Fischer & Kerll on the Organ of the Monastery of Mor / Soares

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 21, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer, Johann Kaspar Kerll
    • PERFORMER
      Rui Fernando Soares
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 21, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421964126
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96412
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Preludio No. 8

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    2. Chaconne

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    3. I. Toccata

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    4. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    5. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    6. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    7. V. Gavotte

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    8. VII. Rigaudon

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    9. IX. Passacaglia

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    10. I. Praeludium

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    11. VI. Chaconne

      Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    12. Toccata No. 1 in D Minor

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    13. Capriccio sopra il cucu

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    14. Ciaccona

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    15. Canzona

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    16. Toccata No. 8

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    17. Ricercata in cylindrum phonotacticum transferenda

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    18. Passacaglia

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares

    19. Battaglia

      Composer: Johann Caspar Kerll

      Performer: Rui Fernando Soares


J.C.F. Fischer was likely Bohemian, and a very influential musician and composer in his day. Little is known of his career until the 1690s, when he was named capellmeister to Ludwig Wihelm of Baden, where he remained until his death at Rastatt. His largest and perhaps most significant work is the Musicalischer Parnassus of 1738, a collection of keyboard pieces organized into nine suites. In it, Fischer combines the French orchestral style with the German style. Each of the suites is named for one of the nine Muses. This recording features movements from the Urania and Euterpe suites, along with a Prelude and Chaconne from his remaining oeuvre. This repertoire is usually associated with the harpsichord and rarely performed on the organ, yet there are similarities with the “variations” style so often employed by Buxtehude and Bach in organ works.

Kerll, the Saxon son of an organist and organ maker, showed musical promise from a very early age. He travelled to Vienna to study under Valentini, then capellmeister at the Viennese Imperial Court, and he converted to Catholicism, which later led him to Rome where he likely had contact with Carissimi and Frescobaldi. He was named principal musical director to the Elector of Bavaria in 1656, and became one of the most acclaimed composers of his day. His influence on Handel and J.S. Bach is notable. His works display a mastery of the Italian concertante style and highly developed contrapuntal technique.