This album was recorded in the Lutheran Church of Siófok, Hungary, which features an organ built in 2004 by Aquincum Organ Works, designed to follow Saxon and Baroque traditions.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bach's first biographer, Forkel, stated that Bach learned 'musical thinking' through studying the works of Antonio Vivaldi, an Italian Baroque composer.
Composer Biography
Johann Sebastian Bach, despite his reputation as an organ expert, often complained about not having the opportunity to play large and beautiful organs.
Composition History
Bach's Organ Concerto in D minor (BWV 596) is one of his nine transcriptions of works by Antonio Vivaldi, an Italian Baroque composer, and was once mistakenly attributed to his son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
Composer Biography
Bach's early chorale partitas, including the Partita in C minor (BWV 767), reflect the influence of Georg Böhm, an organist-composer Bach met in Lüneburg.
Performer Biography
Miklós Teleki, the organist on this recording, gives 70-80 concerts a year, regularly performs in Budapest's St Stephen Basilica, and has toured extensively in Europe and the United States.
Historical Context
The chorale theme 'O Gott, du frommer Gott', used in Bach's Partita in C minor (BWV 767), is still a widely known Protestant hymn across Europe, appearing in both Lutheran and Calvinist hymn-books.
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