Roman Emilius – Fantastic worlds – Organ transformations – Bach organ Regensburg (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Roman Emilius – Fantastic worlds – Organ transformations – Bach organ Regensburg (2024)
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Fantastic worlds – Organ transformations – Bach organ Regensburg

The human imagination opens up worlds full of enchanting beauty, threatening dreams, night and sun – and the organ is the ideal companion for this! From Frescobaldi to Saint-Saens, this CD follows capricious and passionately winding paths in “Fantastic worlds”.

Roman Emilius on the versatile Ahrend organ (2020) of the Trinity Church in Regensburg takes us into the fleeting realm of fantasy.

Imagination is a special human gift. Fantasizing about things and making up stories is the basic requirement for all art. The words ‘fantasy’ and ‘fantastic’ have positive connotations today, but that wasn’t always the case. “Fantastic” in the sense of imagined, invented, without plan or purpose was not reconcilable with the regularity of art. Yet “fantastic worlds” are often responses to the overly ordered, constructed, and lifeless, always focussing on depicting humans with all their mood swings. The organ as an instrument of the church has to transform itself for this because anything too human was to be kept out of the church. That is why this CD is subtitled “Organ transformations”.

“Stylus phantasticus” was the name given in the 17th century to a style of music that called for boundaries to be crossed and rules to be broken in favour of increasing expressiveness. This goes hand in hand with freedom of presentation. Two masters of this style are Frescobaldi in his toccatas and Buxtehude in his major works.

The famous “Air” by Bach is an encore that, at the end of the recording, leaves the reconciliatory word to the namesake of the Ahrend organ in Regensburg’s Trinity Church, known as the “Bach organ”.

Tracklist:

1. Roman Emilius – Frescobaldi: Toccata prima (Secondo libro) (04:16)
2. Roman Emilius – Buxtehude: Prelude in G Major, BuxWV 148 (07:40)
3. Roman Emilius – Mozart: Fantasia (Adagio and Allegro) in F Minor, KV 594 (10:45)
4. Roman Emilius – Schumann: Bärentanz (02:34)
5. Roman Emilius – Schumann: Schlummerlied (04:35)
6. Roman Emilius – Boëly: Fantasia and Fugue in B Flat Major (06:18)
7. Roman Emilius – Chopin: Nocturne op. 55 Nr. 1 in F Minor (05:30)
8. Roman Emilius – Reger: Prelude op. 69 Nr. 1 in E Minor (03:59)
9. Roman Emilius – Reger: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir op. 67 Nr. 3 (04:13)
10. Roman Emilius – Reger: Fugue op. 69 Nr. 2 in E Minor (04:38)
11. Roman Emilius – Saint-Saëns: Fantasia op. 157 in C Major (12:03)
12. Roman Emilius – Verdi: Falstaff: Menuett (02:20)
13. Roman Emilius – Bach: Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: Air (05:10)

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