Organ Works Vol. 1

"This magnificent new release from MD&G was recorded on the Schwalbennest (Swallow's Nest) organ in Lemgo, North-Rhine-Westphalia. Restored recently and sympathetically, the organ is of enormous historical value, for its sound, construction and position, and is an instrument most suited to showcasing the works of Sweelinck. Most highly recommended to anyone with the slightest interest in music for organ - there's so much to be enjoyed in this release. The good news is this is just Volume 1 of a series which deserves every success."
(Five Stars AudAud.com)

The Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was number one in influence on the Northern European organ style of the seventeenth century, and his own special sound world can now once again be experienced. A four-hundred-year-old swallow's nest organ from the Renaissance era has survived in St. Mary's Church in Lemgo, and its few missing pipes have been precisely reconstructed on the basis of historical models. Harald Vogel presents this unique instrument of European rank in a rich and varied program of works by Sweelinck, some of them celebrating their recording premieres.