Schweden tänzerisch

Merry and artful, danceable and refined — these need not be opposites. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the music of minstrels and courtiers was not far apart at all, and the musicians who played it were often the same — only on different occasions and in different places.

With Baroque violin and nyckelharpa, a kind of keyed fiddle, Ida Meidell and Johan Hedin lead us back into the music of castle and country estates. For years now, both have moved with assurance between historical performance practice and Swedish folk music: Ida Meidell performs with European Baroque ensembles, including François Lazarevitch's Musiciens de Saint-Julien, and Johan Hedin is regarded as one of the most influential nyckelharpa players of our time. As a duo — making its debut at the Korrö Folk Festival in 2019 — they trace precisely those resonances between the Swedish minstrel tradition and European Baroque that this programme recounts.

During the interval and after the concert, the parish once again invites everyone to homemade coffee and cake in the idyllic parsonage garden.