Church Organ

The performance by Lorenzo Ghielmi (professor of organ at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) and his Italian band La Divina Armonia is consistently delightful and his playing sparkles with vitality and character's counterparts. The resonant sound makes the small band sound much bigger than it really is, and Ghielmi's organ sounds much like a "church" organ. David Vickers (Gramophone)

Thoroughly trained by his father Johann Sebastian, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach became renowned as a virtuoso harpsichordist and organist. His surviving organ music includes the seven choral preludes and ten fugues on this disc, which range from relatively simple settings to elaborate displays of counterpoint. Born in Rio de Janeiro and based in the USA, Julia Brown, who has made several acclaimed recordings of keyboard music by Buxtehude and Scheidemann for Naxos, has been praised as ‘a first-class artist and superb technician … an exceptionally sensitive stylist’.