Mernier: Bach, Buxtehude & Bruhns

Mernier, Benoît

CYP 1686

The making of this CD is the result of several wishes. The organist and composer Benoît Mernier has been heavily involved since 2015 in the construction by Manufacture Thomas of this new instrument at Saint-Loup in Namur, one of the special features of which is to offer an original great organ inspired by two different styles (Central German and North German Baroque), in short the instrument that Bach undoubtedly dreamed of.

The great organ of Saint-Loup thus provides an ideal opportunity to address the question of transmission by tracing the relationship between a master (Buxtehude) and two disciples, one very well known (Bach), the other less so (Bruhns).

As well as celebrating the advent of this extraordinary new organ and revealing all its facets, this recording also marks the performer's sixtieth birthday.

Works:

•Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasie c-moll BWV562
•Johann Sebastian Bach: Piece d'orgue BWV572
•Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasie & Fuge g-moll BWV542
•Johann Sebastian Bach: Choräle BWV645 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
•Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV659 "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"
•Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV552 "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr"
•Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV649 "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ"
•Dieterich Buxtehude: Präludium d-moll BuxWV 140
• Dieterich Buxtehude: Choral BuxWV 211 "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"
• Nikolaus Bruhns: Nun komm der Heyden Heyland

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Cypres

03-02-2025

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