50°53'53.9"N 10°33'22.6"E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Waltershausen) Jörg Halubek

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
• 1 Praeludium pro Organo pleno, BWV 552/1 09:56
• 2 Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV 669 03:29
• 3 Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV 670 04:16
• 4 Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671 04:50
• 5 Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV 672 01:22
• 6 Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV 673 01:15
• 7 Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 674 01:29
• 8 Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 675 03:18
• 9 Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 676 05:14
• 10 Fughetta super Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 677 01:10
• 11 Dies sind die heiligen zehen Gebot, BWV 678 05:01
• 12 Fughetta super Dies sind die heiligen zehen Gebot, BWV 679 01:55
• 13 Wir gläuben all an einen Gott, BWV 680 03:17
• 14 Fughetta super Wir gläuben all an einen Gott, BWV 681 01:36
• 15 Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 682 06:56
• 16 Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 683 01:23
• 17 Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 684 04:09
• 18 Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 685 01:36
• 19 Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 686 05:32
• 20 Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 687 05:20
• 21 Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 688 03:53
• 22 Fuga super Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 689 04:19
• 23 Duetto I BWV 802 02:21
• 24 Duetto II BWV 803 03:25
• 25 Duetto III BWV 804 02:35
• 26 Duetto IV BWV 805 03:30
• 27 Fuga pro Organo pleno BWV 552/2 06:55
• Total Runtime 01:40:02

Info for 50°53'53.9"N 10°33'22.6"E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Waltershausen)

For this album Jörg Halubek selected selected Bach’s “Third Part of the Keyboard Exercise” – one of the rare collections of organ music that Bach set in print in his own lifetime (1739). The collection captivates him with its visionary compositional approach and a refreshingly pragmatic approach to printed layout that can still be appreciated today (cf. Gregory Butler, 1990). The compositional vision of the Clavierübung is linked for Halubek with the visionary element of Trost’s organ aesthetic. Bach thought highly of him – and will have appreciated his experiments with tone colours. As ever, a nobly dignified plenum forms the central pillar of the organ sound. Both mixtures contain thirds, resulting in combination with the softened middle register in a certain sharpness of sound, but also the clear, eloquent transparency of polyphonic works. The spatial acoustic has very little reverberation even in an empty church and is very clear. Apart from the plenum, the organ specification is mainly characterized by a wealth of eight-foot and four-foot stops: there are six 8' flue stops and three 4' flues in the Hauptwerk alone, among them a tremulant. The fine nuances in these sensitive timbres are an invitation to interpreters to experiment and to hear with new ears.

Jörg Halubek, organ

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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