Flor Peeters (1903-1986): Beautiful Savior | Schönster Herr Jesu (Opus 100)

[@aBachwardsfellow]

Beautiful piece. Beautiful performance. Beautiful Savior.

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks a lot!

[@ClaraOrgan]

This is my favorite hymn! I love this beautiful piece and performance! 😀💕😀

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thank you Clara! A modern, yet warm approach from this beautiful chorale indeed!

[@nilsvanvelzen]

Mooi stukje Flor voor in de ochtend. Dank voor spelen en delen.

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Dank Nils!

[@OrganGuyPhil]

His hymn preludes are some of the best! Beautiful recording! 🎶😊🎶

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thank you Phil. It’s wonderful how Peeters integrates the classic Lutheran hymns in his 20th century harmonic language. We have to give him the nick name “The Belgian Lehenbauer!”

[@jannoordzij8043]

Rien and Peeters goes well together!

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Yes! I love his style!

[@philippelegargean5120]

Lovely piece. Bravo for this good interpretation.

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks Philippe. It’s a great adventure to browse thru his chorale preludes!

[@remi-chapalain]

Very nice piece ! I trully enjoy !

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks Rémi! A nice modern composition

[@albertoguerzoni]

Very nice Rien. Thanks

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks! :-)

[@orgelhase]

Oh, I didn’t know this one. It is so beautiful. I like the hymn, too. For me it is related to Christmas…. Which reminds me …. I should get practicing music for Christmas! 😂

[@gerhardflink5599]

O Tannenbaum im Buchenwald 😅

[@RienSchalkwijk]

It’s Christmas before you know it! Thanks!

[@orgelhase]

@@RienSchalkwijk Same procedure as last year :-)

[@nakorganist]

A beautiful song that can be used at different times of the church year. This version is so beautiful! Very, very beautiful dear Rien!

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks! You can hear that this composer has thought about each and every note!

[@gerhardflink5599]

Sehr schön vorgetragen, ein feines Tremolo. 😊

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Vielen Dank Gerd!

[@grahamtwist]

A lovely performance, Rien, that sounds beautiful on the gorgeous Marcussen Organ sample set: bravo!

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thank you Graham! Tomorrow another chorale prelude, full organ! Baroque!

[@stevepark2830]

beautiful playing Rien!

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks Steve! Nice modern style chorale prelude!

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Definitely a very beautiful little piece. Nicely done, Rien!

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks Vidas, when I played and recorded this one yesterday evening I thought that this one could be composed by you. Especially the accompaniment!

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

@@RienSchalkwijk no, Flor Peeters was the real master.

[@MarkusDrejaOrganist]

Nice one from Peters. Quite a typical composition from him

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thank! He really has a distinct style indeed!

[@colinjenkins8124]

I had not previously heard Flor Peeters' setting of this beautiful hymn. In English hymnals the tune is often named 'St. Elisabeth' or 'Crusader's Hymn'. There is also a particularly beautiful setting called 'Fairest Lord Jesus -Prelude-Pastorale on a XII Century Melody' by Garth Edmundson [1900-1971] which I am sure you would like. Interestingly the same melody is used for the hymntune 'Ascalon' which is given much stronger treatment for words such as 'My Heart and Voice I raise'. Gordon Young used it in the powerful and majestic 'Christus' which is the final piece of his 'Scenes from the Holy Grail', although he does not acknowledge the melody.

[@RienSchalkwijk]

Thanks for the information and the pieces! The melody is pretty simple, but that makes it nice to work around it.