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Marian Sawa (1937-2005) began serious studies at the age of 14 at the Salesian Organ School, Przemyšl, Poland. He toured actively as an organ performer and from 1966 taught organ at several prestigious schools. As a composer he wrote about 800 pieces in various genres, centred round his music for organ. His music builds on the Polish post-Romantic tradition, knitting fragments from folk tunes and hymns into his work, drawing strongly on Gregorian chant and traditional Polish material.
Sawa’s personal and individual voice makes his music very recognizable and though little known outside Poland to date, he can be considered perhaps the greatest Eastern European organ composer of the 20th century.
The pieces on this album, composed between 1971 and 2005, demonstrate vividly the range, variety and often enormous power of his compositions. This recording of the exquisite Fleiter organ (2014) at St. Ludgerus, Billerbeck, was made using the Hauptwerk remote digital access system.
- Marian Sawa (1937-2005):
- Sequence I, “Dies Irae” (11:44)
- Resurrection (6:53)
- Aria (7:17)
- Passacaglia II (9:51)
- Three Dances in Old Style (5:39)
- Suite – I. Adagio (4:38)
- Suite – II. Scherzando (2:20)
- Suite – III. Tranquillo (4:46)
- Suite – IV. Con brio (2:04)
- Suite – V. Presto (1:52)
- Fantazja Jasnogórska (6:26)
- Łomza Prayer (5:39)
- Sequence II, “Victimae paschali laudes” (7:04)
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Sequence I, "Dies Irae" (11:44)
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Resurrection (6:53)
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Aria (7:17)
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Passacaglia II (9:51)
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Three Dances in Old Style (5:39)
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Suite – I. Adagio (4:38)
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Suite – II. Scherzando (2:20)
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Suite – III. Tranquillo (4:46)
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Suite – IV. Con brio (2:04)
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Suite – V. Presto (1:52)
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Fantazja Jasnogórska (6:26)
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Łomza Prayer (5:39)
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Sequence II, "Victimae paschali laudes" (7:04)