Œuvres pour orgue Volume 1

Description

With this CD begins the publication of the complete works for organ by Bach, performed by the Italian organist Massimiliano Sanca. The compositions selected for this first CD are pieces of different character: works of an austere and severe nature and works that describe serenity and peace. The Prelude and Fugue BWV 546, the Fantasy and Fugue BWV 537, the Prelude and Fugue BWV 549, and the Chorale BWV 658 "represent," through music, the suffering, pain, and difficulties of humanity in a cosmic sense; on the other hand, the Chorales BWV 676 in the Trio and BWV 676 Manualiter, Chorale BWV 668, and Fugue on the Magnificat BWV 733 are works that describe the serenity and peace of the Kingdom of God with Mary, His mother, and the angels, as expressed in the Holy Scriptures. Consequently, in this recording, everything converges, once again with Bach's music, towards a deep union between human and divine nature, and indeed between Heaven and Earth. Massimiliano Sanca plays on the beautiful organ made by Ilic Colzani in 2007 for the Sanctuary of the "Madonna of Mangher" in Vallio Terme (Brescia, Italy).