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PEETERS Old Netherlands Masters: Early Music for Organ (1952) – PAKM008
overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fVARIOUS DUTCH COMPOSERS  Early Music for Organ

Recorded in 1952
Duration 34:10

Flor Peeters, Organ of the Church of St. Jans, Gouda578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples/PAKM008.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer’s Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f

Flor Peeters’ brilliant early organ music recordings

Fine transfers of these 1952 recordings

An
old question asks you to name six famous Belgians. Hmm. An author, a
cyclist, a singer… then many people’s list runs out. Perhaps they
should also remember a Belgian musician: Flor Peeters.

There
can’t be many organists whose portrait has graced a Nation’s postage
stamps. But this was only one of a great many honours and tributes to
performer, conductor, teacher, and composer Franciscus Florentinus
Peeters. Born on 4 July 1903 in Tielen, near Turnhout (and later made an
honorary citizen of that town), he died at Antwerp on his birthday in
1986. In the course of a sixty-year career he had gained worldwide
renown.

Flor
Peeters as composer is today represented in the CD catalogues though by
only a tiny fraction of his vast output, but what of Peeters as
performer? Although occasional LPs were released in the ’50s and ’60s,
all have long ago been deleted from the catalogues. Search, and we
believe you won’t find any recording of his currently available – until
now!

In
the early fifties Flor Peeters recorded, for the Nixa Record Company,
three recitals at the organ of the church of St. Jans, in Gouda (of
cheese fame). Of these recordings one included works by old English
composers (and curiously appears not to have been issued in the UK –
though it may be we just haven’t looked hard enough); one was of the
music of early Italian composers; and the third, our reissue, was of the
music of the « Old Netherlands Masters ».

One
reason for any difficulty in listing ‘famous Belgians’, perhaps, is that
Belgium as we know it today is a relatively young country. At the
beginning of the fifteenth century it was a part of a much larger
entity: the Netherlands, which included part of what today is Northern
France as well as Belgium, Luxembourg, and Holland, and though this
union was broken at the end of the sixteenth century, the term remained
in widespread use in Europe.

Using
the term ‘Netherlands’ allows Peeters a much larger geographical area
than just ‘Holland’, and each of the ten tracks on this release is by a
different composer. They are presented in roughly chronological
sequence, from a motet of Guillame Dufay (1395-1474) to a preludium of
Van Der Kerckhoven (1627-1673) which foreshadows Bach and Buxtehude.

Flor
Peeters tailors his use of the capabilities of the St Jans organ to
complement the development of the compositional styles, from using
single and simple stops to unleashing many of the 4,000-plus pipes on
this 1730s instrument. The 1952 recording captures fine detail as well
as the ambience of the venue, though we suspect that the engineers
didn’t expect that the sound of the truck driving off outside would be
audible – and it wasn’t, until revealed by our restoration!

This
is a highly unusual, eclectic, and pleasurable recital and we recommend
it not only to aficionados of the ‘king of instruments’ but to anyone
who loves music and would like to venture into less familiar territory.
We’re delighted to be able to make this unique recording available once
again.

Peter Harrison

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• Dufay (1395-1474) – Alma Redemptoris Mater
• Ockeghem (1430-1495) – Fuga Trium Vocum
• Obrecht (1430-1505) – Ein Frölich Wesen
• Isaac (1450-1517) – Gott, Lass Dich Erbarmen
• Josquin Des Près (1450-1521) – Canzona
• Willaert (1490-1562) – Ricercare
• Demonte (1521-1603) – Canzona
• Sweelinck (1562-1621) – Fantasie met Echowerk
• Cornet (1562-1626) – Fantasie op den 8sten Toon
• Van Der Kerckhoven (1627-1673) – Preludium en Fuga in D

(Note – some dates are speculative – taken from the original LP sleeve)

Recorded in 1952, originally released on Nixa LP PLP 239
Duration 34:10

Flor Peeters, Organ of the Church of St. Jans, Gouda

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