KARG-ELERT: Harmonium Works vol. 5

Michel, Johannes

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In addition to his extensive and well-known oeuvre for the organ, we owe Sigfrid Karg-Elert a series of works for a sound instrument which he has helped more than almost any other to achieve prestige and respectability: the often unrecognized and underestimated harmonium.
Our large-scale and in this form unique harmonium edition with works by the Swabian-born composer now comes to an end with volume 5. Our interpreter and "outstanding trustee of Karg-Elert's legacy" (FonoForum), Johannes Matthias Michel plays for the first time on an art-harmonium by the Silesian harmonium builder Johannes Titz. These harmoniums enjoyed a legendary reputation from the very beginning, because their high degree of individual manufacture surpassed the beauty of sound and technical reliability of their model, the art harmonium of Viktor Mustel. Karg-Elert himself owned such a Titz harmonium, composed most of his works on it and used it in numerous concerts.
In addition to the Sonata op. 36 and the small album sheet "Abendgefühl", the Sonata op. 46 can be heard, a work published in 1913, which, due to its length and the virtuosity demanded of it, is certainly the greatest harmonium composition ever.

Works:

•Karg-Elert: Abendgefühl
• Karg-Elert: Sonata No. 1, Op. 36
• Karg-Elert: Sonata No. 2, Op. 46

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29-11-2002

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