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Castle Concerts CD Series
ORGAN GLORIOSA
In honour of the Prince of Homburg
Urike Northoff presents on the historical Great Buergy-Organ in the Bad Homburg Castle Church Bad Homburg (Germany):
Johann Sebastian Bach ~ Fantasia et Fuga "The Great" Georg Muffat ~ Passacaglia in G minor Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ~ Sonata No. IV Christian Heinrich Rinck ~ Flute Concerto for Organ Op. 55 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ~ Organ Sonata No. IV, Op. 65

A recording at the Castle Church Bad Homburg for the Castle Concert Series, June 2006, recorded, produced and created by Andreas Otto Grimminger & Josef-Stefan Kindler in co-operation with Volker Northoff.
Recording & Mastering Engineer: Andreas Otto Grimminger. Photos & Illustrations: Josef-Stefan Kindler.
Audio-CD, ca. 56 minutes, DDD

"Organ Gloriosa, a concert in honour of the Prince of Homburg - our first production involving the Great Buergy Organ in the Bad Homburg Castle Church is dedicated to him. During the recordings, the sound of the organ penetrated into the depths of the Landgrave family crypt, thus transforming the famous Prince along with his ancestors and descendants into an illustrious audience for this recital. May their goodwill go with this series of concerts and recording productions. Just imagine - a church full of shadows, a hard pew, gazing at the altar out there in front, waiting for the sound of the organ to come from far away, from heaven ... The popular way of listening to an organ concert. Yet I ask myself - what about the masters of an instrument like this? Composers like Bach and Mendelssohn - what were their feelings? What was the decisive factor that triggered their magnificent and profound compositions? Have you ever sat at a church organ? Staring at the manuals, in front of you the keys and the stops - and, stretching away behind you, the noble nave and transept of the church. Then, looking upwards, you see the mighty bass pipes that seem to tower over you, reaching up and up before losing themselves in the half-light of the vaulted ceiling... And now, the first hesitant touch of the keyboard, a resonant booming that uplifts the soul - and you immerse yourself in the sound of the organ, which has indeed rightly been christened the "Magic Horn of God". This is the approach we are taking with this presentation of the Buergy Organ. coming to you from the Bad Homburg Castle Church and featuring our virtuoso, Ulrike Northoff. We want to bring home to you the wonderful and powerful tones of this instrument - exactly as it sounded in the days of the old masters, when they sat at the keyboard of an organ and devised these compositions in honour of the Creator." (Josef-Stefan Kindler, Publisher)