Organ Bach Sielbermann

This program is more difficult to describe than it is to enjoy. These are Vivaldi’s “works for cello and organ,” except Vivaldi wrote no works for that combination of instruments! In other words, the five works listed in the headnote as being by Vivaldi are played in transcriptions for cello and organ. Going from basso continuo to organ accompaniment does not require a remarkable amount of creativity. On the other hand, organist Boucher is given the credit he merits for his more ambitious transcriptions of the Violin Concerto, and with the movements from the Stabat mater and the Gloria. The two works by Bach are played on the organ alone. However, these, too, are transcriptions, as these works originally were written by Vivaldi. The Keyboard Concerto in F is Bach’s transcription of Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in G, RV 310, and the Organ Concerto in A minor is Bach’s transcription of Vivaldi’s Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins, RV 522.

Having garnered the ultimate accolades from a host of arts review pages for her premiere recording on the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie’s organ and on the double organ of the Taiwanese Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, concert organist Iveta Apkalna now presents her third release on the Berlin Classics label as a triple album. "Triptychon" spans three centuries and three religious confessions on one single organ: Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt and Pēteris Vasks can be heard on this, the first release of a recording played in Neubrandenburg’s Concert Church on the organ which she helped to develop and inaugurated.

The second of Bach: The Organ Works by Megumi Yoshida, who achieved the performance of all the organ works by the first Japanese new Bach Complete Works. Like the previous work, Bach's beloved organ maker Arp Schnitger uses the timeless famous organ left in Groningen, the Netherlands.

There are four surviving church cantatas by Bach for solo alto voice. One, Wiederstehe doch der Sünde BWV54 was probably composed in 1714. The other three were all written in 1726, after Bach had taken up his appointment at St. Thomas’s, Leipzig, and so it is a sensible idea to group them on one CD.

Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) - Harald Vogel - Complete Organ Works
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 1,91 GB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Gold" # 309 1582-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2007 (1986-1993)
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Sacred

…Harald Vogel is an authoritative proponent and guide through all aspects of this music, and the quality of his playing, and of the recordings and choice of instruments can hardly be faulted. Already recognised as interpretations and recordings without equal, certainly in a complete edition, this set has to be considered the current Buxtehude standard bearer.

A unique collection of music and pieces arranged for organ, composed by J.S. Bach and members of the Bach Family. Expertly arranged and played by Mark Swinton at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, UK, the music featured here demonstrates the development of keyboard music across the generations of the Bach family. The beautiful Nicholson organ of St Mary’s is perfectly suited to the music of the Baroque and early Classical periods.