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 music perhaps sounds near to Hindemith's essentiality, only more anchored to a tonal development of harmonical relations, with a strange archaic shading in ornamentation's use... Read more
02. Concerto II - Kanzone (Larghetto) 06:52
03. Concerto II - Chaconne (Maestoso) 08:13
04. Partita "Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern" - 1. Allegro pastorale 04:36
05. Partita "Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern" - 2. Moderato - Allegro 04:17
06. Partita "Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern" - 3. Andante con moto - Poco animato 04:15
07. Vier Fugen - Fuge 1 (Moderato) 05:07
08. Vier Fugen - Fuge 2 (Comodo) 04:18
09. Vier Fugen - Fuge 3 (Allegro sostenuto) 03:33
10. Vier Fugen - Fuge 4 (Lento maestoso) 09:29
11. Partita "Ach wie fluechtig, ach wie nichtig" - 1. Poco lento 04:38
12. Partita "Ach wie fluechtig, ach wie nichtig" - 2. Andante - Con moto - Allegro - Allegro maestoso 08:31
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