Volume 7 of Margaret Phillips’ on-going and critically-acclaimed cycle of the complete organ works of J S Bach. Each disc is a self-contained recital.

This set features two very different instruments by two of the finest organ builders of Bach’s time, both beautifully restored in the last few years. CD 1 features the 1728 Zacharias Hildebrandt organ in St Jacobikirche, Sangerhausen. The second disc features the 1735 Gottfried Silbermann organ in the Petrikirche Freiberg.

Repertoire includes the Preludes and Fugues in G major, A minor and C minor and the great Passacaglia in C minor.

“Gary Cole at Regent, who has always been a master in the refined art of capturing an organ on disc, ambience and all, seems to have excelled himself.... these are organ recordings par excellence.....Listening to this disc is a real aural delight. Phillips is certainly an uncannily vivid and perceptive interpreter......Some of the finest performances of Bach Chorale preludes on disc.” - International Record Review, reviewing Vols 1 & 2

"Both discs make satisfying recitals in their own right. Taken together they constitute a feast..." - Gramophone October 2010 reviewing Vol.5

Contents:
CD 1
- Prelude & Fugue in G major BWV 541
- Partite diverse sopra O Gott, du frommer Gott BWV 767
- Concerto in C (after Vivaldi) BWV 594
- Chorale preludes Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’ BWV 726, BWV 749 & BWV 709
- Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 551
- Chorale preludes Durch Adam's Fall ist ganz verderbt BWV 705
- Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 706
- Ich hab’ mein’ Sach’ Gott heimgestellt BWV 708, 708a
- Ich hab’ mein’ Sach’ Gott heimgestellt BWV 707
- Trio in G major, BWV 1027a
- Chorale preludes Meine Seele erhebt den Herren: Fuga sopra il Magnificat BWV 733
- Wir Christenleut’ hab’n jetzund Freud BWV 710
- Fugue in C minor BWV 575

St Jacobikirche, Sangerhausen
Organ by Zacharias Hildebrandt, 1728

CD 2
- Prelude & Fugue in C minor BWV 546
- Chorale preludes Herr Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht BWV 750
- Nun ruhen alle Wälder BWV 756
- Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott, Schöpfer BWV 765
- O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig BWV 1085
- Prelude in G major BWV 568
- Fugue in G BWV 576
- Chorale preludes Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV 762
- O Vater, allmächtiger Gott BWV 758
- Jesu, der du meine Seele BWV 752
- Fantasia in C major BWV 570
- Prelude in C major BWV 943
- Fugue in C major BWV 946
- Concerto in E flat BWV 597
- Prelude in C major BWV 567
- Fugue in G major BWV 581
- Fugue in D major BWV 580
- Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth BWV 591
- Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582

Petrikirche Freiberg
Organ by Gottfried Silbermann, 1735