A unique production. In seven thirty-minute films Sietze de Vries performs the entire Orgelbüchlein, demonstrates the organs at the Martinikerk in Groningen and the Petruskerk in Leens, improvises 45 new chorale preludes in the style of Bach, discusses the philosophy of improvisation, and demonstrates how to improvise according to the techniques Bach uses in his great collection of chorale preludes. For the first time on film we can glimpse the enormous scale of Bach’s vision for his Orgelbüchlein. All performances are also presented on two CDs.

Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, and certainly the greatest composer who wrote for the organ. His organ music is the heart and soul of the organ’s repertoire. Fugue State Films, together with Sietze de Vries, explores this extraordinary canon with the aim of greater appreciation and elucidation of these marvellous pieces of music.

Instruments:
- Martinikerk, Groningen (organ by Schnitger and others, 1450-)
- Petruskerk, Leens (organ by Hinsz, 1734)