Span

Commissioned by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra for the inauguration of the Concert Hall’s new organ (Rieger) in collaboration with Gothenburg International Organ Academy. 
Premiered on October 17, 2021, by the organist Karin Nelson, to whom the piece is dedicated.

publisher: Svensk Musik

The organ solo Span moves between the sky-high and the subterranean deep. The music hangs and stretches over it like a sail which searching movements are trying to catch. It falls, sometimes lands in stillness, gathers to eager activity,  is sometimes brought to resting wavelengths,  expands to full width… all the while in its relentless quest upwards, from and to the intangible - the firmament.     

Madeleine Isaksson