Tobias: Complete Organ Works / Teemets, Maidre

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
April 14, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TOBIAS, RUDOLF
    • PERFORMER
      Maidre, Teemets
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 14, 2015
    • UPC
      5060113442888
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0288
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Largo, "Know Ye Not"

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    2. No. 1. Von himmel doch

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    3. No. 2. Schmucke dich, o liebe seele

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Arete Teemets, Ines Maidre

    4. No. 3. Loberpriester der du dich

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    5. No. 4. Ach, bleib mit deiner Gnade

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Arete Teemets, Ines Maidre

    6. No. 5. Wie schon leuchtet der morgenstern

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    7. Ciaconna uber macht' hoch die tur

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    8. Prelude

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    9. Fughetta

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    10. Lobt gott ihr christen allzugle ich

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    11. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Arete Teemets, Ines Maidre

    12. Des Jona Sendung (Jonah's Mission): Chorus mysticus and Sanctus (arr. I. Maidre for organ)

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    13. No. 1. Ach, was soll ich sunder machen

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    14. No. 2. O, du liebe, meiner liebe

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    15. No. 3. Es ist gewisslich an der zeit

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    16. No. 4. Sollt' ich meinem gott nicht singen I

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    17. No. 5. Mit fried und freud' fuhr' ich dahin

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    18. No. 6. Wer nur den lieben gott lasst walten

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    19. No. 7. Jesu, meines lebens leben

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    20. No. 8. Sollt' ich meinem gott nicht singen II

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    21. No. 9. Werde munter mein gemuthe

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    22. No. 10. Nun ruhen alle walder (Nachtstuck)

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    23. No. 11. Frohlich soll mein herze springen

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    24. No. 12. Komm heil'ger geist, o herre

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    25. Prelude in D Major

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre

    26. Fugue in D Minor

      Composer: Rudolf Tobias

      Performer: Ines Maidre


Rudolf Tobias (1873–1918) founded the classical-music tradition in Estonia almost single-handedly, writing the first Estonian orchestral piece, the first Estonian string quartet, first Estonian piano concerto and the first Estonian oratorio, the monumental Des Jona Sendung, from which Ines Maidre has now transcribed for organ the blazingly powerful Sanctus. Although Tobias was himself an outstanding organist, he wrote little music for his own instrument and most of it is modest in scale, but its quirky craftsmanship reveals the hand of a master.

REVIEW:

Rudolf Tobias (1873–1918) is credited with founding the classical music tradition in Estonia, having written the first Estonian orchestral piece, piano concerto, piano sonata, oratorio, and string quartet. He studied composition with Rimsky-Korsakoff and then had a wide-ranging career in Tartu, Paris, Munich, Dresden, and finally as Professor of Theory at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. At the outbreak of war in 1914, he was drafted into the German army, serving as an interpreter. His health began to fail in 1916 and he was discharged, and died of pneumonia in October of 1918.

This program of his complete published organ works reveals a composer of well-crafted, pleasant liturgical “gebrauchsmusik” based on chorale tunes. It is all modest in scope, nothing lasting much over five minutes. It is unfortunate that he left nothing substantial for the organ, as he was considered an outstanding organist. The booklet contains notes on the composer and music as well as the specification of the 1913 Sauer organ (rebuilt in 1998) in the Dome Church (St Mary’s) in Tallinn, Estonia.

-- American Record Guide