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Track(s) taken from SIGCD261

O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross, BWV622

composer
circa 1713/7; Weimar; Orgelbüchlein

David Goode (organ)
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Recording details: July 2010
Freiberg Cathedral, Germany
Produced by John H West
Engineered by Mike Hatch
Release date: December 2011
Total duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds

Cover artwork: Cover by Oliver Condy.
 

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Christopher Herrick (organ)
David Goode (organ)
Sir Stephen Cleobury (organ)

Reviews

'Turbo-charged with immediacy and penetrating lucidity. Goode and Silbermann make a formidable team' (BBC Music Magazine)» More

'Very fine performances of some of Bach’s greatest organ works, the focus of the recording is as much on the instruments on which they are played as on David Goode’s interpretations themselves. The Silbermann organ in Freiberg cathedral was completed in 1714, and has remained virtually untouched ever since' (The Guardian)» More

'One of Britain's finest organists puts the 1714 organ in Freiberg Cathedral through its paces in an all-Bach programme. Bach played Silbermann's instruments, so this world of sound—with its silvery mixtures, blazing reeds and characterful flutes—is authentic as well as utterly compelling in a cavernous acoustic. Goode is perky in the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, delightfully serene in Schmücke dich, and thunderously inexorable in the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor. An exemplary introduction to some of Bach's greatest organ works' (The Times)

O Mensch, bewein is one of Bach’s most famous chorale preludes; he uses the same melody in the closing chorus at the end of the first part of the St Matthew Passion. Here he presents a highly ornamented version of the melody above a relatively simple harmonisation, with an extraordinary chromatic twist in the final cadence. The text is by Sebald Heyden (1525) and the melody, from the same year, by Matthias Greitter.

from notes by Emma Cleobury © 2016

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Bach: Orgelbüchlein
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