Liszt - Piano Works arranged for Organ
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96855
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 15th December 2023
Contents
Works
Annees de Pelerinage, 2nd Year, S161Piano Sonata in B minor, S178 (arr. Diederik Blankesteijn for organ)
Artists
Diederik Blankesteijn (organ)Works
Annees de Pelerinage, 2nd Year, S161Piano Sonata in B minor, S178 (arr. Diederik Blankesteijn for organ)
Artists
Diederik Blankesteijn (organ)About
This album consists of four organ transcriptions of such piano works. It begins with a wedding (Sposalizio) and ends with a funeral procession (La lugubre gondola), both life moments often associated with church and therefore with the organ, and Liszt employs a church-bell motive in them. In the Sposalizio, as well as in the Adagio (Consolation in D flat) that follows on this programme, there is a typical 19th-century musical religiosity that was also very characteristic of Liszt. His monumental Sonata in B minor is then succeeded by La lugubre gondola, a dark epilogue once again emphasising Liszt’s musical progressiveness and emotional depth.
The heart of this album is the Sonata in B minor in a new transcription. Although it has already been transcribed for organ, the present transcription is specifically intended for the 18th- or 19th-century Dutch metropolitan type of organ, an outstanding example of which is the main organ at the Domkerk (St Martin’s Cathedral), Utrecht. There is even a historical link between this particular instrument and Liszt’s organ repertoire. In the summer of 1856, Liszt’s student Alexander Winterberger (1834–1914) undertook a tour of the Netherlands, including a performance at the Utrecht Domkerk, which was positively received by the press, with Liszt, too, enthusiastic.
Diederik Blankesteijn (born 1996) is a concert organist, church musician and music teacher. He studied organ at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Jacques van Oortmerssen, Matthias Havinga and Pieter van Dijk. He is broadly oriented as a keyboard player and also took piano lessons (with Frank Peters and Wouter Bergenhuizen), basso continuo and improvisation (with Miklós Spányi and Rien Donkersloot) and clavichord (with Menno van Delft).
Recorded on the famous Bätz organ of the Dom of Utrecht, the Netherlands, built between 1825 and 1831, the specifications of which are included in the booklet.
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