Much as the Baroque age culminated in the magisterial organ works of J.S. Bach, Petr Eben's organ music seems -- albeit in a more modest way -- to be a summation of the modernist era, so thorough is the composer's absorption of twentieth century techniques, expressions, and styles. This Czech master's extremely varied oeuvre embraces nearly all styles and genres, but his original music for his own instrument takes pride of place in his catalog, along with numerous works in combination with other players. Of the latter, ...
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Much as the Baroque age culminated in the magisterial organ works of J.S. Bach, Petr Eben's organ music seems -- albeit in a more modest way -- to be a summation of the modernist era, so thorough is the composer's absorption of twentieth century techniques, expressions, and styles. This Czech master's extremely varied oeuvre embraces nearly all styles and genres, but his original music for his own instrument takes pride of place in his catalog, along with numerous works in combination with other players. Of the latter, Landscapes of Patmos for organ and percussion (1984) is an ambitious work in five movements that symbolically depicts images from the Book of Revelations in angular gestures, violent rhythms, and darkly hued timbres. Organist Halgeir Schiager and percussionist Eirik Raude present ,Landscapes with appropriate apocalyptic power and dramatic spatial effects, most compelling in the last tableau, Landscape with Horses, where the virtuosic activity between organ, drums and bells is...
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