I was looking for a good recording of the beautiful old German carol, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, when I found this.<\/p>\n
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It’s sort of the same carol, if you slowed it right down and made it strange and reflective and echoey and much more haunting and wistful.<\/p>\n
Looking at Jan Sandstr\u00f6m’s biography, he is apparently a contemporary composer – born in 1954, in fact – from Sweden, and his compositions include the Motorbike Concerto for trombone and orchestra.\u00a0 Already, that sounds promising.\u00a0 In fact, that sounds so promising, I had to go and find a recording of it, and because I love you, I am going to share it.\u00a0 Here you go<\/a>.\u00a0 Don’t you feel better for listening to it?\u00a0 It really does sound very motorbikish.\u00a0 I’m not sure how much it sounds like a concerto, but I am 100% sure that Andrew, at least, is going to love this.<\/p>\n Anyway, it’s pretty clear that Sandstr\u00f6m’s specialty is writing music that sounds like a picture of what he is writing.\u00a0 (I keep on wanting to call it music that is like a soundtrack, or sound effect, because to me that’s what it reminds me of, but this sounds as though I’m being dismissive, which really isn’t my intention)<\/p>\n