In the Dark

The weather has been much colder for the past few days, which is probably why this piece of music popped into my head and I thought I’d share it here. It’s a Norwegian folk song called Den Bortkomne Sauen (“The Lost Sheep”) and it’s played by Annbjørg Lien on Hardanger fiddle and Iver Kleive on pipe organ. In case you weren’t away the Hardanger fiddle is similar to a normal violin, which has four strings, but underneath them there are four or five others to produce sympathetic vibrations when the main strings are bowed. This makes for a very unique sound, and adds to the haunting atmosphere evoked his piece.

The theme music for one of my all-time favourite movies, Fargo, released 30 years ago in 1996, was based on this tune which was originally written by the person who wrote all the best tunes, Trad…

P.S. I like this track so much I bought the whole album, Felefeber, which is wonderful!

This entry was posted on January 4, 2026 at 6:53 pm and is filed under Music with tags Annbjørg Lien, Fargo, Felefeber, Hardanger fiddle, Iver Kleive. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.