Jerome Kern:
The Song is You
A fine Romance
Lionel Bart:
Where is Love?
Vernon Duke:
Autumn in New York
Lew Brown:
Comes Love
George Gershwin:
It ain't necessarily so
Irene Higginbotham:
Good Morning Headache
Walter Gross:
Tenderly
George Gershwin:
But not for me
Cole Porter:
Night and Day
Richard Rodgers:
The Lady is a Tramp
Maceo Pinkard:
Them there Eyes
Loud Carter:
Detour ahead
Johnny Mandel:
A Time for Love
Jimmy van Heusen:
But beautiful
Fred Rauch:
Answer me
Jay Gorney:
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Petter Udland Johansen has been known for years as an exceptional interpreter of early music. With his distinctive

voice and keen sense of style and text interpretation, he has made a name for himself as a specialist in repertoire from

the Middle Ages to the 18th century. Now he is opening a new chapter: on his album Where Is Love, the versatile singer

turns his attention for the first time to the great songs of the American Songbook – timeless classics by George

Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers and other masters.

Johansen is joined by Christian Gutfleisch, his ideal musical partner at the piano. Gutfleisch performs on a Blüthner

grand piano from 1910, whose warm, velvety tone forms a poetic bridge between past and present. The instrument

seems to carry within it the sound world of the very era in which many of these songs were written - while offering an

abundance of color and intimacy that perfectly suits the duo’s chamber-like approach.