Bach: Great Organ Works / Peter Hurford

Whatever you’ve read about Hurford’s Bach is true. Thinking musician, informed scholar, consummate virtuoso, his Decca cycle is magnificent. Experience a grand D minor Toccata and Fugue (the one transcribed by Busoni and Stokowski). Indulge in a brilliantly articulated G major Fantasia, BWV 572. Listen to a Toccata, Adagio and Fugue that’s weighty without being pompous. Sample the culminative, rhythmic power of an imperious D major Prelude and Fugue... [A]n artist with an inspirational sense of the epic and the visionary. Physically spectacular sound. Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)

-- BBC Music Magazine [reviewing Decca 436225]
Whatever you’ve read about Hurford’s Bach is true. Thinking musician, informed scholar, consummate virtuoso, his Decca cycle is magnificent. Experience a grand D minor Toccata and Fugue (the one transcribed by Busoni and Stokowski). Indulge in a brilliantly articulated G major Fantasia, BWV 572. Listen to a Toccata, Adagio and Fugue that’s weighty without being pompous. Sample the culminative, rhythmic power of an imperious D major Prelude and Fugue... [A]n artist with an inspirational sense of the epic and the visionary. Physically spectacular sound. Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)

-- BBC Music Magazine [reviewing Decca 436225]
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1.

Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; ?Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1977
Venue: Knox Grammar School, Sydney, Australia
Length: 2 Minutes 19 Secs.

2.

Chorale Preludes (6) BWV 645-650 "Schübler": no 1, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1748-1749; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 1979
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 5 Minutes 12 Secs.

3.

Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 730 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; Germany
Date of Recording: 1978
Venue: Knox Grammar School, Sydney, Australia
Length: 1 Minutes 54 Secs.

4.

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1723; Germany
Date of Recording: 1975
Venue: All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington
Length: 5 Minutes 1 Secs.

5.

Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; ?Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1979
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 15 Minutes 43 Secs.

6.

In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; ?Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1977
Venue: Knox Grammar School, Sydney, Australia
Length: 2 Minutes 33 Secs.

7.

Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; ?Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1979
Venue: Chapel, New College, Oxford
Length: 10 Minutes 26 Secs.

8.

Fantasie in G major, BWV 572 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1706; Arnstadt, Germany
Date of Recording: 1977
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 7 Minutes 46 Secs.

9.

Nun freut euch, lieben Christen, BWV 734 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: Germany
Date of Recording: 1977
Venue: Knox Grammar School, Sydney, Australia
Length: 1 Minutes 56 Secs.

10.

Wo soll ich fliehen hin?, BWV 694 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1708
Date of Recording: 1977
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 2 Minutes 58 Secs.

11.

Fantasie and Fugue in C minor, BWV 562 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; ?Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1979
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 5 Minutes 55 Secs.

12.

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 "Dorian" by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1979
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 13 Minutes 44 Secs.

13.

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1708; Germany
Date of Recording: 1979
Venue: Ratzeburg Cathedral, Germany
Length: 9 Minutes 17 Secs.

14.

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 "Great G minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1978
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 12 Minutes 1 Secs.

15.

Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 "St Anne" by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1739; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 1978
Venue: Chapel of New College, Oxford
Length: 15 Minutes 48 Secs.

16.

Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708-1717; Germany
Date of Recording: 1979
Venue: Ratzeburg Cathedral, Germany
Length: 11 Minutes 27 Secs.

17.

Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1708-1712; Arnstadt, Germany
Date of Recording: 1978
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 12 Minutes 54 Secs.

18.

Fantasie and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Peter Hurford (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1708 - 1717; ?Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 1979
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
Length: 8 Minutes 25 Secs.
Notes: Composition written: ?Weimar, Germany (1708 - 1717).

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