Release Date: 28 October 2022
Label: First Hand Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060216349138
Description
The six Sonatas, which are often described as 'Trio Sonatas for Organ,' hold a unique place in Bach's oeuvre. In a sense, 'trio' is the most natural organ texture: right hand, left hand, and feet each takes one line of counterpoint. However, in the six Sonatas, the contrapuntal lines are granted a degree of independence that is unmatched in Bach's surviving organ music. Thus, they are atypical of Bach's output for the instrument, and indeed of organ music in general. The Sonatas are, in effect, 'ensemble music for one player' – indeed, several movements originated as actual ensemble pieces.
To Bach's contemporaries, this transplanting of the secular, instrumental trio sonata genre onto the organ would have seemed rather daring. After
all, the organ was, first and foremost, a liturgical instrument, with its own venerable repertoire tradition.
Tom Wilkinson is University Organist and Associate Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. Born in Edinburgh in 1985, he studied at the universities of Oxford (where he held an organ scholarship at The Queen's College), Edinburgh and Glasgow. His formative organ studies were with Matthew Owens. His doctoral research, conducted under the supervision of John Butt, was on the 19th-century Bach revival.
Tracklisting
Noxwode, Conor Gricmanis
Tessa Lark, Jon Batiste, Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer
David de Winter and The Brook Street Band
Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell
Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa; Alvaro Cassuto
The Flautadors Recorder Quartet
The Telling
Sarah Cahill
St Salvator's Chapel Choir, Fitzwilliam String Quartet & Tom Wilkinson
St Salvator's Chapel Choir
