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Bach: Toccatas, Preludes and Fugues

Kare Nordstoga

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In his ninth and tenth of a total of fourteen releases of Bach’s Collected Organ Works, organist Kare Nordstoga pulls together much of what was not collected from the composer’s side — preludes and fugues. The album is available in Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64 and DXD at NativeDSD.

The double form prelude (or toccata) and fugue has been an established form of composition since the 1600s. The North Germans Dietrich Buxtehude and Georg Bohm made a powerful contribution to this contrastive style in which the freer first part and the more rigorous second part are united in a dynamic whole. The young Johann Sebastian harvested significant impressions from these two composers during his time in Lubeck and Luneburg, and this album was recorded in Luneburg.

Kare Nordstoga, Organist

Tracklist

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1.
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
09:54
2.
The Little Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
04:22
3.
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 545 - I. Prelude
02:11
4.
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 545 - II. Fugue
04:04
5.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita I
01:03
6.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita II
02:41
7.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita III
01:18
8.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita IV
00:53
9.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita V
01:04
10.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita VI
01:18
11.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita VII
01:27
12.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita VIII
02:03
13.
O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767 - Partita IX
03:14
14.
Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 534 - I. Prelude
04:19
15.
Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 534 - II. Fugue
05:40
16.
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 550
07:33
17.
Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546 - I. Prelude
06:17
18.
Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546 - II. Fugue
06:16
19.
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 - I. Prelude
04:47
20.
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 - II. Fugue
06:19
21.
Fugue in B minor on a theme by Corelli, BWV 579
05:31
22.
Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 - I. Toccata
09:15
23.
Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 - II. Fugue
05:51
24.
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766 - Partita I
00:44
25.
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766 - Partita II
02:12
26.
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766 - Partita III
01:15
27.
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766 - Partita IV
01:05
28.
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766 - Partita V
01:25
29.
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766 - Partita VI
00:59
30.
Christ, der du bist der helle Tag, BWV 766 - Partita VII
01:41
31.
Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 536 - I. Prelude
02:14
32.
Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 536 - II. Fugue
05:19
33.
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 - I. Prelude
03:46
34.
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 - II. Fugue
07:27
35.
Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 - I. Prelude
06:30
36.
Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 - II. Fugue
06:35

Total time: 02:18:32

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Vegard Landaas

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Thomas Wolden

Recording location

St. Johannis, Luneburg, Germany

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Merging

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DXD

Release DateJune 22, 2018

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I am a huge fan of well played organ music, particularly organ music of the Baroque played on the classic North European organs, and if you can make that a tracker organ then all the better. Recently I’ve been listening to the series of organ recordings on Lawo performed by the cathedral organist at Oslo Cathedral, Kåre Nordstoga, as he performs Bach on the beautiful (and wonderous sounding) organs at St. Johannis, Luneburg, and St. Bavo, Haarlem. These are not tracker organs, but their sound is just gorgeous in these recordings from Lawo.

Nordstoga is an extraordinarily skilled organist, with excellent technique. On the Christian Müller Organ (1735 – 1738) in St. Bavo Church, Haarlem, Nordstoga performs Bach’s Orgelbüchlein, released by Lawo in two volumes. And this recording is full, resonant, well detailed, and gorgeous.

On the St. Johannes church organ in Luneburg, Germany, Nordstoga performs toccatas, preludes and fugues by Bach. He begins with the mighty Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, which is always a joy for me to hear. And here the recording captures a performance with great clarity. The reverberation never muddies the notes, but adds immensely to the grandeur and power. Nordstoga, thankfully, does not play this piece reverentially—he moves briskly right along with dynamic drive and commitment maintaining immensely clean articulation throughout. I credit this both to his own sensibilities and to the organ on which he performs.

If you at all care for organ music and the compositions of Bach, these three albums are highly recommended.

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