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Psalms From Geneva - Sweelinck: Organ Music / Masaaki Suzuki

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Details

Composer
GOUDIMEL, CLAUDE SWEELINCK, J
Artist
Masaaki, Suzuki
Format
CD
Label
BIS
Released
Sep 01, 2006
Catalog #
BIS-CD-1614
UPC
7318590016145

About

To the general public, Masaaki Suzuki is known as the inspired leader of Bach Collegium Japan, currently undertaking a complete cycle of Bach's cantatas for BIS. He has also received much praise for his on-going recordings of the harpsichord music by the same composer. But his début was actually as an organist - he started playing regularly at Sunday services at the age of 12! When going to the Netherlands to study, Suzuki pursued parallel courses, graduating with a soloist's diploma in both organ and harpsichord. The years spent in The Netherlands also explains his familiarity with the musical world of J.P. Sweelinck, and with the traditions of the Dutch Reformed Church with its ties to Calvin and his 'Genevan Psalter'. The attractively varied programme on this disc alternates secular music for the organ with Sweelinck's settings of psalms from the Genevan Psalter. Due to the suspicion with which the Dutch Reformed Church - and Calvin - regarded instrumental music in religious contexts, these settings were not intended to accompany the congregational singing, but were rather played either before or after the service, providing an opportunity for meditation and afterthought. They fill a similar role on this disc, sandwiched as they are between the more extrovert Toccatas and Fantasias, but also testify to the central place these psalms had in Sweelinck's work. As an epitaph put it, it was he 'who put to music David's royal word, And made it to resound in Zion, in Holland it was heard.' The organ chosen by Masaaki Suzuki is a splendid instrument built by Marc Garnier according to the Northern German and Dutch style of the mid-17th century, especially for the use in the services of the Kobe congregation of the Reformed Church of Japan, where the tradition of congregational singing of Calvin's Genevan Psalter is particularly strong.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 Toccata in A Minor 05:03
    Track
    1
    Title
    Toccata in A Minor
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  2. 2 Psalm 140: O Dieu, donne-moy delivrance (arr. for organ) 01:05
    Track
    2
    Title
    Psalm 140: O Dieu, donne-moy delivrance (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Claude Goudimel
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  3. 3 Psalm 140: Ik heb den Heer lief 05:56
    Track
    3
    Title
    Psalm 140: Ik heb den Heer lief
    Duration
    05:56
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  4. 4 Toccata in G Minor 02:48
    Track
    4
    Title
    Toccata in G Minor
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  5. 5 Psalm 23 (arr. for organ) 01:08
    Track
    5
    Title
    Psalm 23 (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    Claude Goudimel
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  6. 6 Psalm 23: Mein Huter und mein Hirt 06:38
    Track
    6
    Title
    Psalm 23: Mein Huter und mein Hirt
    Duration
    06:38
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  7. 7 Toccata in C 03:55
    Track
    7
    Title
    Toccata in C
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  8. 8 Psalm 116: J'aime mon Dieu (arr. for organ) 00:58
    Track
    8
    Title
    Psalm 116: J'aime mon Dieu (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    Claude Goudimel
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  9. 9 Psalm 116: Ik heb den Heer lief 09:06
    Track
    9
    Title
    Psalm 116: Ik heb den Heer lief
    Duration
    09:06
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  10. 10 Fantasia chromatica in D Minor 07:30
    Track
    10
    Title
    Fantasia chromatica in D Minor
    Duration
    07:30
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  11. 11 Psalm 36: Du malin le mechant vouloir (arr. for organ) 01:33
    Track
    11
    Title
    Psalm 36: Du malin le mechant vouloir (arr. for organ)
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Claude Goudimel
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  12. 12 Psalm 36: Des boosdoenders wille seer quaet 09:06
    Track
    12
    Title
    Psalm 36: Des boosdoenders wille seer quaet
    Duration
    09:06
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  13. 13 Echo Fantasia in C 08:34
    Track
    13
    Title
    Echo Fantasia in C
    Duration
    08:34
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  14. 14 Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr 04:10
    Track
    14
    Title
    Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki
  15. 15 Puer nobis nascitur 03:19
    Track
    15
    Title
    Puer nobis nascitur
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Performer
    Masaaki Suzuki