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Concert pour orgue op. 56, 2
Rudolf Innig
Sauer Organ, Bremer Dom
Excerpts from the booklet
The four Concertos for solo organ op. 56 are closely connected with the dramatic changes brought about for Felix Nowowiejski by the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Having studied in the composition class of Max Bruch in Berlin from 1900 to 1906, during which time he was also active as organist and choir director at St Hedwig’s Cathedral, he must have been utterly perplexed to find his life acutely threatened just because he taught at the College of Music and conducted at the Concert Society in Poznan. The Nazi terror that set in with the occupation of Poland forced him to flee to Cracow, where he had lived and directed the city’s Concert Society from 1909 to 1914. (Rudolf Innig)
Excerpts from the reviews
„Rudolf Innig ist ein bemerkenswerter Organist. Er hat nicht nur bereits sämtliche neun Orgelsinfonien Nowowiejski’s eingespielt (für die er den Echo Klassik Preis erhielt), sondern legt nun auch die erste Aufnahme mit dessen monumentalen Orgel – solo – Konzerten vor. Bemerkenswert deshalb, weil er sich mit unglaublicher Akribie und Fleiß in die Musik eines doch ziemlich unbekannten Spätromantikers eingearbeitet hat und somit nicht in den Verdacht kommt, dem Orgel – Mainstream zu huldigen.“ (Musik & Kirche, 2010)


