Composer: Heikki Klemetti
Performer: Jan Lehtola
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0705
Release: 2024
Size: 661 MB
Recovery: +3%
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2 Organ Pieces, Op. 23
01. No. 1, Prelude
02. No. 2, Canzona
03. Canzona, Op. 44 No. 1
04. Festive Overture, Op. 44 No. 2
05. Laetare Jerusalem, Op. 44 No. 3
06. Cantilena, Op. 45 No. 3
07. Toccata, Op. 51 No. 1
08. Impromptu, Op. 51 No. 2
09. Cantilena, Op. 51 No. 3
010. Elegia, Op. 51 No. 4
011. Ad perennis vitae fontem
012. Prelude to Hymn No. 177 “O How Lovely”
013. Lullaby for a Responsory to Announcements
014. Kleines Präludium
015. Fantasy
016. Präludium
4 Organ Chorales
17. No. 1, Appeared to the Shepherds
18. No. 2, Day Turned to Evening
19. No. 3, God Is Our Refuge
20. No. 4, O Wondrous Wedding Hall
21. Toccata romantica
Heikki Klemetti (1876–1953) was one of the most important figures in the Finnish music of his day: author, organiser, musicologist, editor, educator, folksong collector and, above all, choral composer. His work as an organist and composer for the organ has largely been forgotten, an omission this first-ever album of his organ music seeks to correct. The influence of Ostrobothnian folksong can readily be heard, and there are obvious points of contact with the musical language of Sibelius, not least in the unemphatic dignity and nobility of the style, with the modal harmonies occasionally calling to mind another of Klemetti’s contemporaries: Vaughan Williams. International organ virtuoso Dr Jan Lehtola is one of the most successful and progressive Finnish organists of his generation. As well as a successful concert and academic career he has recorded for the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) and can be heard on more than 50 commercial recordings, many of them with Toccata Classics. Jan Lehtola studied the organ in Helsinki, Amsterdam, Stuttgart and with Naji Hakim in Paris. In 2000 he gave his Sibelius Academy debut recital and in 2005 he completed a Doctorate with his dissertation on Oskar Merikanto as a transmitter of European influences to Finland. He is also active as a lecturer, at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki, and a teacher of master-classes.