German & Northern European Music Through 1750 (but not Bach) Recordings |
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| NEW! Playing on the colorful Ahrend Organ at St. Otto in Herzogenaurach, Martin Neu plays a fascinating program that demonstrates the influences of Georg Böhm and Dietrich Buxtehude on J.S. Bach. Choir & Organ rates the recording at four stars (out of possible five). Recorded in high quality SACD format to play on all CD and SACD players. | |
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| NEW! Conductor, Harpsichordist and Organist Masaaki Suzuki (who has studied under both Ton Koopman and Piet Kee) performs works by Sweelinck based on the Genevan Psalter. Suzuki performs on the 2002 Marc Garnier organ which was built in 17th century Dutch/ North German style for the Reformed Church of Japan's Kobe parish. | |
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| NEW! World-renowned organist Thomas Trotter performs a selection of works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, perhaps the most famous son of Johann Sebastian. CPE Bach bridged the gap between the late Baroque and early Classical periods, making the 1773 Mitterreither organ (now at Eton College, England) a particularly appropriate instrument for this exceptional performance. | |
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| NEW! Organ music of important early Viennese composers is recorded on period instruments in Austria. Organists Wolfgang Kogert and Jeremy Joseph, both of whom have studied under Martin Hasselböck, ably demonstrate works of Froberger, Kerll, and father Georg and son Gottlieb Muffat. On both recordings, Gregorian chant is performed by the Vienna Plainchant Schola, under the direction of Daniel Mair. | |
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| In three volumes, OHS Member Hans Davidsson performs the complete organ works of Dieterich Buxtehude on the organ at the Örgyte New Church in Göteborg, Sweden. The organ, carefully modelled after the work of Arp Schnitger, was built by Göteborg Organ Art Center, of which Prof. Davidsson is founder and Artistic and Research Director. | |
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| On two different organs roughly contemporary with the composer, famed choral conductor Suzuki performs a selection of Buxtehude’s works with dazzling technique and clarity. | |
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| Vincent Genvrin transcribes Mozart’s Gran Partita for organ and performs it on the François Henri Clicquot organ in the Church of Saint Nicolas des Champs, Paris. | |
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| Helmut Lerperger plays the Freundt organ of 1642 built for Klosterneuburg's Stiftskirche and a smaller choir organ begun in 1780 by Anton Pfliegler and restored by Kuhn. | |
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| Organist Elisabeth Ullmann performs most of the surviving keyboard works of 17th century composer Johann Caspar Kerll on the 1654 Michael Prackh organ at Pernegg Abbey in Austria. The organ was carefully restored by Jürgen Ahrend in 2004. | |
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| Elizabeth Harrison plays the last organ built by the last organbuilding Schnitger. | |
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| Paul Fritts & Co. Opus 25 in St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio is host to Douglas Cleveland on this recording of works well suited to the organ’s massive and intimate timbres. | |
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| At 350 years old, the magnificent organ in Antwerp’s Sint Pauluskerk is replete with freshness, power and balanced brilliance. Johannes Geffert plays fine works perceptively. This recording received 5 Stars (out of 5) in the May/June 2010 issue of Choir and Organ. | |
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| On an organ of 85 ranks that he built at First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, Robert Noehren plays works of Buxtehude. Click on headline above for list of works | |
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| The Brombaugh organ at Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon is played by David Britton. Works by Oley, Krebs, Buxtehude, Hanff, and Bruhns, Bach. Click on headline for full repertoire | |
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| Jack Mitchener Plays the Salem Tannenberg On the 1799 Tannenberg in Winston-Salem, Jack Mitchener makes the first recording of Graun's Concerto in g, and also plays J.S. and C.P.E. Bach and several others. | |
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| Choosing works composed during a century ending around 1750, Philip T. D. Cooper explores the Thuringian sphere of composers and organists who were active in J. S. Bach’s day. | |
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| Although Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716) was born and died in Germany, he was heavily influenced by the music of Italy. Laura Cerutti performs her own transcriptions and reaarangements of Pez's orchestral music. Cerutti performs on the 1785/87 Holzhey organ at Weissenau Kirche, Ravensburg, Germany. The instrument was restored in 1989. | |
