MEDIA
Discover more about Sandström and his music with these links to videos, interviews, podcasts, and more. More media content will be added as it becomes publicly available.
Porrmässan – musikverket som gjorde skandal
Porn mass – Music that Caused a Scandal
by Märta Myrstener for Sveriges Radio, 10 May 2024
This documentary-podcast recounts the controversy surrounding the world premiere of Sandström’s Requiem: De Ur Alla Minnen Fallna, an emotionally charged work centring on the deaths of children during the Second World War, with libretto by Tobias Berggren. Berggren’s text powerfully illustrates the loss of innocence in the wake of war, using pornographic references, quotations of children’s songs, and Christian themes. The premiere was met by calls for its cancellation by parents of children in the choir, members of the orchestra, and politicians. It even led to a bomb threat at the Berwaldhallen, Stockholm.
A Musical Moment with Philip Brunelle - Sven David Sandström
by Philip Brunelle, 12 April 2021
Philip Brunelle discusses the compositional style of Sandström, the variety of influences that inspired his music, featuring prominent works such as the Messiah and The High Mass.
Sven-David Sandström 1942–2019
by Sveriges Radio, 12 June 2019
This final interview with Sandström was broadcasted posthumously, two days after his death. He discusses his vast output of over 600 works, how quickly and fastidiously he composed, always with pencil and paper. He also delves into his admiration of J.S. Bach, turning to the great Baroque composer for inspiration.
“Sven-David Sandström ranks among the foremost choral composers of our time. Since the 1990s he has composed a large amount of sacred music and works in the footprints of Bach. The video includes an interview with Sandström and sound samples from A New Heaven and A New Earth, St Matthew Passion, High Mass, Six Motets, Magnificat, Te Deum and his Latin Requiem.”
In the Footprints of Bach
by Gehrmans Musikförlag, 21 March 2014
Sven-David Sandström comments on his "Messiah" oratorio
by SDG Music, 13 July 2009
“Composer Sven-David Sandström comments on his "Messiah" oratorio, a work commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival and the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. Thanks to the Oregon Bach Festival for their help arranging this interview for Soli Deo Gloria.”
Sandström discusses three of his major works: Through and Through (1972), De Ur Alla Minnen Fallna (1979), and The High Mass (1994).
Sven-David Sandström 1999
by Sveriges Radio, 12 July 1999
Glory to God med gäst Sven-David Sandström
by Sveriges Radio, 16 May 2019
Sandström provides insight to the spiritual underpinnings of his compositional approach, featuring musical excerpts from his concert works Messiah and The High Mass, as well as his operas Batseba and Staden.
