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2024-01-03 12:40:00
Deus ex machina
My recent retreat at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Madeleine at Le Barroux in south-eastern France was my first since the COVID-19 pandemic. Since my last visit the Monastery has been extended and a new organ by Bernard Aubertin has been constructed in the Abbey church . The specification of the new organ is available via this link. Here is background to organ builder Bernard Aubertin from the Les Maitres d'Art website:The Aubertin organs are true creations, each being adapted to a unique person and to a precise place. The choice of proportions, governing the visual aspect, must be closely linked to the tone. Bernard Aubertin is a “biological” organ maker and refuses the “an organ can play any music”, using traditional materials. The main goal being for the artist to create a made-to-measure instrument , both living and welcoming, able to give pleasure and surprise again and again. Precise research aimed at finding the right materials and techniques […]
2020-06-10 07:30:56
From the pen of the septuagenarian swan: Francisco Valls' Missa Regalis from the Choir of Keble College and the Academy of Ancient Music
[…] mass was performed at all. Between the movements of the mass, Matthew Martin plays three pieces by two 17th century Spanish composers, Francisco Correa de Arouxo and Juan Bautista Jose Cabinilles. Not designed to create a mass re-construction, this striking tientos form contrasting pause points, and take us back to Spanish music of a different age. Whilst the mass was recorded in chapel of Keble College, Oxford, the organ pieces were recorded on the Aubertin organ (installed in 2008) in the chapel of St John's College, Oxford and then overlayed with elements of the Keble Chapel acoustic. The disc is slightly on the short side, which makes for an interestingly concentrated listen and helps to showcase the mass. Given the relative unfamiliarity of Valls' music, it perhaps might have been interesting to showcase more of his liturgical music but then the musicological work involved might have been significantly […]
2015-12-22 01:00:00
Merry Christmas 2015
[…] and others Albert Bolliger - organist Schnitger organ (1693), IV/P/59 (Hamburg) Label: Sinus 7001 Recorded in 1997 Thanks to blog owner Music for All [Flacs & scans] Download In Nativitate DominiWorks of Vierdanck, Lübeck, Schütz,Hammerschmidt, Staden and othersEmma Kirkby & Susanne RydenBell'Arte Salzburg - Annegret SiedelLabel: Berlin Classics BC 16242Recorded March 2007 Courtesy of Thomas Cadfael[Flacs & scans]Download Dietrich Buxtehude(1632-1707) Christmas Chorale Preludes and other organ works Christopher Herrick - organist Aubertin organ (2005), III/P/51 (Paris) Label: Hyperion CDA67855 Recorded April 2010 Thanks to unknown uploader [Flacs & scans] Download A Roman ChristmasItalian Concertos & Cantatasof Stradella, Marcello, Scarlatti,Albinoni and Corelli Cologne Chamber OrchestraHelmut Müller-Brühl - directionLabel: Naxos 8.551077Recorded November 1997 & February 1998[Flacs & scans]Download Weihnachten in Weissenau Noëls & other organ works of Daquin, Lasceux, Séjan, Charpentier and Balbastre Ewald Kooiman - organist Holzhey organ (1787), III/P/43 Label: Coronata COR 1222 […]
2015-12-17 01:00:00
Buxtehude: Organ Works and some Vocal Works too
Dietrich Buxtehude: Organ Works, Chorals and Cantatas Toccata Dur BuxWV 157 In dulci jubilo BuxWV 197 Passacaglia d-moll BuxWV 161 Fuga B-dur BuxWV 176 Præludium e-moll BuxWV 142 »Mein Gemüth erfreuet sich« BuxWV 72 Klaglied BuxWV 76 Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, BuxWV 76 Præludium g-moll BuxWV 150 Nun freut euch lieben Christen g’mein, BuxWV 210 Ach Gott und Herr, BuxWV 177 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 189 Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 206 Magnificat primi toni BuxWV 203 Francis Jacob, organ (Bernard Aubertin de St Martin de Vertus, France) Christel Boiron, soprano Jürgen Banholzer, countertenor Wolf Matthias Friedrich, bass 2CD, ZZT, 2007 FLAC (separate tracks) + CUE + scans
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