Martin Luther. Par SCHNEIDER ENJOTT. On the occasion of the quincentenary of Reformation Day in 2017, the composer Enjott Schneider thoroughly studied Martin Luther the individual and all his contradictions. The result is a brilliant, demanding organ symphony which is perfect for concerts on the subject of Reformation and Martin Luther. The composer describes the five movements of the symphony as follows: '1st movement: Wir glauben all an einen Gott with its quintuplet-like beginning is very Gregorian in style, outlining the range of Lutheran emotionalism between the Middle Ages and the modern era. The irrationality of 'faith' ultimately has priority over any thought and evidence. At the beginning of the movement, sounds of knocking on wood remind of the nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses to the doors of churches in Wittenberg. The chorale melody sometimes hides with an almost rough medieval saltarello, referring to Luther's robustness and vitality with which he knew to carry away even common people. 2nd movement: In 1530, the electoral prince of Saxony presented to Luther at Coburg Castle the golden signet ring with the 'Luther rose' which became the symbol of his theology of grace. A white heart with black cross is fixed on a five-petalled rose. To him, 'white' is the colour of angels and ghosts, 'black' stands for the pain of crucification: 'The just shall live by faith, but by faith in the Crucified.' But the fact that the rose and the heart are the dominating symbols shows how Catholic Marian piety remained an ingredient of Luther's spirituality throughout his life. In line with the dominant five-petal structure of the rose, this movement was composed, to a large extent, in accordance with the floating, lyrical rhythm in 5/8 time. 3rd movement: The omnipresence of death and dying – from the plague and war to the never-ending dangers of daily life – was an essential part of the world view of that time. Fears ensued that might heighten into the grotesque, e.g. in the pictures of Hieronymus Bosch. The 'Danse macabre' was a popular motif in those years. Luther's chorale 'Mitten wir im Leben sind / mit dem Tod umfangen' from 1524 ('Enchiridion' from Erfurt) is based on the Gregorian chant 'Media vita in morte sumus' created in France around 750 and, with its idea of transience, inspired a simplistic air. 4th movement: The famous confession delivered at the Diet of Worms in 1521, 'I stand here and can say no more. God help me. Amen', are not Luther's words but the version later used as text for a pamphlet. However, it represents quite plainly the straightforwardness and inevitability of his mission. Musically, it was made into a 'perpetuum mobile', i.e. a dogged, ostinato and never-ending musical air. 5th movement: The 'Mighty Fortress', on the other hand, is one of the great symbols of Martin Luther which, with its shining C major key, embodies the Protestant ideology and willful nature of the Reformation unlike any other song. Heinrich Heine called it the 'Marseille anthem of the Reformation', Friedrich Engels the 'Marseillaise of the Peasants' Wars'. This disputability is not thought through to the end but rather interrupted: With a jubilant 'birdcall version' of the melody, the finale shows a rather chamber-music-like side of the 'ideals of freedom of Christians'.'/ Répertoire / Orgue

