Description
With these two transcriptions by Reger (EB 8725) and Wagner (EB 8726), Breitkopf launches a new little publication series destined to meet the ever-growing interest in organ transcriptions. In each case, Klaus Uwe Ludwig found in the original score a highly colorful, variegated orchestral work that was practically asking to be transferred to the organ. The result is virtually a new orchestration. Organs from the Romantic era have proven especially well suited to these transcriptions, as their world premieres at the Walcker organ (1911) in Wiesbaden?s Lutherkirche have shown.
As the basis for his arrangement of the Rheingold introduction, Ludwig decided to choose these famous E flat major bars 1 to 136, to which he appended bars 643 to 663 (the Rhinemaidens) in a transposed version.
The arrangement of the Finale begins with the well-known motif of the gods’ fortress Valhalla which is heard immediately after Wotan’s exhortation “Folge mir, Frau, in Walhall wohne mit mir” (Follow me, wife: in Valhalla reign there with me). It contains the last 105 bars of the “Ring” prelude, from Loge’s admonishing calls and the warning of the Rhinemaidens, to the grandiose D flat major close.
EB 8726
EAN: 9790004181034
24 pages / 30.5 x 23 cm / 113 g / stapled
Description
Description
With these two transcriptions by Reger (EB 8725) and Wagner (EB 8726), Breitkopf launches a new little publication series destined to meet the ever-growing interest in organ transcriptions. In each case, Klaus Uwe Ludwig found in the original score a highly colorful, variegated orchestral work that was practically asking to be transferred to the organ. The result is virtually a new orchestration. Organs from the Romantic era have proven especially well suited to these transcriptions, as their world premieres at the Walcker organ (1911) in Wiesbaden?s Lutherkirche have shown.
As the basis for his arrangement of the Rheingold introduction, Ludwig decided to choose these famous E flat major bars 1 to 136, to which he appended bars 643 to 663 (the Rhinemaidens) in a transposed version.
The arrangement of the Finale begins with the well-known motif of the gods’ fortress Valhalla which is heard immediately after Wotan’s exhortation “Folge mir, Frau, in Walhall wohne mit mir” (Follow me, wife: in Valhalla reign there with me). It contains the last 105 bars of the “Ring” prelude, from Loge’s admonishing calls and the warning of the Rhinemaidens, to the grandiose D flat major close.