Petr Eben: Faust für Orgel on CD
Faust für Orgel
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- Artists:
- Halgeir Schiager / Orgel Hedvig Eleonora Kirche Stockholm
- Label:
- Hyperion
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2000
- UPC/EAN:
- 0034571171951
- Release date:
- 15.6.2001
Product-Information:
Petr Eben was commissioned to write the stage music for a production of Goethe's Faust for the anniversary of the Burgtheater in Vienna (the later version for the organ solo came about in 1980). For this work, he set himself the task of expressing the polarity of good and evil in one person, since he felt the idea behind Goethe's drama was not to create a play about God and Mephistopheles taking place around Faust, but rather to demonstrate the struggle of these conflicting elements within Faust's character. That is the reason why he also sought to realise musically both influences within the one instrument. Consequently, Eben gives the organ a dual role, adding to its venerable, traditional style, the trivial vulgarity of a barrel organ. Thus, the Faust cycle provides us with a glimpse into the eternal struggle within man's being. The rhythmic element of the organ has always inspired Eben, and in the Four Biblical Dances he chooses the rarely used genre of the dance. The organ as a church instrument led him to keep its sacred characteristics so Eben therefore chose dances which appear in the Bible.
Rezensionen
'An organ sound of fine linear clarity and stunning visceral impact. Performances are exemplary' (Fanfare, USA)
'Halgeir Schiager has virtuosity to burn and he tackles these daunting scores with obvious relish – this is startlingly good playing. A winner on every point’ (International Record Review)
'Some of the most effective organ music written in the past half-century' (The Irish Times)
'Imaginative, appealing, well-performed music … This impressively recorded disc is strongly recommended' (Gramophone)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
Faust
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1 Prologue
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2 Mysterium
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3 Song of the Beggar with the Hurdy-gurdy
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4 Easter Choirs
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5 Student Songs
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6 Gretchen
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7 Requiem
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8 Walpurgis Night
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9 Epilogue
4 Bibical Dances
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10 The Dance of David before the Ark of the Covenant
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11 The Dance of the Shulamite
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12 The Dance of Jephtha's Daughter
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13 The Wedding in Cana
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