Benjamin Saunders - Andriessen: The Four Chorals and Other Organ Music (2015)
BAND/ARTIST: Benjamin Saunders
- Title: Andriessen: The Four Chorals and Other Organ Music
- Year Of Release: 2015
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 01:14:00
- Total Size: 259 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Sinfonia per organo: I. Premier Choral
02. Sonata da chiesa
03. Sinfonia per organo: II. Deuxième Choral
04. A Quiet Introduction
05. Sinfonia per organo: III. Troisième Choral
06. Offertorium
07. Sinfonia per organo: IV. Quatrième Choral
08. Theme and Variations
In the booklet to this CD of otherwise largely unavailable music, the composer Louis Andriessen remembers his father Hendrik (1892-1981). "Certainly due to his Catholic background, my father’s grand love for the French culture was of ultimate importance to his development as a composer… It comes as no surprise that he preferred French Romantic organs... My father criticised German Romanticism: “They composed in excitement or intoxication, throwing masses of tears around.” And so on. He could be sharp, but he was also very elegant and witty. He was a beloved man, as a father, as a teacher, and as an organist. His improvisations in the Cathedral after the High Mass were renowned. People were known to rush from their (Protestant) churches to the Cathedral to hear him play."
We may hear all these characteristics and more in his four Chorals, undoubtedly influenced by the works of the same name
by César Franck, as they wind through intricately chromatic rhapsodising, finally to reveal the power of a late-Romantic, Cavaille-Coll-style instrument in full. To one unfamiliar with the Four Chorals, the first two sound as though they might almost have been lost compositions of Franck, whilst the latter two speak in a new language that belongs distinctively to Andriessen.
The Theme and Variations is perhaps his best-known work for his instrument, the theme launched in formal Baroque splendour and then pursuing artful imitation of earlier models from the French and Italian schools without ever sounding remotely like Couperin or de Grigny, for example.
01. Sinfonia per organo: I. Premier Choral
02. Sonata da chiesa
03. Sinfonia per organo: II. Deuxième Choral
04. A Quiet Introduction
05. Sinfonia per organo: III. Troisième Choral
06. Offertorium
07. Sinfonia per organo: IV. Quatrième Choral
08. Theme and Variations
In the booklet to this CD of otherwise largely unavailable music, the composer Louis Andriessen remembers his father Hendrik (1892-1981). "Certainly due to his Catholic background, my father’s grand love for the French culture was of ultimate importance to his development as a composer… It comes as no surprise that he preferred French Romantic organs... My father criticised German Romanticism: “They composed in excitement or intoxication, throwing masses of tears around.” And so on. He could be sharp, but he was also very elegant and witty. He was a beloved man, as a father, as a teacher, and as an organist. His improvisations in the Cathedral after the High Mass were renowned. People were known to rush from their (Protestant) churches to the Cathedral to hear him play."
We may hear all these characteristics and more in his four Chorals, undoubtedly influenced by the works of the same name
by César Franck, as they wind through intricately chromatic rhapsodising, finally to reveal the power of a late-Romantic, Cavaille-Coll-style instrument in full. To one unfamiliar with the Four Chorals, the first two sound as though they might almost have been lost compositions of Franck, whilst the latter two speak in a new language that belongs distinctively to Andriessen.
The Theme and Variations is perhaps his best-known work for his instrument, the theme launched in formal Baroque splendour and then pursuing artful imitation of earlier models from the French and Italian schools without ever sounding remotely like Couperin or de Grigny, for example.
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