Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: David Goode
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Release: 2011
Size: 834 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV564
01. Toccata
02. Adagio
03. Fugue
Concerto in A minor (after Vivaldi)
04. i. Allegro
05. ii. Adagio cantabile
06. iii. Allegro
07. Chorale prelude on ‘Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele’ BWV 654
Prelude & Fugue in B minor, BWV544
08. Prelude
09. Fugue
10. Chorale Prelude BWV682 ‘Vater unser im Himmelreich’
Prelude & Fugue in G major, BWV541
11. Prelude
12. Fugue
13. Chorale Prelude BWV622 ‘O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde groß’
Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV582
14. Passacaglia
15. Fugue
David Goode performs a grand selection of some of Bach’s best organ works – including the famed Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor – providing modern listeners with a unique chance to hear Bach’s music as congregations of that period may have done.
The Gottfried Silbermann organ of Freiberg cathedral is one of a handful of such 18th-century instruments (built during Bach’s lifetime) to have remained largely unmodified to this day. Bach’s work as an organ inspector shows that he tested and inaugurated a number of Silbermann’s organs in Germany and, although there is no record that he played this instrument, its sound is undoubtedly one that Bach would have recognised and composed for.