J.S. BACH - BWV 599-644 | ’’Orgel-Büchlein’’ by Yarno Missiaen

Release date → april 2024 Release concert → 13 april 2024 | Yarno Missiaen (°2005) (1685-1750) DAS ORGEL-BÜCHLEIN BWV 599-644 ’Worinne einem anfahenden Organisten Anleitung gegeben wird, auff allerhand Arth einen Choral durchzuführen, anbey auch sich im Pedalstudio zu habilitiren, indem in solchen darinne befindlichen Chorälen das Pedal gantz obligat tractiret wird. DEM HÖCHSTEN GOTT ALLEIN ZU EHREN, DEM NECHSTEN, DRAUS SICH ZU BELEHREN Heinrich Andreas Contius, originally from Halle in Central Germany, was the leading organ builder in the Baltic lands during the second half of the 18th century; his work was particularly appreciated by J.S. Bach. None of his instruments has survived in its original state, but Joris Potvlieghe (Belgium) began an exact reconstruction of the 1763 Contius organ in the St. Jacobs church in Riga (Latvia). In all its facets this new historic organ in the St. Catharina Church in Wondelgem (Ghent, Belgium) is unique. Beside the Contius organ in Leuven (Belgium) no other instrument by Contius has yet been reconstructed. The instrument is characterised by a gentler and more elegant attack and a sound that is also somewhat rounder and milder than that of earlier instruments by Gottfried Silbermann, and is therefore well suited to the refinements of the galant style. In this video you can see the first teaser of this unique recording that will be released by Etcetera music label