Müthel: Complete Fantasies - Choral Preludes Léon Berben

• Johann Gottfried Müthel (1728 - 1788):
• 1 Fantasie in E flat Major 06:11
• 2 Choral Prelude "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" 04:26
• 3 Fantasie in G Major 03:30
• 4 Choral Prelude "Was mein Gott will, gescheh allzeit" 01:40
• 5 Three variations on „Jesu, meine Freude“: I. Variantion I 03:35
• 6 Three variations on „Jesu, meine Freude“: II. Variantion II 04:05
• 7 Three variations on „Jesu, meine Freude“: III. Variantion III 02:41
• 8 Fantasie in F Major 05:58
• 9 Choral Prelude "O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid" 03:12
• 10 Praeludium in C Major 04:09
• 11 Fugue Fantasy in C Major 12:59
• 12 Fantasie in E flat Major 07:09
• 13 Fantasie in G Minor 07:37
• Total Runtime 01:07:12

Info for Müthel: Complete Fantasies - Choral Preludes

Johann Gottfried Müthel was one of the most important and individual keyboard composers of the eighteenth century.

His compositional style is indebted not only to Johann Sebastian Bach – for he was his last pupil – but particularly to his studies with Johann Adolph Hasse, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann. Müthel's keyboard works are stamped by the 'empfindsam' style of C.P.E. Bach, but in terms of complexity and emotional expression he takes this a whole step further.

For his recording of Muethel's Fantasies and Choral preludes Léon Berben has chosen a baroque organ that was buit by Franciscus Volckland in 1729 for the Saint Luke's church at Muehlberg (Thuringia, Germany). One century later this instrument has been slighty modified and enlarged in an early romantic sense which makes of it the ideal choice for Muethel's organ compositions.

Léon Berben, organ

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