Some Thoughts on Playing the Organ by Willem Tanke: Nunn komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659 Callinet-organ Lons-le-Saunier with score

23/10/2017

Nunn komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659 Callinet-organ Lons-le-Saunier with score

My research "Dancing Bach on the Organ" will include a project to make recordings on beautiful historical instruments in Europe. This project may last about ten years and will be well documented on video and in writings. As Bach's music surpasses the boundaries of the instruments which he knew several types of organs will be used, for instance the Callinet -organ in the Church of the Cordeliers in Lons-le-Saunier (France), made between 1842 and 1844. This instrument represents a transition between the esthetics of the 18th and the 19th century.

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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.