Johann Sebastian Bach

Bits of Bach

…an international sampler of instruments and players, all in recent recordings, commit to individual revelations of the spirit of the greatest of all composers for the organ, J. S. Bach.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of August 11, 2008

Links and Resources:

• Printable program listings

Music played in the program

Part I

J. S. BACH: Praeludium in E-flat, S. 552 –Margaret Phillips (1755 Trost/Stadtkirche [Town Church], Waltershausen, Germany) Regent CD-276

BACH: 2 Chorale-preludes (Nun komm’, der Heiden Heiland, S. 599; Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott, S. 680) –Jean-Pierre Leguay (1996 Metzler/Notre Dame de Talant, France) Ligia Digital CD-0109174-46

BACH: Trio in c (after Johann Friedrich Fasch), S. 585 –Nico D. Blom (1743 Hinsz/Bovenkerk, Kampen, The Netherlands) D.E. Versluis CD-1017

BACH: Fantasy in g, S. 542 –John West (1991 Casavant-1996 Rodgers/Bel Air Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, CA) PowerHouse CD-2004

Part II

BACH: Four-hand Transcriptions from Cantatas (Overture to Cantata No. 26; Overture to Cantata No. 196; Chorus, from Cantata 34; Chorus, from Cantata 111) –Euwe de Jong & Sybolt de Jong (1727 Müller/Jacobijnerkerk, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands) DeJong CD-2

BACH: Trio Sonata No. 3 in d, S. 527 (movements 2/3) –Christa Rakich (1979+1989 Brombaugh/Christ Church, Tacoma, WA) Loft CD-1102

Part III

PRINCE JOHANN ERNST (arranged Bach): Concerto in G, S. 592 –Susan Bates (1999 Dobson-Rosales/West Market Street United Methodist Church, Greensboro, NC) Bates CD-2007

BACH (arranged Sullivan): Goldberg Variations, S. 988 (selected) –Daniel Sullivan (1962 Aeolian-Skinner/Cathedral of Saint Philip, Atlanta, GA) Raven OAR-905

BACH (arranged Fox/Yount): Now thank we all our God, from Cantata No. 79 –Chris Dolske, trumpet; Terry Yount (1932 Aeolian-Skinner, 2002 Randall Dyer/Knowles Chapel, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL) Ligonier Ministries CD-2007

Filler–BACH: Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-flat, S. 525 –Christa Rakich (1988 Taylor & Boody/Clifton Forge Baptist Church, VA) Loft CD-1102