Wolfgang Stockmeier: Ernst Pepping (1901-1981) - Organ Works

Artist: Wolfgang Stockmeier at the Schuke Organ of the Oberste Stadtkirche in Iserlohn, Germany Album: Ernst Pepping - Organ Works Released: 1990 Label: CPO Catalog N°: cpo 999 039-2 Genre: Classical, Organ File Format: eac_iso_wv_cue_log covers 306MB This CD by CPO is the only recording entirely dedicated to Pepping's organworks. CPO, in his story, has a merit of several real masterworks discovered and bring to light ( as Karg Elert's works for harmonium), expecially inside German modern and contemporary organistic tradition. In my opinion, Pepping's organ music can be included in this class. Rarely you can find so strong formal concentration and phonosymbolic power in the thematic treatment; Pepping gives attention towards all the expressive possibilities of every combination, inversion, superposition. This extraordinary writing's intensity get to think of Reger's example; but more as interior lesson than explicit stylistic model. Pepping's mus...