Sverker Jullander - Karg-Elert Complete Organ Transcriptions - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Marchetti / Theodossiou / Orchestra Filarmonica - Ruy Blas [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/10/2015

A central figure in Danish musical life, Otto Malling's (1848-1915) substantial output of organ music was cast in the form of eleven suites of 'mood pictures' inspired by the Bible. Two of the three suites on this CD have never been recorded before. Organist Sverker Jullander is Professor of Musical Performance at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. The 1909 organ of the Vasa Church, Gothenburg (rebuilt, 1943, 2002) is ideally suited to north European late-Romantic music.

Young and talented Elisa Tomellini loves challenges and is used to climbing high mountain peaks. Both physical as well as musical. No wonder then that she is the first woman to perform the first version of the Etudes aprés Paganini (S.140) that Robert Schumann reviewed as Inchthe most difficult work ever written for the piano, as is the original for the violin. Certainly only a few pianists will be able to tackle them, perhaps no more than four of five in the world.Inch Dynamic is proud to feature one of them. As pianists almost always play the simplified version re-written by Liszt himself in 1852, the album Paganini Études and other virtuoso piano works contains the first 1838 version that Liszt wrote inspired by the Caprices, successfully achieving on the piano an extreme virtuosity that was unprecedented in that instrument's literature. Born in Genoa, Italy, Elisa Tomellini has been studying piano since the age of five. She was admitted to the prestigious Music Academy 'Incontri Col Maestro' in Imola at the age of sixteen. In 1997 she gained a diploma at the Conservatory G. Verdi in Milan. She has won several pries at international competitions such as the 'Viotti Valsesia,' the 'Concorso di Cantu' and the 'Concorso Citta di Pavia.'