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Bach: Famous Organ Works

Name: Bach: Famous Organ Works par Edward Power Biggs
Brand: Edward Power Biggs
SKU: 782124853228
Price: 3.96 USD
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Rating: 3 (28 reviews)

1994

4 Titres

41:43

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Sans perte 16bit / 44.1 kHz Stéréo

Qualité CD $4.76

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2006 Edel Classics GmbH

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Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
1

Adagio - Fuga

09:12

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09:12

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2

Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582

14:16

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14:16

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Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541

07:59

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07:59

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4

Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547

10:16

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10:16

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Given the commercial doldrums in which classical music finds itself, it may seem hard to imagine a time when the idea of a star organist seemed conceivable. Yet the late British-American musician E. Power Biggs was such an organist. His recordings of Bach and Buxtehude and even Scott Joplin were heard at cocktail parties, even blared from the windows of 1960s college dormitories. This reissue from the European budget outfit Berlin Classics has the faults common to the quickie repackagings of its ilk -- the sound transfers but thinly from the 1970 LP; there is no hint as to the origin of that LP (other than that it was apparently made in West Germany and featured Biggs' rarely encountered first name, Edward); there are no notes whatsoever; and the whole program comes in at an ungenerous 40 minutes plus. Yet the listener encountering this disc at a European convenience store or American download site will get his or her money's worth, for it gives a little slice of what made Biggs so compelling. He just tried to give the mighty Bach his due, and more often than not he succeeded. Consider the vast Passacaglia in C minor for organ, BWV 582. In this work Bach runs dizzying rings around the conventional treatments Italian instrumentalists applied to the old passacaglia bass line, and Biggs defines the work's multiple cycles perfectly. It has to do with the way he hangs back at the beginnings of the phrases in the thinner iterations of the passacaglia pattern, reserving straight-ahead motion for the points where the music builds, and tying things together by just slightly pushing the tempo as the work proceeds. He never moves into Romantic territory or does anything even slightly crass, but he catches the attention even of those casual listeners in the college dorms from the very first bars. Biggs' Columbia recordings, now mostly reissued as well, make better representations of his mature style, but this disc is an inexpensive place to start with Biggs -- or with Bach's masterpieces for organ.

1. Adagio - Fuga

par Edward Power Biggs

Artiste Principal: Edward Power Biggs; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Johann Sebastian Bach; Compositeur

2. Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582

par Edward Power Biggs

Artiste Principal: Edward Power Biggs; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Johann Sebastian Bach; Compositeur

3. Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541

par Edward Power Biggs

Artiste Principal: Edward Power Biggs; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Johann Sebastian Bach; Compositeur

4. Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547

par Edward Power Biggs

Artiste Principal: Edward Power Biggs; Interprète principal
Compositeur: Johann Sebastian Bach; Compositeur

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Volume

1 volume uniquement

Titres

4 titres disponibles

Type

ALBUM

Format

Médias numériques

Durée

41 minutes et 43 secondes

Explicite

Aucun

Image de couverture

Disponible et jusqu'à 800x800 px

Livret

Non disponible

Qualité maximale

Qualité CD (Sans perte)

16bit / 44.1 kHz

Stéréo

Extension audio

Sans perte: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF

Avec perte: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA

Format d'archivage

Disponible dans ces formats : ZIP, TAR, RAR

Paroles

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Paroles synchronisées

Aucune parole synchronisée trouvée

Genres

Accordéon, Ambient, Nouvel âge, Comédie, Autre, Classique, Époque baroque

Label

Berlin Classics

Service de distribution de musique

Kontor Records GmbH

Pays

Allemagne

Langue

Aucun contenu linguistique

Popularité

Date de sortie

31 déc. 1994

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Frais de livraison

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UPC

782124853228

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Bach: Famous Organ Works

1. Adagio - Fuga

2. Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582

3. Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541

4. Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547

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Bach: Famous Organ Works

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1. Adagio - Fuga

2. Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582

3. Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541

4. Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547

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