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MATTIAS WAGER ORGAN TREASURES SACD |
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Organ Treasures is like a small concert also for those who prefer melodic, soft
and cozy organ music, but who never earlier "dared" to buy an organ recording,
while so much organ music can be both difficult and complex. We will hear four
known works by Bach, but also music by less known composers, but who also
composed harmonic and cozy organ music, like Pierne and Elert.
From Ives, we can enjoy his entertaining and virtuous arrangement of "God save
the Queen," i.e. "Variations of America." The Recording is rounded off by
Widor's very famous Toccata!
Opus 3 is happy to once again record Mattias Wager, who was part of the duo on
"Live at Vatnajokull" and also participated on the SACD "Musica Sacra."
Super Audio CD - 4.1
This is the first SACD where Opus 3 uses the bass channel (LFE) and the reasons
for this is a very strong case! In order to give this recording full justice,
this is a true 4.1 recording, which means that we have taken the advantage of
the bass channel, i.e. the channel that feeds the sub-woofer, while no normal
speakers can reproduce the very deep bass that the organ in Hedvig Eleonoras
church in Stockholm have - i.e. to down below 30Hz.
In order to do this in the best possible way, we asked Mr. Jorgen Thuresson to
custom make a special crossover network based on the Linkwitz-Riley principal,
at 24dB per octave with a crossover frequency at 60Hz. This frequency has been
chosen in order to be able to use like more normal high quality front speakers,
without destroying the total bass reproduction, i.e. that the matching to the
sub-woofers works well.
Features:
• Stereo & Multi-Channel SACD with Outstanding Sound Quality
• This Hybrid SACD is playable on ALL CD Players!
Selections:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
1. Toccata & Fugue in D. Minor
2. Jesus bleibet meine Freude
3. Sinfonia, from Cantata 29
4. Air
Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
5. Piece Heroique
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
6. Variations on "America"
Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937)
Trois pieces op 29:
7. Prelude
8. Cantilene
9. Scherzando de concert
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1937)
10. Valse Mignonne op 142:2
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
11. Toccata from Symphony no 5
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