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Karg-Elert: one for any organists out there
The excellent young organist in the LiC video service:
http://www.londoninternetchurch.org.uk/worship/eucharist
plays voluntaries by Sigfrid Karg-Elert.
Karg-Elert was a German early-C20 composer who is all but forgotten except by organists, and then remembered mainly fo one opus number, albeit an opus number with over five dozen different organ pieces.
He always has had a following in Britain but was not really accepted in his native Germany, probably because he uses interesting chromatic harmonies influenced by French composers.
His opus 65 (66 chorale improvisations for organ) is a God-send for us and contains the famous Nun Danket March. There is an excellent selection available for anyone who has not yet savoured its delights. I have a copy, and I also have book 1 of the six books of op 65. This book 1 has (amongst others) a lovely trio, a piece on Silent Night, and a cheeky little fugue (which I played as a postlude this Sunday, this week being my duty on the organ).
The organist in the video plays from op 65, and very good too.
Let more organists play Karg-Elert. We enjoy it, and the congregations seem to also
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