1693 Schnitger organ at Saint Jacobi Church, Hamburg, Germany

1997 Goulding & Wood organ at Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Indiana

1982 Oberlinger organ at Marktkirche [Market Church], Wiesbaden, Germany

1688 Schnitger organ at Saint Pankratius Church, Neuenfelde, Germany

1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Church of Saint Ouen, Rouen, France

1724 Kastens; 1995 Lund organ at Garnisons Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark

1720 Klapmeyer organ at Heiligen Geist Kirche, Barmstedt, Germany

Just Style Us Phantastic

…the old boys in northern Europe showed the way, and others later followed with extravagant compositions that explore the stylus phantasticus manner.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of April 12, 2010

Links and Resources:

• Stylus Phantasticus
• Printable program listings

Music played in the program

Hour 1

DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in C, BuwWV 137 –Ton Koopman (1693 Schnitger/Jacobikirche, Hamburg, Germany) Challenge Classics 72247

NICOLAUS BRUHNS: Praeludium in e –Jan Willem Jansen (1677 Delauney; 1982 Grenzing/St. Pierre de Chartreux, Toulouse, France) Temperaments CD-76

JOHANN ADAM REINCKEN: Fantasy, Was kann uns kommen an für Not –Bernard Foccroulle (1693 Schnitger/Jacobikirche, Hamburg, Germany) Ricercar 204

NICOLAUS HASSE: Chorale-prelude, Allein Gott in der Höh –Wolfgang Baumgratz (1720 Klapmeyer/Parish Church, Barmstedt, Germany) Dabringhaus und Grimm MDG 319 0962

JEHAN ALAIN: Fantasy Number 2 –Yoon-Mi Lim (1997 Goulding & Wood/St. Meinrad Archabbey, Saint Meinrad, IN) Pro Organo CD 7205

MAX REGER: Chorale-Fantasy, Ein feste Burg, Opus 27 –Hans Uwe Hielscher (1982 Oberlinger/Market Church, Wiesbaden, Germany) OrganoPhon 90109

Filler –JOHANN ADAM REINCKEN (see above)

Hour 2

VINCENT LÜBECK: Praeambulum in c –Karl-Bernhardin Kropf (1688 Schnitger/St. Pankratius Church, Neuenfelde, Germany) IFO 00 088

FRANZ TUNDER: Choral Fantasy, In dich hab ich gehgoffet, Herr –Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra (2000 GoART Replica/Örgryte nya kyrka [Örgryte New Church], Göteborg, Sweden) Loft LRCD-1048-49

PETER MORHARD: Chorale-preludes: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ; Meine Seele erhebet den Herrn; Alle Welt, was lebet –Friedhelm Flamme (1711 von Holy/Bartholomäuskirche, Dornum, Germany) cpo 777 343

BERT MATTER: Fantasy on Un jeune fillette –Olivier Latry (1724 Kastens; 1995 Lund/Garrison Church, Copenhagen, Denmark) Helikon 1054

LOUIS VIERNE: Fantasy Pieces, Opus 54, number 3, Etoile du soir, –Ben van Oosten (1890 Cavaillé-Coll/Église Saint-Ouen, Rouen, France) Dabringhaus und Grimm MDG 316 0847

J.S. BACH: Fantasy & Fugue in g, S. 542 –Wolfgang Rübsam (1969 Metzler/St. Nikolaus Church, Frauenfeld, Switzerland) Philips 438 170

Filler –DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE (see above)

 

Seventeenth-century author, scientist and inventor, a true baroque polymath, Athanasius Kircher [1602-1680] described the stylus fantasticus in his book, Musurgia Universalis: “The fantastic style is especially suited to instruments. It is the most free and unrestrained method of composing, it is bound to nothing, neither to any words nor to a melodic subject, it was instituted to display genius and to teach the hidden design of harmony and the ingenious composition of harmonic phrases and fugues.”