Rehnqvist: Solsangen / Bara Du Gar Over Markerna / Puksanger

Featuring

Lena Willemark
Maria Garelov-Thorsell
Nina Persson
Cecilia Rydinger Alin
Susanne Rosenberg
Helena Gabrielsson

Allmänna Sången
Karin Rehnqvist

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Karin Rehnqvist believes that contemporary art music must reach out to different contexts and aims to "mix the high and the low, the easy and the difficult, the banal and the brilliant."

Composer Biography

Karin Rehnqvist (b. 1957) reintroduced Swedish folk music and feminist issues into art-music discourse in Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s.

Cultural Impact

Timpanum Songs - Herding Calls has been performed at both folk music festivals and in art-musical contexts, demonstrating its ability to function as a cross-over work.

Compositional Technique

A key vocal technique used in Rehnqvist's music is Kulning, a traditional high-pitched herding call used by women in central Sweden to gather animals.

Performer Biography

Lena Willemark, a soprano on this album, is known for her versatility across folk music, jazz, and contemporary compositions, and grew up in Dalecarlia, a region famous for its folk-music tradition.

Critical Reception

The premiere of Rehnqvist's Timpanum Songs - Herding Calls at the ISCM World Music Days in 1994 was met with both enthusiastic praise from the general audience and shouts of protest from some contemporary music delegates.