Bach: Neumeister Chorales (Complete Organ Works 11)
3/29/2024, 36 Tracks, 1:19:34
Featuring
Christoph Herrick
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Composer Biography
The chorale preludes in this collection date from 1700 to 1708, a period when Bach was establishing himself as an organist and surprising congregations with his bold accompaniments.
Instruments
This recording was made on a Metzler choir organ, built in 1979, located in the Stadtkirche in Zofingen, Switzerland.
Composition History
The Neumeister Chorales were discovered in an anthology compiled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister, a teacher and part-time organist, in the last decade of the 18th century.
Composition History
Professor Christoph Wolff and Yale music librarian Harold E Samuel identified over thirty previously unknown chorale preludes by Bach in the Neumeister collection.
Compositional Technique
The Neumeister collection demonstrates Bach's early talent for improving upon models, with advanced harmonic command, rich chromatic writing, and a desire to experiment with combining different chorale types.
Historical Context
In the 17th and 18th centuries, organists were expected to improvise introductions to chorales to inspire the congregation to sing with fervor.
Performer Biography
Christopher Herrick, the organist on this album, has recorded the complete organ works of Bach for Hyperion and performed them over fourteen consecutive days at the 1998 Lincoln Center Festival in New York.
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