Bach Organ Concertos

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Johann Sebastian Bach

Label: Philips

Media Format: Vinyl

Media Runtime: 0

Catalogue Number: 412 116-1PH

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(6) Concertos, Movement: No. 2 in A minor, BWV593 (after Vivaldi, Op. 3/8) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Daniel Chorzempa, Organ
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(6) Concertos, Movement: No. 3 in C, BWV594 (after Vivaldi, Op. 7/11) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Daniel Chorzempa, Organ
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(6) Concertos, Movement: No. 6 in E flat, BWV597 (after unknown composer) Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Daniel Chorzempa, Organ
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Fugue on a theme by Corelli Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Daniel Chorzempa, Organ
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
The first concerto played may not be familiar to those confined to the older editions of the Complete Organ Works of Bach. It is in D minor, BWV596, and very fine, with vivid contrasts of texture and pitch. The A minor Concerto (BWV593) is played with great vigour, its outer movements with splendidly full registration and its middle movement a delicate solo with tremulant. The staccato opening of the finale is impressive. Chorzempa fully exploits the grand scale of BWV594 in C major and the lengthy cadenza passages are sustained with breath-taking dogged brilliance.
The organ sound is very rich with a satisfying amount of fundamental. How welcome this is to ears assailed constantly by skin and grief. An overdose of filleted chorus work has much the same effect on the spirits as an evening spent with a cheap oriental transistor. Nothing of that here—a full-blooded sound and, for good measure, Chorzempa bottoms his choruses with a reedy crunch, and his solo passages are blessed with a Postiv having both character and size. A most satisfying record.'

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