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Nimbus

Bach: The Works For Organ Vol 1 / Kevin Bowyer

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Details

Composer
BACH, J.S.
Artist
Kevin Bowyer
Format
CD
Label
Nimbus
Released
Jan 01, 2006
Catalog #
NI5280
UPC
710357528026

About

Thirty-one-year-old organist Kevin Bowyer has already made a reputation for setting himself the kind of challenges that would make most organists blanch. He has championed the monumental organ symphonies of Sorabji and recorded organ music by Brahms and Alkan. But in embarking on a complete cycle of Bach's organ works he has surely set himself the ultimate challenge for a recording artist. To open the series, he has opted for the 'recital programme' format, rather than focusing attention on one particular generic form, and Volume I provides an attractive shop window of Bach's diverse styles for the inquisitive, if not yet commited purchaser. Bowyer chooses to play a three-manual mechanical-action Marcusson organ, and it is indeed an excellent choice. The sound is clear and bright, and the acoustics perfect for good articulation in fast passage-work. Kevin Bowyer's playing is stylish throughout, but most especially in the show-piece items which frame the programme. The opening rhetorical flourishes of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor WWV 565 which (typically) introduces the programme really cut through the air, and the Fugue is taken at a cracking pace. The Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 is played with similar flair and imagination.

-- Stephen Haylett, BBC Music Magazine

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 08:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
    Duration
    08:54
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  2. 2 Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 1099 02:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 1099
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  3. 3 I. Allegro assai 03:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Allegro assai
    Duration
    03:27
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  4. 4 II. Grave 03:36
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Grave
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  5. 5 III. Presto 01:56
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  6. 6 I. [Allegro] 03:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. [Allegro]
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  7. 7 II. Adagio 06:05
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    06:05
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  8. 8 III. Allegro 04:08
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  9. 9 I. Prelude 02:58
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  10. 10 II. Allemande 03:23
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Allemande
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  11. 11 III. Aria 04:02
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Aria
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  12. 12 IV. Gigue 04:38
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Gigue
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  13. 13 Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721 05:30
    Track
    13
    Title
    Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721
    Duration
    05:30
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer
  14. 14 Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542 12:23
    Track
    14
    Title
    Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542
    Duration
    12:23
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Kevin Bowyer