Jan Lehtola - Organ Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Oskar Merikanto (1868-1924) made an enormous contribution to music-making in Finland, and to organ music in particular, as teacher, virtuoso performer and authority on performance practice, reforming the approach to the organ in both church and concert-hall. It was thought that all of his organ music was known and recorded, but recent discoveries have added a number of previously unknown works to his catalogue a striking concert fantasia, an early funeral march, some pedal studies, a vast series of chorale preludes - some of them beautifully crafted miniatures, others only aphoristic ideas - and an organ transcription of a piano piece by Mendelssohn. Album Tracks 1. Fantasia Chromatica, Om038 (1917?) 2. Trauermarsch, Om279 (1888) 3. Konzert-Etüden, Om119 (1908) 4. 100 Chorale Preludes Selection of 45 5. Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op. 35 No. 1 (1837)