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Jan Lehtola, Anna-Leena Haikola, Annikka Konttori-Gustafsson – Stöhr: Solo & Chamber Works for Organ (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:18 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Like Korngold, Toch, Schoenberg, Zeisl and Zemlinsky, Richard Stöhr (1874–1967) was one of many Austrian composers driven into American exile by the Nazis. His generous output of music, being rediscovered at last in these Toccata Classics recordings, includes seven symphonies, much chamber music, songs, and choral and piano pieces. His output for organ is not extensive, but its quality is high: the instrument plays an important role in a number of Stöhr’s orchestral works, and here Stöhr presents the organ in two thoroughly attractive duos and an imposing solo sonata. The Sonata and Intermezzi sit downstream from Brahms in the tradition of Viennese classicism; the chromatic touches in the later Suite lean towards the language of Korngold.
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Annikka Konttori-Gustafsson – Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:09 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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The organ works of Axel Ruoff, born in Stuttgart in 1957, constitute one of the most important contributions to the literature for the instrument by any composer since Messiaen, with Ruoff often using its unparalleled resources to write music of extraordinary power and dramatic flair. This third volume in Jan Lehtola’s complete recording features the organ in the unusual role of duo partner in chamber music – but it is chamber music conceived on a symphonic scale. Here these five muscular duo works are separated by a series of weighty chorale preludes.
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