Hindemith-Organ sonatas - Elisabeth Ullmann

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This (1980 rec.) is certainly the finest version of the organ sonatas I've heard. The Flentrop organ is clear with the voices independently audible, yet when necessary the sound has mass and depth. The Biggs recording is also very good, but the sound of these old CBS LP recordings, such wonders of high fidelity in their day, show their age now. .... The music survives this treatment, of course; if you have been put off by the Hindemith sonatas because they seem to you to be too shrill or too flippant, too much like calliope music, you might find this approach to your liking.     ~Paul Shoemaker

Professor of Organ at the University of Music "Mozarteum" in Salzburg/Austria
Elisabeth Ullmann was born in Zwettl, Austria. She studied at the University of Music in Vienna and in Salzburg, and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Michael Radulescu and Alois Forer were the teachers who played a formative role during her education as organist.Masterclasses with Anton Heiller, Marie-Claire Alain and Harald Vogel completed her studies.
   
The Lilli Lehman Medal of the International Foundation of the Mozarteum in Salzburg;
the first prize at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig (1976);
the first prize at the Anton Bruckner Organ Competition in Linz (1978).
Organist of the Year 2006 (organ)
The "First Organ Lady" of Austria Organ 03/07

[UB]

Hindemith's organ sonatas are among the very few pieces for organ that I ever listen to. The King just does not work often for me as a solo instrument.

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