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new • nouveaute • neuheit - MDG-Musikproduktion Dabringhaus

NEW • NOUVEAUTE • NEUHEIT
04/11-(6)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
(1562-1621)
Organ Works Vol. 1
Fantasia à 4 (a1/b-a-c-h)
Erbarm dich mein o Herre Gott
Toccatas, Allemanda etc.
+ register presentation
Harald Vogel,
Schwalbennest Organ
St. Marien, Lemgo (Germany)
1 Hybrid-SACD
Order No.: MDG 914 1690-6
UPC-Code:
Swallow’s Nest
The Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
was number one in influence on the Northern
European organ style of the seventeenth century,
and his own special sound world can now once
again be experienced. A four-hundred-year-old
swallow’s nest organ from the Renaissance era has
survived in St. Mary’s Church in Lemgo, and its
missing pipes have been precisely reconstructed on
the basis of historical models. Harald Vogel
presents this unique instrument of European rank in
a rich and varied program of works by Sweelinck,
some of them celebrating their recording premieres.
Migratory Route
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a sixteenth-century
child prodigy. Already at the age of sixteen he
became the organist at the Oude Kerk in
Amsterdam. Until his death in 1621 he performed
and taught here on the two instruments by his
famous fellow Dutchman Hendrik Niehoff. Cornelius
Conradi, who later entered the service of Count
Simon VI in Lemgo was one of Sweelinck’s first
pupils. Conradi had the opportunity to perform on
the swallow’s nest organ from 1595 in St. Mary’s
Church at the Count’s residence and with him
Sweelinck’s organ artistry migrated to Central
Germany.
Golden Egg
Toccatas, chorale and psalm variations, an echo
fantasia, the capriccio, song variations, and the
great B-A-C-H fantasia – the recording is a treasure
trove of Sweelinck’s compositions for keyboard
instruments. The booklet lists every registration
with precision. What is above all surprising,
however, is the acoustic excellence of this
multichannel production with an entertaining organ
tour as a bonus. Harald Vogel presents the various
registers and their joint sound in short
improvisations.
Feathery Cap
Harald Vogel is regarded as a leading authority in
the field of Northern German organ music. As a
professor at the College of the Arts in Bremen he
dedicates himself to conveying old playing styles on
original instruments to his students. His many discs
include recordings on historical organs and a
prizewinning complete recording of Buxtehude’s
organ works on MDG – all of them with an
important documentary value.
Dietrich Buxtehude
Complete Organ Works
Harald Vogel
MDG 314 1438-2 (7 CDs)
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