Torsten Nilsson

condition (record/cover): NM / EX

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A document of one of the most important and most overlooked figures in twentieth-century Swedish organ music. Torsten Nilsson (1920-1997) was a composer, organist, and conductor whose work occupied a particular and productive position in Swedish musical life: deeply versed in the instrument's ecclesiastical tradition, he brought to that tradition a compositional intelligence formed by the European modernist mainstream and a sure instinct for the particular acoustic possibilities that arise when the organ's sustained, mechanically generated sound meets the more immediate attack of brass instruments.

Orgel, Bronslur Och Trombon - organ, brass ensemble, and trombone - is exactly what it promises: a sustained investigation of what these particular sonorities can produce in combination. Proprius Records, the Stockholm label founded in 1969, had become by the mid-1970s the most important specialist vehicle for this strand of Swedish musical life, issuing recordings of organ and choral music with a consistency and quality of production that placed them on a par with the finest European contemporaries. Nilsson's LP belongs in this tradition - rigorous, atmospheric, and bearing the particular stamp of a composer who knew the instrument from the inside. Proprius, PROP 9924.