Fantasia (2021)
Organ
Duration:
10′
First Performance:
09 February 2022
Manfred Grob, Reinoldikirche, Dortmund, Germany
Score
Programme note
Fantasia is my longest single-movement organ work to date and forms part of a current preoccupation with transforming or transfiguring previous musical materials into something of a more beautiful or spiritual state. In this case, the Fantasia is a transfiguration of a motet of mine Veni Sancte Spiritus (‘Come Holy Ghost’) that I finished in 2012 but had begun much earlier in c.2004. The earlier motet forms the musical material on a micro and macro level, with on the one hand the motet being expanded from a three-minute choral piece to a ten-minute organ work (with formal schemes in place) and on the other motifs, gestures and sequences being repeated and varied in many different iterations and juxtapositions.
PAC
Recording
Fantasia (2021) by Phillip Cooke, performed by Manfred Grob on the organ of Reinoldikirche, Dortmund, Germany on 09 February 2022.