HAVPCD230 – Commotio
January 1st, 1998
HAVPCD230 – Commotio Early 20th-century European Organ Music
It is a curious fact that large and important areas of the organ repertoire are entirely peripheral to the main stream of musical history. There are, of course, glorious exceptions – J.S. Bach for one; then Mendelssohn, Franck, Reger and Messiaen. But who outside the organ-loft knows the music of Widor, Vierne or Dupré, Rheinberger, Karg-Elert or Howells, satisfying though much of it may be? yet there are great riches to be found in 20th-century organ music, beyond the traditional canons of the French and German organist-composers.
