Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Music for Piano and Organ
As the popularity of domestic music-making grew through the nineteenth century, it brought first the piano and, then, often the harmonium into well-off living-rooms across the western world. Composers naturally responded, with original works and arrangements: Sibelius’ Andante cantabile was written after a visit to relatives who had both instruments in their salon; Karg-Elert, by contrast, was one of the world’s outstanding virtuosi on both harmonium and organ and composed with his concert public in mind. This recording thus revives long-forgotten sonorities that once would have been very familiar.
Annikka Konttori-Gustafsson, piano
Jan Lehtola, organ
Listen To This Recording:
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Sibelius
- I At the Castle Gate
- II Melisande
- III A Spring in the Park
- IV The Three Blind Sisters
- V Pastorale
- VI Melisande at the Spinning Wheel
- VII Entr’acte
- VIII The Death of Melisande
- I In memoriam
- II Dialog
- III Epigramm
- IV Parabel
- V Ideale
- I Cantilene
- II Aubade (Morgenstandchen)
- III Alte Tanzweise
- IV Berceuse Mignonne (Wiegenliedchen)
- V Quasi Minuetto
- VI Tempo di Ballo
- VII Scherzino
- Andante cantabile, JS30b (1887)
Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 46 (1905)*
Music to Maurice Maeterlinck’s play,
transcribed for harmonium and piano by Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1905)
Karg-Elert
Poesien, Op. 35 (1906–7)*
Silhouetten, Op. 29 (1906)*
Sibelius
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