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| In this series on the Motette label, Beatrice-Maria and Gerhard Weinberger play in very large south German abbeys and churches where the famous large organs by Gabler, Riepp and Holzhay were built to exploit the rising gallant style. Over 8 total hours of music! Click above to view and order all seven volumes! | |
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| Organist Reinhard Jaud plays works of Renaissance composer Christian Erbach on the interesting, historic and extremely well-preserved 1555 Ebert organ at the Hofkirche in Innsbruck, Austria. Jaud is joined by the Choralschola of the Muri-Gries Parish Convent (Bozen, Italy) on the Magnificat der 2. Vesper an Pfingsten, which alternates between organ and Gregorian Chant. | |
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| Organist Karl-Bernhardin Kropf plays various German works on the 1688 Arp Schnitger organ at the St. Pankratius church in the village of Neuenfelde, now a part of Hamburg. Not only did Schnitger build this instrument, he heard it most Sundays, as he was a member of the church, and is now buried there. | |
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| Organist Volker Ellenberger plays Protestant Baroque Masterworks at St. Marien, Osnabrück. Hear North German works in Stylus Phantasticus played on the 1967 D.A. Flentrop organ, (built in the style of Schnitger) by the Royal Conservatory (Brussels) grad who studied under Jean Ferrard and Wolfgang Rübsam. | |
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| Organist Reinhardt Menger plays the 1737 Gottfried Silbermann organ at the village church in Ponitz. The program features mostly works by composers that Silbermann would have encountered in his lifetime. The only exception is Dandrieu, whose presence here represents a nod to the French influence on Silbermann's instruments. | |
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| Organist Reinhardt Menger plays 18th century works composed in Saxony and Thuringia on the virtually untouched 1741 Gottfried Silbermann organ at the church of Grosshartsmannsdorf in Saxony, Germany. | |
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| Normally considered a romantic, organist Klaas Jan Mulder demonstrates that he is equally at home playing Baroque music from the bench of the Schnitger organ at St. Michaëlskerk in Zwolle, Holland. Here, Mulder plays works of Johann Sebastian Bach, two of his sons, Johann Christoph Friedrich (The "Bückeburg") Bach, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and his student, Johann Ludwig Krebs. Includes text of an interview with the performer in English and Dutch. | |
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| A South German organ in Southwestern France! Jesús Martín Moro plays works of Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Johann Ludwig Krebs and Gottfried August Homilius on the 1930 Rémy Mahler at the parish church in the small Basque village of Baïgorry. Moro is accompanied on several tracks by Marc Écochard, oboe. | |
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| Masters of the Baroque Organist Norbert Petry plays works of Buxtehude, Bach, and Muffat on the modest Aubertin organ at Lycée Saint-Augustin in Bitche, France. Here, Petry demonstrates the varying colors of which a small instrument is capable. | |
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| NEW! Music from the Dresden Court Chapel: Sebastian Knebel at Coswig | |
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| Christopher Kent plays works of Johann Pachelbel and John Bull on two instruments to demonstrate two of the organ styles that Pachelbel would have encountered in his lifetime. Click above for more information! | |
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| Canadian organist Luc Beauséjour plays the Biblical Sonatas of Johann Kuhnau on harpsichord and the 1993 Hellmuth Wolff (Opus 35) organ in Presbyterian College Chapel, McGill University, Montréal, Québec. | |
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| Bob van Asperen plays Froberger fantasias, canzonas and toccatas in Bologna | |
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| An All Buxtehude Program on Taylor & Boody, Op.18 | |
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| The baroque Bavarian organs, usually of one manual, focus on the diapason chorus with only a few flute and string stops, and instead of a fully chromatic pedal keyboard up to at least middle C, the range is limited to the bass up to A below middle C at best, with a broken low octave. Norbert Düchtel demonstrates four of these organs from the 18th century, playing repertoire of the period which is seldom heard. The organs heard are: the 1637 organ in the gallery of the Basilica at Vornbach am Inn; an organ built in 1703 by an anonymous builder and located at the Nebenkirche St. Johann in Regen; a ca. 1715 organ attributed to Johann Baptist Funtsch; and a ca. 1740 organ attributed to Johann Konrad Brandenstein. GROTZ: Prelude & Postlude from Vornbacher Orgelbuch (1796); 5 Preludes from Neun Praeludien durch neun Kirchentöne KOBRICH: Fifth Partita in A EBERLIN: Toccata septima; Three Pieces for Water Organ in F GRÜNBERGER: Organ Mass No. 1 in C KONIGSPERGER: Aria in e; Aria in D; Praeambulum; Fuga 6th Tone; Aria in g; Praeambulum; Fuga 7th Tone | |
