An organ recital in progress: part 92

Dear SMM Community,
 

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, the instrument is a musical facsimile of the great 'Father' Willis organ at Salisbury Cathedral.

Today, I present Robert Schumann's Fugue on B.A.C.H.


Robert Schumann (1810-1856) took almost a year to complete his Six fugues on B.A.C.H. (this fugue being the third in the set). After completion in November 1845, Schumann declared the set to be “the work which, I believe, will longest outlive my others”.

 

With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music