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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American organist James D. Hicks continues his exploration of organ music by Nordic composers, with this documentary on the making of Nordic Journey, Volume 12.
Shot in the Uranienborg Kirke in central Oslo, Norway, James Hicks is joined in the video by instrumentalists from Greater Oslo, including a bass quartet from the Oslo Philharmonic, the percussion ensemble SISU, recorder player Caroline Dahl Eidsten Dahl, and a quartet of folk violinists.
The 27-minute video contains commentary from James Hicks and from Kjell Mørk Karlsen, the Oslo-based composer whose works are featured prominently in the ProOrgano double-CD release. ProOrgano.com item 7299.
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