Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Arvo Pärt
Performer: David Bendix Nielsen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orchid
Catalogue: ORC100197
Release: 2022
Size: 2.41 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Bach: Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 ‘St Anne’
01. I. Prelude
02. II. Fugue
03. Pärt: Pari intervallo
Bach: Organ Concerto in D minor (after Vivaldi), BWV596
04. I. Allegro – Grave – Fugue
05. II. Largo e spiccato
06. III. Allegro
07. Pärt: trivium
08. Bach: Chorale Prelude BWV653 ‘An Wasserflüssen Babylon’
09. Bach: Trio super ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’, BWV655
10. Bach: Chorale Prelude BWV662 ‘Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’
11. Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Bach: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV582
12. I. Passacaglia
13. II. Fugue
The pieces on this album were selected so as to create a coherent narrative, and simultaneously to highlight important works from the composers’ catalogue. When David Bendix Nielsen prepares his concert programmes, he always aims to offer the audience an organic narrative that presents the instrument’s many nuances and leads them through the concert as if it were a story told, with ups and downs, highs and lows, powerful outbursts, and meditative moments. With this approach in mind he has put together the album’s repertoire, where Arvo Pärt’s minimalistic and meditative pieces create contrast to Bach’s intellectual compositions, powerful settings, and beautiful chorales.
The pieces are also connected by tonality: Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major – Pärt’s Pari Intervallo in E-flat minor; Concerto in D minor – Trivium in D minor; Spiegel im Spiegel in C major – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor. The two big pieces at the very beginning and the end encapsulate the album’s more delicate parts. The music on this album is at the core of Bendix Nielsen’s concert repertoire and is some of the most beautiful organ music written by Bach and Pärt, respectively.