in Choir & Organ (Sep, 2016)
Some years ago I visited the 1970 Ahrend organ at the Cantate Domino Church in the suburbs of Frankfurt, a brutalist box from 1966 surrounded by urban concrete jungle. The church, nevertheless, had occupied a significant place in the Frankfurt church music scene, not least due to its warm acoustics and the best organ money could buy, anywhere, at the time. Both are in evidence in this slightly unlikely recording by recently retired Notre-Dame titulaire Jean-Pierre Leguay. Perhaps more famous for his avant-garde improvisations and compositions, which enjoy a loyal following, his remastered renditions of the Mozart and Beethoven clock pieces, captured when both Cantate Domino and its organ were still …
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