J.S. BACH Fantasia & Fugue BWV904, Canzona in D BWV588, Aria Variata BWV989 ‘In the Italian Style’;
HANDEL Suite for Harpsichord HWV427, Prelude & Allegro (Sonata) for keyboard HWV574, Concertos (6) for Organ Op. 4;
SCARLATTI Sonata for Harpsichord in D major, K 287/L S9, Sonata for Harpsichord in D major, K 282/L 484, Sonata for Harpsichord in G major, K 304/L 88, Medley

A celebration of Baroque music. The programme here recorded shows the marvellous versatility of the Baroque organ, bringing a multiplicity of genres and forms. Thus from Maurizio Croci’s fingers flow the prelude and the fugue; 17th -century legacies like the canzona and the aria con variazioni; and the two principal genres of instrumental Baroque music: the sonata and the concerto, plus compositions not always born for the organ, but easily adapted for it.

Maurizio Croci has performed throughout Europe and Japan and performed J.S. Bach’s complete organ works in Bern to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death. Mr Croci is currently Organ Professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne-Fribourg; Harpsichord Professor and director of the early Music Department at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan; organist at the Basilica of the Holy Trinity in Berne and of the Collège St-Michel in Fribourg; and artistic director of the Académie d’Orgue de Fribourg.