Variations on America - Organ Works: Rossini, Buck, Parker, Ives, Wagner & Gershwin

Buck, Ole, Gershwin, George, Ives, Charles, Rossini, Gioachino, różni kompozytorzy, Wagner, Richard

Innig, Rudolf

MDG 917 1809-6

American Rediscovery • Ives, Buck, Gershwin, Parker, Rogers: most American composers of the late nineteenth century or early twentieth century were talented virtuosos in their own right and made it their practice to write most highly effective works for their own instruments and for their own use. Today this chapter in music history has been almost entirely forgotten. On his latest SACD, however, the concert organist Rudolf Innig demonstrates that it merits rediscovery with his performance of a multicolored and suspenseful selection of original works and arrangements on the monumental Walcker/Aeolian-Skinner organ in Methuen, Massachusetts. • Organ Splendor • Rudolf Innig has already clearly displayed his fine interpretative feel for the special qualities of American organ music on his recording of organ compositions by Horatio Parker. The organ in the Methuen Memorial Music Hall is just the right instrument for such a program. Originally built by Walcker for the Boston Music Hall, the organ soon had to yield to the newly established Boston Symphony Orchestra and later was heard in a concert hall designed especially for it. The instrument’s magnificent eighty-six registers are presented in three-dimensional sound on this 2+2+2 recording – a lesson in music history that will make you eager to hear more!

SACD x 1

MDG

5/31/13

760623180960