Organist Lukas Hasler presents "Gold", a radiant debut album featuring his own transcriptions and arrangements for organ. What began five years ago with a fascination for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "G major Sonata" in Edvard Grieg's version for two pianos evolved into an artistic journey through the transformative world of transcription. Hasler discovered in the organ an instrument capable not only of reproducing orchestral and pianistic textures, but of transforming them into something entirely new. To realize this vision, he turned to the legendary Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, whose expressive possibilities and radiant acoustics inspired both the choice of repertoire and the album's title.

"Gold" offers a rich spectrum of colors and styles, from the jubilant brilliance of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Sinfonia" (in Dupré's lively transcription) to the delicate intimacy of Robert Schumann's "Romance", here recorded for the first time on organ. Hasler gives Edwin H. Lemare's arrangement of "Carmen Fantasy" a theatrical flair, Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight" Adagio is played with serene grace, and Anton Bruckner's "Zeroth Scherzo" with symphonic vitality, while Mozart's "G Major Sonata" – filtered through Edvard Grieg's imagination and Hasler's own artistry – bridges classical clarity and romantic warmth. Sergei Rachmaninoff's tempestuous "Prelude", Louis J.-A. Lefébure-Wély's sparkling "Bolero" and the playful, genre-transcending "Vienna Calling" complete a program celebrating the inventiveness, personality, and golden richness of the Viennese organ sound.