Axel Ruoff
Geistliche Chor- und Orgelwerke
Axel Ruoff
Geistliche Chor- und Orgelwerke
- Instrumentation Audio Media
- Composer Axel Ruoff
- Edition CD
- Publisher Strube Verlag
- Order no. STRUBE3255-CD
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Description:
Let it be said in advance: this CD is worth listening to. It makes you sit up and take notice for several reasons. Young singers who have come together to form Ensemble 98 dedicate themselves with palpable passion under the direction of their conductor Alexander Burda to two large a cappella choral works by contemporary composer Axel Ruoff, who holds a professorship at the State Academy of Music in Stuttgart. The first choral work "Menschen gehen zu Gott" (poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer) for alto and 4-st. The gospel motet "Exorcism" based on Matthew 8:28-34 sensitively explores every nuance of the dramatic text about the healing of a possessed man. The choir masters both works with compelling expression. Ruoff develops an organ language that is suggestive in its very own way in his "Seven Biblical Scenes" (2004) for organ. He created short, imaginative meditations on 7 images in the EG, which can be performed individually or as a cycle: Gethsemane - Dance of Miriam - The Protecting Angel - The Dove Picks the Olive Branch - Christ at Emmaus - Canticle in Paradise - The Weary One. Andreas Gräsle has recorded this cycle, as well as the brilliant organ toccata "Shirufa", in a virtuoso, confident and gripping manner. A highly recommendable CD off the beaten track and a pleasing alternative answer to the question: "Church music, quo vadis?" (Württ. Blätter, 3/2011)