Rheinberger - Chamber Music with Organ
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96470
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 8th April 2022
Contents
Works
AbendliedAndante pastorale for oboe and organ
Elegie
Pastorale
Pieces (6) for violin and organ, op.150
Rapsodie for oboe and organ
Suite for organ, violin and cello, op.149
Suite for violin and organ in C minor, op.166
Artists
Michela Bergamasco (violin)Cristina Monticoli (oboe)
Marco Dalsass (cello)
Manuel Tomadin (organ)
Works
AbendliedAndante pastorale for oboe and organ
Elegie
Pastorale
Pieces (6) for violin and organ, op.150
Rapsodie for oboe and organ
Suite for organ, violin and cello, op.149
Suite for violin and organ in C minor, op.166
Artists
Michela Bergamasco (violin)Cristina Monticoli (oboe)
Marco Dalsass (cello)
Manuel Tomadin (organ)
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. Oboist Cristina Monticoli also joins her Italian colleagues for two arrangements which sympathetically transfer the main melodies of movements from the organ sonatas to the oboe.
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.
Any listener with a taste for Romantic chamber music will take pleasure from this new release, recorded on a historically appropriate organ (dating from 1874, built by the German Steinmeyer firm) in the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Trieste.
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