Fantasia in G major 'Pièce d'orgue', BWV572

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Bach: Great Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues
Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 9 – A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen
Jonathan Plowright (piano)

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Bach: The Complete Organ Works
Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Complete: Très vitement – Gravement – Lentement

Christopher Herrick (organ)

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Part 2: Gravement

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Sir Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
Christmas 1927; dedicated For Tania (Bax's pet name for Harriet Cohen); first published by Oxford University Press in A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen; first performed at the Queen's Hall on 17 October 1932

Jonathan Plowright (piano)

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Fantasia in G major 'Pièce d'orgue', BWV572

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That Bach was capable of great harmonic richness (even if less consistently organized) not only in his maturity is seen in the central section of the Fantasia in G major, BWV572. Dating from 1705/7, and also known as Pièce d’Orgue, this three-sectioned piece is remarkable for the consistency with which the single idea that comprises each section is pursued. A toccata of patterned chords, and a coda of acciaccatura-strewn broken chords, enclose a French-influenced panoply of continuously eliding five-part harmony.

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