This release features 24 Chorale Preludes for the organ (BWV 645-668.) Without exception, they stand in the tradition of the chorale-based music of Bach’s predecessors. They therefore include pieces with the unornamented chorale tune in the pedal, others with the melody ornamented, chorale trios, and works employing traditional contrapuntal techniques like canon, fugue, and imitation. Vincent van Laar studied organ and harpsichord at the conservatories of Utrecht and The Hague with Nico van den Hooven, Harald Vogel, Glen Wilson and Bob van Asperen. Vincent’s greatest interest and musical passion is for the performance of Baroque solo and continuo music, in particular the works of J.S.Bach and the seventeenth-century North-European school. Vincent has an international career as a soloist and continuo player, and has played on many recordings for radio and CD, including the complete works of Sweelincks’ pupil Melchior Schildt and Bach cantatas with organo obligato. He also participated in the complete recording of Sweelinck’s keyboard music. The latter was awarded the Netherlands most illustrious prize, the Edison. Recently he recorded the 24 Capricetten by Jacob Wilhelm Lustig.