Militello has chosen an organ of ideal size and disposition for this repertoire: a new instrument, built to Baroque specifications within the vestry of the magnificent Lower Austrian Benedictine Abbey of Melk, overlooking the Danube on a rocky outcrop and providing a dramatic backdrop to what is already music of continually shifting rhetoric and invention. The great Johann Sebastian received his musical genes from a widespread dynasty of musical craftsmen, teachers, performers, composers, bearing the name of Bach. This CD features not less than 10 composers from the Bach family, ranging from Heinrch Bach (1615-1692) to Friedemann Ernst Bach (1779-1845), without including the more famous offspring of the master (C.P.E., J.C. and W.F. Bach). Played on a beautiful new organ in the Chapel of the famous monastery of Melk in Austria.
1 Chorale 'Erbarm Dich Mein, O Herre Gott' (Psalm 51)
2 Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major: I. Prelude
3 Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major: II. Fuge
4 Chorale 'Wenn Mein Stündlein Vorhanden Ist'
5 Partita on 'Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ': I. Chorale I
6 Partita on 'Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ': II. Variation I
7 Partita on 'Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ': III. Chorale II
8 Partita on 'Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ': IV. Variation II
9 Partita on 'Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ': V. Chorale III
10 Fugue in D Major
11 Fugue in C minor
12 Rondo in G Major
13 Fantasy and Fugue in F Major: I. Fantasy
14 Fantasy and Fugue in F Major: II. Fugue
15 Prelude in E minor
16 Fugue on the Letters of the Name Bach
17 Toccata in C Major
Militello has chosen an organ of ideal size and disposition for this repertoire: a new instrument, built to Baroque specifications within the vestry of the magnificent Lower Austrian Benedictine Abbey of Melk, overlooking the Danube on a rocky outcrop and providing a dramatic backdrop to what is already music of continually shifting rhetoric and invention. The great Johann Sebastian received his musical genes from a widespread dynasty of musical craftsmen, teachers, performers, composers, bearing the name of Bach. This CD features not less than 10 composers from the Bach family, ranging from Heinrch Bach (1615-1692) to Friedemann Ernst Bach (1779-1845), without including the more famous offspring of the master (C.P.E., J.C. and W.F. Bach). Played on a beautiful new organ in the Chapel of the famous monastery of Melk in Austria.
