Masaaki Suzuki - J.S. Bach Organ Works, Vol. 7 (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

This seventh instalment of Masaaki Suzuki's critically acclaimed series of the complete organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach includes eleven pieces from a manuscript known as the Leipzig Chorales. Conceived around 1739, this collection contains no new compositions, but rather 'reworkings' of organ chorales dating from the years 1708-17, when Bach was in Weimar.The chorale arrangements are based on established Lutheran melodies that particularly appealed to Bach. Bach took great care with this project, selecting the best of his organ music from earlier in his career, and saw it as his legacy for the future. This recording also includes the six Schubler Chorales (named after the collection's publisher), which take chorales he had already included in his religious cantatas and adapt them for the organ. Together with the Orgel-Buchlein and the third book of the Clavier-ubung, the Leipzig Chorales and the Schubler Chorales represent the pinnacle of Bach's sacred organ music.On this recording, Masaaki Suzuki plays the Arp Schnitger organ of the Martinikerk in Groningen, the Netherlands, one of the largest and most famous baroque organs in Northern Europe. Arp Schnitger was the leading organ builder in northern Germany in the seventeenth century, and his admirers included Buxtehude, Handel and Bach himself.

TRACKLIST

1. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 18 Chorales "Leipziger Choräle": No. 12, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662
2. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 18 Chorales "Leipziger Choräle": No. 13, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 663
3. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 18 Chorales "Leipziger Choräle": No. 14, Trio super Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 664
4. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 18 Chorales "Leipziger Choräle": No. 15, Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 665
5. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 18 Chorales "Leipziger Choräle": No. 16, Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 666
6. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 18 Chorales "Leipziger Choräle": No. 17, Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, BWV 667
7. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 18 Chorales "Leipziger Choräle": No. 18a, Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 668a
8. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 6 Choräle von verschiedener Art, "Schübler-Choräle": No. 1, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
9. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 6 Choräle von verschiedener Art, "Schübler-Choräle": No. 2, Wo soll ich fliehen hin. Auf meinen lieben Gott, BWV 646
10. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 6 Choräle von verschiedener Art, "Schübler-Choräle": No. 3, Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 647
11. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 6 Choräle von verschiedener Art, "Schübler-Choräle": No. 4, Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 648
12. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 6 Choräle von verschiedener Art, "Schübler-Choräle": No. 5, Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649
13. Masaaki Suzuki - Bach: 6 Choräle von verschiedener Art, "Schübler-Choräle": No. 6, Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650



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