J.S. Bach: Organ works SACD

Gisbert Schneider plays powerful, even relentless Bach. The two preludes and fugues feature uninhibited virtuosity at purposeful but never excessively hasty tempos. In the Passacaglia,

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BACH FOR CHRISTMAS

If you are set on having, as the disc’s promotional material claims, “all of Bach’s organ music for Christmas on a single CD,” then this

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SOLO CHACONNES

Now here’s imaginative and illuminating programming for you: Bach’s D minor solo partita featuring its renowned Chaconne, followed by a pair of late-Romantic violin chaconnes

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ARGERICH PLAYS CHOPIN

These previously unpublished German Radio broadcast recordings (all but one from 1967) capture Martha Argerich’s Chopin at its youthful peak: impetuous, rhapsodic, musically loaded for

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