Credits:

KRAYBILL,JAN

Description:

What a colorful sound! Orchestral works performed by organ soloists on SACD hybrid disc. Reference Recordings, a long-established American label with high sound quality, presents an interesting album of organ solo performances of well-known orchestral works from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The pieces on this album respect the individuality of the original works and express the color of the arranger through the pipe organ, the "king of musical instruments. Tchaikovsky's Coronation March and Mendelssohn's Scherzo, which are matched with the presence of the imposing organ, Barber's Adagio for strings and Wagner's Whispering in the Woods, which have a delicate and exquisite sound, and Finlandia, which makes the most of the heavy bass sound of the organ from the 32-foot pipe. Jan Kreibil, who knows the large organ of the Herzberg Hall with its 79 stops and 5,548 pipes, presents colorful organ sounds with his excellent technique. King International