Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Trois Impressions Op.72: Orgue

The Trois Impressions shows Karg-Elert both at his most Romantic and his most impressionistic. The movements’ nocturnal names Harmonies du Soir, Claire de Lune and La Nuit are in French as the workis dedicated to Alexandre Guilmant, the great French Organist of Trinity church in Paris.

Sigfrid Karg-Elert was a German composer active in the early twentieth century whose broad output is eclipsed almostentirely by his works for harmonium and Organ, instruments for which he was a gifted and prolific composer. His Organ works include the highly-regarded Sixty-Six Choral Improvisations, Twenty Choral Preludes and Postludesamongothers. Many of his works are active in Organ repertoire.