JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 –1750)

PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN C MINOR, BWV 546
ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH SEI EHR (ALONE TO GOD ON HIGH BE GLORY), BWV 717
FANTASIA IN C MINOR, BWV 562
CONCERTO IN C MAJOR, BWV 595
PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN F MINOR, BWV 534
THE ART OF THE FUGUE – CONTRAPUNCTUS I, BWV 1080
VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN (I SHALL SAY FAREWELL TO YOU), BWV 736
TRIO SUPER: ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH SEI EHR (TRIO ON ALONE TO GOD ON HIGH BE GLORY), BWV 664
FUGUE IN C MINOR, BWV 575
PASSACAGLIA AND FUGUE IN C MINOR, BWV 582

Joseph Kelemen
Christoph Treutmann Organ (1734-1737)
Grauhof Monastery Church

The present recording especially concentrates on works by Johann Sebastian Bach in minor keys; these are contrasted by four works in major keys. The general perception is that minor-key works frequently emanate a certain sadness as their fundamental emotion. Bach, on the other hand, repeatedly develops in his minorkey compositions – particularly in the organ works – an unsurpassed elegance out of the melancholy depths, as Joseph Kelemen impressively proves at the Treutmann Organ of the Grauhof Monastery Church.