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| On a set of six CDs, Scottish organist John Kitchen plays organ works of Krebs. These Priory recordings have received high critical appreciation. The venues include the 1998 Frobenius at Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh; 1974 Hradetzky at St. Salvator’s Chapel at the University of St. Andrews; 1990 Peter Collins organ in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh; 1978 Ahrend in Reid Concert Hall at the University of Edinburgh (where Kitchen is senior lecturer and university organist); 1984 Collins in St. Peter Church, Mancroft; and 1997 Kenneth Tickell at St. Barnabas, Dulwich. | |
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| Austrian organist Elisabeth Ullmann plays keyboard music of Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770), son of the more illustrious Georg (1653-1704), on the ambitious 1731 Egedacher 3m organ in the Cistercian Abbey at Zwettl in Lower Austria | |
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| Franz Xaver Anton Murschhauser (1663-1738), a pupil of J. C. Kerll, published his Prototypon Longo-Breve Organicum in two volumes, 1703 and 1707. The opus provides cycles of 46 free toccata-like fantasies and fugues for service use. It is one of the significant anthologies of South German/Austrian origin. | |
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| Kerll, among the most admired musicians and composers during his lifetime in the waning 17th century, became the model for South German/Bohemian keyboard works, and was carefully studied by Bach. Kerll had been a student of Giovanni Valentini, Kapellmeister in the Viennese court of both Emperors Ferdinand, II and III. Dutch organist Léon Berben plays the 1714 Balthasar König organ in Niederehe. Click the headline for works. | |
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| Angela Craft Cross plays organ favorites in the north German Baroque tradition on the 1981 Rieger 4-85 at Pacific Union College. | |
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| The Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, dating from around 1300, has two organs: the 1964 Ahrend & Brunzema organ and the 1724 Vater organ, enlarged and rescaled by Casper Mueller. Charles Rus, organist for the San Francisco Symphony and at St. John’s Episcopal Church in that city, is at home with his sensitive, musical playing in the splendid acoustics of the Amsterdam church. And, intelligent recording: Sweelinck’s Echo actually echoes! Sweelinck: Echo Fantasy; Psalm 116; Unter der Linden gruene Buxtehude: Passacaglia in d; Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C Bach: Capriccio; Arioso; Fughetta; Adagissimo; Aria; Fugue; Prelude & Fugue in A | |
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| Christopher Herrick plays the 3-45 organ built in historical style in 1997 by Gronlunds at the Norrfjärden Church in Piteå, Sweden. Writes Herrick; “With the discovery of this superb copy of an organ so closely connected with one of Sweelinck’s pupils, I was able to fulfil a long-cherished dream to record Sweelinck’s keyboard music on a really suitable instrument. Students at Piteå School of Music have the opportunity and advantage . . . to learn older repertoire with the right sounds in their ears . . . and the issue of authentic fingering; as well as the challenge posed by the sub-semitones and the short octave in the bass.” Hyperion 2-CD set | |
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| The 1611 organ in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Niederndodeleben, Germany, was built by Heinrich Compenius, Jr. in 1611. It was mostly destroyed in the Thirty Years’ War. Retaining what he could, Matthias Hartmann, an apprentice of Schnitger’s, built a new instrument in 1753. Jörg Dutschke recently restored it to its 1753 condition and it is played here by Barry Jordan, organist at the cathedral in nearby Magdeburg. | |
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| A Year of Grace Music for the liturgical year is played by Craig Cramer on the organ built in 1992 in historical style by Paul Fritts at Grace Lutheran Church, Tacoma, Washington, with two manuals and 20 ranks of pipes. | |
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| William Porter demonstrates the stops and plays the phenomenal new “Schnitger” built by organbuilders, musicologists, and scientists associated with the University of Göteborg Art Organ Center in a nearby church. 2-CD set | |
