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  41:1 (09-10 /2017)
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Back in issue 39:4 I reviewed and commended nine different releases by Joseph Kelemen of organ music from the early Baroque, five devoted to north German organists and four to south German ones. Here is now a fifth disc in the latter series, devoted to Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612). Hassler’s father, Isaak Hassler (c. 1530–1591) was a Lutheran organist in Nuremberg and his son’s first teacher; however, that religious affiliation did not stop Hans from going to Venice in 1584 to study with Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, becoming good friends with the latter. As one of the first German musicians to make this Transalpine pilgrimage, Hassler would pioneer the new polychoral style of composition in his native land. From 1586 to 1602 he served the Fuggar family in the Catholic city of Augsburg; in 1602 he returned to Nuremberg to become the town Kapellmeister, where he also received an imperial appointment from Habsburg emperor Rudolph II and married in 1604. Four years later he assumed a court appointment in Dresden, where his life sadly was cut short in 1612 by tuberculosis. Because of his extensive years of employment in Catholic regions, Hassler became adept at writing sacred works that could be used in either Roman Catholic or Lutheran liturgies, which facilitated wider dissemination of his compositions.

I endorse this release as strongly as I did its nine predecessors. It has all the same virtues—magnificent interpretations in superlative recorded sound, with copious booklet notes and documentation. In 39:2 I commended a disc of Hassler’s organ works played by Franz Raml on an MDG CD; as there is very little overlap between the two discs (only two short pieces), the organ aficionado will want to have both. Very strongly recommended.

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