Jaroslav Tuma's eight organ improvisations present a masterful and widely viewed confrontation of music cultural past and present. Already an idea on its own is a unigue challenge to so called classical music where an improvisation as a art linked to the nonmediate creative source has almost disappeared. Tuma's creations, however, are heading further: there it is not only interpreted a brilliant technique that still luckily, in the long run, constantly belong to basic professional skill of every organist but also we can feel there a many hundred years of unique complex practice of a royal instrument.
Improvisation on the name BACH ___ 9:33
Passau (Germany), Passauer Dom 20. 6. 1991
organ by L. Eisenbarth, 1981, the largest church organ in the world
Salve regina ___ 10:11
Munchen (Germany), Frauenkirche - Munchner Dom, 3. 8. 1994
organ by Georg Jann, 1994
Variations on the song "Ei, du feiner Reiter" (Samuel Scheidt) ___ 15:07
Doksy (Czech Republic), St Bartholomew Church, 1. 10. 1994
the unknown organ-maker, 1627 (reconstructed by Vladimir Slajch, 1992)
Cantabile in B ___ 6:21
Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), The Harvard University Memorial Church, 9. 11. 1993
the Charles B. Fisk Organ, 1967
Fantasy in D ___ 8:27
Milano (Italy), S. Alessandro, 2. 5. 1994
organ by Orto-Lanzini (after G. Silbermann, 1722)
Homage to the Earliest Anonymous Keyboard Composition (c. 1325) ___ 9:16
Karlskrona (Sweden), the Frederik Church, 15. 7. 1993
the Wahlberg Organ, 1764 (reconstructed by Groenlund company, 1987)
Passacaglia on the thema by Andrew Lloyd Webber ___ 9:26
Frankfurt / Oder (Germany), St Gertraud Church, 28. 6. 1994
organ by W. Sauer, 1879
Improvisation on the French Song "A vous dirais-je maman" ___ 10:23
Annaka, (Japan), Niijima School, 15. 4. 1995
organ by Kuhn A.G., 1991
Jaroslav Tuma - organ
Live recordings on eight different instruments throughout the world: Doksy (Czech Republic), Passau, Munchen, Frankfurt (Germany), Milano (Italy), Karlskrona (Sweden), Cambridge (United States), Annaka (Japan)
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