ANDREAS BACH BUCH

 

Organ Music

 

Dietrich Buxtehude: Prelude BuxWV137, Fugue BuxWV174, Passacaglia BuxWV161, Chaconne BuxWV159

Johann Adam Reincken: Ballet

Johann Georg Küchenthal: Chanberceau

Carlo Francesco Pollarolo: Capriccio in D, Prelude in G, Fugue in E

Christian Ritter: Sonatina in D

J. S. Bach: Gott, durch deine Güte, BWV724, Fantasia in C, BWV Anh. 205, Passacaglia in C, BWV582

 

Maurizio Croci (organ, Melchior Grob 1784 of Payerne, Fribourg - Switzerland)

 

The Andreas Bach Buch is a major source of eighteenth-century German keyboard music. It was compiled in several stages, from 1707-8 onwards, by J.S. Bach's nephew. Bach's elder brother Johann Christoph was the main copyist of the Andreas Bach Buch. He was organist at the church of Ohrdurf and before that he had studied with Johann Pachelbel. In 1695 he took his younger brother, Andreas, into his own home and taught him the rudiments of the keyboard. That Johann Christoph had a thorough grasp of music is readily apparent from the sophisticated choice of pieces in the Andreas Bach Buch, conceived as it was essentially as a source of material for his work as a teacher. It is also quite clear, however, that he was concerned to preserve and pass on the work of his brother. The result is one of the very few reliable documents of Bach's activity as a composer during the period 1700-1715.

 

Maurizio Croci is currently head organist at the Basilica of the Holy Trinity in Berne and artistic director of the Académie d'Orgue de Fribourg.

 

Stradivarius STR33639