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magicians combined.
Nyckelharpa and double-bass might sound like a pretty tricky
combination to handle, but in the hands of these two gentlemen
it sound like a cinch...
When it comes to singling out this year's folk-music disc,
I'd like to see something even comes anywhere near this one.
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Västerbottenskuriren Jan
Westerlund
For
all friends of Torbjörn Näsbom's och Sebastian
Dubé's wonderful concerts this disc is a confirmation
of their greatness as interpreters och Swedish and Canadian
folk music...
The best
thing with this recording is still the title track, "Vatten",
'Water'. It sweeps the listener along with it like a northern
river.
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Västerbottens
Folkblad Carl Rhenberg
Only
two instruments makes for performances which are simple,
almost minimalistic, but really tight. No-one is subservient,
here there are two completely equal voices which use all their
expressiveness ...
Most beautiful
of all is the way they play together. Now we're just waiting
for a live performance - here.
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Nerikes
Allehanda Magnus Börjesson
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The
combination of the beautiful notes and the melancholy nyckelharpa
struck my soul with the force of a sledge-hammer. The minutes
the nyckelharpa was playing are the only ones I remember
from the concert and those few minutes will always be with
me, etched right into my soul.
Review from a concert at the Västerbotten
museum
It was a fantastic mixture of jazz, baroque and folk music
and it was the first time a piece of folk music brought tears
to my eyes. The thought that I could hear this music, vanished
forever from the mists of time but retained in my heart for
ever, was too much for me.
Review of a concert with Jonas Knutsson and Sebastian
Dubé
In Marin Marais' work "Couplets de folies" Torbjörn
Näsbom came on stage with his nyckelharpa and
there was immediately a new dimension of expression, since
he had evidently taken along a great deal of his knowledge
of Swedish folk music. The performance was red-hot. The quartet
have the work a rich musicianly virtuoso flavour where every
variation had its own sharply-cut profile. Anyone who thought
that baroque music was restrained and introverted could both
see and hear the opposite demonstrated here. A performance
well worth listening to with a great expansive range of expression
and at times en delightful swinging ensemble led by Torbjörn
Näsbom's formidable playing of the nyckelharpa.
Review of a concert with the Nordic Baroque Quartet
during the Umeå International Chamber-music Festival
At times the playing between Dubé och Näsbom was
powerfully magical; they dig deeper from the well of bass
and nyckelharpa-playing than I thought possible, while
in the following piece, a Finnish waltz, they just touched
the strings and silver of the fiddle blended completely with
the earth of the bass.
Review of a concert with
Sebastian Dubé at the Folk Music Festival in Umeå |