Bardic Knowledge

To make up for the whining...I did discover this on Saturday and briefly enjoyed a little utter bliss. Do you know this piece? The orchestra played it as a surprise tidbit before Debussy’s La Mer and it turned out to be the best moment of the night. 

- Longest February in human history

Mood

A lot of Scandinavian talent combined on this tune + a lot of energy.(More energy than I would have expected from a tune which I believe is called ‘The death’!). Really wish I could have heard this much sound and all these colours live in that church...must have been something else.  

(More mellow recorder goodness!) 

(Personally, I find it so great, I must see if I can ferret out the whole album. It seems a wonderful source for Swedish traditional music, played traditionally!) (Maybe!) (Cuz I really know nothing). 

I found a sweet Swedish tune today in a harp music collection of Scandinavian tunes and it led me to look online for a version, and I found THIS BEAUTIFUL THING! :-)  This type of tune what is called in Swedish traditional music a ‘walking tune’ or a Gånglåt which I believe was played by some instrumentalist (like a fiddler) at the head of a wedding party as they all walk in a line.  And this beautiful bassoonist starts this off by playing it just so, as she walks. This is of course much more elegant than I’m sure your traditional historic music would usually have been - but my goodness it is PRETTY!  (Though you know I love the bassoon...). 

An hour’s worth of early music magnificence - so many thanks to @sisterreisaid for the recommendation! (That first selection - “Pavan: The Funeals, Antonio Incerto (fl. 1584-1602)”...is just so delicious!).

Gah...No pun was intended!