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Out Now: Organ Fantasy
Base2 Music’s most ambitious release yet — a sonic journey through dramatic organ transcriptions of Liszt, Wagner, Rachmaninov, and more. Performed on the newly restored 1901 Seifert organ (10,000 pipes!) at the Marien Basilika, Kevelaer, by Jean-Paul Imbert and five of his star protégés.
Includes a brand-new composition by Jacob Purches and powerful improvisations by Elmar Lehnen.
💿 Hybrid CD/SACD with high-res stereo + 5.1 surround from 352.8 kHz masters
📖 52-page art book included
🎧 A surround sound experience that puts you inside the Basilika
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'If you love well recorded organs, recordings with all the resonance, air, and full frequency response that you hear when you’re listening to it live, you need to get this outstanding new recording made by Jake Purches for his Base2 Music label. Over recent years, Jake has released some stellar organ recordings, but this is perhaps his best yet. When I first listened to the opening track, all I could say in my head was WOW! It sounds so good, so realistic, so filled with the sonics of an excellent organ played in a marvellous natural acoustic space.' Rushton Paul.
We will handle all world sales outside of EU and USA from the UK. We sell SACD, CD, Digital downloads in very high resolution FLACs in Stereo and 5.1 Surround sound, Vinyl LPs and Reel to Reel tape formats.
Our intention is to present superb interpretations performed on magnificent instruments by artistes of the highest calibre.
Our goal is to strive for excellence. In pursuit of this goal, we record diligently in well-chosen venues with state of the art equipment and carefully selected microphones in very high resolution DSD, PCM digital and analogue tape.
All our SACD discs are CD PLAYER COMPATIBLE and will play in a regular CD player or Car disc player etc.
We prefer the physical medium over 'streaming' and present our recordings on Super Audio CDs, providing high-end stereo as well as surround 5.1 multichannel sound on SACD players, while offering full compatibility with all standard CD players.
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We also make analogue editions of our recordings that are independently but simultaneously recorded onto Reel to Reel tape. These are pure analogue productions and are hand edited with razors.
Our work is to Audiophile standards and we use the best of monitoring equipment from Vivid Audio Loudspeakers, to give you the clearest possible window into the music and the artiste's expression.
Our artiste roster currently are Jean-Paul Imbert, concert organist, professor and teacher of hundreds of the next two generations of organists, who was a pupil of Pierre Cochereau and Jean Guillou, and became substitute with Guillou on the great organ of St Eustache of Paris. Jean-Paul has recorded organ works by César Franck and our new album titled 'Passacaglia', with pieces from Couperin, Buxtehude, Bach, Reger, Rogg and Ferrari, all based on the 3/4 timed 'Passacaglia' bass theme. This was recorded on the mighty Seifert organ of Marienbasilika in Kevelaer, Germany and is out now.
We have a new album from the famous Wayne Marshall, conductor, pianist and organist, who as a graduate from the Royal college of Music studied with Nicholas Danby. Wayne went on to an illustrious concert and recording career, including performing solo Piano and Organ at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. Wayne is also a well known interpreter of Gershwin as conductor and performer. His first recording with us is based on Dupré's Passion symphony and works by Franz Schmidt recorded at the organ of the Fátima basilica in Portugal. The first recording of this new Mascioni organ. For more info please go to www.waynemarshall.com
We have the excellent Dr Jean-Marie Fritz, Organist and an academic in medieval literature, a pupil of Jean-Paul Imbert and Jean Guillou, who recorded with the beautiful Soprano, Mi Ja Kim, a new CD called 'Apres le clair de lune', a wonderful selection of songs from the Baroque and traditional songs from South Korea. This is our first pure 'direct to DSD' recording, and is unedited. Madame Mi Ja Kim is a graduate of the Scholar Cantorum in Paris and National Conservatory of Chalon-Saone, France.
New artistes in recording are the brilliant young organist Egor Kolesov, from St Petersburg, and Ruslan Shmelkov from Moscow on Clarinet who are recording works by Carl Nielsen, with Arvo Part, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninoff. This recording has taken place at the beautiful Notre-Dame des Neiges, L'Alpe d'Huez, France.
