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Rheinberger: Chamber Music with Organ
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Rheinberger: Chamber Music with Organ

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Details

Composer
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
Artist
Michela Bergamasco, Cristina Monticoli, Marco Dalsass, Manuel Tomadin
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Apr 22, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96470
UPC
5028421964706

About

The organ sonatas of Josef Rheinberger still feature large in the repertoire of church organists everywhere, thanks to their attractive melodies and fluent writing for the instrument. Rheinberger’s industry and his skill as a teacher have overshadowed his gifts as a composer in other genres, which this new release helps to redress with suites and tone-pictures for the combination of strings and organ.

While Rheinberger’s Abendlied Op.69 No.2 holds a Brahmsian appeal for choruses, his instrumental Abendlied Op.150 is much less familiar. Yet the combination of string- instrument and organ is intensely evocative of the warm mood of recollection intrinsic to the German genre of ‘Evening Songs’; Rheinberger balances the two instruments with great skill and sympathy so that the organ always supports the cello’s noble cantabile. The Abendlied features here in two recordings; arranged for cello, and in its original version for violin, as part of the complete set of six pieces. Cellist Marco Dalsass also contributes an arrangement of the Pastorale and Elegie from the same set, and it proves fascinating to compare the angelic song of the violin with the warmer baritonal register of the cello in the same music. Both violin and cello join the organ for the Suite Op.149: a substantial four-movement work lasting 40 minutes, opening in a passionate but Baroque-inflected C minor. A meditative set of variations on an original theme is followed by a solemn sarabande, beautifully conceived for all three instruments in the vein of a Romantic slow movement but essentially ecclesiastical in tone. Baroque forms – a free-flowing prelude, a tender Canzone and graceful Allemande – also soften the C minor tonality of the Suite Op.166 for violin and organ, before the Moto perpetuo finale brings the suite to a dazzling close with the most extrovert music in the collection.

Tracklist 19 tracks

  1. 1 I. Con moto 09:37
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Con moto
    Duration
    09:37
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Marco Dalsass, Manuel Tomadin
  2. 2 II. Thema mit Veranderungen 10:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Thema mit Veranderungen
    Duration
    10:48
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Marco Dalsass, Manuel Tomadin
  3. 3 III. Sarabande 10:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Sarabande
    Duration
    10:29
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Marco Dalsass, Manuel Tomadin
  4. 4 IV. Finale 08:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale
    Duration
    08:33
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Marco Dalsass, Manuel Tomadin
  5. 5 6 Pieces for Violin and Organ, Op. 150: No. 1. Abendlied (version for cello and organ) 05:33
    Track
    5
    Title
    6 Pieces for Violin and Organ, Op. 150: No. 1. Abendlied (version for cello and organ)
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Marco Dalsass, Manuel Tomadin
  6. 6 Organ Sonata No. 7 in F Minor, Op. 127: II. Andante (arr. for oboe and organ) 05:46
    Track
    6
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 7 in F Minor, Op. 127: II. Andante (arr. for oboe and organ)
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Cristina Monticoli, Manuel Tomadin
  7. 7 No. 3. Élégie 04:43
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3. Élégie
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Marco Dalsass, Manuel Tomadin
  8. 8 No. 2. Pastorale 06:07
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Pastorale
    Duration
    06:07
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Marco Dalsass, Manuel Tomadin
  9. 9 I. Praeludium 05:53
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Praeludium
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  10. 10 II. Canzone 04:08
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Canzone
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  11. 11 III. Allemande 06:01
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Allemande
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  12. 12 IV. Moto perpetuo 04:57
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Moto perpetuo
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  13. 13 Organ Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 98: II. Andante pastorale (version for oboe and organ) 04:41
    Track
    13
    Title
    Organ Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 98: II. Andante pastorale (version for oboe and organ)
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Cristina Monticoli, Manuel Tomadin
  14. 14 No. 5. Abendlied 04:03
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 5. Abendlied
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  15. 15 No. 2. Pastorale 04:13
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 2. Pastorale
    Duration
    04:13
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  16. 16 No. 3. Gigue 05:15
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 3. Gigue
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  17. 17 No. 4. Élégie 03:29
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 4. Élégie
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  18. 18 No. 1. Overture 07:39
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 1. Overture
    Duration
    07:39
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin
  19. 19 No. 6. Theme and Variations 07:26
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 6. Theme and Variations
    Duration
    07:26
    Composer
    Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
    Performer
    Michela Bergamasco, Manuel Tomadin