Kaczor

«Beethoven ? But did he ever compose anything for the organ?» We do not know the exact answer to this question. Yet the theme of Beethoven’s relationship to the “King of Instruments” has time and again occupied, indeed fascinated musicologists, but above all organists. Why is this? Is it the hardly conceivable idea that the composer only wrote very little for the organ and above all – compared to his work overall – little of note? To supply proof that Beethoven bequeathed us compositions that – if indeed not expressly composed for organ – nonetheless may outstandingly be performed on the instrument of his youthful years for which he like many young people felt considerable fascination: such is the aim of the present recording…

Maria-Magdalena Kaczor plays works by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Georg Boehm, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Otto Barblan and Sigfrid Karg-Elert on six different organs: Zemmer, Niederehe, Beilstein, Waldkönigen, Kordel and Irrel.