J. S. BACH

 

Bach in the Wind

 

Organ masterworks arranged for wind orchestra and conducted by Mordechai Rechtman

 

Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 539

1. Prelude

2. Fugue

 

Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564

3. Toccata

4. Adagio

5. Fugue

 

Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542

6. Fantasia

7. Fugue

 

Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582

8. Passacaglia

9. Fugue

 

10. In dulci jubilo, BWV 729

(In sweet jubilation)

 

11. Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 625

(Christ lay in bonds of death)

 

12. Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, BWV 668

(Before thy throne I now appear)

 

13. Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 720

(A mighty fortress is our God)

 

14. Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659

(Come saviour of the Gentiles)

 

15. Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578

 

Montreal Festival Wind Orchestra / Mordechai Rechtman

 

The music chosen for this recording is just a small sampling of Bach's organ writing, though it includes a number of his best known and best loved masterpieces.

 

Mordechai Rechtman, one of the world's finest orchestral wind players, brings to his Bach transcriptions a deep and all-abiding understanding of wind instruments-their unique colours in different registers, their technical peculiarities, how they sound in combination with one another, and so on. The result is a complex yet architecturally perfect musical structure reborn, a bold and vivid re-statement so satisfying to our ears that we hear the music as if for the first time. It is old territory bathed in a new light, and it magically works to change our perceptions forever.

 

Total Playing Time: 73:41

 

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