Northern Dances: Folk Music from Scandinavia and Estonia

Catalogue No: TOCN0004
EAN/UPC: 5060640070042
Release Date: 2019-03-15
Composer: Ale Möller, Arne Modén, Erik Rydvall, Gunnar Idenstam
Artists: Erik Rydvall, Gunnar Idenstam

This sparkling collection of folk dances from Norway and Sweden, offset by two Estonian chorales and three improvisations, comes from two of the finest practitioners of this kind of material: Gunnar Idenstam, playing on the new Klais organ of Kristiansand Cathedral in southern Norway, and Erik Rydvall, on the nyckelharpa, the keyed folk fiddle of Sweden. The combination of rhythmic vigour, the harmonic ambiguity of Scandinavian folk music and the huge range of instrumental colour gives these tunes – all in spontaneous, semi-improvised performances – an irresistible and immediate appeal.

Gunnar Idenstam, organ of Kristiansand Cathedral
Erik Rydvall, nyckelharpa

    GUNNAR IDENSTAM/ERIK RYDVALL

  1. Northern Dances
  2. TRADITIONAL

  3. Springar after Sölve Knut
  4. ARNE MODÉN

  5. Church March
  6. ESTONIAN CHORALE

  7. Ma kiitlen ykspäinis (I praise one man)
  8. GUNNAR IDENSTAM

  9. Marias Wedding Waltz
  10. ESTONIAN CHORALE

  11. Oh Kristus valgus oled saa (You can receive the light of Christ)
  12. TRADITIONAL

  13. Polska in D after Sven Donat
  14. GUNNAR IDENSTAM/ERIK RYDVALL

  15. Northern Stories
  16. TRADITIONAL

  17. Ockelbogubbarnas favorit Polska from Gästrikland
  18. Polska in A minor from the Sexdrega Collection
  19. Polska in A minor after Karl Lindblad
  20. Storhurven
  21. Polska from Östra Ryd after Anders Larsson
  22. ALE MÖLLER

  23. Svanen (The Swan)
  24. TRADITIONAL

  25. Polska from Åre after Lapp-Nils
  26. Storebråten: Polska after Olav Vestenfor
  27. Polones in G major from Andreas Höök´s collection
  28. March after Hans Brimi
  29. GUNNAR IDENSTAM/ERIK RYDVALL

  30. Northern Bells

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1 review for Northern Dances: Folk Music from Scandinavia and Estonia

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    ‘Performances have an improvisatory quality, yet never fail in musicality. Notes are very informative, and all concerned are to be congratulated for this lovely box of delights.’

    —Michael Wilkinson, MusicWeb International

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