2012 Bach Festival: Eighteen Chorale Preludes

2012 Bach Festival
"Eighteen Chorale Preludes" J.S. Bach
The Curtis Institute of Music Organ Department perform on Saint Mark's historic 1937 Aeolian-Skinner Pipe Organ
Caroline Robinson, Brian Andersen, Tom Sheehan, Patrick Kreeger
The Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes, BWV 651668, are a set of chorale preludes for organ prepared by Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig in his final decade (1740-1750). They are adapted from earlier works composed in Weimar, where he was court organist. The works form an encyclopedic collection of large-scale chorale preludes, in a variety of styles harking back to the previous century. These works were used as prelude music to the service and are based on chorale tunes. Together with the Orgelb