Bach: Organ Works - Jean Guillou

Jean Guillou is unique in our time. He is the last in a distinguished line of composer-organists, a virtuoso who creates, a Frescobaldi, a Sebastian Bach, a Liszt, a Widor. This rare blend of creator interpreter imbues his traversal of Bach's œuvre for organ with a special vision, a unique spirit. Sebastian Bach, who owned a copy of Frescobaldi's "Fiori Musicali", approached the music of his great Roman predecessor as though it were contemporary, the creation of a peer, the handiwork of an esteemed colleague. To Bach, the keyboard works of Frescobaldi, we as "new" as his own, as new as the Organ Masses of Couperinle-Grand and de Grigny. To Guillou, the organ works of Bach are as "new" as those of Dupré, Messiaen, or Guillou. In these innovative, iconoclastic performances, virtuoso-composer meets virtuoso-composer, creator meets creator, and recreator meets recreator, all on an equal footing; together Bach and Guillou span the centuries like the Shakespearean colossus. Those who seek an "authentic," "scholarly" approach to the Bach organ works "will," to quote Sir Adrian Boult, "have no difficulty in finding many excellent recordings in this vein. This specially repackaged and remastered box set is part of the "Best of Dorian" series.

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