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Mighty Organs - Bach, Handel, Etc / Biggs, Gould, Et Al

	Release Date: 06/27/2000 Label: Collectors' Choice Catalog #: 1242 Spars Code: n/a Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Jacob Froberger, Georg Philipp Telemann, François Couperin, Hugh Aston, John Dowland, Giovanni Gabrieli, Camille Saint-Saëns Performer: Glenn Gould, Gustav Leonhardt, E. Power Biggs, Anthony Newman Number of Discs: 2 Recorded in: Stereo	CD $23.98 Low Stock

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MIGHTY ORGANS is a recording devoted not only to music written around the organ, but to the specific instruments themselves. Included in the liner notes are specifics about the history and construction of the instruments here, a reminder of the inextricable link between performance and musical instrument unique to the organ world. Of course, this is also a collection of great and diverse organ pieces, which highlight the organ not only as a solo instrument, but an ensemble one as well. The Voluntary for Trumpets and Organ by Croft is a pre-Baroque work, buoyant and dance-like with pedal percussion, in three sections, the full ensemble joining in the balanced third. The performances are first rate. Glenn Gould's rendition of Contrapuntus' No. 1 and No. 2 from 'Art of the Fugue' (one of Bach's final works) is striking, distinctive in color and idiomatically smart, performed on the Casavant organ in Toronto. The 'Organ' Symphony of Saint-Saëns is a unique work, played by organist Anthony Newman with beautiful expressiveness. This recording brings together performances of very high talent, and for organ aficionados or newcomers to the instrument this disc will be a find.


Works on This Recording			Back to Top

1.	Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus no 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: Glenn Gould (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: circa 1745-1750; Leipzig, Germany	Length: 2 Minutes 45 Secs.


2.	Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus no 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: Glenn Gould (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: circa 1745-1750; Leipzig, Germany	Length: 2 Minutes 44 Secs.


3.	Fantasia in C minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: Gustav Leonhardt (Organ) Period: Baroque	Length: 5 Minutes 17 Secs.


4.	Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 720 by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: 1709; Weimar, Germany	Length: 3 Minutes 33 Secs.


5.	Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Jesu bleibet meine Freude "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: Anthony Newman (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: 1723; Leipzig, Germany	Length: 2 Minutes 46 Secs.


6.	Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 "Little G minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: by 1706; Arnstadt, Germany	Length: 4 Minutes 4 Secs.


7.	Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook: Excerpt(s) by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque	Length: 12 Minutes 55 Secs.


8.	Concertos (6) for Organ, Op. 4: no 6 in B flat major, HWV 294 by George Frideric Handel
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: 1736; London, England	Length: 9 Minutes 6 Secs.


9.	Toccata and Fugue for Organ in B flat major by Johann Pachelbel
	Performer: Gustav Leonhardt (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: Germany	Length: 2 Minutes 28 Secs.


10.	Libro di capricci e ricercate: Capriccio no 8 in A minor by Johann Jacob Froberger
	Performer: Gustav Leonhardt (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: circa 1658; Germany	Length: 5 Minutes 17 Secs.


11.	Musique héroïque by Georg Philipp Telemann
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: 1728; Germany	Length: 12 Minutes 30 Secs.


12.	Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: Ordre 8 in B minor - Rondeau by François Couperin
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: by 1717; Paris, France	Length: 2 Minutes 20 Secs.


13.	Hornepype by Hugh Aston
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Renaissance Written: circa 1530; England	Length: 3 Minutes 15 Secs.


14.	King of Denmark, his Galliard, P 40 by John Dowland
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Renaissance Written: England	Length: 3 Minutes 15 Secs.


15.	Intonationi d'organo: Del dècimo tono by Giovanni Gabrieli
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Renaissance Written: by 1593; Venice, Italy	Length: 4 Minutes 50 Secs.


16.	Intonationi d'organo: Del undicesimo tono by Giovanni Gabrieli
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Renaissance Written: by 1593; Venice, Italy	Length: 3 Minutes 32 Secs.


17.	Symphony no 3 in C minor, Op. 78 "Organ": Maestoso/Allegro "Finale" by Camille Saint-Saëns
	Performer: Anthony Newman (Organ) Period: Romantic Written: 1886; France	Length: 8 Minutes 17 Secs.


18.	Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140: Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: 1731; Leipzig, Germany	Length: 4 Minutes 37 Secs.


19.	Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: by 1708; Germany	Length: 9 Minutes 39 Secs.


20.	Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582 by Johann Sebastian Bach
	Performer: E. Power Biggs (Organ) Period: Baroque Written: circa 1708-1712; Arnstadt, Germany	Length: 13 Minutes 28 Secs.

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