Jan Lehtola - Merikanto: Organ Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:19:06 | 291 Mb
Genre: Classical
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:19:06 | 291 Mb
Genre: Classical
Oskar Merikanto (1868–1924) made an enormous contribution to music-making in Finland, and to organ music in particular, as teacher, virtuoso performer and authority on performance practice, reforming the approach to the organ in both church and concert- hall. It was thought that all of his organ music was known and recorded, but recent discoveries have added a number of previously unsuspected works to his catalogue: a striking concert fantasia, an early funeral march, some pedal studies, a vast series of chorale preludes – some of them beautifully crafted miniatures, others only aphoristic ideas – and an organ transcription of a piano piece by Mendelssohn. This release is timed to mark the centenary of his death, on 17 February 1924.