MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 1 (Ben van Oosten) (1999) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ (Performed on the Cavaillé-Coll Organ at Saint Ouen, Rouen, France) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 2 (Ben van Oosten) (2001) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ (Performed on the Cavaillé-Coll Organ Église de la Madeleine,Paris) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 3 (Ben van Oosten) (2002) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ (Performed on the Cavaillé-Coll Organ at St. Ouen, Rouen, France) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 4 (Ben van Oosten) (2002) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ (Performed on the Willis Organ at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland) – Ben Van Ooste

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 5 (Ben van Oosten) (2003) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ (Performed on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Ouen, Rouen, France) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 6 (Ben van Oosten) (2004) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ (Performed on the Casavant organ at Église Saint-Jean-baptiste, Montréal, Canada) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 7 (Ben van Oosten) (2005) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ (Performed on the organ of Princeton University Chapel, USA) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 8 (Ben van Oosten) (2007) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Vol 8 in Ben van Oosten's collection of the organ works of Marcel Dupré; recorded on the Beuchel-Débierre Organ at the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre 
MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 9 (Ben van Oosten) (2008) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

The overall recording of the Orglwerke by Dupré by Ben van Oosten is just great. Not only the game, but also the elected organs are very suitable for this project. On this CD you can hear one of the most beautiful organs of Paris, a very colored instrument. jpc.de

Ben van Oosten’s consistently reliable, increasingly valuable Dupré survey continues with the 24-pat, 47-minute Inventions Op. 50, a quietly virtuosic display of contrapuntal prowess that accumulates. prestomusic
MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ, (Performed on the organ of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 10 (Ben van Oosten) (2008) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

We present volume 10 of this excellent series of organ music by Marcel Dupré (1886-1971). Ben van Oosten plays The William Hill organ in Birmingham’s neoclassical city hall built in 1834. prestomusic 
MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ, (Performed on the Organ of Birmingham Town Hall) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 11 (Ben van Oosten) (2010) MDG Gold Series | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Never before have "Les Nymphéas, op. 54" been heard outside of Meudon, Marcel Dupré's home town.

Ben van Oosten presents this extraordinary composition on Vol. 11 of Dupré's complete organ works not on the composer's specially built house organ, however, but on the Casavant organ in New York's Brick Church.

Inaugurated in 2005 by Ben van Oosten, the instrument is regarded as an impressive synthesis of French symphonic and American romantic organ building. jpc.de
MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ, (Casvant Organ at The Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City) – Ben Van Oosten

MARCEL DUPRÉ — Organ Works, Vol. 12 (Ben van Oosten) (2010) MDG Gold Series | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Ben van Oosten's pilgrimage to Marcel Dupré's international places of activity ends where the widely traveled and revered virtuoso played his last mass a few hours before his death on 30. May 1971: in the Saint Sulpice Cathedral in Paris, whose Cavaillé-Coll organ Cavaillé-Coll organ of which Marcel Dupré was the titular organist for almost 40 years. jpc.de
MARCEL DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
Tracklist :
Organ, (Cavaillé-Coll Organ at Saint-Sulpice, Paris) – Ben Van Oosten

ALEXANDRE GUILMANT : Complete Organ Sonatas = Sämtliche Orgelsonaten (Ben Van Oosten) 3CD (1989) MDG Gold Series | Two Version | APE (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

The clarity of expression is mostly excellent with well defined phrasing and clear attention to the staccato sections. Even the addition of the solo stops in Sonata 1 is well handled. There are just a few places where the playing is not as transparaent as the score inficates (sounds fluffy) but there are not many of these.
This album will give years of pleasure both for listening and as a guide to playing the sonatas. amazon
ALEXANDRE GUILMANT (1837-1911)
Tracklist :
Ben Van Oosten 
Cavaillé-Coll-Organ St. Ouen, Rouen  

