Moses Pergament, Volume Two: Songs

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This item will be released on 6 February 2026.

Catalogue No: TOCC0785
EAN/UPC: 5060113447852
Release Date: 2026-02-06
Composer: Moses Pergament
Artists: Martin Malmgren, Tuuli Lindeberg

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The Swedish composer Moses Pergament (1893-1977) — Finnish-born of Lithuanian-Jewish stock — chose the poems he set to music from a wide range of sources: those heard in this first-ever recording of his songs are mostly in Swedish but also in a variety of other languages. They likewise cover the gamut of human emotion, from buoyant folksongs and children’s verses via lyrical expressions of love and loss to stark meditations on suffering and death. Many of Pergament’s poets evoke the natural world in their expression of emotion, but his music never yields to sentimentality: he treats each song as a microcosm, expressed with drama and dignity. Time was when Pergament’s vocal music was performed by singers of the calibre of Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Söderström and Nicolai Gedda; it is high time it was rediscovered.

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Martin Malmgren, piano

Listen To This Recording:

  1. A klap hot gegeben der Wint (1909-16/1966) (3:15)
  2. Zwei Kammern hat das Herz (1911, revised) (1:14)
  3. Kung Liv och Drottning Död (1915) (4:47)*

Två sånger (1916) (3:30)

  1. No. 1, Kväll i skogen* (2:35)
  2. No. 2, Barnet og faaret (0:55)

  1. Erster Verlust (1916) (2:07)
  2. Der jungen Hexe Lied (1919, rev. 1966) (2:37)
  3. Die Quelle der Schmerzen (1921) (2:31)
  4. Torra trädets klagan (1931) (2:22)

Nyckelpigan och andra visor för barn (1932)

  1. No. 3, Långt bort i skogen (2:20)

4 lustiga och 4 sorgmodiga folkvisor (1936) (13:55)

  1. No. 1, Rocken snurrar, lampan brinner (1:08)
  2. No. 2, Men liljorna de växa upp om våren (2:07)
  3. No. 3, Jag gick mej ut åt vägen (1:17)
  4. No. 4, De sporde om skön Särling (2:10)
  5. No. 5, Skomakarevisan (1:54)
  6. No. 6, Ge mej hit lite bläck och en penna (2:54)
  7. No. 7, Säckpipan (0:33)
  8. No. 8, Nödårsvisan (1:52)

  1. Vårnatt i Ajalon (1941) (5:04)

Fyra kinesiska sånger (1946) (9:33)

  1. No. 1, Lyssnande till en nattlig flöjt från Shou-Hsingmuren (2:35)
  2. No. 2, En suck från en trappa av jade (1:05)
  3. No. 3, Bitter kärlek (2:17)
  4. No. 4, Gränslös längtan (3:36)

  1. Ett är nödvändigt (1950, revised) (4:59)
  2. L’infidèle (1951) (3:32)
  3. Sono stanca (1971) (3:38)
  4. Natten sænker sit mørke Slør (1970) (2:14)
  5. Vaggyvisa (1971) (2:41)

First Recordings
*First Modern Recordings

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