Light Shall Shine Out of Darkness
Ré-sur-Ré…exit
The Marvel of Turin

On the CD “Light Shall Shine” organist Anders Eidsten Dahl performs three works of Herman Vogt on the magnificent Carsten Lund organ in Bragernes Church. The release is the result of a collaboration over more than ten years between the performer and the composer. The music spans a wide palette in its tonal language, everything from simple and naivist music to complex polyphony.

The works are presented here in reverse chronological order. The most recent of them “ Light Shall Shine Out of Darkness” from 2020 is a wide-ranging composition in five movements, while the two earlier works “Ré-sur-Ré…exit” from 2016, and “The Marvel of Turin” from 2012 are individual one-movement pieces. All the works are based on Christian ideas and phenomena. The thematic content embraces central elements of Jesus’s teachings and Christian tradition, apocryphal texts, German Passion literature, Jesus’s resurrection, and something as concrete as a Christian relic.

Herman Vogt has a master’s degree in composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music. His music has been performed in Norway and abroad by Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, BIT20 Ensemble, Oslo Sinfonietta, pianist Ian Pace, violinist Geir Inge Lotsberg, and cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, among others.

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Recorded in Bragernes Church, Drammen, 3 and 4 November 2020 and 26 May 2021. Played on Bragernes Church Main Organ, Carsten Lund 1998.