{"product_id":"bach-j-s-beethoven-l-v-biggs-edward-power-biggs-plays-historic-organs-of-europe","title":"Bach, J.S. \/ Beethoven, L.V. \/ Biggs: Edward Power Biggs Plays Historic Organs of Europe - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEdward Power Biggs Plays Historic Organs of Europe\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eBach, J.S. \/ Beethoven, L.V. \/ Biggs\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSony SRM Exclusive\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e196588267727\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical, Classical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2024-01-26\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e6\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         The legendary English organist E. Power Biggs became a household name when his Sunday morning CBS broadcasts introduced radio listeners all over North America to the sound of historic pipe organs and the classical organ repertoire from every period. In a lifelong search for authenticity, the indefatigable Biggs visited places in Holland, North Germany, England, France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland where some of the great organist-composers of the Renaissance and Baroque had lived and worked. Between 1961 and 1970, Columbia recorded him in a \"Historic Organs of Europe\" series, performing music by Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin, Dunstable, Frescobaldi, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, Purcell, Soler, Sweelinck, Tallis and many others. In his original notes to this ambitious project, which Sony Classical is now reissuing complete in a collection of 6 CDs, Biggs wrote: \"It is fascinating to play a composer's music on the organ he played. You feel that you have touched the lifeline of history... Beethoven's orchestra, Bach's choir are all gone, but the same organs on which great musicians played are still available.\" When these famous recordings were released on LP, Gramophone's reviewer wrote that \"the commanding sweep of the whole panorama makes compulsive listening... The enthusiasm of Mr. Power Biggs for his subjects makes him the ideal guide: he can turn his hand to any organ and make a neat job of the music, however recalcitrant the actions may be. His performances are sumptuously recorded.\" Organ aficionados will relish this new opportunity to experience these musical milestones in this new box set.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Sit gloria Domini (Musica enchiriadis) \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Orientis partibus (Song of the Ass) (conductus) \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Christo psallat (rondellus, conductus) \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Hymn to St. Magnus \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Hec dies (organum) (Codex Wolfenbüttel 677) \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Work(s)~Motets for \"Hec dies\": Huic main - Hec dies \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Work(s)~Motets for \"Hec dies\": Deo confitemini - Domino \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Estampie from Robertsbridge Codex, 1360 \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Agincourt Hymn \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Mit ganczem Willen wünsch ich dir (from Fundamentum organisandi Magistri Conradi Paumanns Ceci de Nürenberga) \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Praeambulum in fa \u003cbr\u003e1.12 Gloria tibi Trinitas \u003cbr\u003e1.13 Work(s)~3 Verses from the Te Deum \u003cbr\u003e1.14 Pavana alla Venetiana from Intabulatura de lauto - Book IV \u003cbr\u003e1.15 Work(s)~Chaconne in F major \u003cbr\u003e1.16 In dulci jubilo (BWV 751) \u003cbr\u003e1.17 Messe du Deuxième Ton~Passacaglia in G minor \u003cbr\u003e1.18 Work(s)~Le Trophée from Pièces de clavecin IV\/22\/1 \/ Fugue on the Kyrie (Fugue sur les Jeux d'anches) Couplet No. 2 from the Kyrie of Messe pour les Paroisses (Pièces d'orgue) \u003cbr\u003e1.19 Suite No. 1 (Livre d'orgue)~Basse et Dessus de Trompette \u003cbr\u003e1.20 Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV 691 \u003cbr\u003e1.21 Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544~[Praeludium] \u003cbr\u003e1.22 Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544~Fuga \u003cbr\u003e2.1 Concierto de dos Organos Obligados No. 6~II. The Emperor's Fanfare \u003cbr\u003e2.2 Pièces d'Orgue - Book I, Suite No. 2~Duo en cors de chasse sur la Trompète \u003cbr\u003e2.3 3 Fabordones~Fabordón 1 \u003cbr\u003e2.4 3 Fabordones~Fabordón 2 \u003cbr\u003e2.5 3 Fabordones~Fabordón 3 \u003cbr\u003e2.6 Aria in D minor \u003cbr\u003e2.7 Keyboard Sonata in A major 'De