Metal Angel / Gunnar Idenstam

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
September 4, 2020
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      IDENSTAM, GUNNAR
    • PERFORMER
      Gunnar Idenstam
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 04, 2020
    • UPC
      5060113444950
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0495
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Introduction

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    2. II. Waiting for

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    3. III. Gothic Garden

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    4. IV. Toccata V

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    5. V. Metal Angel

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    6. I. Angel's Theme

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    7. II. Saga One

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    8. III. Dark Angel

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    9. IV. Elegy for an Absent Angel

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    10. V. Falling Angel

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    11. I. Polina's Song

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    12. II. Golden Angel

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    13. III. Archangel

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    14. IV. Black Angel

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam

    15. V. Saga III: Epilogue

      Composer: Gunnar Idenstam

      Performer: Gunnar Idenstam


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. Idenstam’s 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.