BIS-CD-55
Total Time: 70'17 – Release: Oct 1994

EAN 7318590000557


Pettersson - Vox Humana

Allan Pettersson
Vox Humana (1974) for soloists, mixed choir and string orchestra. Part One 1. I. Dead Night (Text: Manuel Bandeira) - II. Ballad (Daniel Laínez) - III. Just For A Moment (Roberto Fernández Retamar) 6'49
2. IV. A Man Goes Past (César Vallejo) 4'45
3. V. The Unrepentant (Murilo Mendes) - VI. Starvation (Nicolás Guillén) - VII. Poem From An Item of News (Manuel Bandeira) 8'14
4. VIII. Poem To A Dead Friend (Cassiano Ricardo) 2'40
5. IX. When The Funeral Procession Went Past (Manuel Bandeira) 2'13
6. X. Lynch (Nicolás Guillén) - XI. Che (Miguel Barnet) 3'25
7. XII. Epitaph For A Soldier Of The Invasion (Roberto Fernández Retamar) - XIII. The Final Poem (Manuel Bandeira) - XIV. Radiant Vision (Murilo Mendes) 7'40

Vox Humana. Part Two 8. I. Dancing Song - II. Sentence On A Traitor - III. My Mother 4'03

Vox Humana. Part Three 9. The Great Joy (Pablo Neruda) 9'27

Hilding Rosenberg
Dagdrivaren (The Shepherd Of Days) (1963) for baritone and orchestra (Texts: Sven Alfons) 10. I. Han driver dagarna i bet… (He puts the days out to pasture...) 4'43
11. II. Lyran i hans minne…(The lyre of his memory…) 2'05
12. III. rysande inträngde jag i antiken…(trembling I penetrated antiwuity...) 2'00
13. IV. jag har dyrkat dem alla… (I have worshipped them all...) 3'44
14. V. Sitt hjärta har han mättat… (His heart he has filled...) 3'01
15. VI. Han står med sanningen i sin mun… (He stands with the truth in his mouth...) 3'39

Marianne Mellnäs, soprano
Margot Rödin, alto
Sven-Erik Alexandersson, tenor
Rolf Leanderson, baritone
Erland Hagegård, baritone
Radiokören, choir
Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, orchestra
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, orchestra
Stig Westerberg, conductor
Göran W. Nilson, conductor