Here is a really important composer of the past, whose influence has been downplayed, especially compared to J.S. Bach and Buxtehude, just to name a few.
One of my dear friend is both a brillant contemporary composer, although fame has not yet reached him, a die hard Brucker admirer, who worked on a very interesting rebuilding of the last movement of Bruckner's ninth symphony and a gifted and meaningful organist.
Sébastien has recorded some organ works of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, for his own pleasure first and for the pleasure of his friends.
The Echo Fantasia can be heard here http://www.mediafire.com/?3j4vu3774fzbdk9
What is important is not the fact that the recording is not a professional one, but how the musician is conceiving the rendition of this music. And I have to admit I hear much more fantasy in this rendering than I did find in any of the commercial recordings I heard before.
Everything that made Amsterdam an intellectual capital of the world at the turn between renaissance and the start of the baroque era could be found in Sweelinck's music, who really represents the highest development of keyboard music and a pinnacle of refinement and contrapunctal complexity in keyboard music before J.S.Bach.
And the Toccata in C here
http://www.mediafire.com/?hfd34g89v6gv2q0
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