Midsummer Night's Mass

Gunnar Idenstam and Anders Paulsson
Photo: Adam de Bassac

A moving concert framed by summer night, sunset and poethic light. Church organ as a folk instrument with flutes, shawns and trumpets surrounding a partly sweet, partly lamenting soprano saxophone. The music is from our swedish folk tradition containing painfully beautiful Ballads of the Middle Ages, slow irregular polska dances peaked by "vallåtar", a type of birch bark horn melodies, new folkmelodis and triumphant wedding marches. The music is performed without interruptions, formed like a meditation.

Gunnar Idenstam, church organ, Anders paulsson, soprano saxophone.

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