Feliks Raczkowski (1906 – 1989)
Suite Koled / Suite of Christmas Carols
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Chorale Prelude Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
from the Schübler Chorales
Piotr Drusinski (15?? – 1611)
Veni Redemptor gentium
Resonet in laudibus
from the Tabulature of the Oliwa Cistercian Monastery near Danzig
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pastorale in F major BWV 590
Jan Janca (*1933)
Meditation Maria durch ein’ Dornwald ging
Johann Sebastian Bach
From the Orgelbüchlein
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 599
In dulci jubilo BWV 608
Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar BWV 607
Mieczyslaw Surzynski (1866—1924)
Koleda Gdy sie Chrystus rodzi op.36
from: Pastoralki. Preludia na organy op. 63
Max Reger (1873 – 1916)
Weihnachten (Christmas) op.145/3
Mieczyslaw Surzynski
Chorale Prelude to a Polish Christmas Carol
Bóg sie rodzi, moc truchleja (God Is Born; The Mighty Are Fearful)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877 – 1933)
Adeste fideles from Cathedral Windows op. 106
Feliks Nowowiejski (1877 – 1946)
Christmas in the Ancient Church of St. Mary in Krakow, Op. 31 No. 3
Josef Still
at the Beckerath-Mayer Organ of the Lebensbaumkirche
Manderscheid in der Eifel
Josef Still, cathedral organist at the Hohe Domkirche Trier since 1994 and the expert authority on organs of the diocese of Trier, is the successor to the long-time cathedral organist Wolfgang Oehms and has recorded an extraordinary music programme to celebrate the Christmas festivities on the present CD.
The works of selected Polish composers appear on the recording, together with works of J.S. Bach and Max Re-ger performed on the Beckerath Organ in the Lebens-baumkirche in Manderscheid. The Beckerath Organ, which was moved to Manderscheid from the former In-stitute of Church Music of the diocese of Speyer and renovated by Mayer Organ Builders, has found a new home in the Lebensbaumkirche. Here it can resound in a new-found brilliance.
Dieter Oehms, a native of Manderscheid, wishes to dedi-cate this production to his home community on the oc-casion of his 75th birthday, thus making the Beckerath Organ and Manderscheid famous far beyond the Eifel to a worldwide interested public.