GD 182 ORGANS IN BULGARIA - Velin ILIEV organ
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Cesar Franck, Lionel Rogg
Velin ILIEV - organ
Issued: 1998
Style: Classical Music
Company: Gega New, GD182
For two decades now organist Velin ILIEV has established and developed the organ art in Bulgaria. A magnificent interpreter of old and contemporary music, in his CD he presents several different organ schools and styles, starting with Clerambault's Suite du deuxieme ton, through Bach, Cesar Franck (19th c.), to Lionel Rogg, Professor at the Geneva Conservatoire, author of instrumental and choral music. Velin Iliev made the recordings in Sofia, Varna and Dobrich where the famous German Schuke Orgelbau Factory built organs in Bulgaria Concert Hall, in the Festival and Congress Centre - Varna and the Concert Hall in Dobrich, respectively. Thus the 1970 saw the revival of interest towards the organ, an instrument which is not so characteristic of the Eastern Slavs and the East Orthodox religion. Together with some of his colleague-organists Velin Iliev laid the foundations of the Bulgarian organ school this attaining a great objective - to bring closer the Bulgarian music lovers to the values of old organ music tradition. In the course of several seasons he organized the extensive series "Ogran Metamorphoses" through which he popularized works by composers completely unknown to the Bulgarian audience. The series embraced four centuries and dozens of authors, whose music Iliev performs with his innate virtuosity, concentration, emotionality and intelligence. To these adds a rich sound imagination, demonstrated in the choice and combination of timbres and devices.
Contents:
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault (1676-1749)
• Suite du deuxieme ton
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Toccata and fugue in d minor - bwv 565
• Choral prelude - bwv 622 0, Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross
• Prelude and fugue in e flat major - bwv 552 Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
• Fantasy in a major
Lionel Rogg (1936)
• Six versets sur le psaume 92
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