Bach: Die 18 Leipziger Choräle
Label: Rondeau Productions Catalog: ROP605051 Format: CD Ullrich Böhme, organist at St Thomas Church LeipzigJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Ullrich Böhme, organist at St Thomas Leipzig, plays the "Achtzehn Leipziger Choräle" at the Bach organ at St Thomas. The Marburg organ builder Gerald Woehl erected the instrument on the Northern gallery, opposite the Bach window, in the Bach year 2000. It is modelled on the organ building techniques and organ sound of the eighteenth century. Ullrich Böhme took up on this in his recording of the chorale cycle. While maintaining the clarity of the musical structure, its impact of sound is not to be mitigated by an all too timid registration. Böhme decided to precede the chorale arrangements with performances of the actual chorales for which he consciously chose another, no less historical instrument. In order to do so, he set off to Störmthal, situated 20 kilometres southeast of Leipzig. Price: $42.98 |