Lina Johnson / Arnfinn Tobiassen

A Quiet Beauty - Works By Kvandal Lina Johnson / Arnfinn Tobiassen

Johan Kvandal, Organ Works, Religious songs, Folk Tunes, Soprano Lina Johnson, Organist Arnfinn Tobiassen.

Most of the works on this album were composed during the Vålerengen period, 1959--1974, though some came earlier, and some later. "Fantasi for orgel" (Fantasy for Organ) is one of his very last works, composed three years before his death. Here he decisively marks the end of his career on the organ bench, both with dissonant contemporary sounds and with strains of inspiration from the realm of traditional folk music. It is a finale worthy of this towering church composer.