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ID: RK2205
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Baroque
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck is one of the principal composers in the 16th- and 17th-century Holland. As far as we know, Sweelinck only left Holland on one time. Nevertheless his works show Italien/Venetian influences, English/virginalist elements and knowledge of spanish composers. The growing cultural importance of Amsterdam in Sweelinck´s day probalbly explain his knowledge of contemporary European music. At the beginning of the 17th century, many organists travelled not only from Germany but also Poland and Sweden to Amsterdam to study under the famous Sweelinck. Later his Hamburg pupils Heinrich Scheidemann and Jacob Praetorius founded a sort of ‘Sweelinck outpost’ in Hamburg. They passed on their pupils what they have learned in Amsterdam. Léon Berben plays the pieces of Sweelincks und his pupils brilliantly at St. Jaque’s Church in Liège. This organ was reconstructed in the style of the late 16th century, following Sweelinck´s large organ in Amsterdam. RK 2205 | edition raumklang | Total: 67:32 |
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ID: AV2100124
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Organ Collection
Subcollection: OrganMichael Pohl at the Great Sauerorgan in Thomaschurch, Leipzig |
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ID: ART043
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Organ Collection
Subcollection: OrganLive Recording in St. Alexander Church, Kirov 24.02.2002
Hugo Mayer organ at St. Alexander Church, Kirov |
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ID: DCD34089
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ1 William T. Best (1826-97)
A Christmas Fantasy on Old English Carols
2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chorale: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
3 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
4 Johann Pachelbel
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her (Fughetta)
5 Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
6 Johann Sebastian Bach
Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her, BWV738
7 Max Reger (1873-1916)
Weihnachten, Op. 145 No. 3
8 Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
Noël cette Journée
9 Jean-François Dandrieu
Il n’est rien de plus tendre
10 Louis-Claude d’Aquin (1694-1772)
Noël X
11 Pierre Cochereau (1924-84), transcr. J. Filsell
Variations on ‘Adeste Fideles’
12 Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Noël Ecossais
13 Jeanne Demessieux (1921-68)
Adeste Fideles (Musette)
14 Jean Langlais (1907-91)
Noël Breton (Huit Chants de Bretagne)
15 John Ireland (1879-1962)
The Holy Boy (A Carol of the Nativity)
16 Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937)
Shepherd’s Cradle Song
17 Alfred Hollins (1865-1942)
Christmas Cradle Song
18 Garth Edmundson (1900-71)
Vom Himmel hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV)
19 The Bells of St Cuthbert’s Church
St Cuthbert’s Change-Ringers
Total playing time [77.50]
Carleton Etherington (organ)
Few ecclesiastical buildings in the United Kingdom can boast possessing two pipe organs; of those that can, fewer still can rival the quality of the ‘Grove’ and ‘Milton’ organs in Tewkesbury’s magnificent Norman abbey. It must have been something of a coup for the organ builders Michell & Thynne to hear the legendary organist William Thomas Best proclaim their latest instrument (on show at the Liverpool Exhibition of 1886) to be “the finest organ of its kind that I have ever played upon”. Their ‘model organ’ was designed to be as flexible as possible within the confines of the smallest number of stops, and the result was an immediate success: its first appearance at the 1885 Inventions Exhibition in London caused something of a sensation amongst the organ cognoscenti. The blind organist Alfred Hollins, not long out of college, was one of a number of players who gave regular recitals on the instrument both at the London exhibition, and subsequently the following year in Liverpool.
Tewkesbury Abbey’s other organ known as the ‘Milton’ is a happy example of enlargement and rebuilding over the decades, resulting in its current incarnation as a flexible and thoroughly contemporary instrument capable of interpreting a wide spectrum of the repertoire This recording demonstrates the unique qualities of each instrument in a programme of concert organ works by some of the finest organists and composers of the past two centuries. |
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ID: DCD34064
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Organ Collection
Subcollection: OrganEdinburgh’s city organist John Kitchen visits Scotland’s Mither Kirk and the country’s largest organ. Never before heard on disc, the 1939 Rushworth & Dreaper represents the zenith of British organ building. Kitchen harnesses this king of instruments in a varied recital, revelling in its sheer magnificence.
Asma:
Three hymn tune preludes
Fantasie over de Avondzang " 'k wil U o God mijn dank betalen"
Duruflé:
Méditation, Op. post.
