JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

The Organ Works of Bach

CD1 [73:20]

1. - Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543

2-4. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 599-601

5-7. - Trio Sonata No. 1 in E·Flat Major, BWV 525

8-12. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 602-606

13. - Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533

14. - Chorale Partita, “O Gott, du frommer,Gott”, BWV 767

15. - Fuge on a Theme by Corelli, BWV 579

16. - Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542

CD2 [62:55]

1-2. - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor “Dorian”, BWV 538

3-6. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 607-610

7-8. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 651and 653

9. - Allabreve in D Major, BWV 589

10. - Chorale Prelude, BWV 654

11-12. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 702 & 703

13. - Prelude in A Minor, BWV 569

14-25. - Partita on “Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig”, BWV 768

CD3 [71:03]

1. - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

2-3. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 611 and 612

4-6. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 652, 655 and 656

7-9. - Trio Sonata No.2 in C Minor, BWV 526

10-14. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 690-693

15. - Prelude in G Major, BWV 568

16-17. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 695 and 701

18-19. - Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544

CD4 [67:49]

1-2. - Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540

3-4. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 657 and 658a

5-6. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 704 and 705

7. - Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 562

8-10. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 710-712

11-12. - Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 549

13-16. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 706, 708, 709 and 713

17-18. - Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 548

CD5 [77:08]

1-2. - Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547

3-4. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 659 and 660

5-7. - Chorale Settings, BWV 714-716

8. - Fugue in C Minor “Legrenzi”, BWV 574

9. - Chorale Setting, BWV 653b

11-14. - Pastorella in F Major, BWV 590

15-16. - Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 539

17. - Fantasia in C Major, BWV 570

18-20. - Chorale Preludes, BWV 645-647

21-22. - Prelude and Fugue in E Major, BWV 566

CD6 [53:56]

1-32. - The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Jean Guillou

Jean Guillou is unique in our time. He is the last in a distinguished line of composer-organists, a virtuoso who creates, a Frescobaldi, a Sebastian Bach, a Liszt, a Widor. This rare blend of creator and interpreter imbues his traversal of Bach’s oeuvre for organ with a special vision, a unique spirit. Sebastian Bach, who owned a copy of Frescobaldi’s Fiori Musicali, approached the music of his great Roman predecessor as though it were contemporary, the creation of a peer, the handiwork of an esteemed colleague. To Bach, the keyboard works of Frescobaldi were as “new” as his own, as new as the Organ Masses of Couperin-le-Grand and de Grigny. To Guillou, the organ works of Bach are as “new” as those of Dupré, Messiaen, or Guillou. In these innovative, iconoclastic performances, virtuoso-composer meets virtuoso-composer, creator meets creator, and recreator meets recreator, all on an equal footing; together Bach and Guillou span the centuries like the Shakespearean colossus. Those who seek an “authentic,” “scholarly” approach to the Bach organ works “will,” to quote Sir Adrian Boult, “have no difficulty in finding many excellent recordings in this vein.”

Recorded on the The Kleuker-Steinmeyer Organ of the Tonhalle, Zürich and The Kleuker Organ of Église Notre Dame des Neiges, Alpe d’Huez, France.

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