Concert Mozart and the Bach Family. All organ works. Performed by Thomas Trotter (Great Britain) World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall
Schedule for Mozart and the Bach Family. All organ works. Performed by Thomas Trotter (Great Britain) 2022
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Organist: Thomas Trotter
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
J. S. Bach. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Dorian,
BWV 538 C. P. E. Bach. Sonata in D Major, Wq 70/7 Fugue
on the name of Bach. (transcription for organ by Thomas
Trotter) J. C. Bach. Concerto for keyboard and
strings in G Magor, оp. 1, № 4. (transcription for organ by
Thomas Trotter) W. A. Mozart. Adagio and
Allegro, in F Minor, K. 594; Gigue in G Major, K. 574; Andante in
F Major for mechanical organ, K. 616; Adagio for Glassharmonica in
С Major, K. 617a; Fantasia in F Minor, K. 608
Performed by Thomas Trotter (Great Britain)
In their time, Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons became outstanding musicians
in almost every capital city in Europe. Among them were Carl Philipp
Emanuel, who won great acclaim in Berlin and Hamburg, and Johann Christian,
famed as the “London Bach”. But they wrote completely different music to
what their illustrious father had composed. Following society’s secularisation,
organ music of the period inevitably lost its primary purpose, it ceased to
be a means of expression for the heavenly and the invisible
in the world of art and it gradually took second place, ceding its
authority to refined, uniquely perfect and no less harmonious but now already
deeply secular works – sonatas, concerti and symphonies. It was
the end of an entire era, when the great achievements in art were
inextricably connected with the Church and the finest works by major
composers were invariably pieces of organ music. Through their art
the Viennese classics, starting with Haydn, Mozart and their
contemporaries, “drew a line”, and, for a time, the music of
their predecessors came to be considered, although doubtlessly significant,
already defunct and having lost currency. Even in the vast legacy of
the brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who performed brilliantly on
the organ from his childhood (and who was, apropos, familiar with Johann
Christian Bach, who exerted a great deal of influence over him), there are
just a few works for solo organ, and even these do not have
the traditional connection with religious themes. Konstantin
Greshnevikov
Schedule for Mozart and the Bach Family. All organ works. Performed by Thomas Trotter (Great Britain) 2022
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