German Organ Music Vol 2

Kittel, Johann Christian
1.Fantasia con organo pleno
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
2.I. Allegro assai
3.II. Adagio
4.III. Allegro

Kellner, Johann Peter
5.Herzlich thut mich verlangen

Ammerbach, Elias Nikolaus
6.Passamezzo antico

Praetorius, Michael
7.Kyrie Martyrum

Schlick, Arnolt
8.Maria zart von edler Art

Krieger, Johann
9.Fantasia

Krebs, Johann Ludwig
10.Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr
11.Jesu, meine Freude
12.Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
13.Jesus,meine Zuversicht
14.Von Gott will ich nicht lassen
15.Sei Lob und Ehr dem hochsten Gut

Murschhauser, Franz Xaver
16.Praambel und Fuge
17.Fugue

Walther, Johann Gottfried
18.Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott

Buxtehude, Dieterich
19.Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
20.Puer natus in Bethlehem
21.Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Pachelbel, Wilhelm Hieronymus
22.Fantasia super Meine Seele, lass es gehen

Pachelbel, Johann
23.Fuge: Magnificat (Secundi toni)
24.Wir glauben all' an einen Gott
25.Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Bach, Johann Sebastian
26.Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 720

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German Organ Music

The so known said that states: "Never judge a book by its cover", never ceases to amaze me. In fact this recording is one of my favorites for the organ, I can listen it again and again and never get bored. Its brillian execution by Joseph Payne, an not so known organist as it's Bolliger or Gillian Weir, but not less virtuoso at all. Virtuoso not just in the sense of having a brave technique, but to have likewise a great intuition that allows to go deeper in the scores. That is what makes the music be the music captivating by itself .

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Historic Organs from 5 Centuries

Im really delighted upon posting this cd interpreted by Albert Bolliger. A man deeply fascinated by the world of organs, whose long career has given fruits all along his life and the places he is being at. 

The series "Historic Organs" unveils his true art, the ties his mind has with the organ, making up an extraordinary interpretation in all the different organs he has played, just briefed in the present disk. Just as example is the so tender interpretation of the BWV 754  "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" which has no paragon and that I love.

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The Organ (The Instruments of Classical Music)

Everyone is acquainted with its imposing external form in the interior of churches. But is more difficult to define the instrument. What about this definition?: "The organ is a stationary instrument which is played with hands and feet on one or more keyboards, and in which the sound is produced by pipes (flue or reed pipes) arranged in ranks (voices or registers), which can be switched on individually by the player at will, placed over an apparatus for distributing wind (wind chest), this wind being provided by a special machine (bellows or blower)". After its "invention" by the Greek engineer Ktesibios (around 250 BC), the organ became established in the Hellenic and Roman Empires and, from there, throughout the whole of Europe. The decadent emperor Nero (54-68 AD) used it as plaything, and it was regarded as a symbol of entertainment and as the worldly showpiece of princes' courts until the early 14th century. It was only in the 15th century that this instrument, which had previously been condemned by the high dignitaries of the Church, started to be used for sacred functions as a kind of "machine for accompanying the choir" and took over the rule of the cult and church instrument par excellence.  Different methods of construction and sound ideas developed in the various countries and regions, stemming mostly from the fancies of some prominent organ builder and his successors. With a zeal of almost Olympic proportions organs were constructed which were "bigger and bigger", "more and more beautiful", "more and more sonorous", in some of which it was impossible to use all the registers. In the largest church organ in the world, the five-part organ in Passau Cathedral, the organist could theoretically play on 231 registers with exactly 17,388 pipes, the biggest of which is more than 11 meters long and 47 centimeters in diameter, and the smallest only 6 millimeters long.             U.K.

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