Organ Improvisation

Easy concertante organ pieces The second volume of "Enjoy the Organ" also offers concertante organ music from the 18th and 19th centuries, which can also be performed on smaller instruments and leads...

'Mors et vita' - death and life. This antithesis opens a stanza of the ancient 11th-century Easter sequence Victimae paschali laudes, where life and death are locked in mutual struggle. Zsigmond Szath...

A verse of the old Easter sequence "Victimae paschali laudes" from the 11th century begins with the contrast "Mors et vita": Death and life wrestle with each other. In his 12-minute work commissioned...

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) brought symphonic French organ music to its stylistic climax. Besides being a productive composer, he also gained a reputation as a brilliant improviser at his place of employ...

Karl Straube wrote to Rheinberger about his penultimate Organ Sonata, published in 1899: 'Your 19th Sonata made a tremendous impression on my audience. The first ballade-like movement in particular wa...

Schmitts Sammelband 'L'art de préluder sur l'Orgue', den er um 1861 veröffentlicht und dem Orgelbauer Aristide Cavaillé-Coll gewidmet hat, beinhaltet einhundert zumeist kürzere Stücke, die sowohl der...

Die Idee, symphonische Sätze Bruckners für Orgel zu übertragen, ist nicht so ungewöhnlich, wie es auf den ersten Blic erscheinen mag. Bruckner verwendete in seinen eigenen Orgelimprovisationen auch Th...

The launch disc of the Edition Peters Sounds label features pianist Daniel Grimwood's interpretation of Gabriel Fauré's Nocturnes. Daniel Grimwood is one of the most original musicians of his generati...

Instruments: Organ, ManualsNow here's a new idea: instead of asking our composers to work their improvisatory magic on hymn tunes we allocated the main theme of some of the world's favourite classical...

There are numerous contemporary accounts attesting to the fact that Bruckner often drew on themes from his symphonies in his magnificent organ improvisations, and these improvisations are said to have...

There are numerous contemporary accounts attesting to the fact that Bruckner often drew on themes from his symphonies in his magnificent organ improvisations, and these improvisations are said to have...

Die 8. Symphonie ist Bruckners letztes vollständig überliefertes und umfangreichstes sinfonisches Werk. Die erste Fassung beendete Bruckner im September 1887. Die 2. Fassung, die der vorliegenden Tran...

Die Reihe 'Synagogalmusik' präsentiert ein wichtiges und bislang vernachlässigtes Kapitel der Musikgeschichte: Kompositionen, in denen sich die Traditionen der abendländischen Kunstmusik und der jüdis...

The Homage to Handel for Organ was composed 'as an expression of thanks for having been elected as an honorary member of the Royal College of Organists in 1914. Karg-Elert responded to the honour with...

Vol. 5: Reformation Day, Day of Repentance, Holy Communion, Memorial Day

Bednall's creation, rooted in the tradition of French organ improvisation, tenderly evokes the mysterious beauty of Wells Cathedral's remarkable 'Jesse Window'. The radiant music ebbs and flows calmly...

The composer, organist, music teacher and pianist Rolande Falcinelli (1920-2006) studied composition with Henri Busser, among others, as well as organ with Gaston Litaize and Marcel Dupré. In 1941 she...

Cosmogonie was written after an improvisation of the composer at the Haarlem International Organ Improvisation Competition, Rotterdam 1981. The given theme was an abstract graphic by Enrique Raxach. T...

Jean Guillou is one of the most eminent organists of our time. His compositions make use of the full range of colours which the organ is capable of producing and handle the instrument with virtuoso sk...

This is the name given to the ancient tales and legends of Scandinavia, mostly drawn up in Iceland. The term itself is of Germanic origin, form the verb 'sagen' which means to say, to recount. The tit...

Julien Gracq's novel Au château d'Argolo includes a chapter in which one of the heroes, Herminien, discovers a chapel hidden deep within a forest. Soon ... through the branches, twisted in fantastic a...