Bach, Johann Sebastian Organ Works, Volume 6 Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias and Fugues II / Early Versions and Variants to I (Volume 5) and II (Volume 6) Editor Kilian, Dietrich / Wollny, Peter Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Organ Works in revised editions Any complete scholarly critical edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach must incorporate new research findings in the interest of scholars and performers alike. Now all of Bärenreiter?s new performing editions of Bach?s organ works are being revised to reflect the current state of scholarship and to convey maximum fidelity to the sources by being linked to ?Bach digital?. The present volume is an updated edition of Series IV, Volume 6 of the ?New Bach Edition? (NBA), prepared by Dietrich Kilian in 1964. The discovery of new sources and a reassessment of existing handwritten copies have brought about changes to the contents of the volume, which now includes the ?Fantasia in C minor? (BWV 1121), the ?Fantasia in G major? (BWV 571), the ?Fugue in G major? (BWV 577) and the C major version of the ?Toccata and Fugue in E major? (BWV 566). On the other hand, the ?Prelude in G major? (BWV 568) as well as the alternative versions of the ?Fugue in C minor? (BWV 574a) and the ?Prelude in A major? (BWV 536a) have been discarded as presumably spurious. Besides the new compilation and corrections of the musical text, the volume also contains a detailed Foreword by Peter Wollny with observations on each work and the extant sources. Page turns have been re-examined and improved. In collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig and its ?Bach? digital database, links are provided to all the major sources. The website http://links.baerenreiter.com enables readers to access the relevant page in the source simply and conveniently via short URLs. The links stored there are examined for their validity on a regular basis. Contents: BWV 551, 563-566 (version in E major), 569-571, 573-575, 577-579 and 1121 / Early versions and variants to I (Vol. 5) and II (Vol. 6): BWV 532a, 533a, 535a, 543a, 545a, 549a, 566 (version in C major) and 574b ? New detailed Foreword (Ger/Eng) by Peter Wollny on the works and their sources ? New contents reflecting the current state of source evaluations ? Links to sources in ?Bach digital? ? Complete new engraving and revised page-turns · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Toccata in C BWV 564 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fantasia in C BWV 570 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fantasia in c BWV 1121 früher BWV Anh. 205 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fantasia in C BWV 573 Fragment · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fuga in c BWV 574 über ein Thema von Giovanni Maria Bononcini · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fuga in c BWV 575 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Toccata con Fuga in d BWV 565 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Toccata in E BWV 566 · Early Versions and Variants to I (Volume 5) and II (Volume 6): · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Praeludium con Fuga in C BWV 545a · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Toccata Fassung in C zu BWV 566 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fuga in c BWV 574b über ein Thema von Giovanni Maria Bononcini · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fuga in D BWV 532a · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Praeludium ô Fantasia in d BWV 549a · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Praeludium in e BWV 533a · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Praeludium con Fuga in g BWV 535a · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Praeludium in a BWV 543a · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fantasia in G BWV 571 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fuga in G BWV 577 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fuga in g BWV 578 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Praeludium in a BWV 569 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Praeludium con Fuga in a BWV 551 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fantasia in h BWV 563 · Composer / Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian Fuga in h BWV 579 über ein Thema von Arcangelo Corelli

Par CHILLA KARL-PETER. Der dritte Band der erfolgreichen Reihe „Enjoy the Organ“ bietet konzertante Orgelmusik des 17. bis 20. Jahrhunderts, die auch auf kleineren Instrumenten darstellbar ist und bei begrenzten zeitlichen Übemöglichkeiten wirkungsvolle Klangergebnisseerzielt. Der vorliegende Band 3 enthält unter anderem: Juan Cabanilles, „Batalla Imperial I“; Johann Baptist Vanhal, „Sonatine F-Dur“; Robert Schumann, „Adagio“ aus op. 70; Gabriel Fauré, „Cantique de Jean Racine“ op. 11; Pietro Yon, „Humoresque“. Für hauptamtliche Kirchenmusiker ist die Sammlung als Anregung zu Improvisation und als Prima-Vista-Literatur verwendbar. - Für nebenamtliche Kirchenmusiker und Organisten - Sammlung leicht spielbarer konzertanter Orgelstücke - Auch auf kleineren Instrumenten wirkungsvoll darstellbarKarl-Peter Chilla war bis zum Jahre 2014 Probsteikantor in der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau. Er lehrt die Fächer Kinderchorleitung, Schulchorleitung, Liturgisches Singen sowie Hymnologie an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende KunstFrankfurt am Main./ Répertoire / Orgue

It may come as a surprise to learn that Anton Webern's delicate, refined and intimate music can be transferred to the organ. Xavier Durasse (1934-1992), a pupil of Durufle and Messiaen, has produced an organ adaptation of the famous three-movement Variations for piano op. 27 (1936), a groundbreaking composition in serial music. His arrangement is accompanied by judicious registration marks and division of the manuals. The result is fully convincing, making this late work with its chamber-like atmosphere attractive to organists.Durasse's adaptation is now presented to the public for the first time. His pupil Bernhard Haas, an organ professor in Munich, has prefixed his teacher's manuscript with a foreword containing important suggestions regarding the work's performance. / Orgue