Elgar:
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39 No. 1
Guilmant:
Grand Choeur in D
Kee, C:
Variations on a Dutch song 'Merck toch hoe sterck'
Milford:
St Columba, Op. 14
Parry:
Croft's 136th
Rowley:
Benedictus
Stanford:
Prelude on St Columba, Op. 101 No. 6
Widor:
Organ Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 13 No. 4
John Kitchen (organ) |
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ID: ACDBO063-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Baroque
There are a number of recordings of the choral partita ‘Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig’ by Georg Böhm (1666-1733), including one on the great Arp Schnitger city organ in Hamburg (1693), 57 voices, beautifully played by Stef Tuinstra. The version heard here is played on Arp Schnitger’s smallest organ positiv, 8 voices, but it offers enough variation to register the 8 variations in a diverse manner. The suite in A Minor ‘Melpomene’ by Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer (1665-1746) is taken from his Musikalischer Parnassus (1738). Melpomene was the muse of song and tragedy. The stylised dances are a slow Allemande, the fast Passepied, a Rondeau, alternately a refrain and a verse, a Chaconne, variations based on a descending series of 4 tones and finally a fast Gigue. The Fantasia on the hexachord Vt Re Mi Fa Sol La by Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) was already a famous work during his lifetime., Athenasius Kirchner mentions the work in his Masurgia (1646) and it was published in an autograph in 1649. The seven parts of the work bring the hexachord in various rhythms and with various second voices. In the sixth and seventh parts he adds chromatic tones, thus deftly exploiting the meantone temperament in the strong effect of dissonants and consonants. A true masterpiece. Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) wrote the Tombeau on the death of the lute player Blancheroche in Paris and added the following remark: ‘fait à Paris sur la mort de Monsieur Blancheroche: lequel se joue fort lentement à la discretion sans observer aucune mesure.’ The improvisational character of the piece strongly resembles the Preludes non mésuree by Louis Couperin, whom Froberger met in Paris in 1652. A striking feature of this work is its exploitation of the meantone temperament, e.g. Froberger twice prescribes a D flat for where a C sharp is tuned, using the dissonant here as an expressive device. The Preludium is one of the great free forms in keyboard music. Of Hans Kotter (1485-1541) we hear an early example, here called Proömium in re. Kotter was a pupil of Paulus Hofhaymer, the most important ‘Organistenmacher’ of the 16th century, just as Sweelinck was in the 17th century. The original of the Giusti instrument is now in the Tagliavini collection in Bologna/Italy. |
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ID: RK2903
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: OrganThe number of interpretations of this work, ranging from symphonic to progressive rock and jazz, show what a masterwork of cultural history this composition is. In this new version, Cittadin plays the organ of St. Elizabeth’s church in Basel and Tarr plays percussion instruments such as Baroque timpani, side drums, cymbals and triangle.
Dass die »Bilder einer Ausstellung« ein Meisterwerk der Kulturgeschichte sind, davon zeugen schon die unzähligen Neuversionen des genialen Solopianostücks von Modest Mussorgsky. Die Interpretationen der Bilder reichen von Maurice Ravels symphonischem Feuerwerk bis zu progressiven Rock-, Synthesizer-, und Kammerjazzversionen der letzten 40 Jahre.
Nicola Cittadin und Philip Tarr offerieren nun ihre Neubearbeitung, gespielt an der Orgel der Kirche Elisabethen in Basel und begleitet von Schlaginstrumenten wie Barockpauken, Militärtrommeln, Becken und Triangel als eine Promenade von den Kosaken nach Kiew, von Modest zu Miles Davis. |
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ID: DCD34044
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Organ Collection
Subcollection: OrganTimothy Byram-Wigfield (Caird Hall organ)
Designed by the blind organist Alfred Hollins, the Caird Hall instrument is one of the finest recital organs in the UK - as ideal a vehicle for Hollins’ own music as Byram-Wigfield is an exponent of it. Hollins effortlessly combines keyboard pyrotechnics with a quasi-orchestral approach to sonority. These works bristle with vigour, their swaggering confidence leavened with ingenuity and wit.
Track listing
Alfred Hollins
1. Concert Overture in C major (1889)
2. Benediction Nuptiale (1898)
3. A Trumpet Minuet (1929)
4. Allegretto grazioso (1906)
5. Concert Overture in C minor (1899)
6. Evening Rest (1917)
7. Concert Overture in F minor (1922)
8. Andante in D (1895)
9. A Song of Sunshine (1913)
10. Maytime Gavotte (1927)
11. Theme with Variations and Fugue (1911)
Total Playing Time: [79:40] |
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