Composer: Eduard Adolf Tod, Carl Reinecke, August Gottfried Ritter, Ludwig Thuille
Performer: Jan Lehtola
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0505
Release: 2019
Size: 1.41 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Thuille: Organ Sonata Op. 2 in A minor
01. I. Praeludium
02. II. Andante
03. III. Fugue
Reinecke: Organ Sonata in G minor, Op. 284
04. I. Allegro serioso in tempo moderato
05. II. Lento
06. III. Allegro – Maestoso
07. Tod: Fantasie: Wie schön leucht’t uns der Morgenstern, Op. 4
08. Tod: Introduction und Fuge über das Benedicamus Domino
Tod: Organ Sonata in B flat major, Op. 3
09. I. Allegro
10. II. Allegretto
11. III. Adagio
12. IV. Fugue
13. Tod: Andante Religioso, op. 10
14. Ritter: Organ Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 23
In his short life (1839–72) Eduard Adolf Tod garnered a reputation as one of the finest organists of the day: Liszt praised his playing, and he gave a recital in the Royal Albert Hall in the very year of its opening. Most of Tod’s handful of works for the organ – solo and as a duo partner – have not been recorded before. Here they are joined by three other little-known German organ sonatas – by Ludwig Thuille, Carl Reinecke and August Ritter – to give an overview of the genre as it evolved from its well-behaved Mendelssohnian origins into late-Romantic grandeur.