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| Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693), born in Saxony of a Protestant organist, converted to Catholicism and worked for many years in Vienna. The transmission of Kerll’s music is fragmentary — at least 11 operas and many other works are lost. Several motets, masses and keyboard works survive. This recording concerns Kerll’s organ works, nearly all of which show a strong Italian influence. With consummate musicality, Matthias Krampe plays the organ from 1689 in the church of St. Veit am Vogau (Steiermark, Austria), restored in 2002 by Kuhn. Kerll may have played this organ when it was in Mariazell. | |
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| One of the world's unique organ situations exits at the resonant Ögryte New Church (built ca. 1880) in Göteborg, Sweden: the 3m Henry Willis organ built for St. Stephen's, Hampstead, is intact and relocated to a large transept gallery of the Ögryte Church in 1998; in the rear gallery is an astonishingly successful copy of the 3m organ completed in 1692 by Arp Schnitger for the Jacobi Church in Hamburg, the creation of a team of organbuilders, scientists, musicologists, and craftsmen of the Göteborg Organ Art Center (Go-Art) at Göteborg University. Erland Hildén, organist of the Örgryte Church, demonstrates both organs. On the Willis Organ: COCKER: Tuba Tune BRIDGE: Adagio in E HOLLINS: Song of Sunshine ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance No. 1 in D BACH: Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in b-minor LEFÉBURE-WELY: Sortie in E-flat On the 1999 "Schnitger" Organ: BACH: Wir glauben all' an einen Gott; Prelude in C SWEELINCK: Mein Junges Leben hat ein End' TUNDER: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ ANON. SPANISH: Canción para la Corneta con el Eco ERLAND HILDÉN: Organ Mass on BACH | |
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| Davidsson Plays the New “Schnitger” of more than 80 ranks at the Örgryte Church in Göteborg, Sweden, as built by a team of scientists, organbuilders, musicologists with the intent of being as close to a “new” Arp Schnitger organ as possible. The results are gaining great admiration worldwide. Hans Davidsson plays with interesting insight. For repertoire, click on ikon. | |
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| So fine was the music at the 1607 dedication service of St. Gertrude’s Chapel in Hamburg, Germany, that the pastor of a nearby church described it in thorough detail such that all of the works were identified and deployment of musicians within the octagonal building was described. The service was recreated four centuries later. Ulricke Heider conducts the Göteborg Baroque Arts Ensemble, Baroque Soloists & Corona Artis with singers, soloists, and period instruments at Örgryte Church, Göteborg, with the 82-rank North German Baroque organ played by Magnus Kjellson. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| On the recently restored 1714 Balthasar König organ in Niederehe, Serge Schoonbroodt plays the complete organ works of Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656-1746). J. S. Bach knew Ariadne Musica, composed in 1702, quoting one theme from it in the Well-Tempered Clavier, perhaps in tribute to Fischer’s 20 preludes and fugues composed in 19 of the 24 chromatic keys to demonstrate an equal-beating temperament. Blumen-Strauss (Floral Bouquet) is an anthology of 8 suites of 8 pieces in each that almost certainly were composed for use in church services, as are 5 Ricercars based on well-known hymns. Ariadne Musica (20 Preludes & Fugues) Blumen-Strauss (8 Suites of 8 pieces each) Ricercars: Ave Maria klare Der tag der ist so freüdenreich Da Jesus an dem Creütze stund Crist ist erstanden Komm Heiliger Geist | |
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| A bouquet of Baroque flowers from Italy and Germany is played by Roland Muhr on the historic Bavarian organ in the former Cistercian monastery in Fürstenfeld near Munich. Built by Johann Fux, the 27-stop organ was finished in 1736 and is now restored. FRESCOBALDI: from Fiori Musicali — Toccata avanti la Messa della Madonna; Kyrie; Canzona dopo l’Epistola; Ricercare dopo il Credo; Toccata avanti il Ricercare; Ricercare; Toccata per l’Elevatione J. C. F. FISCHER: from Musikalischer Blumenstrauss — Prelude 1 (Doric); Prelude 8 (Hypomixolydian) JOHANNES SPETH: from Musikalische Blumen-Felder — Ten Toccatas | |
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| Duke University organist Robert Parkins plays the 21-rank Italian-style John Brombaugh organ (1997) in meantone tuning with a program of Iberian and South German works. CABÉZON: Tiento III; Magnificat de 4° tono CORREA DE ARAUXO: Tiento de medio registro de tiple (10° tono); Tiento de medio registro de baxón (1° tono); Tiento de 4° tono (a modo de canción); Obra de 1° tom sobre a Salve [regina] CONCEIÇÃO: Tento de meio registo alto de 2° tom BRUNA: Tiento de primer tono de mano derecha y en medio a dos tiples CABANILLES: Tinto de falsas SCHERER: Toccata prima FROBERGER: Canzona II; Capriccio VIII KERLL: Capriccio sopra il Cucu; Passacaglia Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| The Historic Stumm Organ and Music of Its Time: Carsten Lenz plays a program of little-known music from the 18th century on the historic 1774/79 organ of one manual built by Philip and Franz Stumm in Gensingen, Germany. