This is Emanuele Cardi’s fourth album for Brilliant Classics after recordings which display this talented organist’s wide musical sympathies and talents, ranging from music by Bach’s contemporary Tunder (BC94901) to still more obscure delights from Naples (BC94622) and exuberant arrangements of Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns for organ four-hands (BC94881). ‘He is a great connoisseur of Baroque repertoire,’ noted the Spanish magazine Codalario of Cardi’s Neapolitan disc, ‘and it shows in his ability to give these pieces such native colour: this is a remarkable album.’ On this occasion he has recorded an album which concludes with Bach’s most famous yet possibly most spurious work for organ, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, whose Italianate flourishes surely have their origin in a work for violin, whether or not by Bach himself.
Works:
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Bach, C P E: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, Wq. 119/7 (H103)
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Bach, C P E: Sonata in A minor for organ, Wq. 70/4 (H85)
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Bach, J S: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565
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Kittel, J C: Fantasia con organo pleno
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Kittel, J C: Grosse Präludien (16): Praeludium in E minor
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Kittel, J C: Preludio pro organo pleno (from Der angehende praktische organist)
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Kittel, J C: So gehst du nun, mein Jesu, hin (from Der angehende praktische Organist)
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Krebs, J L: Fantasia sopra: Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele
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Krebs, J L: Toccata and Fugue in A minor Krebs-WV 411
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Vogler: Mach’s mit mir Gott nach deiner Gut
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Walther, J G: Concerto del Signor Meck (Concerto in B minor)