PAKM008:
Old Netherlands Masters - Early Music for Organ
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Flor
Peeters, Organ of the Church of St. Jans, Gouda
Recorded in 1952, originally
released on
Nixa LP PLP 239
(Duration 34'10")
Dufay
(1395-1474) - Alma Redemptoris Mater
Ockeghem
(1430-1495) - Fuga Trium Vocum
Obrecht
(1430-1505) - Ein Frölich Wesen
Isaac
(1450-1517) - Gott, Lass Dich Erbarmen
Josquin
Des Près (1450-1521) - Canzona
Willaert
(1490-1562) - Ricercare
Demonte
(1521-1603) - Canzona
Sweelinck
(1562-1621) - Fantasie met Echowerk
Cornet
(1562-1626) - Fantasie op den 8sten Toon
Van
Der Kerckhoven (1627-1673) - Preludium en
Fuga in D
(Note
- some dates are speculative - taken from the original LP sleeve)
Play
sample:
An
old question asks you to name six famous Belgians. Hmm. An author, a cyclist,
a singer... then many people's list runs out. Perhaps they should also
remember a Belgian musician: Flor Peeters.
There
can't be many organists whose portrait has graced a Nation's postage stamps.
But this was only one of a great many honours and tributes to performer,
conductor, teacher, and composer Franciscus Florentinus Peeters. Born
on 4 July 1903 in Tielen, near Turnhout (and later made an honorary citizen
of that town), he died at Antwerp on his birthday in 1986. In the course
of a sixty-year career he had gained worldwide renown.
Flor Peeters
as composer is today represented in the CD catalogues though by only a
tiny fraction of his vast output, but what of Peeters as performer? Although
occasional LPs were released in the '50s and '60s, all have long ago been
deleted from the catalogues. Search, and we believe you won't find any
recording of his currently available - until now!
In the
early fifties Flor Peeters recorded, for the Nixa Record Company, three
recitals at the organ of the church of St. Jans, in Gouda (of cheese fame).
Of these recordings one included works by old English composers (and curiously
appears not to have been issued in the UK - though it may be we just haven't
looked hard enough); one was of the music of early Italian composers;
and the third, our reissue, was of the music of the "Old Netherlands
Masters".
One reason
for any difficulty in listing 'famous Belgians', perhaps, is that Belgium
as we know it today is a relatively young country. At the beginning of
the fifteenth century it was a part of a much larger entity: the Netherlands,
which included part of what today is Northern France as well as Belgium,
Luxembourg, and Holland, and though this union was broken at the end of
the sixteenth century, the term remained in widespread use in Europe.
Using the
term 'Netherlands' allows Peeters a much larger geographical area than
just 'Holland', and each of the ten tracks on this release is by a different
composer. They are presented in roughly chronological sequence, from a
motet of Guillame Dufay (1395-1474) to a preludium of Van Der Kerckhoven
(1627-1673) which foreshadows Bach and Buxtehude.
Flor
Peeters tailors his use of the capabilities of the St Jans organ to complement
the development of the compositional styles, from using single and simple
stops to unleashing many of the 4,000-plus pipes on this 1730s instrument.
The 1952 recording captures fine detail as well as the ambience of the
venue, though we suspect that the engineers didn't expect that the sound
of the truck driving off outside would be audible - and it wasn't, until
revealed by our restoration!
This is
a highly unusual, eclectic, and pleasurable recital and we recommend it
not only to aficionados of the 'king of instruments' but to anyone who
loves music and would like to venture into less familiar territory. We're
delighted to be able to make this unique recording available once again.
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There
can't be many organists whose portrait has graced a Nation's postage stamps.
But this was only one of a great many honours and tributes to performer,
conductor, teacher, and composer Franciscus Florentinus Peeters. Born
on 4 July 1903 in Tielen, near Turnhout (and later made an honorary citizen
of that town), he died at Antwerp on his birthday in 1986. In the course
of a sixty-year career he had gained worldwide renown.
Flor
Peeters tailors his use of the capabilities of the St Jans organ to complement
the development of the compositional styles, from using single and simple
stops to unleashing many of the 4,000-plus pipes on this 1730s instrument.
The 1952 recording captures fine detail as well as the ambience of the
venue, though we suspect that the engineers didn't expect that the sound
of the truck driving off outside would be audible - and it wasn't, until
revealed by our restoration!
