Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Four

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Catalogue No: TOCC0672
EAN/UPC: 5060113446725
Release Date: 03.03.2023
Composer: Axel Ruoff
Artists: Jan Lehtola

The organ works of Axel Ruoff, born in Stuttgart in 1957, constitute one of the most important contributions to the literature for the instrument by any composer since Messiaen, with Ruoff often using its unparalleled resources to write music of extraordinary power and dramatic flair. This fourth volume in Jan Lehtola’s complete recording presents three large-scale compositions: a set of chorale variations, a sardonic suite and a monumental organ symphony, all displaying the wild sweep of Ruoff’s imagination.

Jan Lehtola, organ

Listen To This Recording:

    Introduction, Variations and Fugue on the chorale ‘Das Volk, das noch im Finstern wandelt’ (2005)*

  1. Introduction, Grave –
  2. Variation 1, Andante tranquillo –
  3. Variation 2, Lento assai –
  4. Variation 3, Scherzando –
  5. Variation 4, Vivace con fuoco –
  6. Variation 5, Presto agitato –
  7. Variation 6, Maestoso –
  8. Variation 7, Misterioso –
  9. Variation 8, Moderato, molto marcato –
  10. Variation 9, Pastorale, Lento assai, dolcissimo –
  11. Variation 10, Allegro precipitando –
  12. Variation 11, Moderato –
  13. Variation 12, Allegro molto –
  14. Variation 13, Presto con fuoco – Prestissimo –
  15. Fugue, Lento – Più mosso, misterioso – Allegro – Allegro vivace – Largo – Grave assai
  16. Suite grotesque (2019)*

  17. I Prélude, Prestissimo
  18. II Danse champêtre, Agiatamente; farsesco
  19. III Nocturne, Lento strascinando
  20. IV Marche héroïque, Alla marcia, malizioso
  21. V Finale: Allegro con fuoco; molto marcato
  22. Symphony No. 1 (2013)

  23. I Grave – Lento assai, tristamente – Grave – Lento assai
  24. II Prestissimo – Grave
  25. III Adagietto –
  26. IV Toccata: Allegro precipitando
 

*FIRST RECORDINGS

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