Kodaly: Organ Works - Iain Quinn

This album brings together Kodály’s complete organ music with the world premiere recording of Ernő Dohnányi’s only piece for organ, the eloquent Fantasie. Sokola’s intense and compelling Passacaglia holds a special place in the organ repertoire, Wiedermann’s Pastorale dorico was composed during the dark days of the Second World War, and Novák’s attractive Prelude is a study in subdued tonal contrasts. Zoltán Kodály’s organ works have a distinct musical language unlike any other composer, with the imposing Organoedia ad missam lectam being amongst his most important non-choral works from the post-war era, and Epigrams, originally for voice and piano, heard here in a transcription by Gábor Trajtler.

1        Fantasie In C Minor (1892)
Composed By – Ernő Dohnányi*
2        Preludium Na Valašskou Píseň (1949 Or Before)
Composed By – Vítězslav Novák
3        Pastorale Dorico (1942)
Composed By – Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann
Epigrammák (‘Epigrams’) (1954)
Arranged By – Gábor Trajtler
Composed By – Zoltán Kodály
4        No. 1    
5        No. 2    
6        No. 3    
7        No. 4    
8        No. 5    
9        No. 6    
10        No. 7    
11        No. 8    
12        No. 9    
13        Praeludium In D Flat Major (1931)
Composed By – Zoltán Kodály
Csendes Mise (‘Low Mass’) ‘Organoedia Ad Missam Lectam’ (1940–42, Rev. 1966)
Composed By – Zoltán Kodály
14        Introitus    
15        Kyrie    
16        Gloria    
17        Credo    
18        Sanctus    
19        Benedictus    
20        Agnus Dei    
21        Ite Missa Est    
22        Passacaglia Quasi Toccata Na Téma B–A–C–H (1963)
Composed By – Miloš Sokola