Martin Souter - Fantasias & Variations - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Schoenberg's 'Variations on a Recitative' were first published in 1943 in an edition which gave very detailed performance instructions based on the 1928 Skinner Organ in Princeton University Chapel. A restoration of this organ has made it possible to reconstruct the intentions of this edition, and this recording brings the forensic practices of early music to the 1940's. in addition, there are two amazing pieces by Max Reger. The 'benedictus' provides a perfect foil to Schoenberg's monumental work and it is followed by Reger's own monumental piece, the 'Introduction, Variations & Fugue'. Album Tracks 1. Recitative 2. Variations 3. Fugue 4. Benedictus, Op. 59, No. 9 5. Introduction 6. Theme and Variations 7. Fugue

Musical pictures of nature form the inspiration for this relaxing album of piano and orchestral masterworks by Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven and others. Album Tracks 1. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 I. Morning Mood 2. Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55 IV. Solveig's Song 3. Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Excerpts) 4. Carnival of the Animals XIII. Le Cygne (The Swan) (Arr. for Cello and Piano) 5. Kinderszenen (Scenes of Childhood), Op. 15 No. 7. Traumerei (Dreaming) 6. 3 Gymnopedies No. 1. Lent Et Douloureux 7. Prelude a L'apres-Midi D'un Faune 8. Preludes, Book 1 No. 4. Les Sons Et Les Parfums Tournent Dans L'air Du Soir 9. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, InchMoonlightInch I. Adagio Sostenuto 10. Nocturne No. 2 in E Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 11. Nocturne No. 15 in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1 12. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 II. Larghetto

Johann Sebastian Bach, possibly the greatest composer to ever live, composed a huge amount of organ music, much of which has remained some of the best-known pieces of all time. Most of the music was written when Bach was a young man and it retains a dynamism and joy that has never been equaled. This recording includes a selection of toccatas, fantasias, preludes and fugues played on a stunning original instrument from 1732. Album Tracks 1. Toccata 2. Fugue 3. Toccata 4. Adagio 5. Fugue 6. Fantasia 7. Fugue 8. Prelude 9. Fugue 10. Prelude 11. Fugue 12. Passacaglia and Fugue