German Organ Music Vol 2

Kittel, Johann Christian
1.Fantasia con organo pleno
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
2.I. Allegro assai
3.II. Adagio
4.III. Allegro

Kellner, Johann Peter
5.Herzlich thut mich verlangen

Ammerbach, Elias Nikolaus
6.Passamezzo antico

Praetorius, Michael
7.Kyrie Martyrum

Schlick, Arnolt
8.Maria zart von edler Art

Krieger, Johann
9.Fantasia

Krebs, Johann Ludwig
10.Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr
11.Jesu, meine Freude
12.Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
13.Jesus,meine Zuversicht
14.Von Gott will ich nicht lassen
15.Sei Lob und Ehr dem hochsten Gut

Murschhauser, Franz Xaver
16.Praambel und Fuge
17.Fugue

Walther, Johann Gottfried
18.Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott

Buxtehude, Dieterich
19.Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
20.Puer natus in Bethlehem
21.Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Pachelbel, Wilhelm Hieronymus
22.Fantasia super Meine Seele, lass es gehen

Pachelbel, Johann
23.Fuge: Magnificat (Secundi toni)
24.Wir glauben all' an einen Gott
25.Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Bach, Johann Sebastian
26.Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 720

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Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750)
1-3 Concerto for oboe and strings in F major op7 No 9

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
4-6 Concerto for violin, cello, strings and harpsichord in B flat major RV547
7-9 Concerto for strings and harpsichord in D minor RV127
10-12 Concerto for oboe, strings and harpsichord in C major RV447
13-15 Concerto "Alla Rustica" for strings and basso continuo in G major RV151

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
16-18 Concerto for two violins, strings and basso continuo in C minor BWV1043

Alessandro Marcello (1684-1750)
19 Adagio from Concerto for oboe, strings and basso continuo in D minor

Moscow Chamber Ensemble ECCELENTE

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German Organ Music

The so known said that states: "Never judge a book by its cover", never ceases to amaze me. In fact this recording is one of my favorites for the organ, I can listen it again and again and never get bored. Its brillian execution by Joseph Payne, an not so known organist as it's Bolliger or Gillian Weir, but not less virtuoso at all. Virtuoso not just in the sense of having a brave technique, but to have likewise a great intuition that allows to go deeper in the scores. That is what makes the music be the music captivating by itself .

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Historic Organs from 5 Centuries

Im really delighted upon posting this cd interpreted by Albert Bolliger. A man deeply fascinated by the world of organs, whose long career has given fruits all along his life and the places he is being at. 

The series "Historic Organs" unveils his true art, the ties his mind has with the organ, making up an extraordinary interpretation in all the different organs he has played, just briefed in the present disk. Just as example is the so tender interpretation of the BWV 754  "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" which has no paragon and that I love.

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Organ Works - Bach

Absolutely beauty, powerful interpretation and astonishing sound. When it comes to the organ, Bach's music deserves a keen understanding. His music expresses not only Bach's music skills, but his own self as something astral covering every single note so that when it listened, shivering. It is a so diligent music that is in many senses self-understandable, and will-less we are just free-sheets  at the mercy of the even the smallest wind. But it can be the opposite as can be noted in the so famous Toccata and Fugue BWV 565 whereupon by force we are lead off our minds.

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The Organ (The Instruments of Classical Music)

Everyone is acquainted with its imposing external form in the interior of churches. But is more difficult to define the instrument. What about this definition?: "The organ is a stationary instrument which is played with hands and feet on one or more keyboards, and in which the sound is produced by pipes (flue or reed pipes) arranged in ranks (voices or registers), which can be switched on individually by the player at will, placed over an apparatus for distributing wind (wind chest), this wind being provided by a special machine (bellows or blower)". After its "invention" by the Greek engineer Ktesibios (around 250 BC), the organ became established in the Hellenic and Roman Empires and, from there, throughout the whole of Europe. The decadent emperor Nero (54-68 AD) used it as plaything, and it was regarded as a symbol of entertainment and as the worldly showpiece of princes' courts until the early 14th century. It was only in the 15th century that this instrument, which had previously been condemned by the high dignitaries of the Church, started to be used for sacred functions as a kind of "machine for accompanying the choir" and took over the rule of the cult and church instrument par excellence.  Different methods of construction and sound ideas developed in the various countries and regions, stemming mostly from the fancies of some prominent organ builder and his successors. With a zeal of almost Olympic proportions organs were constructed which were "bigger and bigger", "more and more beautiful", "more and more sonorous", in some of which it was impossible to use all the registers. In the largest church organ in the world, the five-part organ in Passau Cathedral, the organist could theoretically play on 231 registers with exactly 17,388 pipes, the biggest of which is more than 11 meters long and 47 centimeters in diameter, and the smallest only 6 millimeters long.             U.K.

