Günter Raphael: Organ Music, Volume One

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This item will be released on 18 April 2025.

Catalogue No: TOCC0759
EAN/UPC: 5060113447593
Release Date: 2025-04-18
Composer: Günter Raphael
Artists: Ville Urponen

In the 1930s, as Günter Raphael (1903–60) found doors closing in his native Germany – he was half-Jewish – he was accorded a warm reception in Finland, where his music was heard in a series of broadcast concerts. There was a family connection, too: Raphael’s grandfather had taught Sibelius in Berlin. Raphael acknowledged his welcome by incorporating Finnish material into his music, and his Op. 41 is a monumental organ triptych based on Finnish chorales, with two towering contrapuntal edifices either side of a Baroque suite.

Ville Urponen, organ of St Paul’s Church, Helsinki

Listen To This Recording:

Fantasie und Fuge über einen finnischen Choral, Op. 41, No. 1 (1939)* (25:02)

  1. I. Fantasie. Choral – VivaceModeratoLentoPoco più andanteAnimatoLargo (10:58)
  2. II. Fuge. Molto tranquilloUn poco mossoPoco più mossoPiù animatoModerato (14:04)

Partita über einen finnischen Choral, Op. 41, No. 2 (1939) (12:33)

  1. I. Chorale (1:28)
  2. II. Trio (1:34)
  3. III. Bicinium (1:12)
  4. IV. Minore (1:43)
  5. V. Cantus firmus (2:20)
  6. VI. Pachelbel-Form (2:06)
  7. VII. Choral (Basso ostinato) (2:10)

Passacaglia über einen finnischen Choral, Op. 41, No. 3 (1939)* (23:00)

  1. Chorale – (0:47)
  2. Variation 1 – (0:49)
  3. Variation 2 – (0:48)
  4. Variation 3 – (0:52)
  5. Variation 4 – (0:49)
  6. Variation 5 – (0:50)
  7. Variation 6 – (0:46)
  8. Variation 7 – (0:43)
  9. Variation 8 – (0:33)
  10. Variation 9 – (0:32)
  11. Variation 10 – (0:37)
  12. Variation 11 – (0:38)
  13. Variation 12 – (0:39)
  14. Variation 13 – (0:57)
  15. Variation 14 – (0:50)
  16. Variation 15 – (0:38)
  17. Variation 16 – (0:45)
  18. Variation 17 – (0:53)
  19. Variation 18 – (1:04)
  20. Variation 19 – (0:35)
  21. Variation 20 – (0:31)
  22. Variation 21 – (0:46)
  23. Variation 22 – (0:39)
  24. Variation 23 – (1:03)
  25. Variation 24 – pedal solo – (2:19)
  26. Chorale (2:37)

*First Recordings

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