D’Arcy Trinkwon - Flor Peeters: Organ Music (2011)

Tracklist

01. Concert Piece, Op. 52a
02. Aria, Op. 51
03. Suite modale, Op. 43: I. Koraal
04. Suite modale, Op. 43: II. Scherzo
05. Suite modale, Op. 43: III. Adagio
06. Suite modale, Op. 43: IV. Toccata
07. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Theme. Moderato
08. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Var. 1. Andante
09. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Var. 2. Allegretto
10. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Var. 3. Vivo scherzando
11. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Var. 4. Lento
12. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Var. 5. Allegro vivo
13. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Var. 6. Adagio
14. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Var. 7. Allegro con spirito
15. Variations & Finale on an Old Flemish Song, Op. 20: Var. 8, Toccata-Finale. Molto allegro
16. 10 Orgelchoräle, Op. 39: III. Nun sei willkommen, Jesus, lieber Herr
17. 10 Orgelchoräle, Op. 39: V. Maria sollte nach Bethlehem gehn
18. Elégie, Op. 38
19. Toccata, Fugue & Hymn on Ave maris stella, Op. 28: I. Toccata
20. Toccata, Fugue & Hymn on Ave maris stella, Op. 28: II. Fugue
21. Toccata, Fugue & Hymn on Ave maris stella, Op. 28: III. Hymn
22. Lied Symphony, Op. 66: III. Lied to the Flowers
23. Lied Symphony, Op. 66: V. Lied to the Sun

The Flemish composer-organist Flor Peeters was celebrated in his lifetime with a concert career that took him all around Europe, as well as to America, South Africa and Australia, while remaining the organist of St Rombout’s Cathedral in Mechelen. He was trained as a Catholic church musician and Gregorian chant and the medieval modes remained a lifelong inspiration for his music.

His mature music is often described as neoclassical, and most of it is essentially polyphonic, with an emphasis on simplicity and clarity, transparent linear textures and pungent, incisive tone-colours. Peeters was an almost exact contemporary of Maurice Duruflé, who shared his love of plainsong and the modes. But where Duruflé, with a typically French sensibility, conjured subtle impressionist soundscapes from his modal language, Peeters preferred sharper contours and brighter colours—Van Gogh, perhaps, compared with Duruflé’s Monet.

This disc includes a wide selection of his works for organ, encompassing large-scale concert works as well as some of his many chorale preludes. Peeters’ vast and expertly crafted oeuvre—matched in its size and scope only by a handful of other organ composers – displays great contrast and imagination.

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