Fantastic worlds – Organ transformations – Bach organ Regensburg Roman Emilius

• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643): Toccata prima (Secondo libro):
• 1 Frescobaldi: Toccata prima (Secondo libro) 04:16
• Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707): Prelude in G Major, BuxWV 148:
• 2 Buxtehude: Prelude in G Major, BuxWV 148 07:40
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Fantasia (Adagio and Allegro) in F Minor, KV 594:
• 3 Mozart: Fantasia (Adagio and Allegro) in F Minor, KV 594 10:45
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Bärentanz:
• 4 Schumann: Bärentanz 02:34
• Schlummerlied:
• 5 Schumann: Schlummerlied 04:35
• Alexandre Pierre François Boëly: Fantasia and Fugue in B Flat Major:
• 6 Boëly: Fantasia and Fugue in B Flat Major 06:18
• Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849): Nocturne op. 55 Nr. 1 in F Minor:
• 7 Chopin: Nocturne op. 55 Nr. 1 in F Minor 05:30
• Max Reger (1873 - 1916): Prelude op. 69 Nr. 1 in E Minor:
• 8 Reger: Prelude op. 69 Nr. 1 in E Minor 03:59
• Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir op. 67 Nr. 3:
• 9 Reger: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir op. 67 Nr. 3 04:13
• Fugue op. 69 Nr. 2 in E Minor:
• 10 Reger: Fugue op. 69 Nr. 2 in E Minor 04:38
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921): antasia op. 157 in C Major:
• 11 Saint-Saëns: Fantasia op. 157 in C Major 12:03
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Falstaff:
• 12 Verdi: Falstaff: Menuett 02:20
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068:
• 13 Bach: Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: Air 05:10
• Total Runtime 01:14:01

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Imagination is a special human gift. Fantasizing about things and making up stories is the basic requirement for all art. The words ‘fantasy’ and ‘fantastic’ have positive connotations today, but that wasn‘t always the case. “Fantastic” in the sense of imagined, invented, without plan or purpose was not reconcilable with the regularity of art. Yet “fantastic worlds” are often responses to the overly ordered, constructed, and lifeless, always focussing on depicting humans with all their mood swings. The organ as an instrument of the church has to transform itself for this because anything too human was to be kept out of the church. That is why this CD is subtitled “Organ transformations”.

“Stylus phantasticus” was the name given in the 17th century to a style of music that called for boundaries to be crossed and rules to be broken in favour of increasing expressiveness. This goes hand in hand with freedom of presentation. Two masters of this style are Frescobaldi in his toccatas and Buxtehude in his major works. The famous Air by Bach is an encore that, at the end of the recording, leaves the reconciliatory word to the namesake of the Ahrend organ in Regensburg‘s Trinity Church, known as the “Bach organ”. Roman Emilius (extract of the booklet text)

Roman Emilius, Ahrend-Organ Dreieinigkeitskirche Regensburg

Roman Emilius
was born in Nuremberg in 1963. He began music lessons on the piano, violin, and organ, and later went on to study church music at the Music University in Frankfurt/Main. While there, he studied with Edgar Krapp (organ), Wolfgang Schaeffer (choral conducting), Irina Edelstein (piano), and Jiři Stárek (orchestral conducting). He completed the final degrees (Examen) in church music and organ performance and the Diplom (Master of Music) in orchestral conducting. In 1988, he won the Cultural Sponsorship Award from the city of Erlangen. After spending a year as an assistant in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, in 1992 he received a scholarship from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture for the “Cité Internationale des Arts” in Paris. Along with his duties as choir master at the Church of the Resurrection in Fürth, he was the pianist for the ars nova ensemble of Nuremberg from 1994 to 1998. In 1997 he became the choir master at the Church of Christ in Munich. He teaches choral conducting in the church music division at the Munich University of Music. Since October of 2008 he has been the Evangelical City and Deanery Cantor in Regensburg and the conductor of the Regensburg University Chorus.

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