Transcriptions in Cologne, 188 Ranks!

Winfried Bönig, appointed Cologne Cathedral organist in 2001, plays the two cathedral organs together from the new console “towards using the greatest possible number of stop combinations when both organs are played simultaneously . . . [the recording is] dedicated in its entirety to the Romantic symphonic conception.” The Klais firm of Bonn built a new “swallow’s nest” tracker organ of 71 ranks in the nave in 1998, and completed in 2002 the rebuilding and enlargement to 117 ranks the electropneumatic Choir organ which the firm had originally built 1948-56, providing a new console from which both others may be played electrically. Hybrid SACD Compatible with conventional CD players and SACD surround sound.

BRUCKNER: Scherzo from Symphony No. 0 in d; Adagio from String Quintette in F; Scherzo from Symphony No. 2 in c
LISZT: Les Préludes; St. Francis of Assisi’s Sermon to the Birds; St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waters
STRAUSS: Solemn Entry of the Knights of the Order of St. John

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