Some Thoughts on Playing the Organ by Willem Tanke: October 2013

22/10/2013

J.S. Bach - Sonata in c minor BWV 526, third movement ("Arlesheim")

Perhaps the most difficult of all the trio sonata movements. In particular the passage with the second theme for the left hand in f minor and the counter subject in c minor should be improved.

17/10/2013

J.S. Bach - Sonata in c minor BWV 526, first movement ("Arlesheim")

Today I heard an interesting version of this piece on YouTube, with Holliger, oboe, and Zimmerman, viola. Here is my "Arlesheim" -version:

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As a classical organist I have been a prominent Messiaen and Reger interpreter since the '90s. Nowadays Bach interpretation is my main classical project. This is represented by my research "Dancing Bach on the organ". At the same time, as an improviser and a performing composer, I have been creating a new musical language which brings together musicians with avant-jazz, avant-pop, Western classical and traditional African and Asian backgrounds. I now relate this to my Bach interpretation.