Name: ORGANISM
Release year: 2016
Genre: Art Music, Classical, 20th & 21st Century
Artist: Terje Winge (organ)

Description:

The organ music on this album is written by three composers with different musical backgrounds and development who nevertheless have something of the same close feeling for the instrument, almost an organic oneness with it. Trygve Madsen studied with organist-composer Egil Hovland, one of the 20th century's most significant pioneers in the field of church music. Kjell Mørk Karlsen grew up in a rich church music milieu, led by his father, Rolf Karlsen, who was Oslo cathedral organist for over fifteen years. Kjell Flem studied piano and organ, gaining a close knowledge of the technical and musical possibilities. While Karlsen's music builds on the long German-Lutheran tradition, the more playful style of Madsen is closer to that of the French organ symphony. Kjell Flem's main inspiration has been the music of Olivier Messiaen, evident both in his compositional technique and in his interest in using musical impulses from more exotic parts of the world. However, for all the differences in their approaches and backgrounds, none of these composers have repudiated tonality as their musical foundation. While German organ music continued to adhere to the Lutheran chorale tradition, organ music in France began to see the organ as much more than a liturgical instrument. It is true that the French organist-composers felt their roots lay in the melodious plains of the Gregorian chant, but, exploiting the enormous advances in organ-building, they managed in the 19th century to free themselves from the liturgical context and to show that the organ Could match a symphony orchestra in its range of colors and fullness of sound. Terje Winge (born 1950) is Professor of Organ at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he has been taught since the early 1980s. He was received by his own organist from the Norwegian organists Ludvig Nielsen and Arild Sandvold, before studying with Jiri Reinberger in Prague and Gaston Litaize in Paris. Immersive Audio is a sonic sculpture that you can literally move around and relate to spatially; Surrounded by music you can move about in the aural space and choose angles, vantage points and positions. Dolby Atmos and the Auro-3D on this Pure Audio Blu-ray delivers a new standard in immersion, fully enveloping the audience in a cocoon of life-like audio.

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Tracklist:
01. Kjell Mørk Karlsen: Sonata "De profundis" opus 143; I. De profundis clamavi 00:08:18
02. Kjell Mørk Karlsen: Sonata "De profundis" opus 143; II. Monodi 00:05:35
03. Kjell Mørk Karlsen: Sonata "De profundis" opus 143; III. Aus tiefer Not 00:07:20
04. Trygve Madsen: Le Tombeau de Dupré opus 62; I. Prelude 00:04:44
05. Trygve Madsen: Le Tombeau de Dupré opus 62; II. Fugue 00:03:24
06. Trygve Madsen: Le Tombeau de Dupré opus 62; III. Scherzo 00:05:23
07. Trygve Madsen: Le Tombeau de Dupré opus 62; IV. Cantabile 00:03:21
08. Trygve Madsen: Le Tombeau de Dupré opus 62; V. Final 00:05:37
09. Kjell Flem: Ecclesia in mundo; I. Ecclesia in mundo 00:06:10
10. Kjell Flem: Ecclesia in mundo; II. Communion 00:06:22 2.00
11. Kjell Flem: Ecclesia in mundo; III. Jubilus 00:13:03 2.70

Issued: Norway | 2L
Duration: 1:09:22