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Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0515
Release: 2020
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Toccata
01. I. Pesante
02. II. Moderato
03. III. Misterioso – Grave
04. Intrada for Organ
Prélude, interlude & postlude
05. I. Prelude
06. II. Interlude
07. III. Postlude
08. Canzona for Organ
09. Ricercata
Introduction & Toccata
10. I. Introduction
11. II. Toccata
As composer, musicologist and critic, Erkki Salmenhaara (1941–2002) was one of the major figures in Finnish musical life in the second half of the twentieth century. His music for organ charts his stylistic evolution, from a modernism influenced by his teacher, György Ligeti, to triadic harmonies spiced with dissonance. Even so, all these works manifest his fondness for the ability of the organ to generate massive and powerful blocks of sound, giving this music a monumental character in keeping with the grand spaces of the buildings in which it is usually heard.