成人快手

Live from St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, London

Presented by Martin Handley

The 成人快手 Singers, directed by the Norwegian conductor Grete Pedersen, are joined by organist James McVinnie for a night of Nordic music.

Knut Nystedt: Immortal Bach
Knut Nystedt: O Crux
Knut Nystedt: Variations on 'Med Jesus vil eg fara' (op 4) for organ
Edvard Grieg: Four Psalms

8.15pm: Interval music: Norwegian folk-tunes played on the hardanger fiddle, and Grete Pedersen talks to Martin Handley about the Norwegian choral scene and her work with the Norwegian Soloists' Choir.

8.35pm:

Bo Holten: Rain and Rush and Rosebush
Hilding Rosenberg: Fantasia and Fugue for organ
Alfred Janson: Sonnet 76
Cecilie Ore: Toil and Trouble (London premiere)

James McVinnie (organ)
成人快手 Singers
Grete Pedersen (conductor)

Making her debut with the 成人快手 Singers, Norwegian conductor Grete Pedersen directs a Nordic programme including sacred works by the founding father of Norwegian music, Edvard Grieg, and by a latterday composer - Knut Nystedt -, who died last year aged almost 100. In the second half of the concert, Bo Holten's choral retelling of a fairy story by Hans Christian Anderson, and the London premiere of Cecilie Ore's setting of the Witches' Scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth, alongside another Shakespeare setting by Alfred Janson. Completing the programme, James McVinnie plays two 20th-century Nordic works for organ.