Dr. Heinrich Weiss was able to purchase the Welte Philharmonie Organ - the so-called Britannic Organ - for his collection in 1969. He later acquired music rolls from the Welte company along with the world's only performance recording device made by the Welte Company currently in existence. On this disc, organists Eugene Gigout and Joseph Bonnet perform their works.

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On his OehmsClassics debut, pianist Herbert Schuch performs Viktor Ullmann’s Piano Concerto supplemented by Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Ullmann’s Piano Concerto was composed in 1939 and 1940, during an extremely difficult period prior to his deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942.

The catastrophic failure of the St. Petersburg world premiere of his First Symphony on 15 March 1897 plunged Sergei Rachmaninoff into a profound depression. It was only the intervention of renowned psychiatrist Nikolai Dahl that liberated the composer from his creative crisis. In 1906 Rachmaninoff began work on his Second Symphony. As part of its ongoing Rachmaninoff cycle with the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne and Dmitrij Kitajenko, OehmsClassics presents the Symphony No. 2 and the ever-popular Vocalise, sung by countertenor Valer Sabadus.

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Alejandro Pico Leones was born in Alicante and received his first piano instruction at the age of seven. After his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall, critics praised his "enormous musical seriousness." for many years he has been a regular guest at the Vienna Musikverein and at the Gasteig in Munich, among others. This is his second CD for Oehms Classics after "Variations" - this time with a renowned and well known Mozart/Beethoven program.

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Five organists of the Victorian Age are the focus of volume six of the Britannic Organ series from the Museum of Mechanical Musical Instruments in Sweden, Switzerland. In the entire history of the Welte manufacturing, no other national group produced as many recordings as did British organists. Amongst them were cathedral and town-hall organists - educated and celebrated in Victorian England - who stood by their traditions without compromise. They were all still in top form when they made these recordings.

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Volume 3 from the series of the Welte-Philharmonic- Organ, which was originally built for the Britannic ocean liner, is dedicated primarily to entertainment on board a steamer. But this recording also pays tribute to the sister ship of the Britannic, the Titanic, which sank nearly 100 years ago in 1912. Among other things, we hear compositions written to commemorate the tragedy, such as Nearer my God to thee, which was supposedly heard on board the Titanic after it had begun to sink into the North Atlantic.

The Fourth Symphony in E-flat major with the epithet “The Romantic”, is likely the best-loved symphony of Anton Bruckner. It received its highly successful world premiere in 1881 in Vienna, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter. The Scherzo with its hunting sequences is in particularly high favor with audiences. OehmsClassics presents here a live recording from April 2008 from the Great Festival Hall in Salzburg.

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