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Instrumental » Organ Solos
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Throughout, the playing is thoughtful and full of poetry, recorded in intimate sound. There’s an elusive quality to this multifaceted programme, for sure, but on balance it repays attentive... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 7
Orgelbüchlein, Bwv 599-644 (with Choir)
Benjamin Alard (early keyboard instruments), Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Ensemble Vocal Bergamasque, Émilie Fleury, Marine Fribourg
This set of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein is not only first-rate in every way in terms of Alard’s idiomatic and thoughtful playing, the excellent recorded sound…every one of these chorales is followed... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Instrumental
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The chain of musical events always seems to follow some sort of purpose, be it for contrast or for continuity, the catchy opening solo, which ends on pizzicato harmonics, stopping short before... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Stokowski - Bach Transcriptions Volume 1
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
…even more impressive is the extraordinarily powerful version of the great C minor Passacaglia and Fugue, here given a thrilling, thrusting performance. The orchestra respond superbly to Serebrier's... —
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Kofler plays with rock-steady tempos and rhythms, immaculately clean articulation, and well-judged choices of registrations, stops, and
balances. His tempos are uniformly brisk, energetic, and... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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Farr uses the large array of 8ft stops to colourful effect, reserving the impressive plenum for such pieces as Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn. Eighteenth-century organs are challenging to play,... —
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There’s no doubting the heft of the organ that Christoph Treutmann the Elder built for St Georg’s Grauhof during the second decade of Bach’s employment in Leipzig...For all its sonic splendours,... —