THOMAS TOMKINS : Keyboard Music Vol. 1 (Bernhard Klapprott) (1996) MDG Scene Series | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) was the last of the English Virginalists. After him, the style died out entirely. Although he was something of a late starter (being the Chapel Royal's junior organist to Gibbons, despite being more than ten years older), he spent much of the later part of his life writing keyboard music (whereas Gibbons died thirty years earlier). Although he was content largely to adopt the forms and figures of the old masters, Tomkins did this expertly, due to his large collection of manuscript sources. By that time, no one cared about the English keyboard style at all (a fact Tomkins lamented), but he nonetheless sojourned on -- to one of the largest and most varied outputs in this style. In fact, only Byrd's output is comparable in size, and he was the primary initiator of the style. Therefore, this music (in spite of its artistic weaknesses) provides a fine endmark to an artistic endeavor that was all too brief. medieval.org
THOMAS TOMKINS (1572-1656)
Tracklist :
Cover - Jan Miense Molenaer (Dameam Virginal) 
Harpsichord & Virginal – Bernhard Klapprott

THOMAS TOMKINS : Keyboard Music Vol. 2 (Bernhard Klapprott) (1996) MDG Scene Series | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

THOMAS TOMKINS (1572-1656)
Tracklist :
Cover - Jan Steen (Musical Scene) 
Harpsichord & Virginal – Bernhard Klapprott

THOMAS TOMKINS : Keyboard Music Vol. 3 (Bernhard Klapprott) (1997) MDG Scene Series | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

THOMAS TOMKINS (1572-1656)
Tracklist :
Cover - Jan Vermeer (The Music Lesson) 
Mabuela Backeshoff - Harpsichord (13 Thea bass parts)
Harpsichord & Virginal – Bernhard Klapprott

THOMAS TOMKINS : Keyboard Music Vol. 4 (Bernhard Klapprott) (1997) MDG Scene Series | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

THOMAS TOMKINS (1572-1656)
Tracklist :
Cover - Jan van Eyck (Musizierende Engel, Genter Altar) 
Uttum (Germany), Reformierte Kirche
Orgel : SKN Druck & Verlag GmbH & Co./ Martin Stromann
Organ – Bernhard Klapprott

GODARD : Complete Piano Trios (Trio Parnassus) (2010) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Best-known (and for many, only known) for his opera Jocelyn, French composer Benjamin Godard produced an abundance of music in his short 45-year life that is rarely performed. Among his forgotten works are two piano trios, written in 1880 and 1884. Compared to other works in the genre from the same time period, Godard's trios are certainly lacking in the same level of sophistication, gravitas, or stand-alone ability on a concert program. Still, the two trios heard on this MDG Gold album are melodically pleasing, possessing rich, non-progressive Romantic harmonies. The finale of the F major sonata is among the more exciting moments, with its intense rhythmic drive and pizzicato strings. Chamber music aficionados will certainly find merit to these works. The Trio Parnassus, who has undertaken many projects to revitalize long-forgotten literature, comes to Godard's rescue here. Having successfully breathed new life into the trios of Lalo, Korngold, Vasks, and the like, Trio Parnassus has a track record of taking slightly less interesting works and imbuing them with a sense of commitment, attention to detail, forward momentum, broad-ranging dynamics, and measured sentimentality. The resulting performance here is one of respect for the score and the composer, polished technical skills, nice balance, and a sense of true chamber music collaboration. Listeners seeking to expand their repertoire will do well with this and other installments by the Trio Parnassus.  Mike D. Brownell

PAUL HINDEMITH : Complete Sonatas Vol. 1 (Ensemble Villa Musica) (1997) APE (image+.cue), lossless

 

PAUL HINDEMITH : Complete Sonatas Vol. 2 (Ensemble Villa Musica) (1997) APE (image+.cue), lossless

The MDG label prides itself on maintaining the "natural acoustics" of the concert halls in which recordings are made, and shy away from modifying the sound with added reverberation and the like. Listening to this disc makes you wish that more labels would follow suit, especially for small chamber works like these. The resulting sound is very much like attending a live performance -- balance and clarity are left to the performers rather than post hoc sound engineers.
The members of the Ensemble Villa Musica heard in this recording represent the rest of the ensemble well. Each of the solo instrumentalists gives energetic and lustrous performances of the sonatas. Superb technique and intonation meet pleasantly splendid musicianship and thoughtful interpretations. The common thread among all of these sonatas is pianist Kalle Randalu. His playing is always elegant, and he delivers each of the fiendishly difficult accompaniment parts with remarkable clarity and individual sensitivity to each of the different instruments with whom he is playing. Collectors of Hindemith's vast output for piano and solo instrument are well-advised to check out this series. by Mike D. Brownell