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Finn Viderø - The Legendary Danish Organ Player, Vol. 2

Finn Viderø – The Legendary Danish Organ Player, Vol. 2

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Finn Viderø
The only son of lawyer Johan Poulsen, who, with respect to his Faroe Island ancestry, changed his surname to Viderø, Finn was born in 1906 in Fuglebjerg, a good hour’s drive from Copenhagen. He obtained his student examination from the nearby city Sorø, a town with a famous organ that would have immense influence on Viderø as an organist. Three of his first teachers were each icons in Denmark and gave young Viderø the basic training. His organ studies with Mogens Wöldike, later a conductor of the Palestrina Choir and mentor of singer Aksel Schiøtz, proved essential as did his studies in musicology with Jens Peter Larsen, renowned Danish baroque specialist, and not least the piano technique he learned from Alexander Stoffregen. When Viderø later taught his many private pupils it was the theories of Stoffregen where the balanced posture of the body at the organ bench combined with the right balance of arms and hand on keys position would create a legato playing of hitherto unheard of seamless clarity.

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Johann Sebastian Bach
CD 1
1. Prelude
2. and Fugue in C Minor BWV 546

3. Prelude
4. and Fugue in C Major BWV 547

5. Fantasy in C Minor BWV 562

6. Toccata
7. and Fugue in F Major BWV 540

8. Pastorale BWV 590

9. Fantasy in G Major BWV 572

10. Prelude
11. and Fugue in A Major BWV 536

12. Prelude
13. and Fugue in B Minor BWV 544

CD 2
1. Variations on the Choral: O Gott, du frommer Gott BWV 767

Six Choral Fughettas:
2. Christum, wir sollen loben schon BWV 696
3. Gelobet sei’st du Jesu Christ BWV 697
4. Gottes Sohn ist kommen BWV 703
5. Herr Christ der ein’ge Gottes Sohn BWV 698
6. Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott BWV 704
7. Nun komm’, der Heiden Heiland BWV 699

8. Canonic Variations: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her BWV 769

Five Choral Preludes:
9. Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend BWV 709
10. Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV 727
11. Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 706
12. Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV 691
13. Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV 690

Diderich Buxtehude
14. Te Deum laudamus BuxWV 218

Johann Pachelbel
15. Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her
16. Das Magnificat Mariae
17. Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christcc
18. O Lamm Gottes unschuldigc
19. Ich hab’ mein’ Sach Gott heimgestelltccccc

The Church Organist Š
As church organist Viderø held firmly to his often spartan beliefs of registration on the organ. Before a wedding, one young couple with little or no knowledge of organ music asked Viderø if he could make the organ sparkle and bubble. Viderø, looking over his glasses, gave the abrupt answer: “Do you think I am a fizzy drink?” Viderø himself never got married and later in life became more of a recluse. He was an excellent cook for those lucky enough to get invited to his house in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, but bcpeople stayed away, portraying him as difficult. Something suggests that Viderø accepted the costs of his uncompromising nature. One of his university pupils described a more positive picture: “We had great sympathy for him and admired him, and his lectures were some of the best we had. He taught us the history of  harpsichord and organ music and played for us during the lectures. We were not used to it at all. He was an excellent musician, an outstanding researcher and incredible author of music. We felt he was not completely accepted in the music establishment. He was very dry, very cynical and with a sardonic wit. But also a bitter man – maybe it was just his nature.”

RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2018

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 793-794CCC

EAN: 5709499793947

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