Various Artists - Die Grobten Chorwerke / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Singing is a basic form of human expression whether of worship, sorrow or joy and the sound of a choir in full cry is a spine-tingling experience.

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.

Various Artists - Alpentoene - Ein Querschnitt D / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2011