Sweelinck / Scheidt organ music

Sweelinck & Scheidt: Oeuvres pour orgue

Aude Heurtematte
Studio SM (Vox Humana) 12 20.80

Contents:

1. Sweelinck: Allein Gott in der Höh sei ehr
2. Sweelinck: Onder een linde groen
3. Sweelinck: Engelsche Fortuyn
4. Sweelinck: Malle Sijmen
5. Sweelinck: Echo Fantasia
6. Sweelinck: Fantasia (No. 4, Leonhardt edition)
7. Scheidt: Cantio Sacra "Warum betrüßt du dich, mein herz"
8. Scheidt: Variationen über eine gagliarda von John Dowland
9. Scheidt: Magnificat 9. toni
10. Scheidt: Modus ludendi pleno organo pedaliter

Instrument: L'orgue Jürgen Ahrend du Musée des Augustins Toulouse (rebuilt 1982)

Playing time: 70'

Recording date: September 1991

Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) was Sweelinck's most important student and one of the leaders of the early German Baroque. The present pieces are taken from his massive Tabulatura Nova of 1624 (the first in Germany to use the 5-line staff notation), a seminal document of the North German organ school later perfected by Buxtehude.

Scheidt's keyboard music still shows some English influence, but begins to sound distinctly German.

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