A thoroughly good set and, for an organ of the period (although not one on which Bach would have played, however much he might have liked) not in an unequal temperament. These are again still available on Harmonia Mundi France HMX 290772.83 on 12 CDs. I bought these three 6LP box sets before I went to college (and subsequently sold there, poverty being part of student life then, but not crippling debt as now).
The other set I own is the second set that Lionel Rogg recorded on the Silbermann organ in Arlesheim. Since then the issuing company has changed and they are now available from the Document label in two sets of 10 CDs, 223490 at £13.99 each – well, that’s what the website said but I don’t believe it. I reviewed these in the Organ Club Journal some years back when 20 CDs cost £60 from my local record shop. The first of the more modern sets that I came up with were Wolfgang Stockmeier whose LP recordings of the 1980s, all played on Kreienbrinck organs, all make an absolutely adorable sound. Some of these I heard once about 30 years ago (thanks to the London Borough of Hounslow Library Service) and, from memory, I found them a little dry and close-miked, in the then prevalent style of the 1950s. Some of his sons also became composers - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Christian Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach.While doing a little research for this article I googled Complete Bach Organworks and found that these milestone recordings are still available on the DG Archiv sub-division, 4637122, 12 CDs.
Matthew Passion, The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue and a large number of cantatas, of which about 220 survive. Bach's works include the Brandenburg concertos, the keyboard suites and partitas, the Mass in B Minor, the St.
Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty, J.S. Many people consider him to be the greatest Baroque composer, and one of the greatest composers of all time. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, a control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. A prolific German composer and organist, his sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the baroque genre and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on Main Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany.
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