Organist Christopher Herrick, who has longstanding connections in Scandinavia, was invited to perform and record this recital on the restored Steinmeyer organ of the Nidarosdomen Cathedral in the far northern Norwegian city of Trondheim. The graphics match the spectacular setting. Although there was little daylight and little optimism in Trondheim when the album was recorded during the coronavirus pandemic in December of 2020, there is not a bit of Scandinavian gloom about this recording. Herrick chooses works with an ...
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Organist Christopher Herrick, who has longstanding connections in Scandinavia, was invited to perform and record this recital on the restored Steinmeyer organ of the Nidarosdomen Cathedral in the far northern Norwegian city of Trondheim. The graphics match the spectacular setting. Although there was little daylight and little optimism in Trondheim when the album was recorded during the coronavirus pandemic in December of 2020, there is not a bit of Scandinavian gloom about this recording. Herrick chooses works with an unusual degree of virtuosity for his recital, opening with the joyous Yes! of composer Mons Leidvin Takle and proceeding into a jazzy arrangement of Amazing Grace by Iain Farrington. From there, Herrick deepens the texture, alternating polyphonic pieces with toccatas. Things reach a climax with the dense and rarely played Prelude and Fugue in G minor, WoO 10, from the young Brahms, and the Second Concert Study "Flying Feet" of Pietro Yon, which is as riotous as the title suggests. A quiet...
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