Performer: Gunnar Idenstam
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0495
Release: 2020
Size: 1.35 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Metal Angel, Suite 1
01. I. Introduction
02. II. Waiting For
03. III. Gothic Garden
04. IV. Toccata V
05. V. Metal Angel
Metal Angel, Suite 2
06. I. Angel’s Theme
07. II. Saga I
08. III. Dark Angel
09. IV. Elegy for an Absent Angel
10. V. Falling Angel
Metal Angel, Suite 3
11. I. Polina’s Song
12. II. Golden Angel
13. III. Archangel
14. IV. Black Angel
15. V. Saga III [Epilogue]
Metal Angel is a collection of eighteen pieces and a Symphonic Sonata for organ by Gunnar Idenstam, born in Swedish Lappland in 1961; this album presents fifteen of these pieces in a series of three suites. Written between 2013 and 2019, they exploit the full range of the modern symphonic organ to give musical expression to the idea of angels in a Gothic fantasy world. Idenstams distinctive musical language blends the physical energy of symphonic rock and metal and the modal cast of Scandinavian folk-music with an approach to the organ in the French cathedral tradition of such composers as Dupré, Vierne and Widor. This recording presents some of the most fiercely exciting organ music of recent years, in high-voltage performances by the composer himself.