Description
Piet Kee – At St. Bavo, Haarlem / Xenophone Audio CD 1988 Stereo
UPC 5999048920546
88522
Tracklist:
1 | Prelude Fugue In E Minor
Music By – Nicolaus Bruhns |
9:22 |
2 | Chorale Prelude On "Herr Jesu Christ, Dich Zu Uns Wend!" BWV 632
Music By – J.S. Bach |
2:04 |
3 | Chorale Prelude On "O Mensch, Bewein' Dein Suende Gross", BWV 622 Music By – J.S. Bach |
6:19 |
4 | Prelude & Fugue In D
Music By – Dietrich Buxtehude |
6:34 |
5 | Sonata No. 2 For Organ
Music By – Felix Mendelssohn |
10:54 |
6 | Praeludium
Music By – Zoltán Kodály |
5:19 |
7 |
Chorale Prelude "Aus Tiefer Not Schrei Ich Zu Dir"
Music By – Piet Kee |
4:21 |
8 | Fantasia On "Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme"
Music By – Piet Kee |
4:35 |
- Organ – Piet Kee
- Producer – Barry Rose
- Recorded By [Recording] – Brian Roberts (7), Nicolas Ware
The Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk is a Reformed Protestant church and former Catholic cathedral located on the central market square (Grote Markt) in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Another Haarlem church called the Cathedral of Saint Bavo now serves as the main cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam.
The organ of the Sint-Bavokerk (the Christiaan Müller organ) is one of the world's most historically important organs. It was built by the Amsterdam organ builder Christian Müller, with stucco decorations by the Amsterdam artist Jan van Logteren, between 1735 and 1738. Upon completion it was the largest organ in the world with 60 voices and 32-foot pedal-towers. In Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville describes the inside of a whale's mouth:
- "Seeing all these colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not think you were inside of the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its thousand pipes?"
Many famous musicians played this organ, including Mendelssohn, Händel and the 10-year-old Mozart, who played it in 1766. The organ was modified a number of times in the 19th and 20th centuries and most drastically altered in the renovation by Marcussen between 1959 and 1961. Further voicing work was undertaken between 1987 and 2000. Today concerts are regularly held in the church, and all through the year special opening times are organized so the public can walk in free of charge to listen to this famous organ in action.
A local story goes to say that the bass of the organ was so low, the mortar in between the brimstones started to brittle to nothing.[clarification needed]
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- Couplers: I/II, III/II, I/P, II/P, III/P