19th-Century Organ Music from Berlin

Berlin’s rapid evolution from a provincial Prussian court town to a booming European metropolis is vividly evoked by the wide spectrum of organ works created there in the 19th century.

Initially dominated by a contrapuntal interplay enhanced with Baroque sequencing and "Biedermeier" sensitivity, Berlin’s organ music acquired a definitely late-romantic, expressive vocabulary in virtuoso concert pieces by Otto Dienel and Franz Wagner.