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Thursday 14 , 20:15 hours. "XXXIV Religious Music Week Avilés" . Church of Santo Tomás : Walter Heinrich ( organ). Works by Bach , Adolfo Gutiérrez Viejo (1934) and Max Reger (1873-1916). Avilés

musical tradition can boast of Music Week and also the new body Thomas, authentic gem from the workshop of Federico Acitores , paid for by various institutions and private donations, with the efforts of many Avilés and Asturian music lovers with José M ª Martínez to the head, hence when I go checking "in situ" whole process and baptism of the child , call her "the child of Chema" .
The fourth day he would test the whole machinery of the instrument would be nothing less than Walter Heinrich (1959), organist at that I heard in the past Organ Festival XXI CajAstur , who arrived three days in advance to study the instrument, test it, make appropriate entries, test, and the whole long process that needs to try an organist make the most of an instrument that is unmatched and there are no two alike. I know the invaluable help of own Kando Chema and Izumi, who also ran with the responsibility to assist in recording during the concert with a real knowledge of the facts, then you know how "Body of St. Thomas" .

In the interview published in the local newspaper (pity not to have digital edition of the Supplement to LNE week dedicated to) the organist left his intentions clear: "Not good for an interpreter to stay on a few styles" , thus resulting in the selection of the program. Of course, in concert German teacher can not miss Bach, this time the Prelude and Fugue in D M., BWV 532 ( Bach), a true "warm" instrument and interpreter, demanding no and in the art (with feet that work like fingers) but the choice of appropriate records, and we enjoyed everything, with a screening of "movements" that we lost not a single detail.

With totally different style of kantor, and work delivered to the performer a year ago the composer and organist Leon based in Gijón Old Adolfo Gutierrez (1934), the Six Differences made from a twelve-tone "Screening" explores not only Gregorian melodies (a Dies Irae was suspected in one of the differences) or Renaissance musical form itself of the variation, or touch the differences on issues here earlier, but with the writing of the twelve semitones, but especially the sounds of the "king of instruments, with meditative numbers, virtuosic (I think it was the fourth only for BB ) as well as loving, as well shows the composer to an instrument that has been all his life , yielding a unique and special tribute from the always difficult twelve-tone (then authentic art ) that the German interpreter did feel timeless, existing in the XXI century.
And to continue to exploit all the rich timbre of the organ of St. Thomas could hear the premiere in Spain of the transcription for organ by organist himself of Sinfonischer Prolog zu einer Tragödie, Op 108 for large orchestra (1908), of Max Reger (1873-1916), created in Freiburg last January and March in his tour of Russia . Herr Walter is not only teacher and performer of reconocidísimos Freiburg merit wherever it operates, but a teacher at the transcripts accomplished since the 80's, and reminded of their previous concert which made the Symphony in D m. of César Franck, organist and symphonist other as in the case of Messiaen or own Reger. Not for nothing is a musical form much in vogue since the fifteenth century, without forgetting that Liszt himself made the piano of Symphonies of Beethoven , and especially the great literature of orchestral transcriptions for organ knowing the potential and variety of sounds the same, case of the famous Dance of Death of Saint-Saëns , and as "looping the loop" run Transcendental Studies of Liszt the body (things I admired organist Raúl Prieto ).
But what we heard from Reger was not careful and meticulous transcription but authentic recreation organ, a new vision of this "complicated" Symphony Op 108 carried "tubes." Its various movements took the instrument avilesino an incredible sonic palette, delicate and powerful, contemplative and exuberant, peaceful and as if the very virulent Reger had hidden a second rereading for the vast body of orchestral used (except the harp) from the development of this symphony summit for all that contributes to the orchestral form par excellence, and turning it to do just a transcription for organ when Reger himself was so friend them, curiously including a "wink harpist" that the master himself Walter told me at the end of the concert.

The Professor Walter the score worked really long time, but not limited to reducing to writing symphonic keyboards but looking for a genuine climate timbre for each moment, with the invaluable help of Japanese organist also "adopted these days in Avilés" , with technically demanding (there really difficult passages ) without using the expression pedal, only by combining the records to achieve the true climax of a texture that "jewel Acitores" hides and still has much to discover.

At the end of the work and by Chema , speaking on behalf of all, there was the recognition and gratitude to Frederick the builder present in the room, because it really has got a unique tool that in the hands and intelligence of teachers like Walter Heinrich manage to transcend the mundane spiritual fact organ music.
not forget that also in Asturias comes with the month of May, XXII CajAstur Organ Festival, and the Walter Heinrich own have an appointment this Saturday 16 at 20:00 in Soto del Barco Body while closed this week in Aviles Music. The gift of ubiquity, and I have not the choice is already made heart with regret.

Walter Henrich. Photo: Sergio López (La Voz de Avilés )

PD 1: Review in La Voz de Avilés Friday, 15. PD
2: It is Bach in the Channel week. PD
3: Continuing updates on the YouTube Channel : Adolfo G. Old and "progress" Reger. PD
4 : More updates on the YouTube Channel : Reger full .