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Fantastic Worlds – Organ Transformations

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Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach, Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, Dietrich Buxtehude, Frederic Chopin, Girolam
Artist
Roman Emilius
Format
CD
Label
Tyxart
Released
Jan 17, 2025
Catalog #
TXA19125
UPC
4250702801252

About

Fantastic worlds - Organ transformations - Bach organ Regensburg The human imagination opens up worlds full of enchanting beauty, threatening dreams, night and sun - and the organ is the ideal companion for this! From Frescobaldi to Saint-Saens, this CD follows capricious and passionately winding paths in "Fantastic worlds". Roman Emilius on the versatile Ahrend organ (2020) of the Trinity Church in Regensburg takes us into the fleeting realm of fantasy. Imagination is a special human gift. Fantasizing about things and making up stories is the basic requirement for all art. The words 'fantasy' and 'fantastic' have positive connotations today, but that wasn't always the case. "Fantastic" in the sense of imagined, invented, without plan or purpose was not reconcilable with the regularity of art. Yet "fantastic worlds" are often responses to the overly ordered, constructed, and lifeless, always focussing on depicting humans with all their mood swings. The organ as an instrument of the church has to transform itself for this because anything too human was to be kept out of the church. That is why this CD is subtitled "Organ transformations". "Stylus phantasticus" was the name given in the 17th century to a style of music that called for boundaries to be crossed and rules to be broken in favour of increasing expressiveness. This goes hand in hand with freedom of presentation. Two masters of this style are Frescobaldi in his toccatas and Buxtehude in his major works. The famous "Air" by Bach is an encore that, at the end of the recording, leaves the reconciliatory word to the namesake of the Ahrend organ in Regensburg's Trinity Church, known as the "Bach organ". Roman Emilius was born in Nuremberg in 1963. He studied church music at the Frankfurt/Main University of Music with Edgar Krapp (organ), Wolfgang Schafer (choral conducting), Irina Edelstein (piano), and Jiri Starek (orchestral conducting). Following the church music exam, he completed the organ graduate degree course (Konzertexamen) and the Diplom degree in orchestral conducting. He was awarded the cultural study award (Kulturforderpreis) of the city of Erlangen in 1988. After one year as an assistant in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, he received a scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture in 1992 for the "Cite Internationale des Arts" in Paris. In addition to his position as cantor at the Auferstehungskirche (Church of the Resurrection) in Furth, he was the pianist with the ars-nova-ensemble in Nuremberg from 1994 to 1998. In 1997, he became cantor at the Christuskirche (Christ Church) in Munich, where he was subsequently appointed church music director and started to teach choral conducting in the church music ? eld of study at the Munich University of Music. Since 2008, he has been the Protestant city and deanery cantor in Regensburg and director of theRegensburger Kantorei and the Raselius-Chor church choirs. Together with a panel of experts, he designed the Ahrend organ (Bach organ Regensburg) for the Trinity Church in Regensburg, which was inaugurated in 2020.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti, Book 2: Toccata prima 04:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    Toccate, canzone, versi d'hinni, Magnificat, gagliarde, correnti, Book 2: Toccata prima
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  2. 2 Prelude in G Minor, BuxWV 148 07:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    Prelude in G Minor, BuxWV 148
    Duration
    07:40
    Composer
    Dieterich Buxtehude
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  3. 3 Adagio and Allegro in F Minor, K. 594 10:45
    Track
    3
    Title
    Adagio and Allegro in F Minor, K. 594
    Duration
    10:45
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  4. 4 12 Klavierstücke, Op. 85: No. 2. Bärentanz (arr. R. Emilius for organ) 02:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    12 Klavierstücke, Op. 85: No. 2. Bärentanz (arr. R. Emilius for organ)
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  5. 5 Albumblätter, Op. 124: No. 16. Schlummerlied (arr. W.T. Best for organ) 04:35
    Track
    5
    Title
    Albumblätter, Op. 124: No. 16. Schlummerlied (arr. W.T. Best for organ)
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  6. 6 Fantasia and Fugue in B-Flat Major 06:18
    Track
    6
    Title
    Fantasia and Fugue in B-Flat Major
    Duration
    06:18
    Composer
    Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  7. 7 Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 (arr. W. Faulkes for organ) 05:30
    Track
    7
    Title
    Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 (arr. W. Faulkes for organ)
    Duration
    05:30
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  8. 8 10 Pieces, Op. 69: No. 1. Prelude in E Minor 03:59
    Track
    8
    Title
    10 Pieces, Op. 69: No. 1. Prelude in E Minor
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Max Reger
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  9. 9 52 Easy Chorale Preludes, Op. 67: No. 3. Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir 04:13
    Track
    9
    Title
    52 Easy Chorale Preludes, Op. 67: No. 3. Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir
    Duration
    04:13
    Composer
    Max Reger
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  10. 10 10 Pieces, Op. 69: No. 2. Fugue in E Minor 04:38
    Track
    10
    Title
    10 Pieces, Op. 69: No. 2. Fugue in E Minor
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Max Reger
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  11. 11 Fantasy in C Major, Op. 157 12:03
    Track
    11
    Title
    Fantasy in C Major, Op. 157
    Duration
    12:03
    Composer
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  12. 12 Falstaff: Menuet (arr. R. Emilius for organ) 02:20
    Track
    12
    Title
    Falstaff: Menuet (arr. R. Emilius for organ)
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Performer
    Roman Emilius
  13. 13 Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air, "Air on the G String" (arr. P. Gordon for organ) 05:10
    Track
    13
    Title
    Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air, "Air on the G String" (arr. P. Gordon for organ)
    Duration
    05:10
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Roman Emilius