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Nowowiejski - Concertos for Solo Organ Vol.1

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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)

Cat No: MDG3171591

Barcode: 0760623159126

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 7th December 2009

Works

Nowowiejski, Feliks

Marche festive, op.8 no.3
Organ Concerto, op.56 no.1
Organ Concerto, op.56 no.2
Pieces for Organ, op.9

Artists

Rudolf Innig (organ)

Works

Nowowiejski, Feliks

Marche festive, op.8 no.3
Organ Concerto, op.56 no.1
Organ Concerto, op.56 no.2
Pieces for Organ, op.9

Artists

Rudolf Innig (organ)

About

Rudolf Innig was awarded the Echo Klassik for his recording of Felix Nowowiejski’s late-romantic organ symphonies. The successful organist now adds to his discography an edition of the Concertos for Solo Organ Op.56 by this Polish composer who enjoys special esteem in the New World. Vol.1 contains two concertos as well as five preludes from Op.9.

After Nowowiejski had composed his nine organ symphonies, he began calling his major organ works “concertos.” Did superstition play a role here? Did he want to pay homage to the great symphonist? We cannot say for certain. In any case, the organ concertos are a logical continuation and compelling addition to every CD collector’s musical library.

Nowowiejski composed the Concertos Op.56 while living under Nazi terror in 1940. He had studied under Max Bruch in Berlin and had left his native Poznan for “exile” in Cracow. The first organ concerto displays what are clearly autobiographical traces, while the second concerto draws on a theme from Piotr Rytel’s 'Dante’s Dream', a symphonic poem conducted by Nowowiejski on the occasion of its premiere.

Felix Nowowiejski’s symphonic organ works require an organ with a capacity for the transparent production of tonal and dynamic extremes, and the historic Sauer organ in the Bremen Cathedral seems to be ideally suited for this purpose. Its total of one hundred stops are assigned to four manuals and the pedal unit – which means that the organ has an enormous orchestral fullness of sound as well as numerous characteristic solo stops for the chamber musical segments of Nowowiejski’s compositions.