Bach's Missing Pages

Congratulations on such a stimulating enterprise. I wonder how many other players will be brave enough or inspired to tackle such a task. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2023

Release Date: 19th May 2023
Catalogue No: FSFDVD016
Label: Fugue State Films

Gramophone Magazine

September 2023

DVD of the Month
Gramophone Magazine

Critics' Choice 2023

In stock

Usually despatched within 1 working day

Bach, J S: Das Orgelbüchlein

Sietze de Vries (organ)

About
Reviews
Explore

About

A unique production. In seven thirty-minute films Sietze de Vries performs the entire Orgelbüchlein, demonstrates the organs at the Martinikerk in Groningen and the Petruskerk in Leens, improvises 45 new chorale preludes in the style of Bach, discusses the philosophy of improvisation, and demonstrates how to improvise according to the techniques Bach uses in his great collection of chorale preludes. For the first time on film we can glimpse the enormous scale of Bach’s vision for his Orgelbüchlein.

Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, and certainly the greatest composer who wrote for the organ. His organ music is the heart and soul of the organ’s repertoire. Fugue State Films, together with Sietze de Vries, explores this extraordinary canon with the aim of greater appreciation and elucidation of these marvellous pieces of music.

Martinikerk, Groningen (Organ by Schnitger and others, 1450-)

Petruskerk, Leens (Organ by Hinsz, 1734)

Reviews

September 2023

Congratulations on such a stimulating enterprise. I wonder how many other players will be brave enough or inspired to tackle such a task.

Bach's Missing Pages

DVD Video + 2 CDs

Contents

Download queue