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Bjorklund: Bereden Vag for Herren / Melody for Organ / Organ Symphony

1/31/1989, 10 Tracks, 1:13:02

Featuring

  • Staffan Björklund

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Instruments

The P.C. Andersen choir organ in Linköping Domkyrka, used for tracks 1 and 2, was delivered in 1971 and is regularly used as a liturgical instrument and for accompanying choirs, orchestras, and soloists.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The Organ Symphony by Staffan Björklund uses two chorales, "I know a dark garden" and "Light above the grave," along with birdsong, which are woven together in the final movement.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Staffan Björklund also studied electronic and concrete music with pioneers Pierre Schaeffer and François Bayle in the French Radio "Groupe de recherches musicales" from 1968-69.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

The Organ Symphony by Staffan Björklund is described as a meditation on life and death, similar to a raga, with its development moving from activity to passivity, and from movement to rest.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Staffan Björklund, the composer and organist on this album, studied piano with Monique de la Bruchollerie and composition with Tony Aubin at the National Conservatory in Paris from 1965 to 1969.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The Setterquist great organ in Linköping Domkyrka, where tracks 3-10 were played, was inaugurated in 1929 and renovated in 1987.

Source: Booklet

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