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Background -

Daniel Walter Chorzempa (born December 7, 1944) is an American organist and architect. Chorzempa was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and subsequently studied music and architecture at the University of Minnesota and further music studies in Cologne. He began his career as a pianist, having some success in Europe during the late 1960s and early 1970s, however he became better known as an organist. In the 1970s he was also active as a composer, associated with the Cologne School.

Jaap Schröder or Jaap Schroeder (born 31 December 1925 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. He studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the Sorbonne in France. In the 1960s he was a member of the Dutch early music group Concerto Amsterdam and made recordings with Gustav Leonhardt, Anner Bylsma, Frans Brüggen and others. He served as the director and concertmaster of the Academy of Ancient Music, and in 1982 he was appointed the visiting music director of the Smithsonian Chamber Players. He has served as a faculty member at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Yale School of Music and the Luxembourg Conservatory.

Famed Organist Daniel Chorzempa and the Concerto Amsterdam, conducted by Jaap Schröder, perform Händel's Organ Concertos at the Oud Katholieke Kerk in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Recorded in concert in 1975.

It looks like a CD. It plays on all your CD players. But this Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) is much, much more. Created by Sony and Philips – the people who invented the CD – this is actually a two-layer disc. And both layers pack an incredible story.

From the earliest digital recordings and 16-bit Compact Disc on up to even the latest 24-bit recordings, digital audio has always used multi-bit PCM technology. Until now. Now there is Direct Stream Digital recording. A one bit system that´s fundamentally different. Thanks to an amazing 2,822,400 samples per second, you get audio performance that no other format can deliver. Where CD frequency response extends to 20,000 Hz, DSD technology can theoretically reach 100,000 Hz. Where CD has a dynamic range of 96 dB, DSD recording can achieve 120 dB across the entire audible range. Thanks to DSD technology, the SACD difference is breathtaking. If you care passionately about music, then SACD will inflame that passion as never before.

Even the SACD´s 16-bit layer can sound better, if it´s based on a Direct Stream Digital or an analogue studio master. The Super Bit Mapping Direct process can be used to down-convert to the 16-bit CD format, which enables you to hear more of the original master.

So by all means, enjoy this disc on a standard CD player. But for an unforgettable audio experience, you have really got to hear it on a new Super Audio CD player.

This listing is for a rare Hybrid SACD title - a USED / OPENED, in Near Mint minus overall condition Hybrid SACD (can be played on all types of CD players) PRESSED and ISSUED by PENTATONE of a highly collectible title, featuring -

Handel // Chorzempa // Schroder

Hybrid SACD Title -

Handel: Organ Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4 (Vol. 1)

Track Listing - 

  1. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/1, HWV 289: Larghetto e staccato
  2. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/1, HWV 289: Allegro
  3. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/1, HWV 289: Adagio
  4. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/1, HWV 289: Andante
  5. Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op.4/2, HWV 290: A tempo ordinario e staccato
  6. Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op.4/2, HWV 290: Allegro
  7. Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op.4/2, HWV 290: Adagio e staccato
  8. Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op.4/2, HWV 290: Allegro ma non presto
  9. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/3, HWV 291: Adagio
  10. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/3, HWV 291: Andante
  11. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/3, HWV 291: Allegro
  12. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/3, HWV 291: Adagio
  13. Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/3, HWV 291: Gavotte
  14. Organ Concerto in F major, Op.4/4, HWV 292: Allegro
  15. Organ Concerto in F major, Op.4/4, HWV 292: Andante
  16. Organ Concerto in F major, Op.4/4, HWV 292: Adagio
  17. Organ Concerto in F major, Op.4/4, HWV 292: Allegro

Performers on this Hybrid SACD include -

 • Composed By – Händel
• Conductor – Jaap Schröder
• Orchestra – Concerto Amsterdam
• Organ – Daniel Chorzempa

The Hybrid SACD is from the PENTATONE series of audiophile HYBRID Multichannel SACDs.

  • Hybrid SACD catalog # PTC 5186 103
  • Hybrid SACD - plays on all SACD and CD players
  • Hybrid SACD made in the EU (NETHERLANDS)
  • Hybrid SACD issued in 2002
  • Recorded: Haarlem, Oud Katholieke Kerk, 9/1975, The Netherlands.

The Hybrid SACD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all in Near MINT minus overall condition! The SACD was play tested in our audio system and it performed perfectly. There are no serious marks on the reflective side of the disc that we could see, even under strong, white light.

This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!