Michael Unger - Organ Recital: Unger, Michael - Buxtehude, D. - Bach, J.S. - Litaize, G. - Widor, C.-M. - Messiaen, O. 8 (2009)

Tracklist

01. Prelude and Fugue In e Minor, BuxWV 142
02. An Wasserflussen Babylon, BWV 653
03. Allein Gott In Der Hoh Sei Ehr, BWV 662
04. Prelude and Fugue In a Minor, BWV 543
05. 12 Organ Pieces: No. 1. Prelude
06. Prelude and Danse Fugue
07. Organ Symphony No. 7, Op. 42, No. 3: II. Choral: Andante
08. La Nativite Du Seigneur: IX. Dieu Parmi Nous

Canadian-born Michael Unger is a multi-award winner, including First Prize in the 2008 Sixth International Organ Competition Musashino-Tokyo, Japan, and First and Audience Prize in the 2008 American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artists Competition. The music chosen for his début Naxos recital follows a kind of spiritual progression from death to life, beginning with a dramatic baroque depiction of death’s dance (Praeludium in E, Buxtehude), and concluding with an exuberant twentieth-century affirmation of religious incarnation (Dieu parmi nous, Messiaen). Michael Unger performs extensively, and is also a church musician, chamber musician and published composer.

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