Label: Naxos
Series: Organ Encyclopedia
Genre: Instrumental
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.579122
Barcode: 747313912278
Release Date: 07/2022

Organ Music (20th-21st Centuries) - BLOHN, C. von / BRANDMÜLLER, T. / ESCAICH, T. / JORDAN, B. / PÄRT, A. (Evocations) (Blohn)

This album of contemporary organ repertoire features fascinating works that display a wide array of influences. Barry Jordan’s Praise Song, heard here its 2018 revision, draws on modern worship songs and African drumming rhythms, an element that also suffuses part of Thierry Escaich’s Évocation II, a work of electrifying intensity and vibrant colour. Arvo Pärt’s starkly beautiful Annum per annum is featured alongside Theo Brandmüller’s last work Sternenklänge. Dialogue vers les étoiles by Christian von Blohn – a student of Brandmüller – acts as a moving posthumous dialogue with his teacher.

Tracklist

Jordan, Barry
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
1 Praise Song (2018 version) 14:07
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
Brandmüller, Theo
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
2 Sternenklänge (Music of the Stars) 09:10
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
Pärt, Arvo
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
3 Annum per annum 11:44
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
Blohn, Christian von
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
4 Dialogue vers les étoiles 17:09
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
Escaich, Thierry
Blohn, Christian von (organ)
5 Évocation II 06:00
Blohn, Christian von (organ)

Total Playing Time: 58:10