MSR Classics' Ancient and Modern Portraits for Organ is a mixed solo organ recital that contrasts some of the oldest extant historical organ music with some twentieth and twenty first century music and a few things in between. It is performed by Boguslaw Grabowski, organist at St. Mary's in Gdansk, playing a Lewtak organ at St. Joseph's Church "On the Hill" at Camillus, New York; this 2006 instrument incorporates a couple of ranks from an 1896 Casavant organ, presumably on site before the Lewtak builders arrived. The ...
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MSR Classics' Ancient and Modern Portraits for Organ is a mixed solo organ recital that contrasts some of the oldest extant historical organ music with some twentieth and twenty first century music and a few things in between. It is performed by Boguslaw Grabowski, organist at St. Mary's in Gdansk, playing a Lewtak organ at St. Joseph's Church "On the Hill" at Camillus, New York; this 2006 instrument incorporates a couple of ranks from an 1896 Casavant organ, presumably on site before the Lewtak builders arrived. The Casavant stops resound with the typical bright, assertive tone one thinks of in connection with nineteenth century American organ building; however, the Lewtak ranks are fashioned more in the French manner, resulting in an organ that is as mixed in sonority as the program is in content.Variety there is, but the program is strongly slanted toward Polish music, and one of the oldest documents in the corpus of early keyboard music is the tablature of Polish composer Jan of Lublin, dating to...
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