Back in the late '60s, German organist Gerd Zacher was practically synonymous with the avant-garde as it related to the organ, assisted by the use of his great 1962 recording of György Ligeti's Volumina in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the United States, several of his German-made recordings found issue on the short-lived Heliodor label, selling well enough that one can usually find copies of them yet in used record stores that maintain well-stocked classical music sections. But after Zacher's Heliodor, and later ...
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Back in the late '60s, German organist Gerd Zacher was practically synonymous with the avant-garde as it related to the organ, assisted by the use of his great 1962 recording of György Ligeti's Volumina in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the United States, several of his German-made recordings found issue on the short-lived Heliodor label, selling well enough that one can usually find copies of them yet in used record stores that maintain well-stocked classical music sections. But after Zacher's Heliodor, and later Deutsche Grammophon, releases petered out in the mid-'70s, Zacher seems to have disappeared from the consciousness of all but the most hardcore of contemporary music fanciers, despite his regular involvement in several of composer Mauricio Kagel's projects in the intervening years.Cybele's Super Audio CD release Gerd Zacher: Orgelwerke not only affords the opportunity to re-acquaint ourselves with Zacher the organist, but also appears to be the first comprehensive survey of his work as a...
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