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| Christoph Krummacher plays unusual repertoire on the 1990 organ built by Patrick Collon of Brussels at St. Michael am Wasserturm in Essen. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| Bach Encounters Buxtehude In the autumn of 1705, Bach traveled to Lübeck to learn what he could from the famous organist Buxtehude. Accounts suggest that Bach’s organ playing changed dramatically. This explores the often intangible links between these two composers, bringing together some of their most popular works for the organ. Kimberly Marshall plays the 1992 Fritts organ at Arizona State University. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| Elizabeth Harrison plays works by the Dutch organ composer J. P. Sweelinck (1562-1621) and several German composers who studied with him, then spread his influence in Germany. She plays the famous 4-72 C. B. Fisk organ at Stanford University. Click headline for repertoire by Sweelinck, Praetorius, Scheidemann, Scheidt, and Schildt. | |
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| Two extraordinary organists — Robert Bates and David Yearsley — playing two extraordinary organs — C. B. Fisk Opus 85 (1984) and Paul Fritts & Co. (1995) — may seem an over-abundance of riches. This new recording, which includes compositions by six masters of the North German School, recreates this sound and ambience, using two mean-tone organs in Stanford University’s Memorial Church. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| Harald Vogel plays and improvises upon the 1999 Paul Fritts organ at the Church of the Ascension in Seattle. The organ, built in the style of Arp Schnitger, is ideal for the style of playing and repertoire that has made Prof. Vogel a much sought-after teacher. Click picture for repertoire by Kerll, CPE Bach, Packelbel, Buxtehude, Bohm, etc. | |
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| Roger Sherman, owner of the Loft and Gothic CD labels and host of a weekly radio program, played this recital at Christ Church Parish, Tacoma, Washington, on the 1980 Brombaugh Op. 22 in February 1996. The program features works by composers known to Bach, contrasting with works of the master himself. The exotic tonal colors of the Brombaugh are ideal for this repertoire by Brunckhorst, Praetorius, Buxtehude, C. P. E. Bach, Pachelbel, and J. S. Bach. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| The very important 3-61 organ built ca. 1730 by Johann Patroclus Möller for the monastery in Dahlheim, Germany, exists with 80% of its pipes and six original spring-action windchests intact at the state church in Borgentreich, where it was moved in 1803. the charming and tuneful properties of many stops and the impressive plenum are played with convincing musicality by Jörg Kraemer. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| The Dresden organbuilder Kristian Wegscheider is likely to have a large part of the project of making a new Silbermann for the Frauenkirche such as this “new” Silbermann of 20 registers at the church in Loschwitz. | |
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| Works of Sweelinck are played by Belgian organist Serge Schoonbroodt on the restored renaissance organ at the church of Saint-Jacques in Liège. The organ and its splendid case, dating from 1600 and whose builder is unknown, was finally restored in 1998. Click for repertoire. | |
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| The restored, 3m Egedacher Organ of 35 stops in the magnificent baroque abbey of Zwettl, Austria, is played by Elisabeth Ullmann in a compelling program of 17th and early 18th century music. | |
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| German-born Egbert Ennulat, professor of music at the University of Georgia, plays works of period composers on the Schnitger in Cappel. The organ was built in 1680 for a large church in Hamburg and moved to Cappel in 1816. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| Now available as a boxed, complete set! Harald Vogel plays historic North German organs, most of them known to Buxtehude, in this definitive series that has been difficult to obtain in the past year or so. Vogel Plays Buxtehude: 7 Volumes in a boxed set | |
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| Hasse (1699-1783), born to a North German family of organists, wrote approximately 80 operas, 20 oratarios, and numerous other compositions. Much influenced by several years in Italy, he settled in Dresden and enjoyed fame in his time. Hungarian organist János Sebestyén plays the six concertos recorded here. | |
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| Volumes 1-3 Now Available! All of the organ works of Heinrich Scheidemann are played on historic organs. On three, 2-CD sets, Cleveland Johnson and Claudia Heberlein play the 1624 Scherer 3-55 at Tangermünde; the 1675 Berendt Huß/Arp Schnitger 3-60 at Stade; and the 1981 Fisk op. 82 at Wellesley (Mass.). Click to see contents of the three volumes and to order Scheidemann Organ Works, Vol. 1 Scheidemann Organ Works, Vol. 2 Scheidemann Organ Works, Vol. 3 | |
