Jörg Halubek – 50°50’03.5″n 10°56’46.1″E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Arnstadt, Brandis, Zschortau) (2024)
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With the complete recording of Bach’s organ works on various instruments, Jörg Halubek’s “Bach Organ Landscapes” project paints a panorama of organ landscapes and organ building traditions. Since 2020, he has portrayed nine different locations and their unique organs on six double albums to date. With a careful eye for the unique cultural heritage of the instruments of the Bach regions, he is in search of the original Bach sound.
The seventh album “Arnstadt ∙ Brandis ∙ Zschortau” will be released on January 19.
Read moreJörg Halubek – Händel · Telemann: Cleofida (2023)
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The highlight of this year’s season is the concert performance of Handel’s opera “Poro, Re dell’indie” in a German/Italian version by Georg Philipp Telemann. Some of Handel’s Italian operas were so popular that a year later they were performed not only in England, but all over Europe – for example, under Telemann at the Gänsemarkt Opera. So that his Hamburg audience could understand the turbulent history of Alexander the Great and his entanglements with the Indian royal couple Cleofida and Poro, Telemann translated the plot-driving recitatives into German and composed them anew, Handel’s arias remained original and in Italian. “CLEOFIDA – Queen of India” was a box office hit in Hamburg at the beginning of the 18th century.
Read moreJörg Halubek – 53°32’46.0″N 9°59’42.4”E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Hamburg) (2021)
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With the major project “Bach Organ Landscapes” and the recording of all of Johann Sebastian Bach’s organ works, the German conductor, harpsichordist and organist Jörg Halubek invites you on a comprehensive journey to historical organ builders who shaped Johann Sebastian Bach. “The further you look back into music history, the more regional developments can be discovered,” says the artist. “These connections between instrument and organ work characterize the so-called organ landscapes”. The third and fourth albums of the ten-part series are about ‘Hamburg’ and ‘Lüneburg & Altenbruch’.
Read moreJörg Halubek – 53°14’52.7″N 10°24’47.8″E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Lüneburg & Altenbruch) (2021)
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With the major project “Bach Organ Landscapes” and the recording of all of Johann Sebastian Bach’s organ works, the German conductor, harpsichordist and organist Jörg Halubek invites you on a comprehensive journey to historical organ builders who shaped Johann Sebastian Bach. “The further you look back into music history, the more regional developments can be discovered,” says the artist. “These connections between instrument and organ work characterize the so-called organ landscapes”. The third and fourth albums of the ten-part series are about ‘Hamburg’ and ‘Lüneburg & Altenbruch’.
Read moreJörg Halubek – 50°53’53.9″N 10°33’22.6″E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Waltershausen) (2020)
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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.
Read moreJörg Halubek – 53°52’15.4″N 10°41’20.7″E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Lübeck, Norden & Goslar) (2022)
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The large-scale Bach Organ Landscapes project featuring J.S. Bach’s entire organ oeuvre recorded on a range of instruments aims to provide an overview of organ-playing and organ-building traditions that were key to Bach’s composing. With a keen eye to the unique cultural organ legacy of the places associated with Bach, Halubek has placed Bach’s original sound at the heart of his project. The recordings are accompanied by digital material that offer an almost tactile access to the great composer’s sound universe. This Album features famous organs of north Germany. Firstly, the organ by Friedrich Stellwagen in Lübeck. Secondly, the organ made by Christoph Treutmann in Grauhof near Goslar.
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Jörg Halubek – 50°55’12.4″N 13°20’36.7″E (Bach Organ Landscapes / Freiberg) (2022)
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The large-scale Bach Organ Landscapes project featuring J.S. Bach’s entire organ oeuvre recorded on a range of instruments aims to provide an overview of organ-playing and organ-building traditions that were key to Bach’s composing. With a keen eye to the unique cultural organ legacy of the places associated with Bach, Halubek has placed Bach’s original sound at the heart of his project. The recordings are accompanied by digital material that offer an almost tactile access to the great composer’s sound universe. This Album features the legendary Silbermann organ in Freiberg near Dresden.
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Leila Schayegh, Jörg Halubek – J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord, BWV 1014-1019 (2016)
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Two rising stars in today’s firmament of Baroque music performance, Leila Schayegh and Jörg Halubek, join forces to record one of the major challenges in their joint repertory: the six Bach Violin Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019. The collection’s title, Sei Suonate à Cembalo certato è Violino Solo, reflects the close partnership demanded of the violin and harpsichord players, with Bach moving away from the idea of continuo support for a solo instrument and constantly making new technical demands on the musicians and thereby approaching the concept of the triosonata. Completed by around 1725, most of these richlycharacterful works combine the slow-fast-slowfast sequence of movements found in Italian works and a cantabile tone with elements of German contrapuntal style.
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