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Organ Wks [Box set, Import]

Johann Sebastian Bach (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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A suitably prolific 12-CD set of the organ masterpieces by J.S. Bach-played by Helmut Walcha, the world's leading Bach interpreter! Toccata and Fugue in D Minor; Sleepers Awake; Art of the Fugue , and Bach's greatest preludes, trio sonatas, fantasies, passacaglias, chorale settings and more are all here, played on the Great Organ of St. Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, Netherlands and the Silbermann Organ in the Church of the St.-Pierre-le-Jeune, Strasburg. Awesome to behold!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bach Best Bet... May 16 2004
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Having grown up with E. Power Biggs as a Bach organ interpreter--and I still enjoy his realizations very much--I have to give my props to Helmut Walcha. As, I think, another reviewer has said, Walcha has a very balanced approach: his timing is very steady: he gives the music time to breathe. His registrations for the organs he plays are very eclectic; indeed, he kept his registrations a professional secret. Anyway, he does a very good job.

Bach is here presented very Classically--as opposed to Romantically. He's very lucid. Walcha lets the music speak for itself without excessive dynamics or extreme expressions of any kind. If you want Bach organ works, these are them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Is this bliss or what? Mar 18 2004
By isala
Format:Audio CD
This is an important album. Of course everyone knows Toccata and Fugue for organ in D minor, but Bach wrote so much more organ music! Most do not come up to the pinnacles of the Toccata and Fugue, but there are many gems in their own rights. Walcha interprets them beautifully, and a kind of magic speads in the room when I listen. The album is not expensive for what you get. It also seems to be the most respected collection of Bach complete organ works.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bach, the Way He Is Meant to Be! April 29 2003
By P. Burdick
Format:Audio CD
Helmut Walcha expresses the Bach I love! Straight ahead, with no needless gimmickery, Walcha leads you: observing the strictest contrapunctal discipline renders delightful textures and transcendent polyphonies. The beauty of these pieces makes me cry.

The recording space puts you in the organist's seat; together with Walcha's registrations, the results are the best I have heard, both performance-wise and recording-wise.

I am anxiously awaiting the CD release of Walcha's "The Well Tempered Clavier" on ARCHIV.

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