Johann Sebastian Bach

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Six Partitas, BWV 825–830 (Part II of the “Clavier-Übung”)

Hansjörg Albrecht playing the Metzler organ
in the church of St. Cyriakus, Krefeld-Hüls

In regard to this fi nale (OehmsClassics began with Part IV of the Clavier-Übung), we would like to let the interpreter have his say: I hope that this performance on the instrument closest to Bach, the organ, will encourage listeners to hear the Six Partitas with new ears, to refl ect on “Th e Silence of the World before Bach” and to perceive the great baroque master yet again as Leonard Bernstein once said about him: “Bach was a man and not God, but he was a man of God and his music was blessed by God from the beginning to the end.”