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Special offer. Widor: Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-4
Christian Schmitt (Cavaillé-Orgel der Abteikirche St. Ouen, Rouen)
a lot of love and care has gone into this CD...making it a welcome addition to the catalogue — More…
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Special offer. Reger: Organ Works, Vol. 4
played on historical instruments from Reger's days
Gerhard Weinberger (organ)
Weinberger’s choice of registrations is imaginative, and the spectrum of colour he achieves is astonishing. His excellent accompanying annotations provide some welcome information on the instruments... — More…
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Special offer. Reger: Organ Works, Vol. 5
Gerhard Weinberger (organ - played on historical instruments from Reger’s days)
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Special offer. Reger: Organ Works, Vol. 6
Gerhard Weinberger (Steinmeyer Organ of Christuskirche Mannheim, Bittner Organ of St. Walburga Beilngries)
Steinmeyer’s ‘Mannheim marvel’ fits Reger’s music like a glove and Weinberger makes much of it in the painterly contrasts of the op.127 Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue and three movements... — More…
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Highlights include a suitably imposing-sounding Fantasia & Fugue on BACH, the op.16 Suite revelling in almost impetuous re-invention, and the richly contrasted Second Sonata and op.80 Twelve... — More…
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Special offer. Widor: Organ Symphonies Volume 1
Christian Schmitt (Jann-Orgel im Konzertsaal der Bamberger Konzerthalle)
Bamberger Symphoniker & Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie, Stefan Solyom
The Bamberg players are at their most effective in the central movement...Solyom's superbly paced direction and Schmitt's sensitive interweaving with the orchestral textures gives a real sense... — More…
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They play admirably enough and those curious will find this single-disc collection handy. — More…
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Meticulously engineered with an airy transparency once thought impossible in Schumann, these vibrant performances blow off the musical cobwebs. — More…
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Given Weinberger’s choice of instruments, this deserves to be considered a period-performance cycle of Reger’s music. The difference that makes is slight in most volumes, but in this, presumably,... — More…
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