Retrospektiven

Featuring

Lukas Nagel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sigfrid Karg-Elert

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Compositional Technique

In his Music for Organ op. 145, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, a composer on this album, frequently embeds the B-A-C-H motif, a common practice in his works.

Composer Biography

Max Reger, a composer featured on this album, aimed to surpass his idol J.S. Bach in contrapuntal artistry, once boasting to his teacher that he varied a theme 32 times compared to Bach's 21.

Instruments

The Mühleisen organ in the Murrhardt Stadtkirche, built in 2019, reuses 45% of the pipes from the previous 1977 instrument by Helmut Bornefeld.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sigfrid Karg-Elert, one of the composers on this album, found high inspiration in the sound of French and English organs, believing they achieved the "ideal perfection" in reed stops and approached orchestral sound.

Composer Biography

Sigfrid Karg-Elert, a composer featured on this album, faced boycotts and was labeled a "Jew, traitor, and Bolshevik" in 1926 due to his international sympathies and use of French titles for his works.

Interpretation

Lukas Nagel, the organist on this album, created his own transcription of J.S. Bach's 1st Violin Sonata BWV 1001 for organ, incorporating an original organ fugue (BWV 539) as its second movement.

Composition History

The Trois Impressions op. 72 by Sigfrid Karg-Elert, dedicated to French organist Alexandre Guilmant, were his first original works for organ, completed in 1909.