Wolfgang Rubsam

Wolfgang Rübsam – J.S. Bach: Organ Transcriptions. Orchestral Suites 2 & 3, Chaconne, Transcribed for Organ by Wolfgang Rübsam (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:42 minutes | 641 MB | Genre: Classical
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Over the course of more than half a century, Wolfgang Rübsam has consistently brought new insights to bear on the keyboard music of Bach, firstly in sets of the canonic organ music for Philips, then the same for Naxos. In the last few years, his musicianship and understanding of Bach enriched by those decades of experience, he has turned to the harpsichord/piano repertoire for Brilliant Classics. A series of critically acclaimed albums has shed new light on The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Goldberg Variations, the Partitas and Toccatas with Rübsam’s performance of them on a lautenwerk – a ‘lute-harpsichord’ with a distinctive chime and colour which Bach himself would have been familiar with.

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Wolfgang Rübsam – Widor: Organ Symphonies, Vol. 1 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:00 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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During his unprecedented 64 years as organist at Saint-Sulpice in Paris, Charles-Marie Widor developed a powerfully symphonic approach to music for the organ, finding new combinations of colour, sonority and texture. The ten symphonies for organ are central to his repertory for the instrument. Featured on this first volume are the Symphony No. 1 in C minor, with its homage to Bach, luminous and ceremonial and with virtuoso flourishes; and the Symphony No. 2 in D major offering a fascinating series of contrasts with some spectacular effects. Wolfgang Rübsam plays at the restored E.M. Skinner instrument at The University of Chicago, the largest pipe organ in Midwest America.

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