Bach / Reger: Toccatas BWV 910-916

Schoener, Christoph

MDG 949 1981-6

First Bach, then Reger, and now Bach/Reger: this is Christoph Schoener's third MDG recording on the four organs in St. Michael's Church in Hamburg. The attractive program featuring J. S. Bach's seven toccatas, five of them in gripping arrangements by Max Reger, embodies the best and fullest opulence of sound. And since the MDG sound engineers this time also rely on the very finest three-dimensional SACD technology, the big sound of this musical event, including the echo division and its extra spatial effects, can be enjoyed at home - an audiophile highlight of a special kind! • All four organs in St. Michael's Church are heard individually or together, and three of them operated by a central console can be registered as a common instrument. What a magnificent room effect results when the performance event culminates with participation by the echo division from the rosette in the ceiling! • The seven toccatas were originally intended for the harpsichord. Max Reger transferred five of them to the organ, and now Christoph Schoener has adapted the other two. On the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach organ in unequal temperament he demonstrates that the historical performance style too can be pleasurably realized in St. Michael's Church in Hamburg.

SACD x 1

MDG

26.10.16

760623198163