50°45'33.4"n 13°47'30.3"E (Bach Organ Landscapes - Steinberg, Geising) Jörg Halubek

• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Organ Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596:
• 1 Vivaldi, Bach: Organ Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596: I. (Allegro) - Grave - Fuga (After Vivaldi's RV 565) 05:02
• 2 Vivaldi, Bach: Organ Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596: II. Largo e spiccato (After Vivaldi's RV 565) 03:03
• 3 Vivaldi, Bach: Organ Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596: III. (Allegro) (After Vivaldi's RV 565) 03:14
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525:
• 4 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525: I. (Allegro moderato) 02:44
• 5 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525: II. Adagio 07:45
• 6 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525: III. Allegro 03:43
• Organ Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 526:
• 7 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 526 : I. Vivace 03:45
• 8 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 526 : II. Largo 03:44
• 9 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 526 : III. Allegro 04:17
• Organ Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528:
• 10 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528: I. Adagio - Vivace 02:49
• 11 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528: II. Andante 04:58
• 12 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528: III. Un poco Allegro 02:40
• Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Concerto in C Major, BWV 594:
• 13 Vivaldi, Bach: Organ Concerto in C Major, BWV 594: I. (No Tempo) (After Vivaldi's RV 208) 07:09
• 14 Vivaldi, Bach: Organ Concerto in C Major, BWV 594: II. Recitativ. Adagio (After Vivaldi's RV 208) 02:54
• 15 Vivaldi, Bach: Organ Concerto in C Major, BWV 594: III. Allegro (After Vivaldi's RV 208) 08:16
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Concerto in G Major, BWV 592:
• 16 Bach: Organ Concerto in G Major, BWV 592: I. (Allegro) 03:33
• 17 Bach: Organ Concerto in G Major, BWV 592: II. Grave 02:45
• 18 Bach: Organ Concerto in G Major, BWV 592: III. Presto 02:03
• Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530:
• 19 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530: I. Vivace 04:07
• 20 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530: II. Lente 07:20
• 21 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530: III. Allegro 03:40
• Organ Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529:
• 22 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529: I. Allegro 05:18
• 23 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529: II. Largo 05:28
• 24 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529: III. Allegro 04:03
• Organ Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, BWV 527:
• 25 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, BWV 527: I. Andante 05:27
• 26 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, BWV 527: II. Adagio e dolce 03:52
• 27 Bach: Organ Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, BWV 527: III. Vivace 04:09
• Organ Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593:
• 28 Bach: Organ Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593: I. Allegro (Or Tempo Giusto) (After Vivaldi's RV 522) 04:08
• Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593:
• 29 Vivaldi, Bach: Organ Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593: II. Adagio Senza Pedale a Due Claviere (After Vivaldi's RV 522) 03:49
• 30 Vivaldi, Bach: Organ Concerto in A Minor, BWV 593: III. Allegro (After Vivaldi's RV 522) 04:11
• Total Runtime 02:09:56

Info for 50°45'33.4"n 13°47'30.3"E (Bach Organ Landscapes - Steinberg, Geising)

Trio sonatas, composed between 1727 and 1732, and concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, transcribed for the organ, composed in Weimar and played on the organ in the village church in Rothenkirchen (Steinberg) by the Trampeli brothers (1796) and the organ in the town church in Geising by Johann Daniel Ranft (1755-1757).

With his project "Bach Organ Landscapes", Jörg Halubek aims for nothing less than a complete recording of Bach's organ works. In doing so, he unfolds an impressive panorama of organ landscapes and organ building traditions. Since 2020, he has portrayed twelve different places and their unique organs on seven double albums. With a careful eye for the unique cultural heritage of the instruments of the Bach regions, he is searching for the original Bach sound. A rich collection of digital material accompanies the publication: organ-landscapes.com

Bach's music library was gigantic. He was particularly interested in the Italian composers of his time, whom he studied intensively. His admiration for the Italian masters was reflected in the organ transcriptions of the concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, among others. Jörg Halubek now devotes himself to these arrangements by Bach and his trio sonatas on "Bach Organ Landscapes" Vol. 8: "The organs need cantability and many colors in order to be able to register the trio sonatas in a varied way. The virtuoso, filigree nature of the trio sonatas does not seem to me to be intended for a large, solemn organ; it is about chamber music," says Jörg Halubek. He therefore chose the organ in the village church in Rothenkirchen (Steinberg) by the Trampeli brothers from 1796 and the organ in the town church in Geising by Johann Daniel Ranft, which was built between 1755 and 1757. "I chose more remote organ builders who are directly connected to the Silbermann school, developing it further or contrasting it: The organ of Silbermann's student Trampeli in Rothenkirchen and also the organ by Ranft in Geising have numerous 8' colors, already moving into a cantable, rounder intonation. These two instruments touched me very much. In Rothenkirchen every register sings. The organ has sound, personality."

The harpsichordist, conductor and organist Jörg Halubek is one of the most versatile artists on the music scene. In recent years he has performed primarily as "Maestro al Cembalo", including with his orchestra il Gusto Barocco and on international guest performances. His expertise in dealing with early music is demonstrated by numerous recordings, including Georg Friedrich Handel/Georg Philipp Telemann's "Cleofida" (2022) or Johann David Heinichen's "Flavio" as well as Bach's violin sonatas with Leila Schayegh. A recording of the premiere of Sigismund Kusser's unknown baroque opera "Adonis" was released with il Gusto Barocco on January 30, 2024 by cpo.

Jörg Halubek, (Trampeli organ, village church Rothenkirchen, Ranft organ, town church Geising)

Jörg Halubek
studied church music, organ and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg with Jon Laukvik and Robert Hill. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he specialized in period performance practice with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon. He won first prize in the 2014 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in the Organ category.

In recent years, Jörg Halubek appeared in the first place as “Maestro al Cembalo”. As guest artist, Jörg Halubek directed from the harpsichord at such venues as the Komische Oper Berlin, Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Handel Festival in Halle, Innsbruck’s Festival Weeks of Early Music, the Wuppertal Opera and the Stuttgart Liederhalle. As guest conductor since 2012 at Kassel’s Staatstheater he is regularly in charge of opera productions, directing such works as Mozart’s “Lucio Silla”, Gluck’s “Iphigénie” and Handel’s “Saul”. His particular concern is for the dramatic relevance of the historical material and he is a strong advocate of making full use of early music’s freedoms in one’s interpretation.

Directing Il Gusto Barocco, the Baroque ensemble he founded, he was invited to bring it to the 2019 Bach Week in Ansbach as festival orchestra and was very well received. 2021 promises the continuation with “L’Orfeo” of the Mannheim Monteverdi cycle he began with Il Gusto Barocco in 2017. Jörg Halubek has extended his discoveries of forgotten operas and opera arrangements, documented in the recent CD release of his premiere recording of Johann David Heinichen’s “Flavio Crispo”, with his 2020 concertante staging of “Cleofida” – Handel’s opera “Poro, Re dell’Indie” in the arrangement by Georg Philipp Telemann with German-language recitatives – in Stuttgart’s Wilhelma-Theater and at the Early Music Days in Herne.

His expertise in the field of early music is well demonstrated by his prizewinning recordings of works for keyboard instruments and violin by Johann Sebastian Bach (2016) and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2014) with Baroque violinist Leila Schayegh. Jörg Halubek has been Professor for Organ and Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule since 2016.

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