Search - Stefano Molardi :: Bach: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 2

The second instalment of Stefano Molardi's superb survey of the complete organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach offers an intelligently put together programme (not by genre or BWV number, but rather conceptually around the mood and emotional impact of the works, either by similarity or contrast), which centres around one of the greatest cycles of the master, the Dritter Clavierübung, a set of chorale preludes structured as an ""organ mass"". Molardi selected two historical organs which might have been known to Bach, or are at least of the kind he was familiar with: the Silbermann Organ of the Hofkirche in Dresden, and the Trost organ in Walthershausen, Thuringia, Germany. Molardi's style is free and spontaneous, paying full attention to the rhetoric qualities of the works, its depth and emotional impact. Excellent and extensive liner notes by the artist, full organ specifications included in the booklet.