High Spirits - Safe On The Other Side - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Re-issue (2024) of HIGH SPIRIT's 3rd album.

Johann Sebastian Bach, possibly the greatest composer to ever live, composed a huge amount of organ music, much of which has remained some of the best-known pieces of all time. Most of the music was written when Bach was a young man and it retains a dynamism and joy that has never been equaled. This recording includes a selection of toccatas, fantasias, preludes and fugues played on a stunning original instrument from 1732.

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