International Organ Festival Young Composers Class 2016
Oskar Herlins (Latvia) - The Study
In premiere on 28-07-2016
Organist: Jeroen Koopman
see also https://soundcloud.com/oskarsherlins

2016 Young Composers Class: Oskar Herlins (Latvia) - The Study

Listen carefully. People look for patterns (dessins). Patterns give stability and recognition and an imaginary grip on reality, whether that reality is artificial or natural. "l'Amour" and "la Mort", the themes of this program, are events in the natural reality which are included in the search for patterns and are also the two most important themes in the artificial reality created by artists. "Dessins" (in prior times also French for devine guidelines) comprises 3 segments.

In segment 1 I develope a simple rhythmical pattern in a string of chords, by adding a chord to the pattern in each repetition. Halfway through the chords get more notes and the left hand comes too late while the rhythm still continues to develop.

Segment 2, 'l'Amour', consists of one long melodic line with counter voices. In the second half the line is being repeated while the counterpoints change due to the voices being shifted forward in time. I believe that reality does not want us to get a hold on love to control it.

Segment 3, 'la Mort', purely contains fragments; new fragments of accelerations and ritenuto's and fragments of segments 1 and 2. The tempo goes from 100 to 150 or 200% and from 150 to 100 or 200% or from 200 to 150 or 100%. I believe that after one's death time is not a factor anymore.

Listen carefully.

Dessins (May 2011, Jan Hage live in Orgelpark Amsterdam)

Tjeerd van der Ploeg plays the Nicholson organ of the St. Christoforus church Schagen.
Concert Sunday 28 oktober 2018
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) - Sequence in a minor

Recorded with Oktava MK 012 omni caps - AB 60cm – Zoom H6

Concert Sunday 28 oktober 2018

Tjeerd van der Ploeg plays Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) - Sequence in a minor

Engels Nicholson-orgel (1882). Live-registraties van concerten. Opnamen zijn geplaatst door de uitvoerenden zelf of zijn op verzoek in naam van de uitvoerenden geplaatst.

Tjeerd van der Ploeg plays Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) - Sequence in a minor

Nicholson Schagen

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