Haas, Renner & Reger: Works for Violin & Organ Sreten Krstić, Norbert Düchtel, Ludwig Schmitt

• Joseph Haas (1879 - 1960):
• 1 Haas: Kirchensonate No. 1 in F Major, Op. 62 No. 1 06:20
• 2 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 33, Valet will ich dir geben 01:05
• 3 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 31, Straf mich nicht 00:51
• 4 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 26, O Jesu Christ, meines Lebens Licht - Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ 01:02
• Max Reger (1873 - 1916):
• 5 Reger: Aria nach dem Choralvorspiel "O Mensch bewein dein Sünde groß" (After J.S. Bach's BWV 622) [Arr. for Violin & Organ] 04:40
• Joseph Haas:
• 6 Haas: Praeludium No. 11 in E Major 02:06
• Josef Renner (1868 - 1934):
• 7 Renner: Organ Suite No. 1, Op. 56: II. Canzone (Arr. for Violin & Organ) 03:57
• Max Reger:
• 8 Reger: 4 Tone Poems After Arnold Böcklin, Op. 128: No. 1, Der geigende Eremit (Arr. for Violin & Organ) 06:51
• Joseph Haas:
• 9 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 3, Aus meines Herzens Grunde 01:03
• 10 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 4, Aus tiefer Not schrie ich zu dir 00:58
• 11 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 13, Herzliebster Jesu 01:22
• Josef Renner:
• 12 Renner: Interludium in F Major, Op. 85 06:21
• Joseph Haas:
• 13 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 21, Nun danket alle Gott 01:23
• 14 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 17, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier 00:55
• 15 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 34, Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her 01:26
• 16 Haas: 40 Choralfughetten (Excerpts): No. 35, Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan 01:27
• 17 Haas: Kirchensonate No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 62 No. 2 09:11
• Total Runtime 50:58

Info for Haas, Renner & Reger: Works for Violin & Organ

One can only do justice to Joseph Haas' oeuvre by judging it by what he himself said about the purpose of music: "Music is to delight, not offend; it is to shake up, not shatter; it is to refine, not trivialize."

Together with Paul Hindemith and Heinrich Burkard, Joseph Haas co-founded the "Donaueschinger internationale Kammermusikfeste fur Neue Musik" (Donaueschingen International Chamber Music Festival for New Music) in 1921.

The works show the mastery of variation and the peculiarities of the compositional style of Joseph Haas.

Joseph Renner studied organ and composition with Joseph Rheinberger in Munich and worked mainly in Regensburg/Bavaria. He was particularly appreciated by his contemporaries as a composer of spiritual and organ works.

"Der geigende Eremit" (The Hermit Fiddler) from Max Reger's "Bocklin Suite" as program music can be heard on this album, as one of his best-known works, and from the point of view of its content it is almost suitable for a version for violin and organ.

The works for Violin and Organ, and Organ solo, by Joseph Haas (18791960), Max Reger (18731916) and Josef Renner (18681934) are very interesting musical oeuvres, interpreted by the international well-known artist Sreten Krstic.

He has been principal concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra since 1992, with Sergiu Chelibidache as the orchestra's chief-conductor, Norbert Duchtel and Ludwig Schmitt, Organ.

Sreten Krstić, violin
Ludwig Schmitt, organ
Norbert Düchtel, organ

Sreten Krstić
A member of the Munich Philharmonic since 1980 (as principal concert master since 1982), Sreten Krstič was born in 1953 in Belgrade. He began playing the violin at the age of seven and completed his studies fourteen years later in Belgrade with Prof. Toskov and Prof. Pavlovic. One year before that he had won first prize at the International Competition of "Jeunesses Musicales" in the violin-piano duet category and additionally received a special prize for the interpretation of a solo sonata by Bach.

Concert tours have taken him throughout Europe, to Japan and South America, to the United States as well as the U.S.S.R.

Sreten Krstič has been invited to record with the West German Radio, Bavarian Broadcasting and the BBC in Manchester and has played in all the radio stations and television studios in former Yugoslavia.

As a soloist, he has made several appearances under the direction of Sergiu Celibidache. Zubin Mehta, Vaclav Neumann, Horst Stein, Dimitri Kitayenko and Hiroshi Wakasugi, among others.

In 1985 to commemorate the opening of the Gasteig, he joined forces with Martin-Albrecht Rohde (viola) and Michael Hell (violoncello) to found the Gasteig Trio of Munich, and in 1996 he founded the Philharmonic String Sextet.

He has made several recordings and CDs, among others for Thorofon and Arte Nova Classics.

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