In 1704 the village of Eenum in the Netherlands commissioned an organ from the great German organ maker Arp Schnitger that still survives today – one of nine Schnitgers in the Groningen province. Another 1704 Schnitger is located in the nearby town of Godlinze, and is nearly identical in outward appearance; but the two organs sound fascinatingly different. The Eenum organ exemplifies Schnitger’s late 17th-century organ building style – even with a few changes in 1809 – whereas the Godlinze organ now looks forward to an 18th-century sound world. The instrument is small, with just 9 stops on a single manual with pull-down pedal. Music on the recording includes sacred and secular works from Italian, German, Polish, French, and Polish tablatures, including an intabulation of Janequin’s La Guerre, and works by Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Scheidemann.
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