Glenn Bengtsson sings Tonerna by Sjöberg in Fleninge 2008

Glenn Bengtsson, barytenor, sings Tonerna (To Harmony) by Swedish one-song-composer and provincial doctor Carl Leopold Sjöberg, at an improvised recording session in the Church of Fleninge outside Helsingborg, on December 30th 2008 with pianist Nils-Erik Rosdahl, first purpose being to sum up some of the motley repertory of an intensive concert collaboration between 2000 and 2003, with extensive use of slow tempo, rubato, fermata, filatura and long diminuendos, as well as extreme span of nuances. This little jewel of a song, about the music's wonderful ability to comfort the suffering heart and battering thought, was performed first by the Swedish-French concertsinger Samuel Hybinette in the 1910's, only to be thereafter forgotten until Jussi Björling thirty years later started using it as an encore. No one available to give it that kind of justice today, one must certainly be forgiven for trying. As a Bonus the other takes of the song from this session are included.

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• Tonerna
• med
• BONUS
• Insp
• Fleninge
• 29
• dec
• 2008