Für Orgel. Par JOST CHRISTIAN. There is no other work more closely associated with the organ than Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata in D minor. During my compositional preparation, I repeatedly found myself returning to this work. I had a number of different formal models in mind, but felt myself gravitating towards the rhapsodic character of toccata form so that my new composition for organ ultimately became a toccata developing from a pedal point on the fundamental note ’D’. As is appropriate to the volume of a large modern organ, my concept focuses on symphonic tonal layers whose suggestive maelstrom originates from the inner strength of repeating elements and their register- like augmentation, culminating in the unleashing of polyrhythmic progressions. (Christian Jost)/ Répertoire / Orgue

Albert W Ketèlbey's most popular works appear to have been a series of Orchestral tone poems, like In a Persian Market, that incorporate exoticism and demonstrate the high quality of his Orchestration.The Orchestral version of this piece included a Vocal line of male Voices calling for baksheesh which is absent from the Organ arrangement.Composer and arranger Albert W Ketèlbey is now almost unknown except for his work Bells Across the Meadows, but until the time of the Second World War, he strode the country's musical stage like a giant of light musical entertainment.In 1929, he was declared 'Britain's greatest composer' according to the number of performances of his works.Over the course of his career, he was a church Organist, musical director at London's Vaudeville Theatre, editor to several music publishing firms and Music Director of the Columbia Gramophone Company. / Orgue

During his tenure at 'La Madeleine? in Paris, Théodore Dubois composed a large number of organ works.Volume III, together with the already published Volumes II and IV, brings our first complete Urtext edition of this body of music to a close. It contains 'Trois Pièces? (Praeludium-grave, Adoratio et Vox Angelica, Hosannah) and the well-known and frequently performed wedding piece 'Messe de Mariage? (Entrée du Cortège, Bénédiction nuptiale, Offertoire, Invocation, Laus Deo [Sortie]).Like the two previous volumes, this volume contains many facsimile pages, a Critical Commentary (Fr/Eng/Ger), a catalogue of sources and a detailed Foreword that sheds light on the composer's life, instrument-specific issues and performance practice.- First complete Urtext edition of Théodore Dubois' organ works- Based on the latest research findings- Suitable for church worship and concert performance- Detailed Foreword, Critical Commentary (Fr/Eng/Ger) and facsimile pages / Orgue

Johann Jacob Froberger, who lived from 1617 to 1667, developed a style of composition representing a synthesis of Italian, French and English influences, thereby setting new standards at that time. Only Jan Peterszoon Sweelinck can match Froberger in terms of significance for 17th century keyboard music.The text to each volume of the complete edition of Froberger's organ and keyboard music is published in German and English comprising a critical commentary as well as a detailed foreword explaining the scope and subdivision of the edition and the editorial techniques. Also, information on performance practice, on instruments of the time and on ornamentation is included, as well as details on Froberger's biography.Volume V.2, like the previously published volume V.1, contains the musical text from an anonymous 17th century copy which was returned to the Berlin Singakademie from Kiev in 2001. It is divided into works of definitive authenticity, new readings and two appendices containing works of doubtful authenticity and spurious arrangements.- Definitive complete Urtext edition- At the cutting edge of scholarship- Detailed explanatory notes / Orgue Ou Piano

Par WALTON WILLIAM. for Solo organ This exciting piece was composed as a television theme in 1959. Like an Elgar Pomp and Circumstance march, it alternates punchy fanfare textures with a warm and supremely 'English' melody. In the hands of skilled arranger Tom Winpenny, the piece comes alive as an impressive voluntary or a dashing recital-closer. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Orgue

