Organ Fireworks XII

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Herrick's playing is always lively and energetic, but with mixed results. Buxtehude's G minor Prelude and Fugue receives a beautifully poised and controlled account, and the works by Gade and... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2008 More…

Release Date: 28th Jan 2008
Catalogue No: CDA67612
Label: Hyperion
Series: Organ Music, Organ Fireworks
Length: 76 minutes

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Buxtehude: Praeludium in C major, BuxWV137

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Buxtehude: Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV148

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Eben: Hommage à Buxtehude (1987)

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I. Con enfasi, ma più Allegro che Buxtehude

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II. Ben ritmico

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III. Scherzando

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IV. Tempo I

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Excerpt, Gade, N: Three Pieces for organ, Op. 22

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I. F major

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Excerpt, Rheinberger: Organ Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 98

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I. Fantasia on Tonus Peregrinus

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Excerpt, Vierne, L: Pièces de fantaisie, 3rd suite, Op. 54

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VI. Carillon de Westminster

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Dupré: Preludes and Fugues, Op 7

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IIIa. G minor Prelude

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IIIb. G minor Fugue

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Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

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Karg-Elert: Passacaglia & Fugue on B A C H, Op. 150

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I. Passacaglia

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II. Fugue

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Christopher Herrick’s enduring Organ Fireworks series on Hyperion is one of the most comprehensive and popular collections of repertoire in existence. For this twelfth volume he turns to the great organ of Haderslev Cathedral in Denmark, and performs a fascinating range of works with his usual triumphal panache.

A number of these pieces have a Danish connection, including two spirited works by Buxtehude who probably grew up in Denmark, and Tre Tonestykker by Niels Wilhelm Gade, a native of Copenhagen who was admired by Mendelssohn.

The third of Dupré’s Trois Préludes et Fugues is among the best-known and most popular of his works, notwithstanding its fearful technical difficulties. The final page, in which the notes hurtle towards the magnificent final cadence, places this among the most memorable of all fugues for organ.

The Czech composer Petr Eben (1929–2007) is represented by his Hommage à Buxtehude.

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May 2008

Herrick's playing is always lively and energetic, but with mixed results. Buxtehude's G minor Prelude and Fugue receives a beautifully poised and controlled account, and the works by Gade and Rheinberger have a warm, seamless flow.

The unfailingly superb Christopher Herrick … this instrument is just right for this music, and the sumptuous Hyperion sound captures it all with great clarity … these are fireworks good and proper, lit with unerring precision and vividly displayed … Herrick has come up with performances of
the two great French show-pieces which are so perfectly suited to the instrument that these wonderful performances stand as yardsticks … you have, for my money at least, the most glitteringly splendiferous set of Fireworks so far

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