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Review: The possibility of the improbable

9/8/2010

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"... the domains of folk- and art music ... Näsbom and Edlund move effortlessly and elegant between them. No music stands in sight, everything is played by heart, no matter what kind of music they play. [--] ... so flexible and inventive, there is a natural freedom towards the original. Classical musicians playing folk music, and folk musicians playing classical music. The best of those two worlds really do enrichen one another. Thank you Torbjörn and Andreas, you embody the connection." 

Katrina Chamber music festival, Åland. Concert at Kastelholm Castle.
Lena Johanna Svartström (Translation: AE)
Tidningen Nya Åland 

Det osannolikas möjlighet

"... folkmusikens marker ... konstmusikens salonger ... Mödolöst och smidigt rör sig herrarna Näsbom och Edlund mellan dessa världar. Notblad ser man inte skymten av, allt spelas utantill, oberoende av om det är folkmusik eller konstmusik. Egentligen är det inte någon större skillnad. Det känns svårt och onödigt att plocka i detaljer, men visst var det en upplevelse att höra Bachs solocellosvit på nyckelharpa och Marin Marais Folia på cembalo och nyckelharpa. Särskilt då cembalisten är så smidig och påhittig, det finns en naturlig frihet inför originalet. Nyckelharpan är verkligen mångsidig i sitt uttryck, de skira små vårdropparna och den stora stormen samsas med varandra. Den klingar väldigt fint under slottsvalven. Klassiskt skolade musiker som spelar folkmusik och folkmusiker som spelar klassiskt. Det bästa från dessa två världar berikar verkligen varandra. Kunskap och fördomsfrihet blir en akademipolska. Tack Torbjörn och Andreas, ni förkroppsligar förbindelsen."  (Kastelholms slott, Åland)

Lena Johanna Svartström
Tidningen Nya Åland 2010-08-09

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Musical handshakes across the centuries

7/8/2010

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"... The nyckelharpa player Torbjörn Näsbom and the harpsichordist Andreas Edlund took us for a breathtaking music-historical journey from castle and cottage, where nothing was kept holy, but the respect for the musical material came shining through in every bar and note. Father and son Bach, master spelman Erik Sahlström and other true musicians passed in review, ending up with a masterly realized ... version of Marin Marais' 32 Variations on La Folia." 

Concert at Kastelholm Castle, Katrina Chamber music festival, Åland. 
Mats Liljeroos (Translation: AE) 
Hufvudstadsbladet 2010-08-07
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Enchanting music at idyllic place

7/7/2009

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"Have you heard harpsichord together with nyckelharpa? Seems like a strange combination? One might think so, but the result is astonishingly beautiful. This was proved 
by the two superb musicians Torbjörn Näsbom and Andreas Edlund in the concert last saturday. [...] The intimate ensemble, equally technically brilliant and melodious, created an enchanted atmosphere and made the senses lean back and rest in the sounds. The result was a liberating and relaxing solace to the soul." 

Concert at Forsby Kvarn, Enköping
Gunilla Edström (Translation: AE)
Enköpings-posten 2009-07-07

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Review: Sounds from castles and cottages

29/6/2009

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"It takes almost no time to understand the depth of the musicality permeating the two folk musicians - I choose to call them so - way of meeting the audience through their music. Here is room for [...] ensemble playing and music making with origins in the love for the innermost being of the music. [...] The expression of the delicate nyckelharpa-sound is not far from the gamba, and the combination with harpsichord builds a natural bridge between the different genres. What is classical and what is folk music, does not matter in this context. [...] Näsbom's sometimes sparkling, sometimes dolorous playing on the nyckelharpa, and Edlund's flexible and well-articulated improvisations at the harpsichord, open the heart and soul to the summer." 

Festspel in Pite älvdal, concert in Hortlax church Ida Fahl, text and photo (our translation)
Piteå-Tidningen 2009-06-29


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Review: Fascinating start of Musikfest Bremen

21/9/2008

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"In contrast to this, the Swedish duo with Andreas Edlund at the harpsichord and Torbjörn Näsbom on nyckelharpa came out as a contemplative listening pleasure. Sometimes dreamingly tender, sometimes boldly powerful, they made the snow melt to music in Eric Sahlströms 'Vårdroppar'."
Welt Online, september 2008 (our translation)

"The two performers offered something that a normal concert atmosphere rarely manages to communicate, namely the deeply affecting experience of sound coming in to being, which intensified the aura of intimacy and tenderness emerging from the music. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's sonata in C major, Wq 136, originally for viola da gamba and basso continuo, was thus filled with gestures of sound, bringing out an admirable fragility and softness in the harmony. Appealing was also the '32 couplets de folies' by Marin Marais. Here the two musicians offered improvisatorial tricks, and waves of intensification, bursting with instrumental fat [sic]"
Michael Pitz-Grewenig
Weser Kurier Online, september 2008 (our translation)

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