Axel BORUP-JØRGENSEN 1924-2012 : Organ Music

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    Jens E. Christensen, Lars Somod  [Organ by the Botzen Brothers. 1698-1700]

      with Mahan Esfahani (harpischord) ; Mathias Reumert (percussion)

      Pia Rose Hansen (mezzo) ; Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass-baritone)


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  • Programme notes in English/French/German
  • Recorded in Vor Frelsers Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark -
  • October 19-22 2015, November 10-11 2015 and January 19, 2016.
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  • The smallest fluctuations and nuances in Axel Borup-Jørgensen’s music can have the impact of an earthquake. It is a music born out of stillness. It is a quiet modernism, where the silences speak just as insistently as the few, but decisive, outbursts.The present recording provides an overview of Borup-Jørgensen’s small but highly distinctive oeuvre for organ. Borup- Jørgensen’s unique – and surprisingly numerous works for the “King of Instruments” set him apart from many of his contemporaries. In addition to writing highly individual solo works, six of the pieces recorded here call for additional musicians from Strophen (1962), an expressionistic setting of a text by Rainer Maria Rilke for voice and organ, to Portal for percussion and organ Opus 181 (2009), a work composed for concert in honor of his 85th birthday. Joining organist Jens E. Christensen on this sonic journey is percussionist Mathias Reumert, mezzo-soprano Pia Rose Hansen, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, bass-baritone Jakob Bloch Jespersen, and Lars Sømod, second organist on organo per due Opus 133.1 (1989). Christensen plays the historic organ at Vor Frelsers Church, Copenhagen, a glorious Baroque instrument built by the Botzen Brothers 1698-1700. Even silent, the instrument is an imposing structure, with over 4000 pipes, housed in an ornately decorated case sculpted by Christian Nerger, featuring a bust of King Christian V at the centre.

      
      complete tracklist / timings :

      1Portal for Percussion and Organ opus 182                   01:39

      2for orgel IV opus 106                                                    09:17

      3Strophen for Alto voice and Organ Opus 39                07:49

      4Kalligrafier for Organ opus 116                                    05:02

      5Für Cembalo und Orgel opus 133.2                            11:11

      6organo per due for 2 Organists opus 133.1                06:00

      7Trilogi for Bass voice and Organ opus 154.4               12:45

      8for orgel XI opus 141                                                    05:48

      9winter music for percussion and organ opus 113.2   15:22