Iain Quinn - Zoltan Kodaly: Organ Works

This album brings together Kodaly's complete organ music with the world premiere recording of Erno Dohnanyi's only piece for organ, the eloquent Fantasie. Sokola's intense and compelling Passacaglia holds a special place in the organ repertoire, Wiedermann's Pastorale dorico was composed during the dark days of the Second World War, and Novak's attractive Prelude is a study in subdued tonal contrasts. Zoltan Kodaly's organ works have a distinct musical language unlike any other composer, with the imposing Organoedia ad missam lectam being amongst his most important non-choral works from the post-war era, and Epigrams, originally for voice and piano, heard here in a transcription by Gabor Trajtler.