Joseph Jongen: Rhapsodie, Op. 70 (1922)

00:00 I. Rhapsodie Piano: Hans Ryckelynck Ensemble: 5 Beaufort Brussels Woodwind Quintet Year of Recording: 2014 Joseph Jongen owes his fame almost entirely to the audiophile market; every innovation in recording technology brings a handful of releases of his extravagantly scored and generously melodic Symphonie concertante for organ and orchestra (1926). Little do audiophiles suspect that Jongen was a prolific and able composer in many genres, particularly but not exclusively in the field of organ music. At age 7, Jongen entered the Liège Conservatory; it wasn t until he was 19 that he joined a locally important organ class, but within four years he was winning the highest honors for his playing. Simultaneously, he was making a name for himself as a composer; a string quartet of his won first prize in the 1894 Royal Academy of Belgium competition, and his cantata Comala brought him the Prix de Rome in 1897. During the 1890s Jongen served as organis