J.S. Bach: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 [CD de audio] Stefano Molardi and J.S.Bach

Stefano Molardi is shaping his recorded survey of Bachs complete organ music as selfsufficient and musically satisfying recitals which, disc by disc, explore the diverse styles at the composers disposal, the flexible usage to which he, the ultimate compleat musician, puts his instrument through its paces, and the different liturgical demands which he was required to meet during the course of his career as he moved from church to court and back again. Grand Weimar and Leipzigcomposed preludes and fugues rub shoulders with intricate trio sonatas which he had initially conceived as chamber music, and between them nestle intimate chorales from his Cöthen days. Accordingly, Molardi makes full use of the potential flexibility of his chosen Trost organ in the Stadtkirche Zur Gotteshilfe in Waltershausen, deep in the provincial heart of Thuringia. This is Bach country, and although the organ has been periodically restored since it was finally inaugurated in 1755, almost 30 years after the work