Jan Lehtola - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Volume Five (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 78:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0709 | Recorded: 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 78:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0709 | Recorded: 2022
This final instalment of the organ compositions of Axel Ruoff (born in Stuttgart in 1957) presents two starkly contrasted sides of his musical personality: three of them, for voice and organ, are concerned with the spiritual – two even addressing head-on the issue of death itself – and are thus solemn and hieratic, whereas the concluding work is a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek set of variations on ‘Happy Birthday’, written as a present for Ruoff’s publisher on his 80th birthday.
