Release Date: 28 October 2022
Label: Querstand
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4025796020137
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
This CD – initiated by the International Carl Loewe Society – includes, in addition to several original organ works, arrangements for organ of Loewe's piano music, ballads, and choral movements from oratorios.
The organist on this CD is Irénée Peyrot, Cantor and Organist at the Market Church in Halle, not far away from Lobejun. Peyrot was also responsible for the organ arrangements of the other Loewe works.
Carl Loewe and the organ – this combination may astonish many music lovers today since Loewe is known almost exclusively as the master of the ballad. For several decades now, however, musicians and musicologists have endeavoured to examine the breadth of Loewe's work and influence. Organ music has not left many traces in his oeuvre, even though he played the organ from a very young age and held a long-standing tenure as Music Director of the town Stettin and Cantor and Organist at St. Jacob's Church there.
Used on this recording, the organ in the town church St. Petri in Lobejun, Loewe's native town, was built in 1901 by the renowned organ builder Wilhelm Ruhlmann from Zorbig. It stands on the west gallery and is designed as a pneumatic organ with 22 stops on two manuals and a pedal. It is the successor of the organ built by David Beck in 1591, where Carl Loewe received his first organ lessons from his father. The Ruhlmann Organ with its warm, fundamental sound and its orientation towards the late romantic sound ideal would have been a feast for the ears of the romantic Carl Loewe.
"Irenee Peyrot has shown considerable resourcefulness in creating transcriptions of several of the composer's ballads and oratorio movements. The result is an engaging cross-section of material. […] A really interesting release." – Choir & Organ (4 STARS)
Tracklisting
Horst Wolf
Pieter van Dijk
Mirella Hagen, Tobias Berndt, Frank-Immo Zichner
Mechthild Winter
Maria Ladurner, Martin Riccabona, cappella Argentina
Kristin Henneberg, Susanne Rabbach, Andreas Hartmann
Juliane Laake, Ensemble Art d'Echo
Jean-Michel Douiller
Slava Guerchovitch
Nora von Marschall
Lea Suter
Aart Bergwerff
Ran Jia
Johannes Krahl
Elke Volker
Henry Fairs
