Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens:
Fanfare, Cantabile and Finale
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Fanfare (00:00)
Cantabile (03:54)
Finale (10:14)
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Emília Dzemjanová, Organ
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St. Elisabeth Cathedral in Košice, 23 September 2006
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In the works of the Belgian Jacques - Nicolas Lemmens (1823–1881) two great organ traditions are united: the French and the German. Lemmens was a prolific composer, virtuoso and pedagogue (Guilmant's and Widor's teacher, among others). He supported the Bach cult in France and contributed to the development of organ playing. On the one hand, his work emanates from Gregorian themes, on the other hand, it is directed toward organ recitals in the concert hall which had won wide public recognition in the period of culminating romanticism. The sonata sequence Fanfare, Cantabile and Finale is a typical example of Lemmen's art. The lively toccata - like stream of the Fanfare alternates with harmonic and melodic mellowness of the three - part Cantabile. The Finale with a chorale in the middle part presents an appealing of the work.
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Emília Dzemjanová studied under Ivan Sokol, Ferdinand Klinda in Bratislava and Flor Peeters in Mechelen in Belgium. She graduated from the Academy of Music and Drama with a doctor’s degree, won prizes at the Slovak Interpretation Competition and diplomas Woman of the Year 1992 and World Intellectual. She teaches as organ professor and is head of the organ department of the Conservatorie in Košice, wrote two organ schools and a book on the methodology of organ teaching. As concert organist she was invited by numerous major European music and organ festivals. She has appeared in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Croatia, Poland and Ukraine and played as soloist with symphony orchestras and prominent instrumentalists. She also premiered works by Slovak composer, some of them were dedicated to her.

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