Barokksuite "Kom Jesus, lys din fred på jord"
Study in baroque composition stile

I wrote the "Barokksuite - Kom Jesus, lys din fred på jord" as a study in baroque composition stile. It is composed especially for recording with the Dutch Radio (Evangelische Omroep) on the magnificent, relatively recently restored (1993-1994) Wagner baroque organ (1741) in the Nidaros cathedral, Norway, mai 1996

The suite consists of:
Prelude – Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gavotte – Air – Gigue.

Baroque tuning and demonstration of the organ
In order to demonstrate the characteristic aspects of the baroque tuning of the organ more clearly, I transposed the melody from E to D. This way I could use for example the chord f-a-c frequently, listen to the Gavotte-fragment. Here you can hear the Trumpet 8 with those typical pure triads of the Werckmeister-tuning. In addition, I wanted to have something to demonstrate the colourful softer sounds of the organ with as well. For example, you can hear the beautiful Vox Homana in the Prelude, the Flutes in the Allemande and Courante, the Quintadena 8' in the Sarabande, and the Trumpet 8' + Waldflöte 2' in the Gavotte

Soundclips
You can hear fragments of all these parts, and make sure you listen to the Gigue (clip 7),  which I have understood many people think is nice.
When you click more info can also see which stops you hear.

Help with playing the sound clips and using the PDF-files        can be found in the Technical info section

 

• Prelude
  Clip 1    More Info / download clip
• Allemande
  Clip 2    More Info / download clip
• Courante
  Clip 3    More Info / download clip
• Sarabande
  Clip 4    More Info / download clip
  
  Clip 5    More Info / download clip
• Gavotte
  Clip 6    More Info / download clip
• Air
  Clip 7    More Info / download clip
  Clip 8    More Info / download clip
• Gigue
  Clip 9    More Info / download clip
   

Clipnumber Filename	Kb	Ta	Musical contents of  the clip	Other info	Copyright
Clip 1 15Nidaros_prelude.ra	134	64	From Barokksuite: Prelude	You hear solo: Vox  Humana  8' + Rohrflette 4' (Oververk)	Thanks to the Evangelische Omroep, for allowing me to use their recordings on this website. Recording: Erik Zwiep/Gert Altena, EO, The Netherlands, 1996
Clip 2 03Nidaros_allem.ra	123	44	From Barokksuite: Allemande	you hear: Gedact 8, Rohrflette 4 (Oververk)
Clip 3 07Nidaros_courante.ra	144	44	From Barokksuite: Courante	you hear: Rohrflette 4 (Hovedverk), Spitzflöte 4 (Oververk)
Clip 4 02Nidaros_sarab.ra	134	44	From Barokksuite: Sarabande, fragment 1	you hear: Gedact 8 (Oververk)
Clip 5 06Nidaros_sarab2.ra	491	44	From Barokksuite: Sarabande, fragment 2	you hear:  Quintadena 8 (Oververk)
Clip 6 14Nidaros_gavotte.ra	149	64	From Barokksuite: Gavotte	You hear  Trumpet 8'  +  Waldflöte 2' (Hovedverk)
Clip 7 04Nidaros_air.ra	144	44	From Barokksuite: Air, fragment 1	you hear solo: Gedact 8, Nasat 3, tremulant (Oververk)
Clip 8 08Nidaros_air2.ra	134	44	From Barokksuite: Air, fragment 2	you hear: Rohrflöte 8 (Hovedverk)
Clip 9 01Nidaros_gigue.ra	607	64	From Barokksuite: Gigue	you hear: Trompete 8, Cornet 3 fach etc. (which makes a sort of French "Grand Jeu")

 

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