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Catalogue No: CDA67195
Label: Hyperion
Series: Organ Music
Length: 74 minutes

Eben: Faust (1980)

Work length46:59

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Halgeir Schiager (organ)

I. Prologue

Track length4:21

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II. Mysterium

Track length6:47

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III. Song of the beggar with the hurdy-gurdy

Track length1:40

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IV. Easter choirs

Track length6:00

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V. Student songs

Track length3:26

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VI. Gretchen

Track length5:22

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VII. Requiem

Track length5:58

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VIII. Walpurgis night

Track length7:15

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IX. Epilogue

Track length6:10

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Eben: Four Biblical Dances

Work length27:24

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Halgeir Schiager (organ)

I. The dance of David before the Ark of the Covenant

Track length6:23

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II. The dance of the Shulamite

Track length6:06

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III. The dance of Jephtha's daughter

Track length8:47

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IV. The wedding in Cana

Track length6:08

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Petr Eben was commissioned to write the stage music for a production of Goethe's Faust for the anniversary of the Burgtheater in Vienna (the later version for the organ solo came about in 1980). For this work, he set himself the task of expressing the polarity of good and evil in one person, since he felt the idea behind Goethe's drama was not to create a play about God and Mephistopheles taking place around Faust, but rather to demonstrate the struggle of these conflicting elements within Faust's character. That is the reason why he also sought to realise musically both influences within the one instrument. Consequently, Eben gives the organ a dual role, adding to its venerable, traditional style, the trivial vulgarity of a barrel organ. Thus, the Faust cycle provides us with a glimpse into the eternal struggle within man's being. The rhythmic element of the organ has always inspired Eben, and in the Four Biblical Dances he chooses the rarely used genre of the dance. The organ as a church instrument led him to keep its sacred characteristics so Eben therefore chose dances which appear in the Bible.

Eben - The Organ Music - 2

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