Felix Woyrsch: Complete Organ Music
The German composer Felix Woyrsch was born in 1860 in Troppau (then the capital of Austrian Silesia and now, as Opava, in the Czech Republic) but became prominent in the musical life of Altona, now part of Hamburg, as organist, choirmaster and teacher; he died there in 1944. Woyrsch’s late-Romantic organ music, with distant roots in Bach’s counterpoint, inhabits a harmonic world somewhere between Brahms and Reger, its dark colours reflecting the upheavals in the times through which he lived.
Ruth Forsbach, organ of the Reformed Church, Ronsdorf
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- Festpraeludium über den Choral ‘Nun danket alle Gott’, Op. 43 (1895)
- No. 1 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
- No. 2 Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen
- No. 3 Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her
- No. 4 Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein
- No. 5 O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden*
- No. 6 O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid
- No. 7 Was mein Gott will, das gescheh’ allzeit
- No. 8 Valet will ich dir geben (Festpräludium)
- No. 9 Nun ruhen alle Wälder (canonisches Trio)
- No. 10 Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich (im Kriegsjahr 1918)
- Passacaglia über das ‘Dies irae‘, Op. 62
Zehn Choralvorspiele, Op. 59 (1909–18)
Passacaglia über das ‘Dies irae’, Op. 62 (publ. 1921)
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
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