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Johann Sebastian Bach & Arvo Pärt: Organ Works
David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
Johann Sebastian Bach & Arvo Pärt: Organ Works
David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
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Pärt’s music suits both the clean sound of the organ and Nielsen’s cool musical temperament.
About
Young Danish-Hungarian organist David Bendix Nielsen makes his solo album debut with a recording that weaves the music of J.S. Bach and Arvo Prt into a rich recital. By combining composers with such apparently different musical approaches, Nielsen sheds new light on both, so that listeners hear unexpected parallels between the music of the German Baroque and that of 20th-century Estonia. One characteristic shared by both composers is that of a deep spirituality, as heard in chorale preludes and fugues by Bach, or in Prts hypnotic tintinnabulation in Spiegel im Spiegel. There is secular music, too, in the form of Bachs organ transcription of Vivaldis Concerto in D minor. David Bendix Nielsen is the organist of St. Marks Church in Copenhagen and teaches at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He won the Lonie Sonning Talent Prize in 2018, and from 2022 to 2023 was a recipient of the Young Cultural Elite scholarship from the Danish Arts Foundation.
Contents and tracklist
- David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
- David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
- David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
- David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
- David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
- David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
- David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
- David Bendix Nielsen (organ)
Awards and reviews
September 2022
Pärt’s music suits both the clean sound of the organ and Nielsen’s cool musical temperament.