Johann Sebastian Bach

Six Sonatas for Organ BWV 525-530

Aart Bergwerff

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: SACD
Barcode: 0608917299229

Catalog number: CC 72992
Releasedate: 15-11-24

- Here is an account of Bach's Triosonatas bound to become a reference in a rich discography
- An extraordinary organist, Aart Bergwerff, whose technical prowess combines with an acute musicality
- The perfectly restored Wiegleb Organ (1739) in the St. Gumbertus Kirche in Ansbach, Germany.
- Add the highest imaginable sound quality thanks to the full immersive recording by Bert van der Wolf's Northstar
- The result is what is going to be a milestone in the recording history of this pinnacle of organ literature.

In Johann Sebastian Bach’s six organ sonatas, three independent voices sound interchangeably. The right hand plays the highest voice, the left hand the middle voice and the feet the bass. A true musician wants to play each voice as if for the first time, responding spontaneously to what the others bring up. To bring such a sung conversation to life with hands and feet, he listens with equal attention and love to all the voices simultaneously. It is a miracle that it can be done. When it succeeds, it all seems simple and natural. A world opens up to the listener, in which it is hardly imaginable that there is anything more beautiful than a trio sonata by Bach.