Genre: Organ

Organ matinee with Johannes Landgren

A tribute to Duke Ellington and music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Elfrida Andrée.

Through Konserthuset’s popular organ matinée subscription, audiences get to hear Sweden’s leading organists play the building’s organ – one of the largest in Europe, with 6,100 pipes.  

Johannes Landgren is a professor and acting rector at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, as well as a freelance organist and conductor. He hails from Arjeplog and was educated at the University of Gothenburg's Academy of Music and Drama. He has toured around the world and recorded a large number of CDs in various genres.

Here, he performs his own compositions Hommage à Duke Ellington and Organ Fantasy on Hymn No. 325: In hope my saved soul rejoices. Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor pays tribute to a Dutch colleague, where Bach uses an old Dutch folk melody. We also hear music by Czech composer Petr Eben, Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée, and Scottish composer Thea Musgrave – who was the focus of the International Composer Festival at Konserthuset in 2018.

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The bar is open before and after the concert.

You are welcome to eat or drink something before or after the organ concert. The bar in the Main Foyer is open at 11.45–12.15 and 13.15–14.15, offering a variety of delicious food and drinks in our beautiful surroundings.

 

A tribute to Duke Ellington and music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Elfrida Andrée.

Thursday 7 November 2024 12.15

Ends approximately 13.00

Price:

120 SEK

Through Konserthuset’s popular organ matinée subscription, audiences get to hear Sweden’s leading organists play the building’s organ – one of the largest in Europe, with 6,100 pipes.  

Johannes Landgren is a professor and acting rector at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, as well as a freelance organist and conductor. He hails from Arjeplog and was educated at the University of Gothenburg's Academy of Music and Drama. He has toured around the world and recorded a large number of CDs in various genres.

Here, he performs his own compositions Hommage à Duke Ellington and Organ Fantasy on Hymn No. 325: In hope my saved soul rejoices. Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor pays tribute to a Dutch colleague, where Bach uses an old Dutch folk melody. We also hear music by Czech composer Petr Eben, Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée, and Scottish composer Thea Musgrave – who was the focus of the International Composer Festival at Konserthuset in 2018.

***

The bar is open before and after the concert.

You are welcome to eat or drink something before or after the organ concert. The bar in the Main Foyer is open at 11.45–12.15 and 13.15–14.15, offering a variety of delicious food and drinks in our beautiful surroundings.

 

  • The music

    Approximate times
  • Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia and Fugue in g minor for organ BWV 542
    12 min
  • Johannes Landgren Fantasy on Psalm No. 325 ”In hope my soul redeemed to bliss unending” for organ
    6 min
  • Elfrida Andrée Andante in G major for organ
    2 min
  • Elfrida Andrée Larghetto in c minor for organ
    2 min
  • Johannes Landgren Improvisation for organ
    5 min
  • Thea Musgrave Psalm 147 ”Lobet den Herrn” for organ
    3 min
  • Petr Eben Mystery of Creation from Job for organ
    5 min
  • Johannes Landgren Hommage à Duke Ellington for organ
    5 min
  • Participants

  • Johannes Landgren organ

Thursday 7 November 2024 12.15

Ends approximately 13.00

Price:

120 SEK


Konserthuset Stockholm’s mighty organ was inaugurated in 1982. It was Grönlund's Orgelbyggeri in Gammelstad that was given the honorable task of building the new one, thus replacing the original organ that no one had been really satisfied with

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