Symphonic Stomp of Sweden by Various, Nuo (2022/2022), NorrlandsOperan, Umeå, Sweden

Welcome to a journey into the musical soul of the northern primeval forests. There are great and deep stories about all phases and events of life in our common, ancient folk music. When it gets real here in life, the folk music is there, ready to remind us that we are all out on a unique journey but at the same time together in the company of everyone else, including our ancestors since time immemorial. The fiddler Görgen Antonsson and the folk singer Sofie Kunze reflect the primordial power and beauty of our common traditional musical treasure. From the great myths and fairy tales, love, everyday life and celebration - to darkness and death - and back to the light. Karl-Johan Ankarblom has in his orchestral arrangements taken the core of the sound of folk music and paints a cinematic and dramatic horizon worthy of the great stories. In the big and the small; a musical story about life.