Composer: Gunnar Idenstam
Performer: Gunnar Idenstam
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0694
Release: 2023
Size: 565 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Lofoten Meditations
01. Prelude
02. Choral Theme I
03. Water Vortex
04. Water Landscapes
05. Poem I
06. Choral Theme II
07. Poem II
08. Scandinavian Air
09. Bubbles
10. Choral Theme III
11. Hymn
In 2019 the Swedish organist and composer Gunnar Idenstam was commissioned to provide the music to a film, The Vegan Toothbrush, by the Norwegian film-maker Trygve Luktvasslimo, which takes seriously the issue of climate change itself but satirises the quasi-religious intensity of climate activists. Idenstam is one of the few remaining organists who maintain the centuries-old tradition of improvisation at the console, and his extemporisations for the film, all of which are concerned with water, developed into a kind of powerfully atmospheric sea symphony.