Jan Lehtola (organ)

Merikanto, O: Fantasia chromatica, OM03
Merikanto, O: Trauermarsch, OM279
Merikanto, O: Konzert-Etüden, OM119
Merikanto, O: Konzert-Etüden, PM119
Merikanto, O: Konzert-Etüden, OM119
Merikanto, O: 100 Chorale Preludes
Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Six Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35

Oskar Merikanto (1868–1924) made an enormous contribution to music-making in Finland, and to organ music in particular, as teacher, virtuoso performer and authority on performance practice, reforming the approach to the organ in both church and concert-hall. It was thought that all of his organ music was known and recorded, but recent discoveries have added a number of previously unknown works to his catalogue: a striking concert fantasia, an early funeral march, some pedal studies, a vast series of chorale preludes – some of them beautifully crafted miniatures, others only aphoristic ideas – and an organ transcription of a piano piece by Mendelssohn.