Messiah and the Cultural Canon - Season 1

First aired: 3/13/2026 10 episodes

Last autumn, the government presented 100 works that will be included in a cultural canon. Ten of these are music. What kind of work is it? How do they sound? Who are the people behind the works? And do the works have any echo in Sweden today? Messiah Hallberg asks music professor Mattias Lundberg.

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Episodes

1. 40 minuter känslor

Aired: 3/13/2026

Messiah Hallberg and Mattias Lundberg talk about Allan Pettersson's Seventh Symphony. One of Sweden's best-selling classical records of all time, which became the composer's big breakthrough and won a Grammy in 1970. Part 1 of 10.