Wilhelm-Hansen - Organ

Organ-Liturgisk Orgelspil - En Introduktion af Søren Gleerup Hansen. Lærebog i modulation improvisation og forspil.

The organ part and reduced score Symphony No. 4 - An Organ Symphony (2008) by Poul Ruders. Full score: WH31186 Orch. parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk Preface / Programme Note When introducing a large-scale symphonic work not only as a symphony but as an organ symphony it would be impossible not to think of and perhaps compare it with Camille Saint-Saëns’s famous SYMPHONY NO. 3 popularly known as the Organ Symphony. Well that is a risk I am prepared to take – and live with the consequences.Saint-Saëns however listed his work as a symphony avec/withorgan. The organ only appears in two out of the four sections of thepiece. In my symphony the instrument plays a far more significant part and is featured in all four movements. But it is not a concerto for organ and orchestra rather a symphony with organo obligato - a symphony with an organ part of a soloistic nature. So an Organ Symphony it is. The first movement PRELUDE is exactly that: a foreplay to what is in store for the rest of the symphony. It is slow (very slow!) and predominantly hushed: the organ and the orchestra wake up side-by-side getting to know one another.The second movement CORTÈGE is a slowly moving processional and it evokes extreme solemnity and austerity. Later on the music takes flight and the atmosphere lightens considerably a far more playful music emerging.This leads to the third movement ETUDE an exercise in instrumental virtuosity and technical challenge.The fourth and last movement is called CHACONNE but I could just as well have named it passacaglia (the definition of those two terms seems to blur even among the learned). Bearing in mind the last movement of Johannes Brahms´s SYMPHONY NO.4 which is universally agreed on as being a passacaglia I chose to avoid the Wrath of the Gods and opted for

STILL. LEBENOrganist Eva Feldbc:ek had been asking me for a long time to write for the organ without the use of iron blocks extra stopping assistants etc .... unusual difficulties that belonged to my earlier organ music. I setmyselfthe task of Miting a ''handier'' kind of music for the organ.Once I had finished STILL. LEBEN I didn't think I had achieved what I was looking for. True the two movements did not involve odd things but 'handy' isn't really the word for them either. So I wrote the three movements in COUNTERMOVE to tidy up even more.And since I didn't think that was enough either I wrote the really simple pieces under the title IN TRIPLUM.Thethree series (eight pieces in all 2 + 3 + 3) sound very different but they all take their point of departure from the nature and tonal resources ofthe organ.Everywhere there is polyrhythm or hierarchical layering polychromaticism diatonics and melody (the last of these only sparingly and in some of the movements).Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Anders Koppel's Concerto for Hammond Organ and Orchestra.Commissioned by Aarhus Symphonic Festival.First performed at Aarhus Symphonic Organ Festival Symfonisk Sal Musikhuset Aarhus DK by Aarhus Symphony Orchestra Mateusz Moleda (conductor) the composer (organ).Duration: 30 minutes

Organ-Siseby Orgelbog for Organ was composed by Jesper Madsen in 1992-93 for the Marcussen & Reuter's Siseby organ in Haderslev Domkirke.

3 Organ Chorales - In Memoriam Kjartan Hoydal was composed by Sunleif Rasmussen in 2016 based on melodies by Jógvan Waagstein. 'This is the only published work for solo organ by Rasmussen though an earlier piece (A Light is Lit 1993) is scored for organ with electronics. As with all his music the titles of these three ‘chorales’ (perhaps better described as fantasias) – Breaking Waves Flying Storm and Summer Morning – suggest a strong connection with the landscape of his native Faeroe Islands. Spectral harmonies combine with rushing manualfigurations to create exciting virtuosic music that is satisfyingly characterful'.  

Work for Organ dating from 1967. This is a choreographic score for performers' bodies on Organ pedals.

Organ Solo-Arkaisk Procession for Organ solo was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 2000. Based on four Danish medieval folk songs.

This edition containing Italian (Roman) Organ music is the result of studies done at the Vatican Library in Autumn 1977. Among the numerous manuscripts found in Fondo Chigiano there are several sets of manuscripts which consist of Organ and Harpsichord music written between the years 1630 and 1640. These manuscripts are listed in G. Baronci's hand-written catalogue (1929) as Chigi Q IV 24-29. The manuscripts of Q IV 25 contain exclusively works by Frescobaldi: a partita eight toccatas three canzonas and two capriccios along with a recercare (sic.) and an incomplete Recercare Cromatico which is included as no.2 in the present publication. These pieces by Frescobaldicould have been published previously by A. Santani in XIV Composizione inedite di Frescobaldi (Rome 1940); they are not however included in Pidoux's Gesamtausgabe (published by Barenreiter Verlag). Bengt Johnsson has been daring enough to complete this ricercare which is even more advanced than the ricercare from Fiore Musicali (1635); Ricercare Chromaticho post il Credo (Barenreiter edition vl. V p. 34).

Vintersalme-Musik (1980) - Choral prelude for Organ. Orig. title: Vintersalme. Programme note: When in 1975 I had finished composing my 3rd Symphony (begun in 1973) I wrote three simple melodies for two psalm texts by Ole Sarvig “The Year” and “Choral Hymn”. One of these was later included in the Danish Hymnbook under the title “Året – Som året går” (The Year).  These three “Sarvig tunes” were derived from the same material as the second movement of the symphony and could be harmonized together in several different temporelationships at the same time - like fractals. This inspired me to write several choral and instrumental works in the following decade based on these melodies: for instance “Frost Psalm” “Winter Cantata” “Cycles” “Cantica” and this piece for organ all coloured by the Nordic and mythic poem by Sarvig the beginning of which goes:  The passing year will pass its deep  So shall our mind reach winter´s sleep.  And as the tree stands leafles bare   Is winter´s realms: our minds aware.  Per Nørgård 

Wer Gott Vertraut-Trio Super: Wer Gott Vertraut for Organ solo was composed by Poul Ruders in 2014.Commissioned by The Queen’s College Oxford to mark the 50th anniversary of the installation of the College’s Frobenius organ and first performed by Stephen Farr on 13 June 2015.