Composer: Axel Ruoff
Performer: Jan Lehtola, Henri Tikkanen, Mari-Anni Hilander
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0709
Release: 2023
Size: 1.3 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Memento creatoris tui
Messe basse
02. I. Introitus
03. II. Kyrie
04. III. Sanctus
05. IV. Agnus Dei
In hora mortis
06. No. 1, O bleibe treu den Toten
07. No. 2, Lied der Toten
08. No. 3, O Herr, gib jedem seinen eignen Tod
09. No. 4, Vergiss mein nicht
10. No. 5, Ausgang
11. No. 6, Tiefstille
12. No. 7, Selig sind die Toten
Variationen und Fuga grottesca über “Happy Birthday”
13. Thema
14. Var. 1, Ländler
15. Var. 2, Danse populaire
16. Var. 3, Marsch
17. Var. 4, Andante
18. Var. 5, Choral
19. Var. 6, Walzer
20. Var. 7, Galopp
21. Var. 8, Interludium
22. Var. 9, Polka
23. Var. 10, Grave
24. Fuga grottesca
This final instalment of the organ compositions of Axel Ruoff (born in Stuttgart in 1957) presents two starkly contrasted sides of his musical personality: three of them, for voice and organ, are concerned with the spiritual – two even addressing head-on the issue of death itself – and are thus solemn and hieratic, whereas the concluding work is a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek set of variations on ‘Happy Birthday’, written as a present for Ruoff’s publisher on his 80th birthday.