Stefano Innocenti - Compositions for Organ & Harpsichord - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Toccata Fis-Moll BWV 910 2. Toccata G-Moll BWV 915 3. Toccata G-Dur BWV 916 4. Toccata C-Moll BWV 911 5. Toccata E-Moll BWV 914 6. Toccata D-Moll BWV 913 7. Toccata D-Dur BWV 912

J.S. Bach Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1, Composer Johann Sebastian Bach, Artist Stefano Molardi organ, 4 CD, Stefano Molardi is shaping his recorded survey of Bach's complete organ music as self-sufficient and musically satisfying recitals which, disc by disc, explore the diverse styles at the composer's disposal, the flexible usage to which he, the ultimate 'compleat musician', puts 'his' instrument through it's paces, and the different liturgical demands which he was required to meet during the course of his career as he moved from church to court and back again. Grand Weimar- and Leipzig-composed preludes and fugues rub shoulders with intricate trio sonatas which he had initially conceived as chamber music, and between them nestle intimate chorales from his Cöthen days. Accordingly, Molardi makes full use of the potential flexibility of his chosen Trost organ in the Stadtkirche 'Zur Gotteshilfe' in Waltershausen, deep in the provincial heart of Thuringia. This is Bach country, and although the organ has been periodically restored since it was finally inaugurated in 1755, almost 30 years after the work was begun, it retains the classic characteristics of it's age and situation a thorough restoration in 1998 returned the instrument to it's original glory. Born in Cremona, Molardi has undertaken a Renaissance career as not only organist but harpsichordist, conductor and scholar, not only at home in the rarified confines of early music but a virtuoso who has performed the complete organ works of Liszt and Franck and made an extraordinary recording of Verdi arranged for organ. These Bach discs are, perhaps appropriately, less overtly spectacular but no less imaginative in their rhythmic and coloristic response. A new recording (2013) of Bach's complete organ works is, even in these overfed and crisis-stricken days, an event of the first order. First of all because th

Album Tracks 1. Prelude, BWV552 2. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV669 3. Christe, Aller Welt Trost, BWV670 4. Kyrie, Gott Heiliger Geist, BWV671 5. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV672 6. Christe, Aller Welt Trost, BWV673 7. Kyrie, Gott Heiliger Geist, BWV674 8. Allein Gott in Der HÖH Sei Ehr, BWV675 9. Trio Super Allein Gott in Der HÖH Sei Ehr, BWV676 10. Fughetta Super Allein Gott in Der HÖH Sei Ehr, BWV677 11. Dies Sind Die Heiligen Zehen Gebot, BWV678 12. Fughetta Super Dies Sind Die Heiligen Zehen Gebot, BWV679 13. Wir Gläuben All An Einen Gott, BWV680 14. Fughetta Super Wir Gläuben All An Einen Gott, BWV681 15. Vater Unser Im Himmelreich, BWV682 16. Vater Unser Im Himmelreich, BWV683 17. Christ, Unser Herr, Zum Jordan Kam, BWV684 1. Christ, Unser Herr, Zum Jordan Kam, BWV685 2. Aus Tiefer Not Schrei Ich Zu Dir, BWV686 3. Aus Tiefer Not Schrei Ich Zu Dir, BWV687 4. Jesus Christus, Unser Heiland, Der Von Uns, BWV688 5. Fuga Super Jesus Christus, Unser Heiland, BWV689 6. Duetto No. 1, BWV802 7. Duetto No. 2, BWV803 8. Duetto No. 3, BWV804 9. Duetto No. 4, BWV805 10. Fugue, BWV552 11. Fantasia in C minor, BWV1121 12. Christ Lag in Todes Banden, BWV718 13. Fantasia Super Christ Lag in Todes Banden, BWV695 14. Fantasia 15. Fugue 1. Prelude 2. Fugue 3. Fantasia Super Komm, Heiliger Geist, BWV651 4. Komm, Heiliger Geist, BWV652 5. An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV653 6. Schmücke Dich, O Liebe Seele, BWV654 7. Trio Super Herr Jesu Christ, Dich Zu Uns Wend, BWV655 8. O Lamm Gottes, Unschuldig, BWV656 9. Nun Danket Alle Gott, BWV657 10. Von Gott Will Ich Nicht Lassen, BWV658 11. Prelude 12. Fugue