An organ recital in progress: part 99

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 Johann Sebastian Bach’s Fuga sopra il Magnificat.


Johann Sebastian Bach’s (1685-1750) Fuga sopra il Magnificat BWV 733 uses as its subject Luther’s Magnificat, a German variant of the Gregorian tonus peregrinus. Here Bach plays with the subject in fantasia fashion (with a taste of stile antico, as the title might suggest) before boldly introducing the tune as a cantus firmus in the pedals.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music