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Works for Organ & Orchestra [6 CD's]
Jean Langlais (1907-1991)Concerto No 3 for Organ, String Orchestra & TimpaniRobert Maximilian Helmschrott (b. 1938)Concerto 'Lamento' for Organ, String Orchestra and PercussionFrancis Poulenc (1899-1963)Concerto in g minor for Organ, String Orchestra & TimpaniFranz Hauk, organ - Anno Kesting, timpani, percussionGeorgian Chamber Orchestra, Markus PoschnerLabel: Guild GMCD 7240Download 1fichier uptobox Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) Allegro, Marche and other works Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897) Fantaisie Dialoguée, Opus 35 Francois-Joseph Fétis (1784-1871) Fantaisie Symphonique Franz Hauk, organ Ingolstadt Philharmonic, Olaf Koch Label: Guild GMCD 7215 Download 1fichier uptobox Triumphal Music for Organ & OrchestraWorks of Saint-Saëns, Guilmant,Gounod and DuboisFranz Hauk, organIngolstadt Philharmonic, Alfredo IbarraLabel: Guild GMCD 7187Download 1fichier uptobox Joseph-Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) Concerto No 2 for Organ & Orchestra, Opus 177 Marco Enrico Bossi (1861-1925) Concerto for Organ & Orchestra, Opus 100 Ave Maria, Opus 104 and Chant du soir, Opus 92 Martin Haselböck - organ Philharmonic Orchestra Heidelberg, Thomas Kalb Label: NCA MA 96 […]
2016-02-12 09:00:34
Going Gothic
[…] His former organ pupil, the celebrated Marcel Dupré, played the organ for the service and performed the first movement of the Symphonie gothique as Widor’s coffin was carried to the crypt at the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. While the music’s massive expansiveness reflects the Gothic spaces it was filling, I’d opt for the second movement for my final journey—the sublime Andante sostenuto . Any organists reading this will be anticipating a mention of Boëllmann’s Suite Gothique for organ, maybe a clip from the famous Toccata finale (8.551271 ). I won’t disappoint, but maybe I’ll surprise with an unusual version of the movement. Improbably, it’s an arrangement for saxophone and organ, with the saxophone chattering away with rapid-fire finger work, but with the organ finally asserting itself in a size-trumps-everything conclusion to the piece . We move from the original Gothic solemnity of religious buildings to one of […]
2015-09-25 16:08:00
Jean-Philippe Rameau In 1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau was born in Dijon, France. Known primarily for his operatic works, he also was considered the leading French composer of his day for the harpischord, alongside François Couperin. 1 In 1849 Johann Strauss, Sr. died at age 45, in Vienna. In 1862 Léon Boëllmann was born in Ensisheim, Alsace (France). In 1870 Bedřich Smetana’s opera “The Bartered Bride” (the 4th version) was premiered in Prague at the Provisional Theater. In 1896 Roberto Gerhard was born in Valls (near Tarragona, Spain). Dimitri Shostakovich In 1906 Dimitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg (Julian date: Sept. 12). A poly-stylist, he developed a hybrid voice, combining a variety of different musical techniques into his music. His music is characterized by sharp contrasts, elements of the grotesque, and ambivalent tonality; he was also heavily influenced by the neo-classical style pioneered by Igor Stravinsky, and […]
2015-09-25 09:00:26
25/9
2015 marks milestone anniversaries for a number of significant classical composers, including Sibelius, Bartók, Glazunov, Franck and Arvo Pärt. Today, however, we consider a trio of other composers who were born on today’s date: 25 September. If you’re an organist, the name of the first composer will be well-known to you, even if only by dint of one particular work he wrote for that instrument: the title is Suite gothique; the composer, Leon Boëllmann (1862–1897). It’s a couple of the Frenchman’s chamber works, however, that interest me today: the Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 10 and the Piano Trio in G major, Op. 19 (8.223524 ). You’ll note the low opus numbers, occasioned by Boëllmann’s premature death at the age of 35, cutting short what might have been a distinguished career. Focusing on these two works gives context to the whole indigenous chamber music scene in France during much of […]
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