Bach: Clavier-Übung III (German Organ Mass) [Import]

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Masaaki Suzuki (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Masaaki Suzuki
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
• Audio CD (February 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Bis
• ASIN: B00005A0F9
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #405,732 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Prelude and Fugue, for organ in E flat major ('St. Anne;' Clavier-Übung III/26), BWV 552 (BC J16): Præludium

2. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 371 (BC F129): Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit

3. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (I), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung III/1), BWV 669 (BC K1)

4. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 371 (BC F129): Christe, aller Welt Trost

5. Christe, aller Welt Trost (I), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung III/2), BWV 670 (BC K2)

6. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 371 (BC F129): Kyrie, Gott Heiliger Geist

7. Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist (I), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung III/3), BWV 671 (BC K3)

8. Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (II), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung III/4), BWV 672 (BC K4)

9. Christe, aller Welt Trost (II), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung No. 5), BWV 673 (BC K5)

10. Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist (II), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung III/6), BWV 674 (BC K6)

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Disc: 2

1. Vater unser im Himmelreich, chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 416 (BC F181.4a)

2. Vater unser im Himmelreich (II), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung No. 14), BWV 682 (BC K14)

3. Vater unser im Himmelreich (III), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung No. 145), BWV 683 (BC K15)

4. Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam, chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 280 (BC F65)

5. Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (I), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung III/16), BWV 684 (BC K16)

6. Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (II), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung III/17), BWV 685 (BC K17)

7. Cantata No. 38, 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir,' BWV 38 (BC A152): No. 6, Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir

8. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (I), chorale prelude for organ á 6 (Clavier-Übung III/18), BWV 686 (BC K18)

9. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (II), chorale prelude for organ á 4 (Clavier-Übung III/19), BWV 687 (BC K19)

10. Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (I), chorale setting for 4 voices, BWV 363 (BC F121.1)

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Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Arguably Bach's greatest work, July 15, 2005

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This review is from: Bach: Clavier-Übung III (German Organ Mass) (Audio CD)

Other books in Bach's Clavierübung series have become well known and loved, such as Part IV - the Goldberg Variations. Yet somehow book III of the Clavierübung seems to languish somewhat in obscurity by comparison. I must admit I first became interested in it when Pierre Boulez of all people mentioned the Clavierübung III as the work by Bach he finds the most outstandingly brilliant. Boulez is surprisingly knowledgeable about early music (he is perfectly capable of discussing Machaut) and his knowledge about music is always immensely authoritative. However, it was a long while before I found a performance that was up to Bach's level of inspiration.

It comes as little surprise given the universal praise heaped upon Suzuki's Bach Collegium Japan cantata recordings that he should come up with a Clavierübung III as inspirational as this. If you ever did find this work dry then you really need to listen to this performance which really helps to set the work right up there with the finest compositions by Bach. As a work that belongs to Bach's encyclopedic compendiums of what it was possible to achieve in the art of keyboard playing, this recording must take pride of precedence in every Bach lover's collection.

If you love the Goldberg Variations, the Art of Fugue, a musical offering, or the two volumes of the Preludes and Fugues then you will definitely want to make sure you get this for they all represent essential volumes of the Bach encyclopedia of music.