Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

Gaël Liardon (1973-2018) was a Swiss classical keyboard player, composer and academic. Born in Lausanne, he studied harpsichord, organ and continuo playing with Pierre-Alain Clerc and Jovanka Marville, piano with Freddy Balta, and improvisation with Rudolf Lutz. He has been organist of the church of Villamont, Lausanne, from 1995. In 2009, he obtained a diploma of teaching theory at the Geneva University of Music, with distinction. He taught music pedagogy at the Geneva Conservatory. In 1997, he created the Festival de Musique Improvisée de Lausanne and also participated in the creation of the research group on improvisation of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 2011, he founded the Sweelinck Ensemble in Geneva. (source: Wikipedia)

For this piece Liardon clearly was inspired by Buxtehude's chorale fantasie on the hymn 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern'. The same structure, the same ideas. I think it works very well this way. You can never have enough fine preludes on 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen'.