R. Wagner - Der Ring - An Organ Transcription - Hansjorg Albrecht

Artist: Hansjorg Albrecht at two Organs of the Kiel's St. Nikolai
Album: R. Wagner - Der Ring - An Organ Transcription
Released: 2006
Label: OEHMS
Catalog N°: SACD OC 612
Genre: Classical, Organ
File Format: eac_iso_wv_cue_log covers 280MB

These are not the first Wagner transcriptions for pipe organ, but the disc has several exclusive points in its favor: The organ is the largest French symphonic organ in Germany, and can be played simultaneously with a choir organ in the same space. The St. Nikolai space has excellent acoustics, and this is the first recording of such music in 5.1 multichannel. It is also the first such recording in which overdubbing was used to get an even more full orchestral effect that would have been possible in one pass. A number of separate recordings of sections using various registrations and voicings were placed on top of one another in the computer in a technique similar to that often used in pop music production but not normally used in classical. The production's engineer compares the extreme density of the score thus achieved to equal five organists at five consoles playing ten pipe organs... Read more


1. Rheingold – Vorspiel 04:30
2. Walhallaszene 13:48
3. Walküre – Walkürenritt 06:05
4. Siegfried – Waldweben 12:32
5. Götterdämmerung – Trauermarsch 07:10
6. Brünnhildes Abschied 19:48




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