Pro Organo announces a new recording, Nordic Journey, Volume VIII (CD 7287, $24.98), a double disc set featuring James D. Hicks and recorded in November 2018 at the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Music of Nordic composers such as Niels Gade, Fredrik Sixten, and Knut Nystedt is featured on the church’s four-manual Klais organ from 1992. MP3 downloads are also available.
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James Hicks discusses Volume IX in his series, Nordic Journey, and plays excepts on the 1913 Setterquist pipe organ in the gallery of Olaus Petri Church in Örebro, Sweden.
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James D. Hicks continues to discover organ music from Nordic composers, and continues to commission new organ music from leading Nordic composers of the current age, in his tenth volume – a double-CD – in his Nordic Journey series. This 25-minute video is provided courtesy of ProOrgano.com.
Disc 1 features 19th through mid-20th century compositions, played on the 1879 Olsen / 1986 Marcussen pipe organ of Helligåndskirken, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Disc 2 features organ literature from post-World War II to the present, played upon the 1994 Andersen organ of St. Morten’s Church, Randers, Denmark.
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