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| Volumes 1 through 10 now available. Volume 10 is recorded on the restored 1746 Hildebrandt organ at Naumburg, the first "non-Bach" CD on the restored organ. Volume 5 is recorded on the Silbermann at Frankenstein, restored in 1998 and now at its original, low "Dresdner Kammerton" pitch A=415. Volume 6 presents the beautiful Silbermann at St. Petri Church, Freiberg. Volumes 7 & 8 are recorded at the Castle Church in Altenburg on the gorgeous 1739 Trost, both with other instrumentalists, too. OHS imports Felix Friedrich's superlative performancess on these magnificent organs known to Krebs and Bach. | |
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| Kristian Olesen plays the Organ of Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark The Roskilde Cathedral Organ was built in 1554 by Herman Raphaelis and was restored by Marcussen in 1990 to replicate its first major rebuild (1654). Cathedral organist Kristian Olesen plays with great charm on this fine CD. | |
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| Konstantin Reymaier plays the Arp Schnitger Organ of St. Jacobi, Hamburg St. Jacobi's Schnitger organ may represent the most important organ restoration in history. The famed Jürgen Ahrend meticulously studied the jumble of material and information resulting from earlier rebuildings and World War II bombs, then rewove it in 1993 as Arp Schnitger surely must have built this magnificent and large instrument in 1692. Konstantin Reymaier plays works which must have been known to this organ when the works were recently composed! | |
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| Now Complete! 11 CDs are released to complete Joseph Payne's Pachelbel series featuring historic organs by Malleck, Silbermann, Trost, König, Zuberbier, and a 1995 Noack, 1979 & '83 Metzlers, and a 1941 Marcussen/Andersen. Stellar reviews of this series, orginally announced to have only 10 CDs and now topping out at 11. | |
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| Not Previously Recorded David Yearsley plays the 1692 Schnitger in Norden, Germany, performing previously unrecorded 17th-century masterpieces. | |
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| at Holy Cross Chapel, Worcester, Massachusetts, home of the Taylor & Boody magnum opus, was recorded during a live performance on February 16, 2002. In a program that includes Lubeck, Scheidt, Buxtehude, and Sweelinck, works of J. S. Bach complete the concert: Prelude & Fugue in E-flat BWV 552 and Nun komm, der Heiden heiland BWV 659. Click for details | |
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| Harald Vogel observed in a 1999 issue of the Westfield Newsletter that this organ is "the ideal Bach organ." OHS imports this first CD of the organ since restoration was completed in 1998. Organist Felix Freidrich and trumpeter Mathias Schmutzler play wonderfully. | |
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| BUXTEHUDE: Passacaglia in d BuxWV 161 FRANCAIX: Suite Carmélite LEIDEL: Toccata delectatione, op. 5 MENDELSSOHN: Sonata IV in B, Op. 65, No. 4 KUCHAR: Fantasie in d BACH: Sonata No. 1 in E-flat BWV 525; Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 WALTHER: Concerto of Sign. Meck ANON. POLISH: Przygrywka choralowa — Colenda The Sun Organ is named for the remarkable case built by Johann Conrad Büchau ca. 1700 for the large Church of St. Peter and Paul in the German town of Görlitz on the Nei_e River at the border with Poland. Büchau dispersed 17 “suns” symmetrically over the front of the case, arranging pipes of the Pedal Mixture XII as the spokes of a wheel in each “sun” and capping the center of each with a golden disc. Within the case was a 3m organ of 57 stops completed after six years of effort, in 1703, by the famed Eugenio Casparini who was 74 years old when he started the project in 1697. It became the most famous organ in Silesia, but Andreas Silbermann wrote after a visit, “I would be much more fond of it if I had not played and heard it myself . . .” It was entirely replaced in 1928 by an electropneumatic organ which no longer played by 1978 and was removed from the historic case, wherein the famous “Sun Mixture” remained along with 29 pipes of a wooden Onda Maris. Mathis built a brand new organ in the case in 1997, with 64 stops on three manuals including 2 stops at 32’ pitch as well as recreations of stops and devices in the original Sun organ, including several bird calls and drums. The musical Reinhard Selliger plays. | |
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| Weckmann Complete Hans Davidsson plays with great style on the famous Arp Schnitger organ at Norden in the Ludgerikirche. Exhaustive notes in the 94-page booklet. 2-CD set | |
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| Heinrich Hamm plays a program of works by south German composers of the time of the organ’s creation, including Speth, Muffat, Nauss, Maichelbeck, Marpurg, Oldy, Knecht, and P. E. Bach. | |
