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Bach, Handel - Works In Romantic Organ Arrangements / Baumgratz


Release Date: 05/21/2013 
Label:  Md&g (Dabringhaus & Grimm)   Catalog #: 3200761   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Sigfrid Karg-Elert,  Felix Alexandre Guilmant,  William Thomas Best,  Arno Landmann,   ... 
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz
Number of Discs: 1 
Length: 1 Hours 5 Mins. 

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Notes and Editorial Reviews

Bach and Händel in arrangements by Max Reger, Alexandre Guilmant, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert: these are the top names that we have brought together for you on this fascinating CD meeting of baroque and romantic musical minds. The orchestral splendor of the romantic organ was what moved composers to arrange their favorite works of earlier times for the majestic sound of this king of instruments. The genius of Bach and Händel was to radiate in the new light of contemporary organ design, and cathedrals would resound with baroque grandeur. Bach and Händel in arrangements by Max Reger, Alexandre Guilmant, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert: these are the top names that we have brought together for you on this fascinating CD meeting of baroque and romantic musical minds. The orchestral splendor of the romantic organ was what moved composers to arrange their favorite works of earlier times for the majestic sound of this king of instruments. The genius of Bach and Händel was to radiate in the new light of contemporary organ design, and cathedrals would resound with baroque grandeur. Read less

Works on This Recording

1.
Chorale improvisation & fugue after Bach's "Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied" (BWV 225) by Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz (Organ)
Period: Modern 
Written: 1909 
 Venue:  Bremer Dom 
Length: 5 Minutes 29 Secs. 
2.
Arrangement of Bach's Adagio (Air célčbre), BWV 1068 by Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz (Organ)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Bremer Dom 
Length: 5 Minutes 27 Secs. 
3.
Arrangement of Bach's Gottes Zeit (BWV 106), for organ: Sonatina by Felix Alexandre Guilmant
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz (Organ)
Period: Romantic 
 Venue:  Bremer Dom 
Length: 3 Minutes 9 Secs. 
4.
Arrangement of Bach's Passacaglia HWV 432 in G minor, for organ by William Thomas Best
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz (Organ)
Period: Romantic 
 Venue:  Bremer Dom 
Length: 3 Minutes 31 Secs. 
5.
Arrangement of Bach's Concerto HWV 309 in D minor, for organ by Felix Alexandre Guilmant
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz (Organ)
Period: Romantic 
 Venue:  Bremer Dom 
Length: 13 Minutes 44 Secs. 
6.
Arrangement of Bach' s Variations HWV 430 Der harmonische Grobschmied in E minor, for organ by Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz (Organ)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Bremer Dom 
Length: 7 Minutes 21 Secs. 
7.
Chaconne in D minor for organ (arrangement after Bach, BWV 1004) by Arno Landmann
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz (Organ)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Bremer Dom 
Length: 16 Minutes 4 Secs. 
8.
Prelude and Fugue for Organ in G minor [after Bach, BWV 885] by Max Reger
Performer:  Wolfgang Baumgratz (Organ)
Venue:  Bremer Dom 
Length: 1 Minutes 58 Secs. 

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