Cream of the crop of the music of 1700s of Sweden/ on of the greates musicians of his days, and into this time…
( recorded by one of Sweden´s best). You might not understand the words but this is as close to time traveling as we can get. Makes you realiza that music is timeless.
You would hate to miss this experience
It sounds a hell of a lot like my computer fan.
Heres the right adress:, sorry
Moved IMHO --> Cafe Society.
Soon as I read the mouseover I knew this was going to be about Bellman. I like Åkerström’s version of “Gubbe Noack”, myself.
Bravo, bork bork bork, bravo!
I’m not quite sure I understand the OP. Don’t we already have access to music created far more than 200 years ago, in the form of the great classical pieces (concertos, symphonies, choral works, operas, etc.)?
That said, this is a pretty piece.
Was anyone else hesitant to click on a link with “dung” in it?
That’s a flux, as the it is part of a computer-generated unique identifier.
I’m guessing because this sounds like it could be less than 75 years old, whereas the great classical pieces you’re referring to tend to sound old as fuck. He’s singing what sounds to my non-Swedish speaking ears like a contemporary narrative lyrical song structure, and playing what sounds to my non-musical ears exactly like a guitar. I wonder if this Fred guy updated or changed anything at all, though, or recorded note-for-note from historical sources.
I was listening to Franz von Suppe’s “Poet and Peasant” in the car yesterday, and with its peaks and troughs, I couldn’t help thinking how some of these old skool muso’s would have loved to experience a good rave.
Interesting - I’ve never heard of Bellman before this, and I’d have said I know that period in music very well.
Note-for-note from historical sources, namely Fredman’s Epistles, a collection of songs by Carl Michael Bellman. Of course, Fred Åkerström (a much-beloved and much-lamented musician here in Sweden) does play around with the pacing somewhat, but the song itself is over 200 years old. A lot of Bellman’s songs are easily accompanied by the guitar - Bellman himself used one, or a variant thereof when performing.
Bellman really isn’t known much outside of Scandinavia, and the overwhelming majority of his work is similar to this. Swedes love him; his songs are primarily concerned with drinking, women, and nature, and there are a handful of biblical parodies. Scholarly research has shown that a lot of the tunes Bellman used were taken from other sources, which provides a lot of evidence for him being pretty much a talented filker. One of my favorite anecdotes about him was his ‘founding’ of the Order of Bacchus, a fraternal organization dedicated to getting smashed; one of the requirements for admission into the order was having twice lain in the gutter completely passed-out drunk.
Thord Lindé is another Bellman interpreter; here are videos of him performing some of Bellman’s songs, including a version of No. 72, the same one Fred sung in the OP’s link. My personal favorite is No. 33.
I should add that Bellman’s most famous songs are in two relatively contemporary collections (both, I believe, published posthumously) entitled Fredman’s Epistles and Fredman’s Songs. The songs in Lindé’s videos are from the Epistles.
OK, it seems that page I linked to won’t play the videos properly. Hence, a list of search results on YouTube with the videos in question.