Gunnar Idenstam | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Gunnar Idenstam (organ of Monaco Cathedral)

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.

1. Introduction
2. Waiting For
3. Gothic Garden
4. Toccata V
5. Metal Angel
6. Angel's Theme
7. Saga I
8. Dark Angel
9. Elegy for an Absent Angel
10. Falling Angel
11. Polina's Song
12. Golden Angel
13. Archangel
14. Black Angel
15. Saga III: Epilogue