JOSEPH GABRIEL RHEINBERGER : Organ Works • 8 (Wolfgang Rübsam) (2009) The Organ Encyclopedia Series | Two Version | WV (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Although Rheinberger composed dramatic and orchestral, sacred and secular music, he is now remembered for his twenty organ sonatas and other shorter compositions for the instrument. These works, with their echoes of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and, of course, J. S. Bach, nonetheless demonstrate Rheinberger’s own finely honed melodic sense, harmonic development and clear-voiced textures. All eight volumes of Rheinberger’s Organ Works were recorded on the magnificent 72-stop, four-manual Rieger- Sauer Organ in Fulda Cathedral. For details of Volumes 1–7 please see inside this booklet. naxos

JOSEPH GABRIEL RHEINBERGER (1839-1901)
1-3.    Organ Sonata No. 19 In G Minor, Op. 193 (32:51)
4-5.    Prelude And Fugue In C Minor, JWV 16    (8:30)
6-9.    Organ Sonata No. 20 In F Major, Op. 196, 'Zur Friedensfeier'    (32:54
Organ – Wolfgang Rübsam
Rieger-Sauer Organ of Fulda Cathedral
Recorded in Fulda Cathedral, Germany, May, 2007.