Symphony No. 5: Gerd Schaller / Two Performances / Two Organs / Two Profil CDs !!
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Schaller has recorded the transcription at two locations: The Ebrach Abbey where many of his orchestral performances were recorded and now on the Cavaille-Coll Organ in Saint-Ouen, Rouen. For this special offer, you will get BOTH recordings at this special price - well below dealer cost!
Watch a fascinating video of Gerd Schaller playing a section of the Bruckner Fifth with spectacular videos of Ebrach Abbey. Click here.
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Gerd Schaller writes:
Bruckner’s Fifth is eminently suited to an arrangement for performance on the organ above all because of its musical texture. In no other Bruckner symphony, for example, does counterpoint play such an important part. I am thinking in particular of the great fugue in the final movement. It really does seem as if many passages of this magnificent work were composed as if with the organ in mind, even though the Fifth is not a piece for organ at all, being in the first place a symphonic work. And yet it lends itself admirably to the extraction of a compositional substrate with no loss of essential content. That cannot be said of all Bruckner’s symphonies. Of all his symphonies, in my opinion, the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth are most amenable to an arrangement for organ. Building on the compositional core, it is the orchestral treatment above all that plays a key role. If this is lacking, an arrangement of the work can deprive the work of its grandeur. That is again at risk if one attempts to copy the orchestra or to transpose certain orchestral effects one-to-one onto the organ. Such an approach is generally unsatisfactory, because organ writing is governed by different rules than those applying to orchestral scoring. It would be fatal to make the organ rival the orchestra. My aim from the start was to avoid imitating the orchestra and to create a work specifically for organ in the manner of an organ symphony.
