CDS44121/36 - Disc 2 Track 9 - Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544

Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544

composer

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Recordings

Bach: Great Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues

Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Bach: The Complete Organ Works

Christopher Herrick (organ)

CDS44121/36 16CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — 16CDs Deleted

Details

Movement 1: Prelude

Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Track 8 on CDS44121/36 CD2 [5'49] 16CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — 16CDs Deleted

Movement 2: Fugue

Christopher Herrick (organ)

Track 9 on CDD22062 CD1 [5'07] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)

Track 9 on CDS44121/36 CD2 [5'07] 16CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — 16CDs Deleted

Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544

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This is one of the most original of the last great preludes and fugues from the Leipzig years, the Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544. The prelude, in an advanced and highly decorated Rococo style, combines grace and grandeur in an individual marriage between the older fugal techniques and the newer expressive harmony induced by frequent appoggiature. The fugue, particularly closely crafted and on two subjects, achieves over and above the contrapuntal ingenuity an inevitability of growth and profundity of thought remarkable even for Bach.

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Details for CDS44121/36 disc 2 track 9

Movement 2: Fugue

Artists

Christopher Herrick (organ)

ISRC

GB-AJY-93-79109

Duration

5'07

Recording date

24 April 1993

Recording venue

Jesuitenkirche, Lucerne, Switzerland

Recording producer

Paul Spicer

Recording engineer

Paul Niederberger

Hyperion usage

Bach: Great Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues (CDA66791/2)
Disc 1 Track 9
Release date: October 1993
Deletion date: February 2006
2CDs Superseded by CDD22062
Bach: Great Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues (CDD22062)
Disc 1 Track 9
Release date: November 2006
2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)
Bach: The Complete Organ Works (CDS44121/36)
Disc 2 Track 9
Release date: October 2002
Deletion date: March 2009
16CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — 16CDs Deleted

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