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 Hymne à l’univers Works by Alain, Bonnal, Duruflé & Jolivet Mattias Wager Plays the Grand Organ in Stockholm City Hall  We are thrilled to announce this new and quite unique Organ-album with Mattias Wager, who 10 years ago did “Organ Treasures,” which have sold very well! He was also on the Island album, “Live at Vattnajökull,” and played on a couple of the Erik Westberg choir albums! The Stockholm City Hall is known around the world for housing the Nobel Prize banquet. It is also home to the largest organ in Scandinavia. On this spectacular instrument, with its 10,400 pipes, Mattias Wager plays French music from the Thirties. The music, by Alain, Jolivet, Bonnal and Duruflé shows the scope and sheer creativity of its time, and its feeling of boundless musical possibilities. With its wealth of sound, the City Hall organ is one of the few instruments that make it possible to really bring out all the colors in this repertoire. I think we have been able to catch the sounds of the organ and the feeling of this very spacious hall! What you also should know is the fact that this is the first real recording of this organ, even though it was built in 1926, 3 years after the Stockholm City Hall was ready! Jan-Eric Persson – Opus 3 Records
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