organ or piano with instrumental parts ad lib

between sadness and paradoxical joy

ULRIKA EMANUELLSSON (born 1965) is a composer

thou bride of Christ

Nocturne Ben E. organ or piano with instrumentalEdith Sdergran's Nocturne ("Silvery moonlight evening") from 1916 is simultaneously serious and light, mysterious and bright. Birgitta Flick builds her interpretation for three part treble choir around a hummed melody that creates the harmony with its movement. The contrast between the soft sound of the waves and the clear consonants in words like "silver light" together with small glissando movements where the piece seems to stop gives a dreamy piece