THE BACH CIRCLE Vol. 1
Harald Vogel am PEDAL-CLAVICHORD (1995)

This recording is a première. At the beginning of the recording series "The Bach Circle" some of the best known works of Bach are presented on one of the most important and today almost unknown instruments of Bach's time: the pedal clavichord.

Harald Vogel plays on a reconstructed pedal clavichord, built by Joel Speerstra (Göteborg) and John Barnes (Edinburgh) in 1995. The original instrument with two independent manuals and a separate pedal was built around 1766 by Johann David Gerstenberg and is currently housed in the Musical Instrument Museum in Leipzig.

The program includes works which suit the sound of the pedal clavichord very well. Maybe the most often played pedal pieces for organ, the Eight Little Preludes and Fugues, seem to sugest a composition style specifically intended for the pedal clavichord characterized by oktave doublings of the bassline and repeated chords.

Harald Vogel is one of the few organists of our time whose organ technique, a "natural weight technique", is based on clavichord playing.


Acht kleine Praeludien und Fugen J.S. Bach
01-02     Praeludium und Fuge in C-Dur 05:16  (BWV 553)
03-04     Praeludium und Fuge in d-Moll  03:58  (BWV 554)
05-06     Praeludium und Fuge in e-Moll  03:47  (BWV 555)
07-08     Praeludium und Fuge in F-Dur  03:26  (BWV 556)
09-10     Praeludium und Fuge in G-Dur  03:45  (BWV 557)
11-12     Praeludium und Fuge in g-Moll  04:32  (BWV 558)
13-14     Praeludium und Fuge in a-Moll  03:02  (BWV 559)
15-16     Praeludium und Fuge in B-Dur   04:22  (BWV 560)
Orgelbüchlein
17     Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland  01:10  (BWV 599)
18     Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ  01:29  (BWV 604)
19 Praeludium in g-Moll  03:21  (BWV 535)
Orgelbüchlein
20     Das alte Jahr vergangen ist  02:26  (BWV 614)
21     Jesus Christus, unser Heiland  01:07  (BWV 626)
22     Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag   01:24  (BWV 629)
23-24 Praeludium und Fuge in e-Moll  05:12  (BWV 533)
Orgelbüchlein
25     Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein  01:57  (BWV 641)
26     Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten  02:15  (BWV 642)
Fantasie in G-Dur  (BWV 572)
27     Très vitement 01:46
28     Gravement 05:42
29     Lentement 01:43
Gesamtspielzeit 63:25

DDD Booklet: GB,F,D Total pl. time:63:25
CD 1998 Bestell-Nr.: OC-29701 Price: EUR 16,00
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