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The Morlanda Organ A Historical Swedish organ
IMCD 073 Recorded at Morlanda kyrka, Orust, Sweden, may 2001
Producer: Hans Davidsson Recording Engineer: Erik Sikkema
Hans Davidsson Hans Davidsson is Associate Professor of Organ and Performance Practice at Göteborg University. In 1991 he received Sweden's first Ph.D. to include music performance with a thesis entitled "Matthias Weckman: the Interpretation of his Organ Music" (dissertation, music edition, and recording). He is the founder of the Göteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt) and was its director from 1995-2000. In 2001 he was appointed Associate Professor of Organ at Eastman School of Music in Rochester (USA), and continues to serve as the General Artistic and Research Director of GOArt.
From the booklet, an introduction by Hans Davidsson: The Morlanda organ is a one-manual instrument based on a Principal 4-foot with a variety of flutes and principal stops, but no reeds. It has a four-octave compass with a short octave in the bass (CDEFGA-c3), and its original tuning has been restored: quarter comma meantone, the typical organ temperament of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with pure major thirds in all playable keys...
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Organ music included: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (4 verser) Hexachord Fantasi More Palatino (4 variationer) Matthias Weckman Toccata vel Praeludium Primi Toni Canzon C Toccata e Johan Kaspar Kerll Passacaglia Johann Jacob Froberger Capriccio Ricercar Toccata Georg Böhm Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig (9 variationer)
total time: 63.26 |
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