Clarines\" \u003cbr\u003e2.8 Sonata in G minor \u003cbr\u003e2.9 Toccata in D minor \u003cbr\u003e2.10 Batalla [No. 1] 'Imperial\" \u003cbr\u003e2.11 Partita sopra la Aria della Folia da Espagna \u003cbr\u003e2.12 3 Fabordones~Fabordón 1 \u003cbr\u003e2.13 3 Fabordones~Fabordón 2 \u003cbr\u003e2.14 3 Fabordones~Fabordón 3 \u003cbr\u003e2.15 Work(s)~Fabordón \u003cbr\u003e2.16 Pavana No. 6 from Libro de Música de Vihuela de mano \u003cbr\u003e2.17 romanesca \u003cbr\u003e2.18 ballo dell'intorcia \u003cbr\u003e3.1 Toccate e partite d'intavolatura II: Gagliarda 1 in A minor \u003cbr\u003e3.2 Toccate e partite d'intavolatura II: Gagilarda 2 in G minor \u003cbr\u003e3.3 Toccate e partite d'intavolatura II: Gagliarda 3 in G minor \u003cbr\u003e3.4 Capriccio sopra la Battaglia from Toccate e partite d'intavolatura I \u003cbr\u003e3.5 Gagliarda del Principe di Venosa \u003cbr\u003e3.6 Gagliarda 2 in D minor \u003cbr\u003e3.7 Gagliarda 8, et ultima, in G major \u003cbr\u003e3.8 Fuga del IX tono \u003cbr\u003e3.9 Work(s)~Variazioni sopra la Follia \u003cbr\u003e3.10 Psalm 19: I cieli immensi narrano (Estro poetico-armonico) \u003cbr\u003e3.11 Sonate d'involatura per organo e cimbalo I~No. 2. Verso 4 in D minor \u003cbr\u003e3.12 Sonate d'involatura per organo e cimbalo I~No. 8. Verso 4 in E minor \u003cbr\u003e3.13 Sonate d'involatura per organo e cimbalo I~No. 10. Verso 3 in G minor \u003cbr\u003e3.14 Sonate d'involatura per organo e cimbalo I~No. 10. Verso 4 in G minor \u003cbr\u003e3.15 Sonate d'involatura per organo e cimbalo I~No. 4. Verso 4 in C major \u003cbr\u003e3.16 Sonate d'involatura per organo e cimbalo I~No. 15. Toccata all' Offertorio in C major \u003cbr\u003e3.17 Canzona ariosa \u003cbr\u003e3.18 Secondo Dialogo: Acute ; Grave (L'Organo suonarino Op. 25) \u003cbr\u003e3.19 Ballo della battaglia from Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo ed organo \u003cbr\u003e3.20 Corrente detta dello Staccoli from Modo per imperare a sonare di Tromba \u003cbr\u003e4.1 Fanfare \u003cbr\u003e4.2 Rondeau. Bruit de guerre from Pièces de clavecin II\/10: La Triomphante \u003cbr\u003e4.3 Pièces d'orgue, Mass No. 2~Offertoire sur les grands jeux \u003cbr\u003e4.4 Livre d'orgue II~Magnificat (premier ton). Basse de trompette \u003cbr\u003e4.5 Recueil de Noëls - Suite No. 1~Joseph est bien marié \u003cbr\u003e4.6 Caprice sur les grands jeux from Livre d'orgue - Suite No. 1 \u003cbr\u003e4.7 Chaconne in C major No. 26 from Pièces de clavecin \u003cbr\u003e4.8 Chaconne in C minor \"La Bergeronnette\" No. 34 from Pièces de clavecin \u003cbr\u003e4.9 Chaconne in G minor No. 121 from Pièces de clavecin \u003cbr\u003e4.10 Chaconne in D minor No. 55 from Pièces de clavecin \u003cbr\u003e4.11 Or nous dites Marie from Livre de noëls pour l'orgue et le clavecin \u003cbr\u003e4.12 Quand le Sauveur Jésus-Christ fut né de Marie No. 20 from Noëls \u003cbr\u003e5.1 Agincourt Hymn \u003cbr\u003e5.2 Hornepype \u003cbr\u003e5.3 Uppon la mi re \u003cbr\u003e5.4 Work(s)~Ritornell \u003cbr\u003e5.5 Work(s)~Composition on a Plainsong \u003cbr\u003e5.6 Gloria tibi Trinitas \u003cbr\u003e5.7 Iste confessor \u003cbr\u003e5.8 Point \u003cbr\u003e5.9 Gigg (The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, No. 181) \u003cbr\u003e5.10 King of Denmark's Galliard \u003cbr\u003e5.11 Ground in Gamut \u003cbr\u003e5.12 Allemande \u003cbr\u003e5.13 Packington's Pound \u003cbr\u003e5.14 Ayre \u003cbr\u003e5.15 Aylesford Pieces~Sarabande \u003cbr\u003e5.16 Aylesford Pieces~Minuet I \u003cbr\u003e5.17 Aylesford Pieces~Minuet II \u003cbr\u003e5.18 Aylesford Pieces~Minuet III \u003cbr\u003e5.19 Aylesford Pieces~Minuet IV \u003cbr\u003e5.20 Aylesford Pieces~Passpied I \u003cbr\u003e5.21 Aylesford Pieces~Minuet V \u003cbr\u003e5.22 Aylesford Pieces~Passpied II \u003cbr\u003e5.23 Voluntary V Op. 6\/5~II. Andante largo \u003cbr\u003e5.24 Voluntary VI Op. 7\/6~I. Andante \u003cbr\u003e5.25 Voluntary VI Op. 7\/6~II. Vivace \u003cbr\u003e6.1 Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr BWV 676 \u003cbr\u003e6.2 Fantasia in Echo Style - in G major \u003cbr\u003e6.3 Fantasia in Echo Style - in F major \u003cbr\u003e6.4 Work(s)~Aria in C minor \u003cbr\u003e6.5 Fantasia in A minor \u003cbr\u003e6.6 Fantasia in the Dorian Mode, with Echoes \u003cbr\u003e6.7 Fantasia in A minor, with Echoes \u003cbr\u003e6.8 Ihr lieben Christen, freut euch nun BuxWV 51~Sinfonia (Fanfare) \u003cbr\u003e6.9 Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich, chorale prelude, BuxWV 202 \u003cbr\u003e6.10 Mit ganczem Willen wünsch ich dir from Fundamentum organisandi Magistri Conradi Paumanns Ceci de Nürenberga \u003cbr\u003e6.11 Courante dal S. Pietro Cornet \u003cbr\u003e6.12 Partita for English Horn and Organ manualiter Op. 41\/1~I. 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