Piet van der Steen - Boëllmann: Organ Music (2021)
BAND/ARTIST: Piet van der Steen
- Title: Boëllmann: Organ Music
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:16:11
- Total Size: 292 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Fantaisie in A Major
02. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: I. Prélude
03. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: II. Fugue
04. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: IV. Intermezzo
05. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: XI. Adagietto
06. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: V. Carillon
07. Deuxième Suite Pour Orgue, Op. 27: I. Prélude Pastoral
08. Deuxième Suite Pour Orgue, Op. 27: II. Allegretto Con Moto
09. Deuxième Suite Pour Orgue, Op. 27: III. Andantino
10. Deuxième Suite Pour Orgue, Op. 27: IV. Final
11. Heures Mystiques, Opp. 29-30: I. Entrée in E-Flat Major
12. Heures Mystiques, Opp. 29-30: II. Offertoire in G Major
13. Heures Mystiques, Opp. 29-30: III. Sortie in D Minor
14. Suite Gothique in C Minor, Op. 25: I. Introduction-Choral
15. Suite Gothique in C Minor, Op. 25: II. Menuet Gothique
16. Suite Gothique in C Minor, Op. 25: III. Prière À Notre Dame
17. Suite Gothique in C Minor, Op. 25: IV. Toccata
While no organists music bench would be respectable without dog-eared copies of the Suite gothique (especially its concluding, Toccata, no mere knock-off of Widors showier counterpart) and C minor Toccata, there are vanishingly few albums dedicated to the organ music of Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897), making this Brilliant Classics reissue of Piet van der Steens album all the more enticing a proposition to organ buffs. A short-lived contemporary of Louis Vierne, Boëllmann composed in most classical genres, notably chamber music, but it is his output for organ that has assured him immortality, for its hand-in-glove harmony with the instruments of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll that represented the high-point of French organ building in the Gothic style, never knowingly underequipped. Boëllmann wrote accordingly, to take advantage of the new French organs with their prodigious array of registral colours and dynamic variation. Beyond the imperishable but ubiquitous Suite Gothique, the album offers discoveries galore, in the pomp and circumstance of the little-known Fantaisie, the perfumed refinements of the selection from his liturgically focused Heures mystiques, the quietradiance of the G major Offertoire and the ingenious Carillon from the Douze pièces. The Prelude pastoral opening the Deuxième Suite is a real charmer, and deserves to stimulate a Boëllmann renaissance along with much else here. It was recorded in 1977 by Piet van der Steen along with most of the shorter pieces on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Augustinuskerk in Amsterdam (first issued as an LP by the Cantilena label), whereas the Suite Gothique and Heures Mystiques excerpts date from 2002, on the Schyven organ of the Church of Ss Peter and Paul in Oostend.
01. Fantaisie in A Major
02. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: I. Prélude
03. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: II. Fugue
04. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: IV. Intermezzo
05. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: XI. Adagietto
06. 12 Pièces Pour Orgue, Op. 16: V. Carillon
07. Deuxième Suite Pour Orgue, Op. 27: I. Prélude Pastoral
08. Deuxième Suite Pour Orgue, Op. 27: II. Allegretto Con Moto
09. Deuxième Suite Pour Orgue, Op. 27: III. Andantino
10. Deuxième Suite Pour Orgue, Op. 27: IV. Final
11. Heures Mystiques, Opp. 29-30: I. Entrée in E-Flat Major
12. Heures Mystiques, Opp. 29-30: II. Offertoire in G Major
13. Heures Mystiques, Opp. 29-30: III. Sortie in D Minor
14. Suite Gothique in C Minor, Op. 25: I. Introduction-Choral
15. Suite Gothique in C Minor, Op. 25: II. Menuet Gothique
16. Suite Gothique in C Minor, Op. 25: III. Prière À Notre Dame
17. Suite Gothique in C Minor, Op. 25: IV. Toccata
While no organists music bench would be respectable without dog-eared copies of the Suite gothique (especially its concluding, Toccata, no mere knock-off of Widors showier counterpart) and C minor Toccata, there are vanishingly few albums dedicated to the organ music of Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897), making this Brilliant Classics reissue of Piet van der Steens album all the more enticing a proposition to organ buffs. A short-lived contemporary of Louis Vierne, Boëllmann composed in most classical genres, notably chamber music, but it is his output for organ that has assured him immortality, for its hand-in-glove harmony with the instruments of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll that represented the high-point of French organ building in the Gothic style, never knowingly underequipped. Boëllmann wrote accordingly, to take advantage of the new French organs with their prodigious array of registral colours and dynamic variation. Beyond the imperishable but ubiquitous Suite Gothique, the album offers discoveries galore, in the pomp and circumstance of the little-known Fantaisie, the perfumed refinements of the selection from his liturgically focused Heures mystiques, the quietradiance of the G major Offertoire and the ingenious Carillon from the Douze pièces. The Prelude pastoral opening the Deuxième Suite is a real charmer, and deserves to stimulate a Boëllmann renaissance along with much else here. It was recorded in 1977 by Piet van der Steen along with most of the shorter pieces on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Augustinuskerk in Amsterdam (first issued as an LP by the Cantilena label), whereas the Suite Gothique and Heures Mystiques excerpts date from 2002, on the Schyven organ of the Church of Ss Peter and Paul in Oostend.
Year 2021 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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