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Kodály: Organ Works / Quinn
Naxos

Kodály: Organ Works / Quinn

$19.99

Details

Composer
Zoltan Kodaly, Erno Dohnanyi, Vitezslav Novak, Milos Sokola, Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann
Artist
Iain Quinn
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Jul 12, 2024
Catalog #
8574544
UPC
747313454471

About

This album brings together all of Kodaly's extant pieces for organ, plus works by his contemporaries. They are performed on the Chancel Organ at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Atlanta by the acclaimed Welsh organist Iain Quinn, professor of organ at Florida State University.

REVIEW:

The disc opens with Ernő Dohnányi’s quite substantial Fantasie in C minor which is listed as a world premiere recording. As is my preference when encountering unknown music, I listen before I read any of the detail, so my surprise as to why this work should sound so unlike this composer’s other music is easily explained, as it is a student work by a fifteen year old. For sure, there is talent and confidence and no little skill but this does sound rather like a test or exercise piece where some Bachian passages jostle with imposing hymn-like melodies and some rather broad-brush Romantic gestures.

Sandwiched between music by familiar composers are a couple of pieces by less well-known names. Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann's Pastorale dorico is another modest, rather unassuming work with a conservative outlook that belies its 1942 composition.

Kodály's set of nine Epigrammák are in fact transcriptions for solo organ made by Gábor Trajtler of songs by Kodály written originally in 1954. These are consciously unaffected and simple pieces. As a sequence they come across as a bit unvaried, but I cannot imagine a better case being made for them than here by Iain Quinn

Just in time the work around which the whole disc was planned arrives. This is Kodály’s quite wonderful Csendes mise. There is an immediate substance and stature to the music here. There is a variety of expressive and musical style that makes for a compelling experience – and this is most definitely a work that benefits from being heard complete.

The disc is completed by another unfamiliar name and work: Miloš Sokola’s Passacaglia quasi toccata na téma B-A-C-H. Dating from 1963 this work makes for an interesting and energetic ‘recessional’ piece for this program

— MusicWeb International

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. 1 Fantasie in C Minor 08:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    Fantasie in C Minor
    Duration
    08:38
    Composer
    Ernő Dohnányi
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  2. 2 Preludium na valašskou píseň 03:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    Preludium na valašskou píseň
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Vítězslav Novák
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  3. 3 Pastorale dorico 06:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    Pastorale dorico
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  4. 4 Epigram No. 1 01:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    Epigram No. 1
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  5. 5 Epigram No. 2 01:24
    Track
    5
    Title
    Epigram No. 2
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  6. 6 Epigram No. 3 01:13
    Track
    6
    Title
    Epigram No. 3
    Duration
    01:13
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  7. 7 Epigram No. 4 01:37
    Track
    7
    Title
    Epigram No. 4
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  8. 8 Epigram No. 5 00:51
    Track
    8
    Title
    Epigram No. 5
    Duration
    00:51
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  9. 9 Epigram No. 6 01:39
    Track
    9
    Title
    Epigram No. 6
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  10. 10 Epigram No. 7 02:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    Epigram No. 7
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  11. 11 Epigram No. 8 03:49
    Track
    11
    Title
    Epigram No. 8
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  12. 12 Epigram No. 9 01:56
    Track
    12
    Title
    Epigram No. 9
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  13. 13 Prelude in D-Flat Major 04:20
    Track
    13
    Title
    Prelude in D-Flat Major
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  14. 14 Introitus 02:31
    Track
    14
    Title
    Introitus
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  15. 15 Kyrie 02:07
    Track
    15
    Title
    Kyrie
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  16. 16 Gloria 03:02
    Track
    16
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  17. 17 Credo 04:35
    Track
    17
    Title
    Credo
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  18. 18 Sanctus 02:29
    Track
    18
    Title
    Sanctus
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  19. 19 Benedictus 03:57
    Track
    19
    Title
    Benedictus
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  20. 20 Agnus Dei 04:32
    Track
    20
    Title
    Agnus Dei
    Duration
    04:32
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  21. 21 Ite missa est 02:24
    Track
    21
    Title
    Ite missa est
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Iain Quinn
  22. 22 Passacaglia quasi toccata na téma B-A-C-H 05:54
    Track
    22
    Title
    Passacaglia quasi toccata na téma B-A-C-H
    Duration
    05:54
    Composer
    Miloš Sokola
    Performer
    Iain Quinn