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Title: The Organ As a Mirror of Its Time: North European Reflections, 1610-2000 by Kerala J. Snyder ISBN: 0-19-514415-5 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: An interesting perspective on North European Pipe Organs
Comment: Do the names Cavaille-Coll, Cahman, Compenius, Marcussen, and Arp Schnitger sound familiar? If not, this book, most likely, is not for you. If you do recognize them, and are appreciative of their work, you will really enjoy The Organ as a Mirror Of Its Time, which is a collection of articles skillfully edited and arranged by Kerala J. Snyder. These prominent and historic European pipe organ builders, along with some of their more famous instruments, comprise the theme around which the contributors collectively construct an intriguing historical, cultural, political, and artistic context. The scope of the book spans four centuries, and concentrates on six specific representative instruments in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. While the composite of all the articles achieves the intended overview, each article has a life of its own and can be enjoyed outside the surrounding framework of the book.
After reading this book, you will have an insatiable desire to hear the instruments that you have just learned so much about. Fortunately, the book comes with a CD, which has performances on each of the six subject organs. One piece by Bengt Hambraeus, called Riflessioni (played on the Marcussen in Oscar's Church, Stockholm, Sweden) will blow you away.
Obviously, this book is for real devotees of classical European pipe organs and their milieu. If you fit in that category, I highly recommend this book to you. However, you will find that a couple of the articles were written BY academics FOR academics (bless them....they can't help it), but the effect is softened by their being intermingled with articles written for the rest of the human race. The only other disappointment involves the last of the six instruments, the North German organ in Orgryte New Church, Goteborg, which was built with the combined efforts of several university research and development teams, scientists in the fields of Metallurgy, Fluid Dynamics, and Applied Acoustics, and all of it coordinated by an international team of organ designers, builders, and voicing specialists. The instrument was conceived as a composite of several Arp Schnitger organs in Hamburg, Zwolle, Lubeck, and Alkmaar. It was completed and subsequently inaugurated in August of 2000. From the picture of it on page 343, it looks magnificent. After such a build-up, you really want to hear what it sounds like, which you can do by listening to the last cut on the CD. However, due to the selection of a particularly dreary piece (a Chorale by Weckmann), and the organist's uninspired choice of registration, the organ unwittingly comes across sounding like what it really is.....an organ built by a committee.
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Title: J. S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales by Russell Stinson ISBN: 0195116666 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Bach: The Orgelbuchlein by Russell Stinson ISBN: 019386214X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: All the Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters by Craig R. Whitney ISBN: 1586481738 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium by Orpha C. Ochse ISBN: 0253214238 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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