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).
