Stephen Price, head of organ studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the first Paul B. Fritts Faculty Fellow and Artist-in-Residence in organ performance there, has recorded as an album of 20th- and 21st-century organ works on CD and in digital release for the Raven label, OAR-204, Sparkling Intensity.
The five-movement Organ Symphony No. 2 by Swedish composer Erland Hildén (b. 1963) is featured as well as his “Sparking Intensity,” for which the album is named. Price also plays Collage for Organ: Passacaglia and Fugue in the Style of Bach by Eurydice Osterman (b. 1950), retired professor of music at Oakwood University, Huntsville, Alabama; Three Impressions on KINGSFOLD by Rachel Laurin (1961Ð2023); and Sonata (Trio), op. 18, no. 2, by Hugo Distler (1908Ð1942).
The works were recorded in June 2025 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, on the 1965 Flentrop organ rebuilt by Paul Fritts in 1992–95 and 2011, of four manuals and 79 ranks.
For information: ravencd.com.