Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Five
This final instalment of the organ compositions of Axel Ruoff (born in Stuttgart in 1957) presents two starkly contrasted sides of his musical personality: three of them, for voice and organ, are concerned with the spiritual – two even addressing head-on the issue of death itself – and are thus solemn and hieratic, whereas the concluding work is a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek set of variations on ‘Happy Birthday’, written as a present for Ruoff’s publisher on his 80th birthday.
Mari-Anni Hilander, soprano
Henri Tikkanen, baritone
Jan Lehtola, organ of the St. Paul’s Church, Helsinki
Listen To This Recording:
- Memento creatoris tui for baritone and organ (2001) (12:43)
Messe basse for soprano and organ (2015) (21:15)
- I. Introitus (6:02)
- II. Kyrie (5:46)
- III. Sanctus (2:40)
- IV. Agnus Dei (6:47)
In Hora Mortis. Sieben Totenlieder for medium voice and organ (2020) (28:31)
- No. 1, O bleibe treu den Toten (Storm) (7:31)
- No. 2, Lied der Toten (Werfel) (2:35)
- No. 3, O Herr, gib jedem seinen eignen Tod (Rilke) (3:55)
- No. 4, Vergiss mein nicht (von Knebel?, arttrib. Novalis) (3:39)
- No. 5, Ausgang (Fontane) (1:18)
- No. 6, Tiefstille (from Psalm 39, transl. Buber) (6:06)
- No. 7, Selig sind die Toten (Revelation 14:13)
Happy Birthday. Variationen und Fuga grottesca (2019) (16:02)
- Thema (0:58)
- Var. 1: Ländler (1:45)
- Var. 2: Danse populaire (0:27)
- Var. 3: Marsch (2:26)
- Var. 4: Andante (0:48)
- Var. 5: Choral (1:02)
- Var. 6: Walzer (1:20)
- Var. 7: Galopp (0:44)
- Var. 8: Interludium (0:43)
- Var. 9: Polka (0:32)
- Var. 10: Grave (1:07)
- Fuga grottesca (4:10)
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