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Swans
Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
Leif's own offering is a beautifully expressive composition deserving of repeated listening. Musically, all swans are not created equal, but it is, as ever, about personal taste, and the performances...
Swans
Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
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Leif's own offering is a beautifully expressive composition deserving of repeated listening. Musically, all swans are not created equal, but it is, as ever, about personal taste, and the performances...
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Saint-Saëns, as Mats Lidström notes, did not have exclusive rights to draw inspiration from swans and this album presents twenty-four examples from a wide range of composers, written before and after the one featuring in Saint-Saëns’s menagerie. Most are heard in arrangements for cello made especially for the album by Mats, who is accompanied by his son, Leif Kaner-Lidström.
Contents and tracklist
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
Mendelssohn, Fanny:
6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1, Schwanenlied (Arr. Lidström for Cello & Piano)
Work length2:10
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
- Mats Lidström (cello), Leif Kaner-Lidström (piano)
- Recorded: 2022-04-13
- Recording Venue: Recital Hall, Trinity School, Croydon
Awards and reviews
November 2025
Leif's own offering is a beautifully expressive composition deserving of repeated listening. Musically, all swans are not created equal, but it is, as ever, about personal taste, and the performances are faultless. An album that lingers in the memory far beyond the fading of its final notes.
October 2025
I was very taken with Leif's new compostion, which Lidström Snr describes as the swan with the sweetest personalilty of the album. He's right