Diese erfolgreiche Edition folgt der Nummerierung des Evangelischen Gesangbuches und richtet sich nach der Abfolge des Kirchenjahres.Die Bände enthalten technisch leichte, originelle kleine Choralvorspiele und Begleitsätze zu sämtlichen Liedern des Stammteils im Evangelischen Gesangbuch. Sie wurden speziell für diese Edition von Gunther Martin Göttsche und Martin Weyer komponiert. Zielgruppe sind nebenberufliche Organisten und Kirchenmusiker.Die Notation erfolgt konsequent auf zwei Systemen, sodass grundsätzlich eine Aufführung auch auf einmanualigen Instrumenten möglich ist.- Originelle kleine Choralvorspiele und Begleitsätze zu sämtlichen Stammliedern des EG- Auf sieben Bände geplante Edition- Für nebenberufliche Kirchenmusiker- Auch auf einmanualigen Instrumenten aufführbar / Orgue

Par BRAND HELMUT MICHAEL / BREDENBACH INGO / HAGNER MA. Zum EG [1–154]. Vom aphoristisch kurzen bis zum größer angelegten Choralvorspiel, von der einfachen Intonation bis zur mittelschweren Komposition reicht die Palette der Choralbearbeitungen dieser Sammlung. Sie erscheint zehn Jahre nach der Einführung des Evangelischen Gesangbuches und ergänzt die bereits vorhandenen Intonationen und Choralvorspiele. Da zudem die Zeit, in der Choräle aus der Rubrik „Das Kirchenjahr“ gesungen werden, nahezu die Hälfte eines jeden Jahres umfasst, besteht ein Bedarf an weiteren abwechslungsreichen Stücken. Einige der Kompositionen dieser Sammlung gingen aus Improvisationen im Gottesdienst hervor, viele lehnen sich stilistisch an vergangene Musikepochenan, andere verweisen – mehr oder weniger versteckt – augenzwinkernd auf berühmte Kompositionen, sind also auch „musikalische Suchbilder“, die zum Entdecken einladen./ Répertoire / Orgue

The three-movement piece refers to Bruckner's music in different ways: in the first movement, Hummel used the initials A-B and the beginning of the main theme from Symphony #8- in the second movement, the first four tones of the 'Adagio' from Symphony #9 play a major role, and the third movement, a toccata-like finale, gets its life from further tone sequences and motifs of Bruckner. The work ends in a majestic climax. This piece is a rather demanding, yet rewarding piece for any interpreter, and its performance in the church is extremely effective. / Orgue

Par ARCHER MALCOLM. This exciting work packs a huge amount of musical variety into its compact frame, despite being written with the needs of developing organists in mind. A fanfare-like section in 3-time twice gives way to a jaunty Allegro in 5/8, before a canonic crescendo returns us to the opening idea and a final blaze of colour./ Répertoire / Orgue

The complete edition of Bunk's organ music comes to an end with the publication of volume VI which contains organ works of a primarily liturgical nature. The quality of the music can be compared with compositions by Max Reger and Sigfrid Karg-Elert.This Urtext edition, prepared by the composer's grandson, is the result of a thorough study of the sources based on the latest findings of musical scholarship. Each volume includes a detailed foreword, a Critical Commentary, and many facsimiles and illustrations.Inserted in the volume is a CD which shows a facsimile reproduction of the first edition of Gerard Bunk's Liebe zur Orgel. This reference book by the late Romantic composer, which was highly regarded by none less than Albert Schweitzer and which affords valuable insights into the art of organ building and organ playing in Germany during the first half of the 20th century, has hence been made available again to interested organists and church musicians.- First complete Urtext edition of Bunk's organ works- Edited by the composer's grandson- Detailed foreword and Critical Commentary for each volume (Ger/Eng)- Many facsimiles and illustrationsContents'Wilhelmus van Nassouwe en Choral? 'Nun danket alle Gott?'Kleine Fantasie über C.H.D.B.? for organ or pianoChorale prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme? (trio for 2 manuals and pedals)37 short chorale improvisations for liturgical use / Orgue