COUNTERLIGHT

Angela Metzger at the Eule organ in the Konstantinbasilika, Trier

Works by Max Reger, Philipp Maintz, Louis Vierne and Herbert Howells

Release: October 17, 2025 on Rondeau Production

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organ – Journal für die Orgel 1/2026

The theme of light in an organ album may at first seem trivial, but here it is anything but—especially since we are dealing with a very particular kind of light: a backlit perspective, something that poses considerable challenges even for visual artists.
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Klassik Heute

Darkness and light are inseparably intertwined. “Where there is much light, there is also deep shadow,” Goethe has his Götz von Berlichingen declare – though the author is more often quoted for a far less philosophical line.
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