Johann Sebastian Bach - Bach to Notre-Dame - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For his first CD with La Dolce Volta, Olivier Latry has chosen a programme devoted to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. This recording, made on the massive Cavaille-Coll organ of Notre-Dame de Paris, of which he is titular organist, raises a number of fascinating questions. 'My approach highlights several paradoxes the notion of performing these key works of Protestantism in one of the most emblematic centres of Catholicism, first of all, but also of playing them on an instrument that is, to say the least, far removed from the Baroque and Classical style of organ building. It's quite true, all of this raises questions. 'However, the most important question remains, in my opinion, that of authenticity in music. I must confess that this concept often seems to me to be a decoy... Playing Bach in this context therefore implies finding a new balance in order to preserve the spirit and letter of music. One cannot be divorced from the other.'Every performer plays with the instruments of his or her time, and the instrument I have here at Notre-Dame is an outstanding one. One cannot and must not fight against the past, but on the contrary assimilate it, the better to derive inspiration from it and then find one's personal path. We shouldn't really be talking about authenticity at all, but, more soberly, about sincerity.' Album Tracks 1. Musical Offering, BWV 1079~Ricercare a 6 2. Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 3. Toccata et fugue in D minor, BWV 565 4. Choral Erbarm' dich mein, o Herre Gott BWV 721 5. Fantaisie and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542~Fantaisie 6. Fantaisie and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542~Fugue 7. In dir ist Freude BWV 615 8. Choral Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV 727 9. Pièce d'orgue BWV 572 10. Passacaille et fugue in C minor, BWV 582