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| Choose from three volumes of Harald Vogel playing works of J. S. Bach and of his contemporaries, predecessors, and successors on significant instruments from the time of Bach and new organs built in the styles of Bach’s era. Booklet notes are thorough and are in English and other languages. Registrations and stoplists are included. | |
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| John Kitchen plays the Ahrend Organ of the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh The 1978 organ is in the style of early 18th-century instruments. John Kitchen, who plays a program of early German music, is Senior Lecturer and University Organist. | |
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| Hassler: Variations on La Monica; Three Italian Madrigals; Two German Songs. Scheidt: Fantasia super lo son ferito; Cantio gallica Est-cd Mars? Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) of Nuremberg is known there as "the greatest German musician of his time," he having studied music in Italy. His monumbental 31 variations on this very popular tune plays for 39 minutes, thus there is no time on the CD for his other 110 works for organ! But, the CD treats us to five of his charming vocal works sung by five excellent musicians as well as the Scheidt organ works. Georges Guillard plays the historic 1745 Adrien Carpentier organ at the L'eglise d'Auxi-le-Chateau, where the local land baron opposed the purchase of an organ, writing that its twelve proponents were, a "butcher not knowing how to write," a "bird-brained carpenter," etc. | |
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| Another hit of the Seattle AGO National Convention, July, 2000, was this beautifully finished organ built by Martin Pasi of Roy, Washington, recorded here by Craig Cramer in a programs of Bach, Krebs, Brahms, and Topfer | |
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| The 1624 Scherer Organ at St. Stephan’s in Tangermünde in north Germany was restored in 1994 by Alexander Schuke of Potsdam. With one-half of the original pipes remaining, including samples from all but four original stops, it is said to be the only large organ of the early Baroque to be returned to its original state. Thus, it joins the recently restored Schnitgers in Hamburg and Uithuizen as among the more important restorations of Baroque Europe. Christoph Lehmann plays very well a program of appropriate works for this early baroque organ. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| The influential teacher and organ historian plays the Flentrop organ in Duke Chapel. These recordings were first issued on LP when the 1976 Flentrop magnum opus was newly installed. Click picture for wide-ranging repertoire including much by Bach | |
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| Hans Davidsson plays Sweelinck, Weckman, Kerll, Forberger, and Böhm on the oldest playing church organ in Sweden. The organ reflects the interchange between Danish and Swedish organbuilding traditions in the western part of Sweden. It was built in 1604 in another church, rebuilt in 1715 and in 1787, erected in the current location in 1804, and restored in 1952. In 2000, it was restored to the 1715 state of 9 stops. Click headline for repertoire. (For more information about the Morlanda Organ, see also: GOArt Organ Documantaion Reports No. 1: The Old Organ in the Morlanda Church, Sweden, GOArt-4, $39.) | |
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| Modeled on the work of Saxon builder Zacharias Hildebrandt, the 1995 Noack Organ in Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas has 2 manuals, 30 stops and 35 ranks housed in an elegant case placed at floor level in the church. | |
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| This two-cd set features Swiss organist Albert Bolliger playing on the only two preserved organs built by Karl Joseph Riepp. Both are choir organs at the Abbey in Ottobeuren. | |
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| Albert Bolliger plays works of Bruhns, Ewaldt Hintz, Johan Lorentz, Weckmann, Martin Radeck, Johann Rudolf Radeck, Christian Geist, Franz Tunder and Buxtehude at the Cathedral Church in Roskilde, Denmark. | |
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| Albert Bolliger plays the Schnitger restored by Ahrend in 1993. Music for Advent and Christmas by Buxtehude, Bruhns, Praetorius, Scheidemann, Weeckmann, Böhm, Lübeck & more. | |
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| Swiss organist Albert Bolliger plays on the Arp Schnitger organ at the Church of St. Ludgeri in Norden, Germany. Features music for Epiphany, the Passion, and Easter from North German composers such as Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Telemann, and others. | |
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| Renowned organist Harald Vogel plays historic North German organs, most of them known to Buxtehude, in this definitive series now offered as a boxed set. | |
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