Friedhelm Flamme - Bruhns-Leyding: Complete Organ Works, 2005. cpo DSD Mastering. Organ Works of the North German Baroque I
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Friedhelm Flamme - Bruhns-Leyding: Complete Organ Works
Артист: Friedhelm Flamme
Альбом: Bruhns-Leyding: Complete Organ Works, 2005
Издатель: cpo / 777 123
Жанр: Classical music, Organ
Формат файла: eac-log-cue-wv-scans-iso
Ссылка 1: CD 1 90 clicks
Ссылка 2: CD 2
Нахождение: eDonkey/Torrent
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TRACKLIST
 1. N. Bruhns, Praeludium in e (gross) . . . . . . . . . .08:25
 2. N. Bruhns, Praeludium in G . . . . . . . . . . . . . .07:32
 3. N. Bruhns, Adagio in D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .01:51
 4. N. Bruhns, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland. . . . . . . .09:47
 5. N. Bruhns, Praeludium in g . . . . . . . . . . . . . .03:49
 6. N. Bruhns, Praeludium in e (klein) . . . . . . . . . .04:31
 7. G. D. Leyding, Praeludium in C . . . . . . . . . . . .05:35
 8. G. D. Leyding, Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern . .04:10
 9. G. D. Leyding, Praeludium in B . . . . . . . . . . . .07:51
10. G. D. Leyding, Von Gott will ich nicht lassen. . . . .07:41
11. G. D. Leyding, Praeludium in Es. . . . . . . . . . . .05:14


эх, красота то какая :rolleyes:

Two All-But-Unknown North German Masters, December 3, 2005

By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA)

Before I heard this disc Nicolaus Bruhns was only a name to me, and Georg Dietrich Leyding wasn't even that. These two North German masters, each born about twenty years before Bach and Handel, studied with Buxtehude and wrote in the Buxtehudian style known as 'stylus phantasticus'. This SACD -- whose sound, by the way, is extraordinarily lifelike, and captures the beauty of the organ of the Sankt-Petri-Kirche in Melle -- is the first organ SACD I've heard, but if this is any indication of what they can sound like, I'm sold! The disc contains all the known organ works of these two composers, a pitifully small amount of music for two such masters of organ writing. None of the works exists in the composers' hand. Indeed, much of the Bruhns music is taken from copies made by Johann Sebastian Bach for his own use. One can only hope that eventually other manuscripts will be found; these are sensationally effective works.
Bruhns (1665-1697) began as a violinist, taking up the organ only when sent to Lübeck to study under Buxtehude. He became a virtuoso on both instruments and it is said that he sometimes took his violin into the organ loft and played violin and organ pedal duets! It is clear from his writing for pedals that he must have been an extraordinary player. There is, for instance, a double pedal passage in the first fugue of the Praeludium in G Major that begs to be heard and marveled at. As Amazon has not listed them as of the date of this review, I will list the Bruhns works played here: Praeludia in e minor (the 'great'), in G Major, in g minor, and in e minor (the 'little'), as well as an Adagio in D and a Chorale Prelude on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland.' The works are epitomized by fastasia/toccata passages interspersed with formal fugues (in some cases more than one fugue per Prelude).
Georg Dietrich Leyding (1664-1710) is represented by five works, all of which are given their first recordings: Praeludium in C Major, in B Major, in E flat Major, and a chorale prelude on 'Von Gott will ich nicht lassen' and, finally, a fragmentary piece based on 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern.' Those north German organists must have been real show-offs -- the first Prelude begins with a virtuoso solo pedal cadenza, and there are others throughout Leyding's works.
The organist here was previously unknown to me: Friedhelm Flamme. He is young, studied with Gerhard Weinberger in Detmold and is currently director of church music for the diocese of Göttingen. The Melle organ, built by Christian Vater (and pictured beautifully on the back cover of the CD booklet) dates from 1724 and has had a number of remodelings and reconstruction, most recently in 2000. It is from the Schnitger school of organ-building; indeed, it is thought Vater studied with Schnitger. A lovely instrument.
For organ fanciers who are not familiar with this music, I can give this CD a strong recommendation.

Scott Morrison


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This release is significant in that it presents the first ever recording of the complete organ works of Georg Dietrich Leyding. Leyding was a contemporary of Bruhns, and a pupil of Reincken and Buxtehude. Like Delphin Strunck, he was organist in Braunschweig, and, like Strunck, his music is almost completely forgotten. On the evidence of this CD I find the neglect of this music a pity. Given my love of unknown 17th century North German repertoire, I am determined to perform some of it at the first opportunity!
The festive Praeludium in C is especially attractive with its virtuoso pedal writing and repeated-note fugue theme. The pedal solo in the Praeludium in B flat is, if anything even more virtuosic. Together with the downright weird fugue subject it would combine to make a very attractive piece, but for a slightly perfunctory conclusio. It is interesting that none of the three Praeludia follow the typical Buxtehude five-part pattern. That in C major is really a Prelude and Fugue, the B flat major example follows the Tunder three-part pattern, (Expositio, Narratio, Conclusio), but on a larger scale than any of Tunder’s examples. The third example, in E flat, contains no fugal material at all, and is the least interesting of the pieces. Of the chorale-based pieces, Wie schцn leuchtet der Morgenstern is a short chorale fantasia, while Von Gott will ich nicht lassen is a partita consisting of very short variations. It reminds me rather of the piece on Nun komm der Heiden Heiland by another all-but-forgotten composer of the time, Andreas Kneller. Leyding however, is, as a result, the only composer from this ‘school’ I can think of, from whom both chorale fantasia and multi-verse settings of chorales survive. Can anyone enlighten me further?
The coupling, the far better known complete organ works of Nicolaus Bruhns, is notable for the inclusion of an unknown Adagio in D. This is two minutes of durezze e ligature style writing, which must surely come from another piece. Unfortunately this is the only remarkable feature of the Bruhns. Friedhelm Flamme’s playing, despite his obvious digital dexterity rather flatters to deceive through over-complex - and often unconvincing - registrations, a rather one dimensional approach to articulation, and a dubious handling of time signatures. The two fugues of the G major Praeludium are taken at almost identical tempi despite the completely different notation. Additionally I find his feeling for different affects somewhat lacking. The result on the whole is just rather dull.


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The organ however is anything but. Bernhard Edskes’s 2000 reconstruction of Christian Vater’s 1724 three manual instrument in Melle is an instrument of extreme quality, with scintillating choruses and beguiling reeds. Vater was a pupil of Arp Schnitger and the instrument features only minor departures from his style.


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