Petr Eben
Petr Eben wrote prolifically for the organ, alongside vocal, choral and orchestral scores. His language is neoexpressionist with flashes of impressionist colour, often grown from public improvisation into lasting recital cycles.
Organ music was his greatest love: concertos, chorale fantasies, Landscapes of Patmos, Job, and the Labyrinth of the World cycle after Comenius sit beside Sunday Music, whose Moto ostinato has become a staple of the modern organ programme. He also wrote oratorios, the church opera Jeremiah, masses, piano and chamber works, and children’s songs, often with folk inflection and a clear neo-classical line rather than pure experiment. The writing is rhythmic, colourful and built for performance, not for display alone.
Compositions by Petr Eben appear on
Perth Concert Hall: Ronald Sharp organ
Jangoo Chapkhana plays the Ronald Sharp organ at Perth Concert Hall. The programme spans Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Bach, Balbastre, Langlais, Messiaen and Eben, and closes with Chapkhana’s own Variations on Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.
Bridges, Vol. 2
Monash University–based Chamber Mélange present an engaging collection of modern Czech and Romanian chamber works shaped by European folk music and neo-classicism.
Great Hall Grandeur
Amy Johansen plays the Rudolf von Beckerath organ in the Great Hall at the University of Sydney. Great Hall Grandeur presents one of Australia’s most beautiful and versatile pipe organs – among Beckerath’s last masterpieces – in the hands of one of the country’s finest concert organists.