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Masaaki Suzuki Plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 7

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer Masaaki Suzuki
Catalogue Number BIS-2741 SACD
EAN 7318599927411
Format SACD Hybrid

This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo

Release date Mar 2025
Total time 54'17

This seventh instalment of Masaaki Suzuki’s critically acclaimed series of the complete organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach includes eleven pieces from a manuscript known as the Leipzig Chorales. Conceived around 1739, this collection contains no new compositions, but rather ‘reworkings’ of organ chorales dating from the years 1708–17, when Bach was in Weimar. The chorale arrangements are based on established Lutheran melodies that particularly appealed to Bach.

This recording also includes the six Schübler Chorales (named after the collection’s publisher), which take chorales he had already included in his religious cantatas and adapt them for the organ. Together with the Orgel-Büchlein and the third book of the Clavier-Übung, the Leipzig Chorales and the Schübler Chorales represent the pinnacle of Bach’s sacred organ music.

On this recording, Masaaki Suzuki plays the Arp Schnitger organ of the Martinikerk in Groningen, the Netherlands, one of the largest and most famous baroque organs in Northern Europe.

 
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  Leipziger Choräle (II) 37'05
01 Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662 8'09
02 Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 663 7'27
03 Trio super Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 664 5'06
04 Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665 4'43
05 Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 666 3'06
06 Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, BWV 667 3'12
07 Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 668a 5'22
 
  Schübler-Choräle 17'12
08 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 4'02
09 Wo soll ich fliehen hin / Auf meinen lieben Gott, BWV 646 1'32
10 Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 647 3'30
11 Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 648 1'50
12 Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649 2'27
13 Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650 3'51
 
  Album total 54'17
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