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This recording revives long-forgotten sonorities that once would have beenvery familiar: the sound of piano and organ being played together.
It also presents a Sibelius premiere: the arrangement by Sigfird Karg-Elert ofthe suite from Pelléas and Mélisande.
As the popularity of domestic music-making grew through the nineteenthcentury, it brought first the piano and, then, often the harmonium into well-offliving-rooms across the western world.
Composers naturally responded, with original works and arrangements:Sibelius’ Andante cantabile was written after a visit to relatives who had bothinstruments in their salon.
Karg-Elert, by contrast, was one of the world’s outstanding virtuosi on bothharmonium and organ and composed with his concert public in mind.
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