Drischer: Sonnenhymnus - Organ Work / Flamme

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CPO
Release Date
August 13, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DRISCHNER, MAX
    • PERFORMER
      Friedhelm Flamme
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 13, 2021
    • UPC
      761203537624
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555376-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in A Major

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    2. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    3. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    4. Norwegische Volkstonsuite: I. —

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    5. Lofot Variations

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    6. Nordic Fantasy in A Minor

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    7. Lobe den Herren den mächtigen König der Ehren

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    8. No. 1. Dir, dir, Jehova will ich singen

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    9. No. 2. Es ist das Heil uns kommen her

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    10. Prelude and Fugue in A Minor

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    11. No. 1. Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    12. No. 2. Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    13. No. 3. Sieh, hier bin ich, Ehrenkönig

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    14. No. 4. Komm, o komm, du Geist des Lebens

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    15. No. 5. Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    16. No. 6. Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    17. No. 7. Herz und Herz vereint zusammen

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    18. No. 8. Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    19. No. 9. Die Sonn hat sich mit ihrem Glanze

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    20. No. 10. Befiehl du deine Wege

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    21. No. 11. Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    22. No. 12. Schönster Herr Jesu

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme

    23. Sonnenhymnus

      Composer: Max Drischner

      Performer: Friedhelm Flamme


Max Drischner’s “Neobaroque” music is best understood when it is viewed in its context shaped by the youth music movement and the organ revival. Drischner composed most of his works for church performance in simple circumstances. He wanted to write appealing music that would reach »the people« and receive a positive response from its audiences – and even today his music attracts quite a few genuinely enthusiastic fans. The selection of compositions recorded here on a magnificent, richly colored symphonic organ consists of free pieces and pieces set to chorales that can also be played on small organs or in some cases even on the piano.

Among the free organ works, the impressive Passacaglia in E major occupies a special place in Drischner’s self-understanding because of his detailed comments on it and his suggestions for interpretation. Its title, Sonnen-Hymnus (Sun Hymn), owes to several factors: Drischner incorporates his experiences of sunrises in the mountains of his native Silesia into it and forms associations with creation hymns such as Psalm 104: 27-28 (verses with parallels in an ancient Egyptian hymn ascribed to the pharaoh Akhenaten) and St. Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Sun (“Cantico di Frate Sole,” 1224 / 25). Drischner renders this into music based on a theme of eight measures developed from an E major chord and cited a total of thirty-four times. It typically occurs in triple rhythm and is elaborated in registers, degrees of textural complexity, and forms of rhythmization. Drischner’s chordal doubling of the voices produces a hymnic character in the concluding part, and the registration with cimbelstern bells lends a special radiance to this segment.