Wolfgang Baumgratz plays four organs in the Cathedral at Bremen, Germany, with Christmas organ music composed over a period of 150 years by members of the Bach family, including several earlier than J. S. Bach as well as three 19th-century composers who composed works based on ones by J. S. Bach. The organs include the huge 1894 Sauer organ of more than 100 ranks in the Bremen Cathedral, a gorgeous 1734 Gottfried Silbermann organ in the West Crypt of the Cathedral, a splendid 3m “Bach organ” built by Gebruder Van Vulpen of Utrecht in 1966 for the South Ambulatory of the Cathedral, and a small 2m 1991 Gerrit Klop organ in East Crypt. Imported by OHS. Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694): Vier Choralvorspiele (aus der “Neumeister-Sammlung“) (Silbermann organ) "Meine Seele erhebet den Herren" "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" "Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn" "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ" Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749): Ciaconna in G-Dur (Klop organ) Choralvorspiel "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" (Klop organ) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her' BWV 769 (van Vulpen organ) Pastorale in F-Dur BWV 590 (van Vulpen organ) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784): zwei Choralvorspiele "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" (van Vulpen organ)" "Wir Christenleut han jetzund Freud" (van Vulpen organ) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Two pieces for musical clock Adagio in g-Moll (Wq 193,28) (Silbermann organ) Allegro in D-Dur (Wq 193,23) (Silbermann organ) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795): (Silbermann organ) Variationen über Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937): "Pastorale" (Bach’s Memento after the Aria from Pastoral in F, BWV 590) (Sauer organ) Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933): "Symphonie pastorale" (aus dem Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248) (Sauer organ) William Thomas Best (1826-1897): “Gloria in excelsis Deo!“ (aus Magnificat BWV 243) (Sauer organ) |