Niklas Jahn – Organ Recital – Niklas Jahn [CD]

Description

Niklas Jahn, winner of the 9th International Organ Competition Musashino-Tokyo in 2023, was appointed organist at the Frauenkirche in Dresden in December 2024, the site of an acclaimed concert by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1736. This album features two works by Bach, including the monumental Toccata and Fugue in F major, as well as Toshio Hosokawa’s celestial Cloudscape, and the ultravirtuosic Feuertaufe by Zsigmond Szathmary. French repertoire by Messiaen and Vierne can also be heard alongside Brahms whose Chorale Preludes are among the last pieces he composed.

Tracklist:

1. Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540
2. Eleven Chorale Preludes, Op. 122 – No. 1
3. Herzlich tut mich verlangen
4. Ascension~III. Transports de joie d’une me devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne
5. Ascension~IV. Prire du Christ montant vers son Pre
6. Feuertaufe
7. Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 539~Fugue
8. Cloudscape
9. Organ Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 59~V. Final

UPC: 747313464975
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 8.22.25
Format: CD