JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 –1750)
PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN C MINOR, BWV 546
ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH SEI EHR (ALONE TO GOD ON HIGH BE GLORY), BWV 717
FANTASIA IN C MINOR, BWV 562
CONCERTO IN C MAJOR, BWV 595
PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN F MINOR, BWV 534
THE ART OF THE FUGUE – CONTRAPUNCTUS I, BWV 1080
VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN (I SHALL SAY FAREWELL TO YOU), BWV 736
TRIO SUPER: ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH SEI EHR (TRIO ON ALONE TO GOD ON HIGH BE GLORY), BWV 664
FUGUE IN C MINOR, BWV 575
PASSACAGLIA AND FUGUE IN C MINOR, BWV 582
Joseph Kelemen
Christoph Treutmann Organ (1734-1737)
Grauhof Monastery Church
The present recording especially concentrates
on works by Johann Sebastian Bach
in minor keys; these are contrasted by four
works in major keys. The general perception is
that minor-key works frequently emanate a certain
sadness as their fundamental emotion. Bach, on
the other hand, repeatedly develops in his minorkey
compositions – particularly in the organ works
– an unsurpassed elegance out of the melancholy
depths, as Joseph Kelemen impressively proves
at the Treutmann Organ of the Grauhof Monastery
Church.