Bach: Organ Landscapes IX (Naumburg) Jörg Halubek

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Toccata et Fuga in F Major, BWV 540:
• 1 Bach: Toccata et Fuga in F Major, BWV 540: I. Toccata 08:00
• 2 Bach: Toccata et Fuga in F Major, BWV 540: II. Fuga 05:54
• Trio a 2 Clav e Pedale, BWV 583:
• 3 Bach: Trio a 2 Clav e Pedale, BWV 583 04:55
• Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 648:
• 4 Bach: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 648 02:14
• Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731:
• 5 Bach: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731 01:59
• Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 562:
• 6 Bach: Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 562 05:54
• Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 647:
• 7 Bach: Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 647 03:58
• Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645:
• 8 Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 05:11
• Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649:
• 9 Bach: Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649 02:40
• Fuga in D Minor, BWV 539:
• 10 Bach: Fuga in D Minor, BWV 539 05:18
• In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr, BWV 712:
• 11 Bach: In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr, BWV 712 02:21
• Allabreve, BWV 589:
• 12 Bach: Allabreve, BWV 589 04:23
• Praeludium et Fuga in G Major, BWV 550:
• 13 Bach: Praeludium et Fuga in G Major, BWV 550: I. Praeludium 02:35
• 14 Bach: Praeludium et Fuga in G Major, BWV 550: II. Fuga 04:05
• Pastorella in F Major, BWV 590:
• 15 Bach: Pastorella in F Major, BWV 590: 1. movement 02:33
• 16 Bach: Pastorella in F Major, BWV 590: 2. movement 03:24
• 17 Bach: Pastorella in F Major, BWV 590: 3. movement 02:30
• 18 Bach: Pastorella in F Major, BWV 590: 4. movement 02:50
• Pedal-Exercitium in G Minor, BWV 598:
• 19 Bach: Pedal-Exercitium in G Minor, BWV 598 01:40
• Praeludium et Fuga in C Major, BWV 547:
• 20 Bach: Praeludium et Fuga in C Major, BWV 547: I. Praeludium 04:23
• 21 Bach: Praeludium et Fuga in C Major, BWV 547: II. Fuga 04:46
• Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter auf Erden, BWV 650:
• 22 Bach: Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter auf Erden, BWV 650 03:26
• Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 646:
• 23 Bach: Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 646 01:47
• Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 718:
• 24 Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 718 05:10
• Praeludium et Fuga in B Minor, BWV 544:
• 25 Bach: Praeludium et Fuga in B Minor, BWV 544: I. Praeludium 06:24
• 26 Bach: Praeludium et Fuga in B Minor, BWV 544: II. Fuga 06:00
• Total Runtime 01:44:20

Info for Bach: Organ Landscapes IX (Naumburg)

Jörg Halubek's complete recording of Bach's organ works on historical instruments enters the home straight with the ninth instalment of ‘Bach Organ Landscapes’. The impressive panorama of organ landscapes and organ building traditions was begun in 2020 and so far comprises portraits of fourteen different locations and their unique organs on eight double albums. With a careful eye for the unique cultural heritage of the instruments of the German organ landscapes, Jörg Halubek is in search of authentic Bach sounds. A rich collection of digital material accompanies the publications: organ-landscapes.com

The Saxon organ builder and Gottfried Silbermann pupil Zacharias Hildebrandt (1688-1757) met Johann Sebastian Bach in person when the latter, as an organ expert, inspected one of the first organs built by Hildebrandt in 1723. The instrument was inaugurated in the small town of Störmthal, south-east of Leipzig, and Bach expressly praised it in his report. He composed the cantata Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194, for the inauguration service and conducted the performance himself. In 1746, when Hildebrandt built the organ in Naumburg, Bach again gave him an outstanding testimonial. Jörg Halubek presents the F major Toccata on this instrument, a work that has accompanied him for over 20 years: ‘This piece is about all the sounds coming together. I imagine a baroque fountain from which it gushes out over the long F. It goes up and down, everything is in contact with everything else.’

Jörg Halubek, organ

Jörg Halubek
studied church music, organ and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg with Jon Laukvik and Robert Hill. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he specialized in period performance practice with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon. He won first prize in the 2014 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in the Organ category.

In recent years, Jörg Halubek appeared in the first place as “Maestro al Cembalo”. As guest artist, Jörg Halubek directed from the harpsichord at such venues as the Komische Oper Berlin, Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Handel Festival in Halle, Innsbruck’s Festival Weeks of Early Music, the Wuppertal Opera and the Stuttgart Liederhalle. As guest conductor since 2012 at Kassel’s Staatstheater he is regularly in charge of opera productions, directing such works as Mozart’s “Lucio Silla”, Gluck’s “Iphigénie” and Handel’s “Saul”. His particular concern is for the dramatic relevance of the historical material and he is a strong advocate of making full use of early music’s freedoms in one’s interpretation.

Directing Il Gusto Barocco, the Baroque ensemble he founded, he was invited to bring it to the 2019 Bach Week in Ansbach as festival orchestra and was very well received. 2021 promises the continuation with “L’Orfeo” of the Mannheim Monteverdi cycle he began with Il Gusto Barocco in 2017. Jörg Halubek has extended his discoveries of forgotten operas and opera arrangements, documented in the recent CD release of his premiere recording of Johann David Heinichen’s “Flavio Crispo”, with his 2020 concertante staging of “Cleofida” – Handel’s opera “Poro, Re dell’Indie” in the arrangement by Georg Philipp Telemann with German-language recitatives – in Stuttgart’s Wilhelma-Theater and at the Early Music Days in Herne.

His expertise in the field of early music is well demonstrated by his prizewinning recordings of works for keyboard instruments and violin by Johann Sebastian Bach (2016) and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2014) with Baroque violinist Leila Schayegh. Jörg Halubek has been Professor for Organ and Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule since 2016.

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