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Harpsichord Concertos I, II and III - Bach (Cologne Chamber Orchestra)

Virtuosos, lively, armonious, enchanting, etc. etc., are some of a big positive characteristics that applies to Bach's harpsichord concertos. Concertos that reveal a new face of Bach's astonishing imagination.

Fair and passionate playing of the soloist and of the full accompaniment make of this recording one of the best I've heard, whose well appreciation of the tempo allows them to a better exploit of the music.



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Most of the concertos were first conceive for oboe and violin. Although you'll recognize plenty of them,  give a try to this recording.




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Anna Magdalena Notebook - Bach

"The Leipzig choirmaster' s household was a beehive of activity". It is also a quite good characteristic that can be assumed to the notebook dated of 1725 written by the second wife of the Thomasschule cantor. A notebook full of exquisite miniatures by Bach's sons, J. S. Bach himself and a series of musicians closed to Bach's Family, that explains in part the colorful range to these enchanting pieces which brightened up once Bach's household.

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Goldberg Variations, Italian Concerto, French Overture, ... - Bach

Too many people critizise Pieter-Jan Belder because of his ulter rapid playing, aluding that in that way the poetry inside music cant be displayed. I must admit that in some sense they are right, but at least for this recording those critics do not apply since the Belder's skillful playing adjusts perfectly to the masterpieces in this recording, as example, one of the most difficult pieces to be played in the harpsichord is the ouverture of the of the "French Ouverture BWV 831", where virtuoso playing is needed in order to attain the perfec speed, so, Belder does and it is outstanding. In the other hand, the "Goldberg Variations" claim to measureness and Belder does perfectly, proving that Belder not only is brave in technical means, but exploding out tender emotions that Bach's Goldberg Variations are full of .

In general,  It is perhaps Belder's maximum recording success. Listen and you'll see.

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Violin Concertos BWV 1041-1043, BVW 1064R - Bach

Part of the few surviving orchestral works, these Four violin concertos constitute  part of the little instrumental Bach's output that have survived posterity. After their revival in the early nineteen century their permance have been continously uninterrupted; and with the advenience of the recording equipment, many recordings occupy the stalls of the cd stores, but just few make the difference, specially this one, whose sound quality is unparallel, apart of the extraordinary virtuoso playing of Goltz, Müllejans and Screiber as part of the Freiburger Barockorchester.

"Thanks to the original releaser"

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Oster Oratorium BWV 249 BWV 66 -Cantata BWV 56 and BWV 200 -- Bach

Two interpretations, two different epoques, two styles, two different sounds and one masterpiece (Bach Oster Oratorium BWV 249).

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Bach Greatest Hits, Baroque Masterpieces

I think that since the beginning of this blog, I've posted works for deep connoiseurs of the baroque, works that are not always easy to digest, so, I felt like an impel to prsent some music for amateurs baroque listeners. 

The firs cd compiles some of the most famous Bach's melodies. Without going so far, it presents them in a very pleasant way to be listened, starting from two allegros of his famous concertos of Brandenburg No 2 and 3, passing through some symphonies  and the orchestral version of the so dazing "Jesu, joy of man's desiring". The other works, the selection of the main movements of the Bach's orchestral suites No 1 and 2 (BWV 1066 and 1067 respectively), and  the violin concerto BWV 1043 are being performed with mastery and profundity, caring for the subtles parts, which in baroque can mean everything.

