Irenee Peyrot - Works for Organ - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Carl Loewe and the organ - this combination may astonish many music lovers today since Loewe is known almost exclusively as the master of the ballad. For several decades now, however, musicians and musicologists have endeavored in a variety of ways to examine the breadth of Loewe's work and influence. Organ, organ playing, and organ music have not left many visible and audible traces in his oeuvre although he already started to play the organ in his childhood and was recognized as an excellent organist in his long-standing tenure as Music Director of the town Stettin and Cantor and Organist at St. Jacob's Church there. The present recording - initiated by the International Carl Loewe Society - includes, in addition to several original organ works, arrangements of piano music, ballads, and choral movements from oratorios. The organ in the town church St. Petri in Löbejün, Loewe's native town, was built in 1901 by the renowned organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann from Zörbig (Opus 228). It stands on the west gallery and is designed as a pneumatic organ with 22 stops on two manuals and a pedal. It is the successor of the organ built by David Beck in 1591, where Carl Loewe received his first organ lessons from his father. The Rühlmann Organ with it's warm, fundamental sound and it's orientation towards the late romantic sound ideal would have been a feast for the ears of the romantic Carl Loewe. The organist on the at hand is Irénée Peyrot, Cantor and Organist at the Market Church in Halle, not far away from Löbejün. He also was responsible for the organ arrangements of the other Loewe works. Album Tracks 1. Nun Danket Alle Gott 2. Bethesda 3. Die Uhr 4. Tom Der Reimer 5. Herzliebster Jesu, Was Has Du Verbrochen 6. Herzlich Thut Mich Verlangen 7. Larghetto E-Moll 8. Gang Nach Emmaus 9. Die Mutter An Der Wiege 10. Eins Ist Noth 11. Des Erkennen 12.

Album Tracks 1. San Mauricio 2. A la Virgen de Guadelupe 3. Nostalgía 4. Interludio 5. Preludio Vasco 6. Elegía 7. Retablo Andaluz 8. Nuestra Señora Del Buen Viaje 9. San Miguel Arcángel 10. Ascendit Deus in Jubilatione 11. Nuestra Señora Del Rocío 12. Pentecostes 13. La Divina Pastora 14. Berceuse 15. Invocación 16. Nocturno 17. Puesta Del Sol 18. Tres Saelas 19. A la Virgen de la Palma 20. Al Cristo de la Expiración 21. A la Virgen de la Soledad

Album Tracks 1. Allegro Maestoso 2. Ofrenda Al Beato Poi X 3. Marcha Religiosa 4. Pastoral en Forma de Canon 5. Pastorela 6. Responso 7. Tu Gloria Jerusalem - Meditación 8. Final