With this new release, AEOLUS continues its successful collaboration with the organist Elke Völker. Playing the great Aristide Cavaillé-Coll organ (1857/1889) of the basilica of Bonsecours, the artist now devotes herself to a few early works of César Franck. This is a largely neglected repertoire, which originated even before today's well-known Franck organ works. In addition to the outstanding interpreter, the choice of the previously rarely recorded instrument and the AEOLUS recording technology have made this recording a must for connoisseurs and lovers of late-romantic organ music. Elke Volker is a German organist, church musician, and musicologist who studied at the universities of Mannheim, Mainz, and Heidelberg. From 1996-2008 she served as Choir Organist and Cathedral Music Associate at the UNESCO Heritage St. Mary’s Imperial Cathedral of Speyer. In 2009 she was nominated as Interim Music Director and Cathedral Organist. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of the “Internationaler Orgelherbst Deidesheim” and the Russian “International Organ Festival Philharmony Perm.”
