Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV728 'Jesu, meine Zuversicht'

Hyperion’s Record of the Month for July sees Angela Hewitt rounding off her acclaimed series of solo Bach recordings with this delightful miscellany. A range of genres are represented – fantasia and fugues, chorale preludes, suites, a sonata, a set of variations – from different periods of Bach’s life, and displaying a wide variety of form, style, influence and scope. This is music that has been neglected largely because it doesn’t sit within the famous Bach canons rather than because of its intrinsic quality. Angela Hewitt brings her customary style and elegance to these works, and her vivid, joyous music-making creates a fitting conclusion to this benchmark modern survey of Bach’s keyboard works

Volume 5 of Margaret Phillips’ on-going and critically-acclaimed cycle of the complete organ works of JS Bach, featuring the best of historic instruments.

Two CD set at ‘two-for-one’ price.

This volume includes the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565, the ‘Dorian’ Toccata and Fugue BWV 538 and a varied selection of large- and small-scale works which form a satisfying self-contained recital of Bach’s organ music on each of the two CDs.

The Trio de Clarone ensemble has chosen Mozart’s involvement with Bach’s music as a theme for its new CD. They have selected compositions that reveal Mozart’s view of Bach. In 1782 Mozart wrote to his father “Every Sunday at 12 o’clock I go to hear the music at Baron van Swieten’s - there they play nothing else but Handel and Bach. I have also started collecting Bach fugues….”

This CD presents the listener with a treasure chest of Bach´s compositional artistry for the organ. Just as in a treasure chest, we find precious gems strung like beads on a chain along with an impressive solitaire, Bach also offers us precious miniatures along with forms of monumetal conception.