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Peeters: Organ Music

D'Arcy Trinkwon

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67825

Release Date:  01 January 2011

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571178257

Genres:  Classical  Solo Instrumental  

  • Description

    The Flemish composer-organist Flor Peeters was celebrated in his lifetime with a concert career that took him all around Europe, as well as to America, South Africa and Australia, while remaining the organist of St Rombout’s Cathedral in Mechelen. He was trained as a Catholic church musician and Gregorian chant and the medieval modes remained a lifelong inspiration for his music.
    His mature music is often described as neoclassical, and most of it is essentially polyphonic, with an emphasis on simplicity and clarity, transparent linear textures and pungent, incisive tone-colours. Peeters was an almost exact contemporary of Maurice Durufle, who shared his love of plainsong and the modes. But where Durufle, with a typically French sensibility, conjured subtle impressionist soundscapes from his modal language, Peeters preferred sharper contours and brighter colours—Van Gogh, perhaps, compared with Durufle’s Monet.
    This disc includes a wide selection of his works for organ, encompassing large-scale concert works as well as some of his many chorale preludes. Peeters’ vast and expertly crafted oeuvre—matched in its size and scope only by a handful of other organ composers – displays great contrast and imagination.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Concert Piece Op 52a
      • 2. Aria Op 51
      • 3. Suite modale Op 43
      • 4. Variationen und Finale über ein altflämisches Lied Op 20
      • 5. Nun sei willkommen, Jesus, lieber Herr Op 39 No 3
      • 6. Maria sollte nach Bethlehem gehn Op 39 No 5 Élégie Op 38
      • 7. Toccata, fugue et hymne sur Ave maris stella Op 28
      • 8. Lied to the Flowers Op 66 No 3
      • 9. Lied to the Sun Op 66 No 5