- Audio CD (Jun 6 2000)
- Number of Discs: 12
- Format: Box set
- Label: Universal Music Group
- ASIN: B00004SAAX
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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#76,574 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #34 in Music > Box Sets > Classical > Sacred & Religious
- #71 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Improvisation
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Bach Best Bet...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Organ Wks (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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Is this bliss or what?,
By isala "Isabel and Lars" (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Organ Wks (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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Bach, the Way He Is Meant to Be!,
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This review is from: Organ Wks (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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