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Marcel Dupre - Organ Works, Volume 5 - Ben van Oosten (2003) {MDG 316 0955-2}
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© 2003 MDG | MDG 316 0955-2
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

This CD is really of excellent quality - musically like a record, and of course Ben van Oosten played here at the highest level. Dupre definitely knew what he was doing. This music is reminiscent of art rock and perfectly demonstrates the potential of the instrument. This is music of great size and monumentality. I think that with the help of this music it is impossible to achieve the same sound and the same scale on every other instrument. For some pieces of music on this CD, I like Ben van Osten's performance much better than Michael Murray's.

Marcel Dupre - Organ Works, Volume 6 - Ben van Oosten (2004) {MDG 316 1288-2}
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© 2004 MDG | MDG 316 1288-2
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

As a retired organist, I love hearing this composers beautiful music played to perfection. Ben van Oosten (born 1955 in The Hague, Netherlands) is an organist, professor and author. Ben van Oosten gave his first organ recital in 1970 at the age of 15. He was accepted at the prestigious Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and studied the organ with Albert de Klerk and piano with Berthe Davelaar. He graduated cum laude in 1979 with a diploma in organ solo.

This disc will benefit from a strong curiosity factor, for the Goldberg who composed the music here is indeed the one for whom J.S. Bach is said to have composed his monumental Goldberg Variations for harpsichord, BWV 988. The story goes that the Russian ambassador to the Dresden court, one Count von Keyserlingk, had insomnia and wanted a long, gentle work that could be played by his house keyboardist, the then teenaged Goldberg, in the next room.

Marcel Dupre - Organ Works, Volume 7 - Ben van Oosten (2005) {MDG 316 1289-2}
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© 2005 MDG | MDG 316 1289-2
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

Here is a very interesting recording devoted to little-known works, in particular inventions, rich in teaching (as always with Dupré), both in terms of writing and instrumental playing. And performed, like the rest of this magnificent complete, with the seriousness, rigor, inspiration and talent of Ben Van Oosten.

Marcel Dupre - Organ Works, Volume 10 - Ben van Oosten (2008) {MDG 316 1292-2}
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© 2008 MDG | MDG 316 1292-2
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

We present volume 10 of this excellent series of organ music by Marcel Dupré (1886-1971). Ben van Oosten plays The William Hill organ in Birmingham’s neoclassical city hall built in 1834.

Marcel Dupre - Organ Works, Volume 8 - Ben van Oosten (2007) {MDG 316 1290-2}
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© 2007 MDG | MDG 316 1290-2
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

On Vol. 8 of his recording of Dupre's complete organ works, Ben Van Oosten presents four magnificent works from the composer's middle period, performed on the Beuchet-Debierre organ in Angouleme. I'm sure the neighbors are disappointed in my purchase. I rather enjoy rattling the walls with this one. The instrument is magnificent and the performances more than competent.

Marcel Dupre - Organ Works, Volume 9 - Ben van Oosten (2008) {MDG 316 1291-2}
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© 2008 MDG | MDG 316 1291-2
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen in 1886. His father, Albert Dupré (who in 1911 became holder of the great organs of the Saint-Ouen abbey church in Rouen) began his son's musical training very early on. At the age of four, he developed osteomyelitis and had to have his right collarbone removed and stay in bed for more than six months. He began to work with Alexandre Guilmant in 1897; and the following year, at the age of eleven, he became holder of the great organ of Saint Vivien in Rouen.

Marcel Dupre - Organ Works, Volume 12 - Ben van Oosten (2010) {MDG 316 1294-2}
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© 2010 MDG | MDG 316 1294-2
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

Ben Van Oosten is a major star in the Organ World. He has recorded many complete works for organ. The Dupre series is very well played. One of van Oosten's greatest strengths is in full evidence: his ability to find the melody, anywhere, any time. The piece (even when struggling with the metronome) sings at his hands! Only amateurs and connoisseurs of organ music know this exceptional French composer, surely one of the most important of the XXth Century … It is necessary to discover it and for those who do not know him the CD is a good way to access his work….

Marcel Dupre - Organ Works, Volume 11 - Ben van Oosten (2010) {MDG 316 1293-2}
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© 2010 MDG | MDG 316 1293-2
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

Ben Van Oosten is a major star in the Organ World. He has recorded many complete works for organ. The Dupre series is very well played. One of van Oosten's greatest strengths is in full evidence: his ability to find the melody, anywhere, any time. The piece (even when struggling with the metronome) sings at his hands! Only amateurs and connoisseurs of organ music know this exceptional French composer, surely one of the most important of the XXth Century … It is necessary to discover it and for those who do not know him the CD is a good way to access his work….

John Cage - Complete Piano Music, Vols. 1-10 - Steffen Schleiermacher (2004) {18CD Set MDG 613 1731-2 rec 1997-2002}
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© 1997-2002, 2004 Musikproduktion Dabringhaus Und Grimm | MDG 613 1731-2
Classical / Contemporary Classical / Piano

Steffen Schleiermacher's monumental traversal of the complete piano music of John Cage will be essential for the collection of any fan of the composer's, unless he or she has already purchased the previously released ten volumes (a total of 18 discs) that are boxed together here and reissued in recognition of the composer's 100th anniversary in 2012. The 20-hour compilation is a testimony to Cage's hugely prolific output, and certainly constitutes one of the most significant collections of keyboard music of the 20th century. There could hardly be a more sympathetic and skillful interpreter of Cage's oeuvre than German pianist/composer Steffen Schleiermacher.