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Jan Lehtola - Merikanto: Organ Works (2024)

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Jan Lehtola - Merikanto: Organ Works (2024)

Jan Lehtola - Merikanto: Organ Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:19:06 | 291 Mb
Genre: Classical

Oskar Merikanto (1868–1924) made an enormous contribution to music-making in Finland, and to organ music in particular, as teacher, virtuoso performer and authority on performance practice, reforming the approach to the organ in both church and concert- hall. It was thought that all of his organ music was known and recorded, but recent discoveries have added a number of previously unsuspected works to his catalogue: a striking concert fantasia, an early funeral march, some pedal studies, a vast series of chorale preludes – some of them beautifully crafted miniatures, others only aphoristic ideas – and an organ transcription of a piano piece by Mendelssohn. This release is timed to mark the centenary of his death, on 17 February 1924.

Jan Lehtola - Friedrich Lux: Organ Works, Volume 2 (2023)

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Jan Lehtola - Friedrich Lux: Organ Works, Volume 2 (2023)

Jan Lehtola - Friedrich Lux: Organ Works, Volume 2 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 274 Mb | Total time: 77:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC0703 | Recorded: 2022, 2023

Friedrich Lux (1820–95) was one of those musicians who formed the fabric of musical life in nineteenth-century Germany: though he worked away from the major cities, as conductor, teacher, organist, organiser and composer, he was an indispensable element of the communities in which he worked. His large body of organ music, as good as unknown before now, brings together elements of the musical language of Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann, in works that range from the intimate to the grandiose.This second volume brings some of his many transcriptions to the fore.

Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)

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Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)

Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:18:15 | 271 Mb
Genre: Classical

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.

Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Four (2023)

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Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Four (2023)

Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Four (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 84:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0672 | Recorded: 2021, 2022

The organ works of Axel Ruoff, born in Stuttgart in 1957, constitute one of the most important contributions to the literature for the instrument by any composer since Messiaen, with Ruoff often using its unparalleled resources to write music of extraordinary power and dramatic flair. This third volume in Jan Lehtola’s complete recording features the organ in the unusual role of duo partner in chamber music – but it is chamber music conceived on a symphonic scale. Here these five muscular duo works are separated by a series of weighty chorale preludes.

Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

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Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 77:26 | 177 / 273 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Friedrich Lux (1820–95) was one of those musicians who formed the fabric of musical life in nineteenth-century Germany: though he worked away from the major cities, as conductor, teacher, organist, organiser and composer, he was an indispensable element of the communities in which he worked. His large body of organ music, as good as unknown before now, brings together elements of the musical language of Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann, in works that range from the intimate to the grandiose.This second volume brings some of his many transcriptions to the fore.

Jan Lehtola - Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonies 3 & 8 (2011) [Historical Organs and Composers, Volume 2]

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Jan Lehtola - Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonies 3 & 8 (2011) [Historical Organs and Composers, Volume 2]

Jan Lehtola - Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonies 3 & 8 (2011)
Historical Organs and Composers, Volume 2

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 323 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 189 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Alba | # ABCD306 | Time: 01:17:40

Charles-Marie Widor is one of the most important composers for organ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jan Lehtola is one the most successful and progressive Finnish organists of his generation.

Jan Lehtola - Kalevi Aho: Ludus Solemnis, Music for and with Organ (2014)

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Jan Lehtola - Kalevi Aho:  Ludus Solemnis, Music for and with Organ (2014)

Jan Lehtola - Kalevi Aho: Ludus Solemnis, Music for and with Organ (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 246 Mb | Total time: 62:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1966 | Recorded: 2010, 2013

A companion to Jan Lehtolas previous recording of Kalevi Ahos monumental organ symphony Alles Vergängliche, the present disc includes five smaller pieces by Aho for organ solo, as well as three compositions for organ and one or two other instruments. First performed at the wedding of his sister, the two brief wedding marches were the first pieces that Aho wrote for the organ, and like the later Wedding Music they are kept in a tonal idiom as the composer writes in his own liner notes: I did not want to distract attention from the bride and groom, but rather to create a suitable atmosphere.

Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Music for Organ, Volume One (2020)

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Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Music for Organ, Volume One (2020)

Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Music for Organ, Volume One (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 78:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0567 | Recorded: 2020

The organ works of Axel Ruoff, born in Stuttgart in 1957, constitute one of the most important contributions to the literature for the instrument by any composer since Messiaen. Stylistically, his music unites the French cathedral tradition of composers like Langlais, Dupré and Guillou with the concern with counterpoint and logic heard in Reger and later German figures. Like Messiaen, Ruoff often finds stimulus in religious sources; unlike him, it is biblical narrative that inspires many of Ruoff’s works, and he uses the unparalleled resources of the modern symphonic organ in his response to some of the most dramatic scenes in the Old Testament, writing music of freewheeling energy and uncompromising power.

Jan Lehtola - Marie Joseph Erb: Organ Works, Volume 1 (2023)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Jan Lehtola - Marie Joseph Erb: Organ Works, Volume 1 (2023)

Jan Lehtola - Marie Joseph Erb: Organ Works, Volume 1 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 73:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0691 | Recorded: 2021, 2022

The enormously prolific Marie Joseph Erb (1858–1944) has somehow escaped the attention of posterity, although the quality of his music is on a par with contemporary organist-composers whose works are far better known. Erb’s long life – he heard Berlioz conduct in 1863 and was still composing in 1944 – was focused on Strasbourg, where he was active as pianist, organist and professor, though he had studied in Paris, with Faure, Gigout, Saint-Saëns and Widor, and later with Liszt in Weimar. This first album devoted to his organ music in almost 30 years sandwiches four lyrical chamber works between two towering sonatas.

