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There’s a winning simplicity to Kvandal’s songs for soprano and organ, sung here with graceful ease by Lina Johnson and interspersed with characterful short organ works. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 23rd Oct 2020
Catalogue No: LWC1203
Label: LAWO
Length: 57 minutes

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Kvandal: Tre Julesalmer

Work length2:52

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Lina Johnson, Arnfinn Tobiassen

Kvandal: Tre Julesalmer (1946): II. Den yndigste rose

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Lina Johnson, Arnfinn Tobiassen

Kvandal: Tre Julesalmer (1946): III. De hyrder stirrer i natten ut

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Lina Johnson, Arnfinn Tobiassen

Kvandal: Koralforspill over 'Ljoset yver landet dagna'

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Kvandal: Benedicam Dominum, Op. 17

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Kvandal: Toccata for organ, Op. 5 No. 3

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Kvandal: Meditasjon for fastetiden

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Kvandal: Jeg er kommet som et lys til verden

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Kvandal: Til deg herre, tar jeg min tilflukt, Op. 26 No. 1

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Lina Johnson, Arnfinn Tobiassen

I. Moderato

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II. Adagio

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III. Allegro non troppo

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Kvandal: O Domine Deus, Op. 2 No. 2

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Kvandal: Partita over folketonen 'Hvor er det godt å lande', Op. 36

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I. Andante con moto

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II. Moderato con moto

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III. Allegretto

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IV. Koral

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V. Allegro molto

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VI. Koral

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Kvandal: Preludium

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Kvandal: Fantasia for organ, Op. 83

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Kvandal: To religiøse sanger

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Lina Johnson, Arnfinn Tobiassen

II. Kveldsalme

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I. Morgonsong

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KVANDAL AND THE CHURCH There was a time in Norway when the position of organist was one of the most natural points of departure for a career as a professional musician. If one was interested in composing or writing texts about music, the post of church musician was a secure profession. Edvard Grieg had plans to become an organist while he was betrothed to his Nina in the 1860s. Church composers such as Knut Nystedt, Conrad Baden and Egil Hovland were organists, but also Klaus Egge and Edvard Fliflet Braen received a comparable education. Arne Nordheim studied to be a church musician at the same time as Johan Kvandal, who graduated in 1951. Although he was also a music critic, and a highly respected one, he held on to his post as church musician. Most of the works on this album were composed between 19591974 "Fantasi for orgel" (Fantasy for Organ) is one of his very last works, composed three years before his death.It is a finale worthy of this towering church composer. Kvandal used religious textsregularly, also in church music not found on this recording. He said in an interview after listening to Wagner's Ring: "It became a kind of closing of the ring in me. Quite simply put, at this time I rediscovered my childhood faith and the wonder I felt at the forces in play governing our lives."

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February 2021

There’s a winning simplicity to Kvandal’s songs for soprano and organ, sung here with graceful ease by Lina Johnson and interspersed with characterful short organ works.

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