Tobias Frank performs two organ symphonies by Charles-Marie Widor and Louis Vierne on his new CD release: Widor\u2019s Symphony no. 5, op. 42\/1, and Vierne\u2019s Symphony no. 6, op. 59. Both works could hardly be more contrasting: Widor glamorously takes on the challenge of the new instrumental genre, while Vierne\u2019s highly emotional composition is saturated in biographical detail. The genre of the French organ symphony sets its magnificent foundation-stone with Widor\u2019s op. 42\/1 in 1878, and comes to a dignified closure with Vierne\u2019s op. 59 fifty-two years later. For his recording, Tobias Frank selected the organ at the St-Matthias-Kirche in Berlin: a grandiose instrument with the sound-palette of a pseudo-French cathedral organ. As one of the few large-scale organs of the early years of the West German Federal Republic, until today, it can be considered \u201cen vogue\u201d down to the smallest detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tobias Frank performs two organ symphonies by Charles-Marie Widor and Louis Vierne on his new CD release: Widor\u2019s Symphony no. 5, op. 42\/1, and Vierne\u2019s Symphony no. 6, op. 59. Both works could hardly be more contrasting: Widor glamorously takes on the challenge of the new instrumental genre, while Vierne\u2019s highly emotional composition is saturated … Continue reading Widor & Vierne: |Organ Symphonies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1315],"tags":[963,965,964],"class_list":["post-10173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choir","category-music","tag-alessandro-scarlatti","tag-frank-markowitsch","tag-vokalakademie-berlin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}