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organo phon CD 90110: Organ Music from Five Centuries

EAN  40 34313 90110 1

   
Performer:   Gerd Pitzen
Organ:   Oberlinger Organ in the Music Hall of Dr. Hanns-Norbert Genius, Mayen, built in 1985, II/14
Audio engineering:   Bruno Hebestreit
Recording date:   June 25th-26th, 1997
Booklet:   20 pages, commentary on the music by Dr. Achim Seip, and organ by Dr. Hanns-Norbert Genius (German language)
Content:  
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (approx. 1525-1594) 1 Ricercar del ottavo tuono 2'15''  
Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)   2   Toccata e fuga noni toni   3'27''    
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)   3   Variations on "Onder een linde groen"   4'45''    
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)   4   Bergamasca (from "Fiori musicali" 1635)   4'04''    
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)   5   Fuga in C major   1'56''    
    6   Magnificat-Fugue in Eb major   1'00''    
Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) and Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702-1762)       "The Morning and the Evening" - 12 pieces for the Hornwerk "Bull of Salzburg" in the Festung Hohensalzburg        
    7   1. For January: Aria (Eberlin)   1'55''    
    8   2. For February: The Fasching (Mozart)   1'33''    
    9   3. For March: Adagio (Mozart)   4'53''    
    10   4. For April: Menueto (Eberlin)   1'23''    
    11   5. For May: Menueto Pastorello (Mozart)   1'30''    
    12   6. For June: Scherzo (Mozart)   1'33''    
    13   7. For July: Menueto (Mozart)   1'30''    
    14   8. For August: Aria (Eberlin)   1'45''    
    15   9. For September: The Hunting (Mozart)   1'22''   Link: Klangbeispiel
    16   10. For October: Menueto (Mozart)   1'45''    
    17   11. For November: Menueto (Eberlin)   1'17''    
    18   12. For December: The Lullaby (Eberlin)   1'14''    
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)   19   Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf (BWV 617)   2'07''    
    20   Hilf Gott, daß mir's gelinge (BWV 624)   1'27''    
    21   Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639)   2'10''    
        Trio Sonata C minor (BWV 526)        
    22   Vivace   3'36''    
    23   Largo   3'12''    
    24   Allegro   4'12''    
    25   Vater unser im Himmelreich (BWV 682)   5'26''   Link: Klangbeispiel
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)   26   Scherzo   2'01''    
Hugo Distler (1908-1942)   27   Variations on a Song of Hans Leo Hassler: "Wo Gott zu Haus nit gibt sein Gunst"   4'45''    
Gerd Pitzen (*1954)   28   Improvisation on the Gregorian Pentecost Sequence "Veni Sancte Spiritus"   4'30''    
           
   
        Total playing time:   73'08''