We start with Witold Lutosławski's Paganini Variations. It was tempting to adapt this unprecedented work for piano and organ. Originally written for two pianos, it has undergone many different arrangements over time. But we stick - like Lutosławski - to the blacks and whites.

Masters such as Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918) knew what he was doing when he transcribed Robert Schumann's Etudes in canon form for two pianos. They were written for the so-called pedal piano (piano with pedal keyboard), which did not gain wide spread. Therefore, they are often played on an organ. But Debussy probably thought that this fine music deserved a wider audience. From pedal piano to organ - to two pianos - and now for piano and organ. We have chosen to play nos. 1, 2, and 5 without changing Debussys arrangement.

Three Concert Pieces for Piano and Organ by Jens Ramsing were written for the Nordic Church Music Symposium in Helsinki 2021, where they premiered. Moving is a concerto for piano and organ; Moments with its quiet, somewhat dreamy expression can be suitable as house music; And if we maintain the above grouping of music for piano and organ, Memories of an Old Danish Tune must be considered church music." The song has its unchangeable starting point in the old folk song 'I served myself out at the count's court', which was first introduced as the melody to hymn Den lyse dag forgangen er in Kingo's Graduale.'

Claude Debussy composed in 2010 The Sunken Cathedral based on a old legend from Brittany where a cathedral that stands underwater offshore from Ys Island rises from the sea on mornings when water is particularly clear." One hears bells, Gregorian chanting ,and the sound of an organ playing a chorale at full strength," after which cathedral sink back into the sea again only hearing organs again underwater until finally lost sight of when only bells heard as an echo."

The three pieces from Béla Bartóks Mikrokosmos are played without change according to composer's own arrangement for two keyboards." Parafrase de un punto by Jens Ramsing was commissioned on request at Bach Friday 2023 at Sct Nicolai Church Køge.." Lastly, we have selected Saint-Saëns’ charming Scherzo from almost forgotten domestic music hall.' As an example of concert church music we close with Marcel Dupré's organ piece Cortège et Litanie transcription by Anne Kirstine Mathiesen.” 

Jens Ramsing