C Erbach - Complete Organ Music | Brilliant Classics 95329

C Erbach - Complete Organ Music

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 95329

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 9

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 2nd December 2022

Contents

Artists

Manuel Tomadin (organ)

Artists

Manuel Tomadin (organ)

About

First recordings galore on the most comprehensive collection ever issued of an overlooked master of the early German Baroque.

Born around 1570, Christian Erbach apparently pursued the career of a musician from his earliest years. By his early 30s he had taken over organist positions in Augsburg previously held by the better known Hans Leo Hassler (the subject of another unrivalled compendium by Manuel Tomadin on Brilliant Classics, 95331).

Like Hassler, Erbach was evidently influenced as a composer by Italian and in particular Venetian flavours of polychoral and effervescent writing even in his instrumental output. The predominant forms in this set are toccatas, canzonas and ricercars, as well as instrumental ‘settings’ of the Magnificat and the Ordinary of the Mass for liturgical use.

Erbach himself must have been an organist of tremendous flourish and with an ear for liturgical theatre, to judge from the colourful array of textures he demands in his music. Both his music and his renown as a teacher exercised a formative influence over the next two generations of German organ music – from which eventually emerged its own dominant figure, Johann Sebastian Bach (who also looked over to the other side of the Alps for stylistic inspiration).

In an extensive booklet introduction to Erlebach’s life and works, the organist Manuel Tomadin makes available much research otherwise unavailable in English. He has chosen to make this comprehensive set on a selection of organs in northern Italy and Austria, all of them equipped with the registral possibilities to make the composer’s music sing in its own language, and several of them dating from Erlebach’s own time, based in Bologna, Mantova, Pistoia and farther afield. All the instruments are illustrated in the booklet with colour photographs and a detailed registration plan, making the set invaluable for both organ buffs and any listener with a broader interest in the German Baroque.

Tracklisting:

CD 1
1. Introitus quinti toni
2. Fuga secundi toni
3. Toccata
4. Canzona secundi toni
5. Toccata primi toni
6. Canzona quarti toni
7. Ricercar secundi toni
8. Toccata quarti toni
9. Fantasia sub elevatione
10. Toccata tertii toni
11. Ricercar primi toni
12. Toccata septimi toni
13. Canzona secundi toni
14. Introitus octavi toni
15. Toccata quarti toni
16. Ricercar quinti toni
17. Toccata octavi toni

CD 2
1. Introitus quinti toni
2. Canzona quinti toni
3. Intonatio secundi toni
4. Toccata
5. Canzona
6. Ricercar primi toni
7. Fuga
8. Ricercar tertii toni
9. Canzona tertii toni
10. Fantasia sexti toni
11. Magnificat octavi toni: Versus I
12. Magnificat octavi toni: Versus II
13. Magnificat octavi toni: Versus III
14. Magnificat octavi toni: Versus IV
15. Magnificat octavi toni: Versus V
16. Magnificat octavi toni: Versus VI
17. Toccata primi toni
18. Ricercar
19. Toccata
20. Ricercar sexti toni

CD 3
1. Toccata quinti toni
2. Canzona octavi toni
3. Ricercar primi toni
4. Fuga duodecimi toni (altern vers)
5. Toccata octavi toni
6. Canzona quinti toni (altern vers)
7. Ricercar septimi e octavi toni
8. Toccata primi toni
9. Fantasia primi toni
10. Ricercar quarti toni
11. Magnificat secundi toni: Versus I
12. Magnificat secundi toni: Versus II
13. Magnificat secundi toni: Versus III
14. Magnificat secundi toni: Versus IV
15. Magnificat secundi toni: Versus V
16. Magnificat secundi toni: Versus VI
17. Ricercar noni toni sopra le fughe, Io son ferito, hai lasso è vestiva i colli
18. Toccata primi toni
19. Ricercar tertii toni
20. Canzona secundi toni
21. Toccata primi toni
22. Ricercar septimi toni
23. Toccata primi toni

CD 4
1. Canzona
2. Canzona secundi toni
3. Canzona francese tertii toni
4. Canzona primi toni
5. Ricercar
6. Toccata
7. Canzona octavi toni
8. Canzona secundi toni
9. Toccata primi toni
10. Canzona septimi toni
11. Canzona secundi toni
12. Toccata secundi toni
13. Ricercar
14. Canzona secundi toni
15. Canzona
16. Toccata primi toni
17. Fuga
18. Canzona octavi toni

CD 5
1. Introitus secundi toni
2. Canzona septimi toni
3. Toccata primi toni
4. Fantasia primi toni
5. Ricercar quarti toni
6. Introitus quarti toni
7. Magnificat tertii toni: Versus I
8. Magnificat tertii toni: Versus II
9. Magnificat tertii toni: Versus III
10. Magnificat tertii toni: Versus IV
11. Magnificat tertii toni: Versus V
12. Magnificat tertii toni: Versus VI
13. Magnificat tertii toni: Versus VII
14. Ricercar tertii toni
15. Toccata secundi toni
16. Canzona quarti toni
17. Fuga secondi toni
18. Toccata quarti toni

CD 6
1. Toccata secundi toni
2. Ricercar septimi toni
3. Canzona noni toni
4. Toccata quarti toni
5. Ricercar septimi toni
6. Fuga duodecimi toni
7. Toccata quarti toni
8. Canzona secundi toni
9. Toccata septimi toni
10. Toccata
11. Canzona secundi toni
12. Ricercar septimi toni
13. Introitus sexti toni
14. Kyrie paschale
15. Introitus primi toni
16. Ricercar sexti toni
17. Introitus secundi toni
18. Jesu Nostra redemption

CD 7
1. Toccata primi toni
2. Canzona sexti toni
3. Fantasia primi toni
4. Ricercar quinti toni
5. Introitus sexti toni
6. Fuga primi toni
7. Ricercar noni toni
8. Kyrie simplici: Versus I
9. Kyrie simplici: Versus II
10. Kyrie simplici: Versus III
11. Kyrie simplici: Versus IV
12. Kyrie simplici: Versus V
13. Canzona septimi toni
14. Ricercar quinti toni
15. Magnificat quinti toni: Versus I
16. Magnificat quinti toni: Versus II
17. Magnificat quinti toni: Versus III
18. Magnificat quinti toni: Versus IV
19. Magnificat quinti toni: Versus V
20. Ricercar primi toni
21. Toccata

CD 8
1. Toccata secundi toni
2. Ricercar septimi toni
3. Introitus primi toni
4. Toccata secundi toni
5. Kyrie duplex: Versus I
6. Kyrie duplex: Versus II
7. Kyrie duplex: Versus III
8. Kyrie duplex: Versus IV
9. Kyrie duplex: Versus V
10. Ricercar
11. Canzona duodecimi toni
12. Ricercar
13. Introitus tertii e quarti toni
14. Ricercar quinti toni

CD 9
1. Toccata sexti toni dopo il Magnificat
2. Toccata quarti toni
3. Ricercar secundi toni
4. Toccata
5. Kyrie solemne: Versus I
6. Kyrie solemne: Versus II
7. Kyrie solemne: Versus III
8. Kyrie solemne: Versus IV
9. Kyrie solemne: Versus V
10. Canzona sexti toni
11. Ricercar octavi toni
12. Canzona sexti toni
13. Magnificat primi toni: Versus I
14. Magnificat primi toni: Versus II
15. Magnificat primi toni: Versus III
16. Magnificat primi toni: Versus IV
17. Magnificat primi toni: Versus V
18. Magnificat primi toni: Versus VI
19.Toccata primi e secundi toni
20. Ricercar
21. Toccata

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