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Fate - Bach Organ Meditation 2
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Fate
Bach Organ Meditation 2
Music for organ by J.S. Bach.
1968 Pogson Organ, The King's School, North Parramatta, NSW Australia
David Kinsela, organ
Lesser Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 533
Our Father which art in heaven BWV 737
Prelude and Fugue in G minor BWV 535
Ah! God and Lord BWV 255, 48, 714
Fugue in C minor on a theme of Legrenzi BWV 574
O whither should I flee? BWV 694
Canzona in D minor BWV 588
Prelude and Fugue in F minor BWV 534
Little Harmonic Labyrinth BWV 591
O God, look down from heaven BWV 741
Be merciful to me, O lord God BWV 721
My heart is filled with longing BWV 727
Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544
In Memoriam Uncle Bob
Major Robert Tulloch Sadler was
a handsome young officer in Sydney who became so disturbed at the threat from
Japan in 1940 and so anxious to serve on the front that he joined the Australian
Infantry Forces in spite of a required demotion to sergeant. His fate was to
spend four years as a prisoner-of-war and be one of 1,800 employed in slave
labour at Sandakan, North Borneo. Since officers had been sent elsewhere, the
NCOs such as Bob Sadler bore the brunt of the constant brutality. He was twenty-six
years old when he expired on or before the notorious Death March of 1945.
Bach is the most performed composer of the West. His life and
work is researched and debated in ever-increasing detail such that new books
in various languages appear each year, along with the Bach-Jahrbuch and dozens
of other academic papers. Nevertheless, the degree of Bach’s childhood
genius has been obfuscated until now. The FATE booklet singles out three 'organ'
works arguably composed some ten years earlier than commonly believed, for the
pedal clavichord which has hitherto been ignored as an instrument in its own
right. For example the Prelude and Fugue in E minor for organ BWV 533, traditionally
dated at around the age of twenty-four, now seems to have been conceived before
Bach turned fifteen.
It is further suggested that Equal Temperament was introduced
on the Weimar Palace organ under Bach’s direction at twenty-three, preparatory
to his incumbency there. And this instrument created for the Dukes of Weimar
would inspire more of Bach’s organ compositions than any other. Thus the
old idea is true that Bach was a pioneer of Equal Temperament, but it was on
the organ and not on the harpsichord (although he did indeed write forty-eight
harpsichord fugues and title them Das Wohltemperierte Klavier)!
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