About "In the steppes of Sápmi"
“Despite London’s frenetic din, the feeling that nature continues to inform the work of Nordic composers to an extraordinary degree was difficult to escape.
Perhaps it wasn’t so much a feeling as a fact. Ansgar Beste‘s In the steppes of Sápmi imagined a forest of joiks and animal noises building into a culminating hymn born, Sibelius-style, of its collective parts. We heard that piece from the exceptional vocal group Exaudi […].”
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