Paradies: Liebe

Petr Eben - Das Orgelwerk, Volume 5 - Gunther Rost (2006) {2CD Set, Motette MOT12954}
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© 2006 Motette | MOT 12954
Classical / 20th Century / Organ

PETR EBEN is one of the leading composers of our time. The entire work is complete with this recording. Gert Westphal, one of the most renowned German speakers, supports Gunther Rost, who plays on the Jann organs of the Waldsassen Abbey Basilica.

These performances are not, to be sure, historically informed, nor are they fashionably chamber-like. The Thomanerchor is traditionally large (and all male), and it is accompanied in four of the 11 discs by the Gewandhaus Orchestra and in the remaining seven by the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. The roster of the latter is not listed, but, like the Gewandhaus Orchestra, its players use modern instruments and are not adverse to vibrato. On the other hand, Rotzsch does avoid, for the most part, languid tempos and extravagant gestures. The young men of the Thomanerchor are well trained and attentive and make, collectively, a joyfully controlled noise. The orchestral players and instrumental soloists, too, are beyond reproach. Similarly, Rotzsch’s soloists are top-drawer. Among the latter, Arleen Augér, Otrun Wenkel, Peter Schreier, and Hermann Christian Polster make the most frequent appearances, but the others, including the likes of Regina Werner, Doris Soffel, Theo Adam, and Siegfried Lorenz, are splendid as well. Rotzsch, himself, sings on two of the discs (he is a tenor).

–George Chien