted international following, starting in the final decade of his life. Most of his music has now been recorded at least once and much of it is now available in published score.
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Peter Mattei (born 3 June 1965) is a Swedish operatic baritone, particularly known for his performances in Mozart's baritone roles. He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and, by the late '90s, was known as one of European opera's rising Mozart singers. He has been active in concert music as well as opera, with Bach's St. Matthew and St. John Passions among his specialties. Mattei has appeared on numerous operatic and choral recordings, and won a Grammy Award in 2002 as part of the cast in a recording of Berlioz's Les Troyens. He has also released various solo albums, mostly for BIS.
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