Nordic Journey, Volume X

Pro Organo announces a new CD: Nordic Journey, Volume X: Danish Perspectives (CD 7292, $24.98), consisting of two discs and featuring James D. Hicks, assisted by George Chittenden. The first disc includes 19th- and early 20th-century compositions performed on the 1879 Olsen/1986 Marcussen organ of Helligåndskirken, Copenhagen, Denmark. Works by Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, Finn Viderø, and Carl Nielsen are heard.

The second disc has music from the second half of the twentieth century through the present time utilizing the 1994 Andersen organ of St. Morten’s Church, Randers, Denmark. Lise Dynnesen, Knud Jeppesen, and Leif Thybo are among the composers on this disc.

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James D. Hicks, Nordic Journey X

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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