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Track(s) taken from CDA67211/2

Allabreve in D major, BWV589

composer

Christopher Herrick (organ)
Recording details: November 1996
Stadtkirche, Rheinfelden, Switzerland
Produced by Paul Spicer
Engineered by Paul Niederberger
Release date: June 1997
Total duration: 4 minutes 0 seconds
 

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David Goode (organ)

Reviews

‘Just as, in my youth, I almost preferred to lick the scrapings from the bowls in which my mother had prepared cakes than to savout the finished product, so I am tempted almost to prefer these crumbs from the table of a great genius to those stupendous musical feats which are everybody's idea of the real J S Bach. Here is music every bit as worthy of close attention as anything Bach wrote for the organ. Herrick displays immaculate taste. This is playing of the very highest order … superlative artistry’ (Gramophone)

‘An attractive way of gathering up some of Bach's less obvious masterpieces, and they are all splendidly played, and recorded on a fine Swiss organ’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

«Christopher Herrick possède une technique supérieure et un grand toucher. Il nous fait parcourir ces pages de jeunesse avec une fraîcheur, une bonne humeur, un lyrisme et une entrain communicatif» (Le Monde de la Musique, France)
Both the Canzona in D minor, BWV588, and the Allabreve in D major, BWV589, follow early Italian models and are concerned with a smoothflowing vocal style of counterpoint. The Canzona is in two sections, the second treating the theme in triple time.

from notes by Stephen Westrop © 1997

Sowohl die Canzona in d-Moll, BWV588, als auch die Allabreve in D-Dur, BWV589, folgen dem italienischen Modell und befassen sich mit einem sanft-fließenden, vokalen Kontrapunktstil. Die Canzona ist in zwei Abschnitte unterteilt, wobei der zweite Teil das Thema im Dreiertakt behandelt.

aus dem Begleittext von Stephen Westrop © 1997
Deutsch: Manuela Hübner

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