A previous album recorded by Piotr Rojek on the same historic organ in Wołów in 2005 was nominated for the prestigious Fryderyk award by the Polish Phonographic Academy.
Performer Biography
Igor Cecocho, the trumpeter and flugelhorn player, is a professor at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and the Kiejstut and Grażyna Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź.
Compositional Technique
The famous opening of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, with both hands playing figurations in octaves, likely aimed to add volume to the small organ Bach had in Arnstadt.
Performer Biography
Piotr Rojek, the organist on this album, is an associate professor at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and has recorded over a dozen albums.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bach's music is characterized by its richness, clarity of form, perfect proportions, and mastery of musical rhetoric, always serving a superior architectural idea.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in the St. Lawrence Church in Wołów, Poland, between September 5th and 7th, 2018.
Instruments
The organ used for this recording was built in 1716 by Adam Horatio Casparini, a master organ builder.
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