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ALAIN / BERTULETTI / HANDEL / JENKINS / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Great Australasian Organs Vol 7 Martin Setchell (The Rieger Organ of Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand) [ Priory / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] This is a newish organ that sits in the main concert hall in Christchuch, New Zealand. Built by Rieger, its sounds are exciting and for a concert hall not entirely dry. Martin Setchell is well known throughout the world as a concert organist and here... |
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BYRD / PHILIPS / FARNABY / BULL / SWEELINCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Martin Souter (Harpsichord. Clavichord. Virginals, organ) [ Historic Keyboard Collection / Gift of Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge houses one of the world's most important manuscripts of keyboard music. The music was composed by England's greatest composers of the early seventeenth century and ranges from erudite fantasias to exquisite... |
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MAX REGER
Reger Organ Works, Vol. 10: Fifty-Two Easy Chorale Preludes Nos 39 - 52 Martin Welzel (Johannes Klais Organ, Trier Cathedral) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] "..even at its most basic level it lifts your spirit while urging you to turn up the volume and simply revel in Reger's music." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
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MAX REGER
Organ Works Vol 6: 6 Trios, Op. 47 / Introduction, Variations and Fugue, Op. 73 Martin Welzel (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 23/Oct/2005 ] "This Naxos Reger series is to be applauded and supported. I welcomed Volume 5 back in June this year; I welcome this volume just as much – if anything, even more" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
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MAX REGER
Organ Works, Vol. 8-Chorale Fantasia on Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott / Little Chorale Preludes, Nos. 11-30 Martin Welzel (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] Max Reger is regarded by many as the greatest German composer of organ music since Bach. Includes the monumental and demanding Chorale Fantasia on 'Ein feste Burg' and the popular Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor. |
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MARCEL DUPRE
Works For Organ Vol. 7 (Incls 'Entree, Meditation, Sortie, Op. 62') Mary Preston (Organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 17/Nov/2007 ] "the instrument sounds particularly well balanced. The three Elevations are nicely handled, with a sensitive ear toward registration. These are appropriately introspective and musing piece symphony never intrudes on their subdued moo." (American... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Organ Works Volume 1 Masaaki Suzuki (Schnitger/Hinz organ of Martinikerk, Groningen) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] Baroque Instrumental nomination Gramophone Awards 2016 |
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BUXTEHUDE
Organ works Masaaki Suzuki {Klapmeyer Organ of St Nicolai Church, Altenbruch & the Wilde-Schniltger Organ of St Jacobi Church, Ludingworth) [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "Suzuki strikes a perfect accord between an expressively singing solo line and its fastidiously-shaped accompaniment." (BBC Music) |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Organ Works, Volume 2 Masaaki Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] Before releasing his first disc of Bach's organ works, Masaaki Suzuki had recorded the composer's complete sacred cantatas, as well as the large-scale choral works and much of the music for harpsichord. His achievements in these fields obscured the... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Organ Works Vol.7: Leipzig & Schubler Chorales Masaaki Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] This seventh instalment of Masaaki Suzuki's critically acclaimed series of the complete organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach includes seven pieces from a manuscript known as the Leipzig Chorales. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach Organ Works, Volume 5 Masaaki Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] Bach's Orgel-Büchlein on an eighteenth-century organ. |
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J. S. BACH
Bach Organ Works, Volume 4 Masaaki Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] The fourth volume of Masaaki Suzuki's Bach works for organ series features one of the most important surviving instruments of Bach's time, made by the German organ builder Christoph Treutmann the Elder. Widely known for its extraordinary tonal... |
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J. S. BACH
Masaaki Suzuki Plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 6 (on the Arp Schnitger Organ of Martinikerk, Groningen) Masaaki Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Dec/2024 ] This sixth instalment of Masaaki Suzuki's critically acclaimed complete organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach presents the first eleven pieces from a manuscript since referred to as the Leipzig Chorales. Conceived around 1739, this collection is... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach Organ Works, Volume 3 Masaaki Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] Gramophone Magazine October 2019 Editor's Choice |
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NICOLAUS BRUHNS
Bruhns: Cantatas and Organ Works, Vol.1 Masaaki Suzuki, organ and direction (playing the Krigbaum Organ, Marquand Chapel, New Haven) [ BIS SACD / CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2022 ] When he died, Nicolaus Bruhns was just 31 years old, and only twelve of his vocal works and five organ compositions have survived. On the strength of these, he is nevertheless considered one of the most prominent North German composers of the... |
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SWEELINCK
Psalms from Geneva: Organ Works Masaaki Suzuki playing the 2002 Marc Garnier organ of Shinko-Kyokai, Kobe [ BIS / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] 1001 Classical Recordings you must hear before you die (Pre 1700) - "A strong advocate for a master of early keyboard music. An abstruse title maybe, but Masaaki Suzuki flings himself into a programme of invigorating and interlocking toccatas and... |
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IGNAZIO CIRRI
12 Sonatas for Organ, Op. 1 Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] This is the lesser-known Cirri, Ignazio of that ilk, elder brother of the Giovanni Battista who after taking holy orders pursued a diverse career as a cellist and composer, and who in 1764, perhaps aided by Ignazio's contacts, settled in London,... |
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AUGUST GOTTFRIED RITTER
Complete Organ Music Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Feb/2015 ] "Persuasive performances and well-framed recorded sound." (Choir & Organ) |
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HANDEL
Romantic Organ Transcriptions Massimo Gabba (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 24/Jun/2013 ] The art of transcription has been a part of the history of keyboard instruments since the Renaissance period, a time that saw the first publishing of sacred as well as secular vocal works. In the 19th century, however, the trend entered its golden... |
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LUZZASCO LUZZASCH
Complete Keyboard Music Matteo Messori (harpsichords, organ & spinet) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] The Ferrara‐born Luzzasco Luzzaschi might not exactly be a household name, but his contribution to the development of the madrigal places him within that elite category of composers who helped shape the course of music history. The favourite musician... |