Sparkling Intensity (Raven OAR-204) features Stephen Price performing on the four-manual, 79-rank Flentrop/Paul Fritts organ in St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, Washington, in a program of 20th- and 21st-century works.
The five-movement Organ Symphony No. 2 by Swedish composer Erland Hildén 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; Three Impressions on Kingsfold by Rachel Laurin; and Sonata, op. 18, no. 2, by Hugo Distler.
Stephen “Stef” C. Price recently joined the music faculty at the University of Washington (Seattle) as the inaugural Paul B. Fritts Faculty Fellow and Artist-in-Residence and head of organ studies beginning in September 2023. Dr. Price teaches Organ performance, Church music, and Keyboard Harmony courses.
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