Originally recorded in 1972 in what was then called quad sound, this disc is one of a series of sonically and musically superior discs from that era remastered and reissued by the Polyhymnia label. At the time, American organist Daniel Chorzempa was a young phenomenon of the instrument. He was noted for sheer virtuosity in Romantic works, but here he effectively shifted gears into the not particularly difficult but bright and sunny realm of Mozart's church sonatas or epistle sonatas, single-movement works intended for ...
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Originally recorded in 1972 in what was then called quad sound, this disc is one of a series of sonically and musically superior discs from that era remastered and reissued by the Polyhymnia label. At the time, American organist Daniel Chorzempa was a young phenomenon of the instrument. He was noted for sheer virtuosity in Romantic works, but here he effectively shifted gears into the not particularly difficult but bright and sunny realm of Mozart's church sonatas or epistle sonatas, single-movement works intended for incorporation into the celebration of the mass at Salzburg Cathderal. They're not Mozart's greatest works, but aside from a few small works for toy organ-like devices, one of which is included here, they represent his only encounter with the organ (which he liked well enough to call the king of instruments). It's interesting to hear all the sonatas together, for one can become acquainted with the ways in which Mozart stretched the boundaries of even this rather obscure genre over the...
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