Organ
SKU:
CA.1808800
Composed
by Kay Johannsen. Free
organ music. Free organ
music. Full score.
Composed 2016. Duration 7
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
18.088/00. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.1808800).
ISBN
9790007188658. Language:
all
languages.
Sunrise
was composed in August
2016 from a concert
improvisation. The work
is structured as a great
crescendo. Although the
title refers to the image
of a sunrise, the music
was not primarily
conceived as program
music. In one layer of
the composition, motoric
groups of motifs
increasingly condense,
beginning in a high
register and constantly
changing, whilst in a
second layer a calm
thematic idea is
intensified and expanded
in barely noticeable
alterations. As well as
the seamless crescendo
from pianissimo to
fortissimo, the work uses
precisely-notated
registrations of color,
especially for parts
where the chorale-like
theme is written in
chords in the middle and
low registers. The
resulting moments of
luminescence are
emphasized even more
through a harmony with
bitonally layered major
chords. This work is also
available on CD (Carus
83.485).