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Xaver Varnus plays Toccata and Fugue in D minor (edited by Mendelssohn) on the great Sauer Organ of the Berliner Dom. Recorded live on the Opening Night of the «Berliner Internationaler Orgelsommer 2013».
At the time of its dedication in 1905, the great Sauer Organ of the Berliner Dom was the largest in Germany, with its 7269 pipes and 113 registers, distributed across four manuals and pedals. The court organ builder Wilhelm Sauer, from Frankfurt on the Oder, created an instrument that embodied the newest technical and musical developments of German organ building at the time. In that way, the organ met the high expectations of both the organ builder and his client: in the Protestant Cathedral of the capital city, there was to be a monumental, modern, and in every way extraordinary instrument of the highest quality. The organ of the Cathedral of Berlin represents the highpoint of Sauer’s career. At the same time, it marks the end of the long development of Romantic orchestral organs, whose sound corresponds to the characteristic sound of a symphonic orchestra of that period. Today, the organ in the Cathedral of Berlin is the largest late-Romantic pneumatic action organ in the world that has survived in its original condition.
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Born in Budapest, his first piano teacher was Emma Németh, one of the last pupils of Claude Debussy. Xaver Varnus has played virtually every important organ in the world, including those in Bachs Thomaskirche in Leipzig (2014), Berliner Dom (2013), Notre-Dame (1981), Saint-Sulpice (2006) and Saint-Eustache (1996) in Paris, National Shrine in Washington, D.C. (1985), and Canterbury Cathedral (2004), as well as the largest existing instrument in the world, the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (1985). His Quadruple Platinum Disc winning album From Ravel to Vangelis, released by Sony BMG in 2007, is the best-selling organ CD ever. As a Canadian citizen, Xaver Varnus resides in Berlin, Germany. «Put simply, Varnus is a monster talent, every bit as stimulating and individual as the late Glenn Gould» (The Globe
Festspielsommer Styriarte 2019 in Graz
J.S. Bach Brandenburgische Konzerte 1 bis 6
Concentus Musicus Wien —
Leitung Stefan Gottfried
Aufnahme vom 20.07.2019
Summer — Concerto No. 2 in G minor
from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
Netherlands Bach Society
Violin and direction: Shunske Sato
The Four Seasons are among the most populair and best violin concertos written in the baroque era. Recorded on October 7th 2016 at the Muziekgebouw aan t IJ, Amsterdam.
En juin 2014, Sir John Eliot Gardiner célébrait les 50 ans du Monteverdi Choir en interprétant, à la Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles, trois oeuvres majeures de la musique baroque: la déchirante cantate «Christ Lag in Todesbanden» de Bach, le virtuose «Dixit Dominus» de Haendel, authentique feu dartifice vocal, et le grand Motet versaillais «In Convertendo» de Rameau!
PROGRAMME ⤵
George Frideric Haendel (1685 – 1759)
«Dixit Dominus»
Jean-Sébastien Bach (1685 – 1750)
«Christ lag in Todesbanden, cantate BWV 4»
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
«In Convertendo»
DISTRIBUTION ⤵
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner — Direction musicale
Concert filmé à la Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles le 22 juin 2014.