Leoš Janácek Varhanní skladby · Organ Works Bärenreiter Urtext Edited by Miloslav Bucek and Leoš Faltus BA 9524 € 19,95

Although Leoš Janácek played the organ from his youth onwards, achieving a high standard as a performer and improviser, he composed only a few works for the instrument. This volume of his complete organ works, based on the Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leoš Janácek, contains three pieces from his period of study in Prague 1874-75 (Overture, Varyto and Choral Fantasy), Two Pieces for Organ self-published in 1884, and above all the Postludium, the penultimate part of the famous and much later Glagolitic Mass (1926). This independent Intermezzo in the style of a passacaglia, which the author simply called Organ solo, demonstrates Janácek’s original and highly expressive compositional style.