This week we celebrate Bach’s birthday with an assortment of some of his most-loved organ works.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
Playlist
Title: Toccata in D minor – Dorian (BWV 538)
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: James Welch
Album: Around the World in Under Eighty Minutes – Arkay AR6169
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Organ: 1986 II/21 Schoenstein, St. Elizabeth Church, San Francisco, California USA
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Title: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß (BWV 622)
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: Bradley Burgess
Album: JS Bach Orgelbüchlein – Raven OAR-192
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Organ: 2023 II/43 Fritts, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Terrace Park, Ohio USA
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Title: Prelude and Fugue in A minor (BWV 543)
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: Susan Moeser
Album: 4 Organs – A Bedient Showcase –
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Organ: 1998 II/27 Bedient, St. Vincent de Paul, Omaha, Nebraska USA
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Title: An Wasserflüssen Babylon (BWV 653)
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: Kim Heindel
Album: Bach at Steinfeld – Gasparo GSCD-321
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Organ: 1727 III/48 König/Weimbs, Steinfeld Abbey, Kall, Germany
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Title: Toccata in F (BWV 540)
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: Ted Alan Worth
Album: Memorial Chapel, Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville Kentucky – OrganArts OA-5001/CD
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Organ: 1963 IV/113 Aeolian-Skinner, Memorial Chapel, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky USA
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Title: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582)
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: Jonathan Dimmock
Album: Bach At Haarlem – Loft LRCD-1131
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Organ: 1738 III/64 Muller/Marcussen and Son, Grote Kirk, Haarlem, Netherlands
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Breaks
Title: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her (BWV 738)
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: James Johnson
Album: James Johnson Plays Bach – Conch Classics CC-3
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Organ: 1958 III/33 Flentrop, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
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Title: Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend (BWV 726)
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: Jacques Boucher
Album: Sound the Trumpet – ND BND-003
Organ: 1890 IV/122 Casavant, Basilique Notre-Dame, Montréal, Quebec Canada
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