Jan Lehtola - Friedrich Lux: Organ Works, Vol.1 (2022)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Jan Lehtola - Friedrich Lux: Organ Works, Vol.1 (2022)

Jan Lehtola - Friedrich Lux: Organ Works, Vol.1 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 275 Mb | Total time: 78:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0663 | Recorded: 2022

Friedrich Lux (1820–95) was one of the breed of musicians who bound together musical life in nineteenth-century Germany: though he worked away from the major cities, as conductor, teacher, organist, organiser and composer, he was an indispensable element of the communities in which he worked. His large body of organ music, as good as unknown before now, brings together elements of the musical language of Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann, in works that range from the intimate to the grandiose.

Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Three (2022)

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Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Three (2022)

Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Three (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 220 Mb | Total time: 65:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0610 | Recorded: 2020, 2021

The organ works of Axel Ruoff, born in Stuttgart in 1957, constitute one of the most important contributions to the literature for the instrument by any composer since Messiaen, with Ruoff often using its unparalleled resources to write music of extraordinary power and dramatic flair. This third volume in Jan Lehtola’s complete recording features the organ in the unusual role of duo partner in chamber music – but it is chamber music conceived on a symphonic scale. Here these five muscular duo works are separated by a series of weighty chorale preludes.

Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Two (2021)

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Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Two (2021)

Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Two (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 254 Mb | Total time: 83:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0596 | Recorded: 2020

The organ works of Axel Ruoff, born in Stuttgart in 1957, constitute one of the most important contributions to the literature for the instrument by any composer since Messiaen. Stylistically, his music unites the French cathedral tradition of composers like Langlais, Dupré and Guillou with the concern with counterpoint and logic heard in Reger and later German figures. Like Messiaen, Ruoff often finds stimulus in religious sources; unlike him, it is biblical narrative that inspires many of Ruoff’s works, and he uses the unparalleled resources of the modern symphonic organ in his responses to some of the most dramatic scenes in both Testaments, writing music of freewheeling energy and uncompromising power.

Jan Lehtola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccatas and Preludes & Fugues, arrangements by Max Reger (2021)

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Jan Lehtola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccatas and Preludes & Fugues, arrangements by Max Reger (2021)

Jan Lehtola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccatas and Preludes & Fugues, arrangements by Max Reger (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 77:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pilfink Records | # JJVCD-235 | Recorded: 2020

Johann Sebastian Bachin (1685–1750) musiikki tunnettiin hänen kuolemansa jälkeen pitkään lähinnä alan harrastajien keskuudessa. Felix Mendelssohnin (1809–1847) johtamasta Matteus-passion esityksestä Berliinissä 1829 alkoi Bach-renessanssi, joka nosti barokin mestarin suuren yleisön tietoisuuteen. Samalla Bachin teokset saivat alistua sovituksille, jotka olivat suosittuja aina 1900-luvulle saakka. Sovittaminen oli osa ajan esittämiskäytäntöä, sillä ennen autenttisuuskäsitteen syntyä kaikki musiikki sovitettiin vallitsevan tyylin mukaiseksi, ja niinpä myös Mendelssohnin johtama Matteus-passio oli mukautettu vastaamaan ajan musiikillis-esteettisiä haasteita.

Helsinki Chamber Choir, Jan Lehtola & Nils Schweckendiek - Riemuitkaamme!: A Finnish Christmas (2017)

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Helsinki Chamber Choir, Jan Lehtola & Nils Schweckendiek - Riemuitkaamme!: A Finnish Christmas (2017)

Helsinki Chamber Choir, Jan Lehtola & Nils Schweckendiek - Riemuitkaamme!: A Finnish Christmas (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 293 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 171 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:13:50
Classical, Choral | Label: BIS

Riemuitkaamme! is an imaginative and unconventional selection of choral music associated with Christmas as it is celebrated in Finland. Several of the pieces are by Finnish composers - Sibelius, Rautavaara and Madetoja, to name a few - while others have become part of the Christmas traditions of the country despite their international background. Among these Berlioz The Shepherds Farewell and Tchaikovskys Christ, when a Child are quite late additions compared to the medieval hymns Puernatusin Bethlehem, Ecce novum gaudium and Angelus emittitur. All three of these were included in the collection Piae cantiones from 1582, the oldest Finnish music publication. Here, they are performed in settings by various composers from different countries and eras forming a kind of soundtrack of Christmases past and present, distant and close. Contemporary music forms an important part of the activities of the Helsinki Chamber Choir and Nils Schweckendiek, and true to form, the team includes a world premiere recording in their celebrations: Aattoilta, by the Canadian-born composer Matthew Whittall.

Jan Lehtola - William Humphreys Dayas: Complete Organ Music (2016)

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Jan Lehtola - William Humphreys Dayas: Complete Organ Music (2016)

Jan Lehtola - William Humphreys Dayas: Complete Organ Music (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 261 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 153 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Toccata | # TOCC0285 | Time: 01:05:46

At the beginning of the twentieth century the American William Humphreys Dayas (1864-1903) was the leading professor of piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music. He was an important figure: he studied with Liszt, was friends with Busoni and became a major pedagogue, holding teaching posts in Helsinki, Wiesbaden and Cologne before he came to Manchester in 1895. Although Dayas left only a handful of compositions, two of them are major organ sonatas - passionate, Lisztian works that have remained completely unknown until now. Dayas also arranged for organ the Thème varié for piano four hands by another forgotten American composer, Arthur H. Bird (1856-1923), a further important addition to the late-Romantic organ repertoire. Dr Jan Lehtola is one the most successful and progressive Finnish organists of his generation. He has appeared with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Lahti Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic and Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestras and the St Michael Strings.