Militello has chosen an organ of ideal size and disposition for this repertoire: a new instrument, built to Baroque specifications within the vestry of the magnificent Lower Austrian Benedictine Abbey of Melk, overlooking the Danube on a rocky outcrop and providing a dramatic backdrop to what is already music of continually shifting rhetoric and invention. The great Johann Sebastian received his musical genes from a widespread dynasty of musical craftsmen, teachers, performers, composers, bearing the name of Bach. This CD features not less than 10 composers from the Bach family, ranging from Heinrch Bach (1615-1692) to Friedemann Ernst Bach (1779-1845), without including the more famous offspring of the master (C.P.E., J.C. and W.F. Bach). Played on a beautiful new organ in the Chapel of the famous monastery of Melk in Austria.

Tracklist:

Chorale erbarm Dich Mein, O Herre Gott (Psalm 51)
Prelude And Fugue In E-Flat Major: I. Prelude
Prelude And Fugue In E-Flat Major: II. Fuge
Chorale wenn Mein Stündlein Vorhanden Ist
Partita On du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ: I. Chorale I
Partita On du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ: II. Variation I
Partita On du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ: III.Chorale II
Partita On du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ: IV. Variation II
Partita On du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ: V. Chorale III
Fugue In D Major
Fugue In C Minor
Rondo In G Major
Fantasy And Fugue In F Major: I. Fantasy
Fantasy And Fugue In F Major: II. Fugue
Prelude In E Minor
Fugue On The Letters Of The Name Bach
Toccata In C Major

UPC: 5028421944838
Label: Brilliant Classics
Release Date: 4.30.13
Format: CD

Sergio Militello - Organ Music (CD)