Английская Википедия:Barefoot Songs
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Barefoot Songs (Шаблон:Lang-sv) is a large song cycle for voice and piano by Allan Pettersson.
Background
The 24 songs in Swedish were composed between 1943 and 1945.[1] At this time, Pettersson was violist at the Stockholm Concert Society.[1] The text of the songs was written by Pettersson himself and is partly autobiographical.[2] The main topic of the song cycle is his youth in poverty. The diatonic songs were kept simple, but the text is not easy to understand and uses a highly poetic and cryptic language.[1] Pettersson wrote over 100 poems, but only 24 were set to music.[3] The Swedish Broadcasting Corporation and his publisher Nordiska Musikförlaget initially refused to publish the songs.[2][3] The cycle was first published in 1976.Шаблон:Sfn Musicologist Andreas Krause has posited that the name Barefoot Songs is a reminiscence and tribute to Schubert's Winterreise.Шаблон:Sfn[1] "Barefoot on the ice" is a quotation from the 24th and last song Шаблон:Lang.[1] Some songs are reminiscent of ballads or romances, folk songs or hymns and Schubert's Winterreise.[4]
Synopsis
- Шаблон:Lang (Song of Lament)
- Шаблон:Lang (Wise Men and Clenched Hands)
- Шаблон:Lang (Mother is poor)
- Шаблон:Lang (Love errs)
- Шаблон:Lang (The Star and the Bars)
- Шаблон:Lang (Something got lost)
- Шаблон:Lang (Flower, Tell Me)
- Шаблон:Lang (Winter Song)
- Шаблон:Lang (The little one must wait)
- Шаблон:Lang (The Maiden and the Lying Wind)
- Шаблон:Lang (Death of a Fiddler)
- Шаблон:Lang (You know)
- Шаблон:Lang (Telling Lies)
- Шаблон:Lang (The Lord Walks in the Meadow)
- Шаблон:Lang (The Dogs on the Sea)
- Шаблон:Lang (Little Squabbler)
- Шаблон:Lang (I think of things)
- Шаблон:Lang (Flower at my Foot)
- Шаблон:Lang (The one that got away)
- Шаблон:Lang (My Yearning)
- Шаблон:Lang (Now one awaits the winter)
- Шаблон:Lang (The Friend in Sunday Land)
- Шаблон:Lang (While the Flies are Buzzing)
- Шаблон:Lang (He Will Extinguish My Light)
Quotations
Pettersson quoted songs from his 24 Barefoot Songs in several of his larger scale compositions. His 6th Symphony cites the song Han ska släcka min lykta (He Will Extinguish My Light), the 14th Symphony cites Klokar och knythänder (Wise Men and Clenched Hands) and Violin Concerto No. 2 cites Herren går på ängen (The Lord Walks in the Meadow).[3]
Arrangements
Orchestration
In 1968–1969, conductor and composer Antal Doráti arranged eight of Pettersson's Barefoot Songs as full-scale orchestral songs.[3]
- Шаблон:Lang (The Lord Walks in the Meadow)
- Шаблон:Lang (Wise Men and Clenched Hands)
- Шаблон:Lang (Flower, Tell Me)
- Шаблон:Lang (The Maiden and the Lying Wind)
- Шаблон:Lang (While the Flies are Buzzing)
- Шаблон:Lang (Telling Lies)
- Шаблон:Lang (My Yearning)
- Шаблон:Lang (Death of a Fiddler)
Suite
In 1969, conductor and composer Eskil Hemberg arranged six songs for mixed choir.
- Шаблон:Lang (The Lord Walks in the Meadow)
- Шаблон:Lang (The Friend in Sunday Land)
- Шаблон:Lang (Flower, Tell Me)
- Шаблон:Lang (Now one awaits the winter)
- Шаблон:Lang (Death of a Fiddler)
- Шаблон:Lang (Telling Lies)
Selected recordings
- Margot Rödin (mezzo-soprano), Erik Saedén (baritone), Arnold Östman (piano) (Swedish Society Discofil LP 1974 and CD 1988) Шаблон:OCLC
- Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Cord Garben (piano) (CPO CD 1998) Шаблон:OCLC
- 8 Barefoot Songs (orchestrated Antal Doráti), Erik Saedén (baritone), Antal Doráti, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Lyssna 2LP 1974, HNH 2LP 1977) Шаблон:OCLC
- 8 Barefoot Songs (orchestrated Antal Doráti), Anders Larsson (baritone), Christian Lindberg, Nordic Chamber Orchestra (BIS CD 2009) Шаблон:OCLC
- Suite from Barefoot Songs, Margareta Dahlström (soprano), Eskil Hemberg, Stockholm University Chorus (Caprice CD 1988) Шаблон:OCLC
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