Spring's Bach #1511
…in celebration of the Vernal Equinox and a special birthday, we delight again in more of the ever resilient music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Hour 1
BACH: Prelude & Fugue in C, BWV 547 –Pieter van Dijk (1646 Van Hagerbeer-1725 Schnitger/Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, The Netherlands) Fugue State Films 008
BACH (arr. De Jong): Variations on Was Gott tut,das ist wohlgetan (arrangements of movements from Bach Cantatas 75 and 100) –Euwe and Sybolt de Jong (1738 Müller/Bavokerk, Haarlem, The Netherlands*) WestraMedia 6
BACH: Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV 655 –Martin Neu (2007 Ahrend/St. Otto Church, Herzogenaurach, Germany) Audite 92.547
BACH: Trio Sonata No. 3 in d, BWV 527 –Jean Guillou (1978 Kleucker/Notre-Dame des Neiges, L’Alpe d’Huez, France) Augure 1301
BACH: Wacht auf, ruft uns die Stimme!, BWV 645. BACH: Ricercare in 6 Parts, fr Musical Offering –André Isoir (1750 Gabler/Weingarten Abbey, Germany) LaDolceVolta 153.7
Hour 2
BACH (attrib.): Prelude & Fugue in F, BWV 556 –Cristina Garcia Banegas (1969 Schuke/St. Paul’s Church, Darmstadt, Germany) Con Gioia 10-11-500
BACH (ed. W. T. Best): Prelude & Fugue in e, BWV 533 –Carsten Wiebusch (2010 Klais/Christuskirche, Karlsruhe, Germany) Audite 92.663
BACH: Contrapunctus No. 12, fr Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 –Elizabeth Sombart, piano; Jean-Christophe Geiser (2003 Fisk/Cathedral of Lausanne, Switzerland) IFO 07001
BACH: Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, BWV 667 –Renée Anne Louprette (1976 Metzler/TrinityCollege, Cambridge, England) Acis 58180
BACH: Flute Sonata in A, BWV 1032 –Lena Weman, flute; Hans-Ola Ericsson, Henk Klop trunk organ) Euridice 70
BACH: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C, BWV 564 –Johannes Lang (1737 Treutmann/Grauf Cloister, Goslar, Germany) Genuin 14324
BILLY NALLE: Trio in the Style of Bach (Alles was du bist) –William Kuhlman (1978 Sipe/Luther College, Decorah, IA) Luther College 2005
BACH: Chorale-fantasy, Gelobet sei der Herr, BWV 129 –Michel Morisset, trumpet; Marie-Andrée Morisset-Balier (1890 Cavaillé-Coll/St. Ouen, Rouen, France) ASO 2001
You can watch several of today’s performers in these YouTube video extras:
Pieter van Dijk plays a Schübler Chorale on the Alkmaar Schnitger organ
André Isoir fully realizes Bach’s Wachet auf! at Weingarten Abbey
Jean Guillou expands on a Handel Hornpipe on the ‘hand-organ’ at Alpe d’Huez
Cristina Garcia Banegas plays Bach in Buenos Aires
Carsten Wiebusch explore Bach through the edition of 19th century Englishman W. T. Best
Hans-Ola Ericsson plays some Orgelbüchlein chorale-preludes on a new ‘Bach organ’ in Cegléd, Hungary
Jean-Christophe Geiser discusses (in French) the Fisk organ at Lausanne Cathedral
Renée Ann Louprette plays Bach at Our Lady of Refuge in Brooklyn
In addition, video producer Will Fraser introduces his excellent Fugue State Films DVD, Alkmaar: the organs of the Laurenskerk
*And, newly published volume, The Haarlem Essays celebrates fifty years of Haarlem International Organ Festivals, 480 pages hard-bound, with 150 illustrations and examples and a CD of seven exemplary prize-winning improvisations featuring the Müller organ.
