Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Organ Works Vol. 2 – Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
7/1/2016, 16 Tracks, 1:03:29
Featuring
David Goode
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Instruments
The Trinity College Chapel organ is regarded as one of the finest instruments in the United Kingdom due to its meticulous craftsmanship, durability, rich resonance, and exquisite balance.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bach's compositional approach, maximizing thematic coherence and contrapuntal complexity, was motivated by a theological rationale: the idea of God's beauty expressed through unity-in-diversity.
Composer's Artistic Vision
For Bach, as for other Lutherans, music was considered to be of intrinsic eternal value.
Composer Biography
J.S. Bach's career as a professional musician was founded on his prodigious talent as an organist, cultivated from childhood.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bach's music appears to have been intended as an expression of a specifically, and personally-held, Lutheran faith, as suggested by his personal Bible commentary, the 'Calov Bible'.
Performer Biography
David Goode, the organist on this album, is the Organist at Eton College and has performed at the Proms, the RFH, Symphony Hall, and internationally.
Instruments
The organ of Trinity College Chapel, built by Metzler Söhne in 1976, incorporates surviving pipework from two earlier organs built by 'Father' Bernard Smith in 1694 and 1708.
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