Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Four

Featuring

Jan Lehtola
Axel Ruoff

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Album & Artwork

This album is the fourth volume in a complete recording series of Axel Ruoff's organ music, featuring three major works.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Axel Ruoff considers all his organ works, including the 'Suite grotesque,' to be a 'profession of faith,' creating images in the church space that raise questions.

Composer Biography

Axel Ruoff's music has received numerous awards and has been performed at major international festivals, including Documenta Kassel, Espace Musique Ottawa, and the Tokyo Summer Festival.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Axel Ruoff's 'Suite grotesque' was intended as his 'definitive last work for solo organ,' a conscious swansong after more than 30 years of writing organ music.

Performer Biography

The performer, Dr. Jan Lehtola, is a successful Finnish organist who has given over 160 world and regional premieres and recorded more than 50 commercial albums.

Composer Biography

Axel Ruoff, the composer, studied composition, music theory, and piano in Stuttgart, Kassel, Helsinki, and Tokyo, and later became a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart.