VIKTORIA TOLSTOY

Stealing Moments 2025

Viktoria Tolstoy has taken up the idea of "family" music-making again for her new album. The compositions on the album come from a whole range of current ACT artists, many of whom were already involved in the album "Shining on You". Esbjörn Svensson is also involved in a special way: He wrote the instrumental composition "Hands Off", for which his wife Eva has now written lyrics. In addition, there are compositions written especially for Viktoria Tolstoy and her voice by long-time friends and companions such as Nils Landgren, Ida Sand, Wolfgang Haffner, Cæcilie Norby, Lars Danielsson, Iiro Rantala and Jan Lundgren.

"When you sing, the sun rises," Pat Metheny once said to Viktoria Tolstoy. Her clear, powerfully radiant voice is the common thread that connects all the pieces on "Stealing Moments". In addition, there is a mixture of energy and lightness that characterizes Viktoria Tolstoy as a person and that is transferred to the listener through the music. Her message to the audience, based on the album title: "Let me steal a little time from you to listen to this music."