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The second cd (Baroque Masterpieces) is alike an anthology of the most excelent compositions of late baroque. Here, not all works are recueable, due to exist nowadays much better interpretations, and plus, interpreted on period instruments. But leaving aside the instrumentation issue, and if we focuse on the musicality, we'll be able to apreciate this works as landmarks of the baroque interpretations. Just to point out the works that I believe are rescuable, are: Albinoni's adagio, Bach's Oboe concerto (Do not remmember the number of the cathalog BWV), and the Corelli's concerto for grosso in G minor Op 6 for Christamas. Im sure that the other pieces will like you, I was just remarking thoso that I believe are better interpreted in comparision with much moder ones.

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In Tempore Nativitatis (Christmas Cantatas) - Bach

Just 13 Christmas cantatas of Bach's survive along with the 3 contained in his christmas oratorio. While appointed at the Thomas Church in Leipzig, he was required to set a cantata for every sunday and for the main church festivities. In total he composed over 300, approximately 200 of which are extant. 

A curious fact is in the first cantata presented "Unser Mond sei voll Lachens" BWV 110, that  opens with an arrangement taken from the Orchestral suite No. 4 BWV 1069.

All in all there are not many words coming up to express what I feel about this cd, sometimes I disagree what the analysis in the booklet says, but the important thing is that each one can have its own judgement about it, just let yourself go through the music.

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Water Music - Handel, Two violin concertos - Bach

Just to get you in, it's a cd comprising the Handel's water music first suite and Bach's two violin concertos BWV 1041 and 1043. Treasures of the baroque executed by the potsdam baroque orchestra. Really worth to listen it, because its  profundity, measurable execution and the clearance of the performers.

Handel's water music was composed to an open aire performance at the Thames river by a request of King George I in 17 July 1717. 

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Christmas Oratorio - Bach

Art spanning Christmas has been very common in Christianity. The depiction of the Jesus birth described in the gospels of St Luke and Matthew are the usual view with some variants that took place over the time, specially in the baroque period tha is when it reached the climax. Even now, the force of the baroque related to christmas is in vogue. The depiction of the love and devotion of Mary to the child Christ, Joseph standing aside, the shepherds, and the three wise men or the magi, Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar offering gifts in pictures of the most renown baroque masters.

This Oratorio of Bach depicts the Christmas throug Epiphany (6 January). Its music comprises 6 cantatas, three of which are: Hercules auf der Scheidewege BWV 213, Tonet, ihr Pauken Erschaller, Trompeten BWV 214, Preise dein Gluke gesegnetes Sachsen BWV 215. Whose music have been transcribed quite unaltered to the new text for the Oratorio.

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A Baroque Feast - Tafelmusik

With whatever kind of music, there is always a basic repertory, without which, one can't say that is fan of that or whichever music, even though, it's much more remarcable in the so called "classical music" (that in this case is baroque one). Whoever  that is more than 20 and has lived in a city, at least once, I think, have listenned Vivaldi's four seasons, or Handel's fireworks' festival, or one or two Brandenburg concertos of Bach.

The repertory here presented is one of those that mustn't be missed. Who in his five senses would like to miss Handel's the arrival of Queen of Sheba, or the opening of the suite Abdelazar of Purcell, or Marcello's most famous oboe concerto in D, etc.

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Bach - Brandenburg Concertos 4-5-6

Brandenburg concertos are regarded to be among the finest compositions in the baroque era. Other compositions considered in the same level are basicaly: The Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Haendel's Water Music  and Music for the royal fireworks. So, every baroque music lover ought to listen these jewels.

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Bach - Brandenburg Concertos 1 & 2

This Concertos leaded by Karel Brazda in 2001 are from my point of view, the best versions ever made. The sound is very clean and the playing is also clean and soft, that reveals the great dept in Bach's knowledge of the performers.

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Alto Cantatas - Bach

 When I bought this cd like seven years ago, I felt intermediately in love with Bach's cantatas. I do not have much to say about this cd, just that were cantatas written about 1726 while in Leipzig Bach was cantor. 

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Le Temps Des Castrats

Continuing with the great ara of the castrati in the age of enlightenment I share this cd even though some arias dont sound very good because the recordings are old, but talking about countertenors one doesnt miss Alfre Deller or James Bowman.

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