Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Bach on a Tuesday morning
One thing leads to another
Helmuth Rilling
Foggy morning. Listened to Bach's Organ Works performed by Helmuth Rilling. It was the December 1974 recording made at the Gedachtniskirche, Stuttgart.
The album includes:
Toccata and Fugue BWV565
Fugue BWV578
Prelude and Fugue BWV544
Fantasie and Fugue BWV542
Passacaglia BWV582.
Bach's choral music creates a sense of joy,sadness, and peace. Rilling is a virtuoso of the large pipe organs and the majestic sound they produce.
On a whim I tried to learn details of the organ played by Rilling. No luck but I found that here in the SF Peninsula the Stanford Memorial Church is one of the few churches that has three different pipe organs, including the Katherine Potter-Brinegar Organ built by Paul Fritts in 1995 during restoration of the building following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
I have listened many times to the recording of Helmuth Rilling's performance. I went only once to a performance of the Katherine Potter-Brinegar organ at the Memorial Church. Cannot recall either the organist or the composers of the music!
In 1957 Helmuth Rilling became music director at the Gedächtniskirche in Stuttgart, a position he still holds today. He is also a co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival.
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
----Red Auerbach
Helmuth Rilling
Foggy morning. Listened to Bach's Organ Works performed by Helmuth Rilling. It was the December 1974 recording made at the Gedachtniskirche, Stuttgart.
The album includes:
Toccata and Fugue BWV565
Fugue BWV578
Prelude and Fugue BWV544
Fantasie and Fugue BWV542
Passacaglia BWV582.
Bach's choral music creates a sense of joy,sadness, and peace. Rilling is a virtuoso of the large pipe organs and the majestic sound they produce.
On a whim I tried to learn details of the organ played by Rilling. No luck but I found that here in the SF Peninsula the Stanford Memorial Church is one of the few churches that has three different pipe organs, including the Katherine Potter-Brinegar Organ built by Paul Fritts in 1995 during restoration of the building following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
I have listened many times to the recording of Helmuth Rilling's performance. I went only once to a performance of the Katherine Potter-Brinegar organ at the Memorial Church. Cannot recall either the organist or the composers of the music!
In 1957 Helmuth Rilling became music director at the Gedächtniskirche in Stuttgart, a position he still holds today. He is also a co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival.
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
----Red Auerbach
