Bach: Organ Works - Essential Classics

E. Power Biggs - Bach: Organ Works - Essential Classics

Bach: Organ Works - Essential Classics
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Artist: E. Power Biggs
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-08-06
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Toccata
  2. Fugue
  3. Passacaglia
  4. Fugue
  5. Pastorale
  6. Allegro
  7. Adagio
  8. Allegro Vivace
  9. Prelude (Fantasia)
  10. Fugue
  11. Prelude
  12. Fugue
  13. Prelude
  14. Fugue
  15. Prelude
  16. Fugue

Music reviews of Bach: Organ Works - Essential Classics

Music Review: Superb match of music, artist, and instrument
Rating: 5 Stars

On March 2, 1972, a spacecraft called Pioneer 10 was launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. On the grounds that the craft might at some point, at some time, come under the notice of intelligent beings on another world, a plaque was attached to the craft, etched with some figures and whatnot. The figures were designed to "represent the type of creature that created Pioneer." It struck me at the time that if we wanted to tell others not only what type of creature we are, but what we are supremely capable of, that we should include a recording of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and, more specifically, this recording of that marvelous expression of the human mind and spirit.

E. Power Biggs was known not only for his mastery of the pipe organ, but also for his careful matching of a particular composition to an organ best suited to its performance. We can hope that Sony will at some point release a CD of Biggs' performance of the Toccata from Widor's fifth organ symphony on the organ of the Episcopal Church of St. George in New York City with its 32 -foot ranks. The thundering pedal notes in the concluding part of the work have never had better justice done to them.

All the tracks on this CD were recorded on the Flentrop organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, from about 1961 to 1972. Again, Biggs seems to have chosen his instrument wisely, as the pieces he plays here feel so absolutely right on that organ. Yes, there is some tape hiss, and I think I detected a little bit of tape "wow" at one point. But if you will listen beyond those things, concentrate on the music in itself, I think you cannot fail to be both impressed and moved, even if you have heard the pieces played by many other artists in many other venues. Technique and artistry alike are both superb and unique in this recording of these monuments of Bach's genius.

Highly recommended.
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