Upcoming New Hans Davidsson Recording!

Tomorrow our new recording featuring Loft Recordings organist Hans Davidsson will be released to the public! This new recording features the new Craighead-Saunders Organ of Christ Church, Rochester, and is the newest instrument in the collection at the Eastman School of Music. Hans Davidsson has many recordings on Loft, and as they are organ recordings, they are also currently on sale through January 31st! So, in anticipation of this new release tomorrow, make sure to revisit Hans Davidsson's previous releases on Loft Recordings:

The Eastman Italian Baroque organ/Porter, Davidsson, Higgs List Price: $18.98  Our Price: $14.98  You save $4.00!  The only full-size Italian Baroque organ in North America, Eastman's newly installed and restored instrument reveals the exotic sounds of another culture and time. Played by three virtuosi of the school's faculty, the organ sounds as beautiful as it appears: a genuine work of art. Complete Works of Weckman/Hans Davidssohn (3 CDs!) List Price: $39.98  Our Price: $29.98  You save $10.00!  All components make this the ultimate organ CD, with two booklets comprising 56-pages of detailed information on registrations, the organ, Weckman, and his music. Organist of the Jacobi Church in Hamburg, Matthias Weckman (sometimes spelled Weckmann) was a student of Heinrich Schütz and Jacob Praetorius II. He combined elements from a wide variety of musical languages to create a clear and complex style all his own. Hans Davidsson is the world's leading Weckman scholar and this recording is the first to use Weckman's original registrations. French Symphonic Masterpieces/Davidsson List Price: $18.98  Our Price: $9.98  You save $9.00!  This recording of well-known French Romantic music is presented in the clarity of a chamber-music setting, much like the musical soiree performances at the Parisian salons in the 19th century. This style of performance is made possible by Verschueren's new French symphonic organ at Göteborg University (Sweden) in this, its first American recording. Buxtehude organ works, v.1: Buxtehude and the Mean-Tone Organ/Davidsson (2 CDs!) List Price: $26.98  Our Price: $14.98  You save $12.00!  Celebrating the 300th anniversary of Buxtehude’s death in 2007! Recent research shows that Buxtehude had only mean-tone organs at his disposal during his life. Although there are many good recordings on well-tempered organs (including some antiques), performing these works on mean-tone instruments requires both a radical re-assessment of traditional performance ideas and a large and extraordinary organ. Hans Davidsson is the ideal performer for this task, and he plays the huge “North German Baroque Organ” of Gothenburg, Sweden.  The first of three double-CDs of the complete organ works of Buxtehude; Volume One focusses on Buxtehude's best known works.  Buxtehude Organ Works - Complete (7 CDs!)/Davidsson List Price: $84.98  Our Price: $59.98  You save $25.00!  Recent research shows that Buxtehude had only mean-tone organs at his disposal during his life. Although there are many good recordings on well-tempered organs (including some antiques), performing these works on mean-tone instruments requires both a radical re-assessment of traditional performance ideas and a large and extraordinary organ. Hans Davidsson is the ideal performer for this task, and he plays the huge “North German Baroque Organ” of Gothenburg, Sweden.  The complete organ works are recorded here in three volumes totaling 7 compact discs. Buxtehude organ works, v.2: The Bach Perspective/Davidsson (2 CDs!) List Price: $26.98  Our Price: $14.98  You save $12.00!  Drawn by reports of the acclaimed organist of the Mariankirche in Lübeck, Dieterich Buxtehude, the 20-year old J. S. Bach traveled almost 300 miles to hear Buxtehude’s music first hand. On the second in our three-volume set of the complete organ works of Buxtehude, Hans Davidsson plays the ground-breaking repertoire that was known to Bach and his circle, and which may have influenced his musical compositions and performance.  Buxtehude organ works, v.3: Buxtehude and the Schnitger Organ (3 CDs!) List Price: $39.98  Our Price: $19.98  You save $20.00!  Buxtehude's visit with Arp Schnitger in Hamburg in 1687 began an association that lasted for many years and resulted in the building of the four-manual organ at the Cathedral in Lùbeck, as well as modifications to the organ at Saint Marien.  Hans Davidsson explores the encounter between Buxtehude and Schnitger using the four-manual organ in Gothenburg, Sweden in this final volume of the complete works of Buxtehude.