Various Artists - Baltic Organ Music / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Friedrich Ladegast was one of the most important organ builders during the 2nd half of the 19th century. Especially with his first large organ at Merseburg Cathedral, he set the benchmark for organ building and at the same time influenced the further development of organ music Franz Liszt and his InchadlatusInch Alexander Winterberger immediately recognized the new symphonic options of the organ sound and therefore with their new works established a basis for using the organ in a new symphonic manner. This development saw it's peak half a century later in Max Reger's monumental organ works and found a parallel development in France where the French symphonic organ concept was based on the organs by Aristide Cavaille-Coll. Friedrich Ladegast was born in 1818 in Hochhermsdorf, therefore the musical world has just celebrated his 200th birthday. This marks the occasion for the of two albums on the Querstand tag which contain the programs of the first concerts played at two of the greatest Ladegast Organs the above-mentioned in Merseburg Cathedral and the organ at Schwerin Cathedral. Album Tracks 1. Fantasia und Fuge g-Moll Op. 16 2. Gottvertrauen (Geistliche Lieder) für Alt und Orgel 3. Dem dreieinigen Gott (Geistliche Lieder) für Alt und Orgel 4. Prelude and Fugue cis-Moll BWV 849~Fuge 5. Matthäuspassion BWV 244 in einer Fassung für Alt, Violine und Orgel~Erbarme dich 6. Prophet von Giacomo Meyerbeer S. 259~Fantasie 7. Prophet von Giacomo Meyerbeer S. 259~Fuge über den Choral InchAd nos, ad salutarem undamInch 8. Oratorium InchEliasInch Op. 70 MWVA 25~Arie 9. 9 Fantasie für die Orgel InchEin feste Burg ist unser GottInch Op. 3 1. Fantasie c-Moll Op. 35 für Orgel zu vier Händen 2. Vergiss mein nicht BWV 504 für Bass und Orgel 3. Sonate E-Dur BWV 1016 für Viioline und Orgel~Adagio 4. Praeludium und Fuge a-Moll BWV 543 für Orgel~Praeludium

Album Tracks 1. Variations on InchAmerica,Inch for Organ, S. 140 (K. 3D5) 2. InchAdeste FidelesInch in An Organ Prelude, for Organ, S. 131 (K. 3D19) 3. Preamble for a Solemn Occasion, for Speaker & Orchestra (Also Arr. for 4. Episode, for Organ 5. Principle Sound, for Organ 6. No. 1, InchAlpha C.M.Inch 7. No. 2, InchMajesty C.M.Inch 8. No. 3, InchHarmony in C.M.Inch 9. No. 4, InchCreation L.M.Inch 10. No. 5, InchHallowell S.M.Inch 11. No. 6, InchAdvent C.M.Inch 12. No. 7, InchTurner C.M.Inch 13. No. 8, InchSunday C.M.Inch 14. No. 9, InchST. John's C.M.Inch 15. No. 10, InchInvitation L.M.Inch 16. No. 11, InchTransmigrationInch 17. No. 12, InchChester L.M.Inch 18. No. 13, InchThe Lilly P.M.Inch

This recording is a modern portrait of the music that Swedish clavier-players might have carried to the organ in the latter half of the 1700s. Since hardly any Swedish music of the time was written exclusively for the organ, we must rely on historical sources for a sense of the possibilities. The selection offered here is largely a work of reconstruction, and except for the short movement by Roman, none of this repertoire has been recorded before, at least in this form for organ. Jonas Lundblad is an organist and musicologist. He studied church music in Malmö, Lübeck and Piteå, specializing in organ interpretation. A prolific freelance career performing both as an organ soloist and with choirs and orchestras has taken him to countries across Europe. When choosing repertoire, he looks mainly to the Romantic era and to new music, and enjoys delving into the sources to discover unknown or forgotten works. While a student for Hans-Ola Ericsson, he performed the complete works of Olivier Messiaen. Since then, the music and mental landscape of Messiaen have remained one his central influences. Album Tracks 1. Ur Drottningholmsmusiken~I. Allegro con spirito 2. Konsert för cembalo i D-dur, Op. 3 2~I. Allegro 3. Konsert för cembalo i D-dur, Op. 3 2~II. Andante 4. Konsert för cembalo i D-dur, Op. 3 2~III. Allegro 5. Ur S*x fugor för orgel eller cembalo~Nr. 1 C-dur 6. Ur S*x fugor för orgel eller cembalo~Nr. 2 D-dur 7. Ur S*x fugor för orgel eller cembalo~Nr. 3 Ess-dur 8. Ur S*x fugor för orgel eller cembalo~Nr. 4 G-dur 9. Konsert för cembalo i G-dur~I. Allegro 10. Konsert för cembalo i G-dur~II. Andantino 11. Konsert för cembalo i G-dur~III. Allegro 12. Sonat i D-dur för Glasharmonika Adagio - Allegro 13. Sonat i a-moll för Glasharmonika Adagio - Moderato 14. Fem koralpreludier för orgel~I. Andante D-dur 15. Fem koralpreludier för orgel~II. M