Benoît Mernier - Bach - Buxtehude - Bruhns (2024) [Official Digital Download]

The making of this CD is the result of several wishes. The organist and composer Benoit Mernier has been heavily involved since 2015 in the construction by Manufacture Thomas of this new instrument at Saint-Loup in Namur, one of the special features of which is to offer an original great organ inspired by two different styles (Central German and North German Baroque), in short the instrument that Bach undoubtedly dreamed of.
The great organ of Saint-Loup thus provides an ideal opportunity to address the question of transmission by tracing the relationship between a master (Buxtehude) and two disciples, one very well known (Bach), the other less so (Bruhns). As well as celebrating the advent of this extraordinary new organ and revealing all it's facets, this recording also marks the performer's sixtieth birthday.

TRACKLIST

1. Benoît Mernier - Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 562: I. Fantasia
2. Benoît Mernier - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme in E-Flat major, BWV 645
3. Benoît Mernier - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland in G Minor, BWV 659
4. Benoît Mernier - Praeludium in D Minor, BuxWV 140
5. Benoît Mernier - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland in G Minor, BuxWV 211
6. Benoît Mernier - Pièce d’orgue, BWV 572
7. Benoît Mernier - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland in G Minor
8. Benoît Mernier - Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr in G Major, BWV 663
9. Benoît Mernier - Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ in B-Flat Major, BWV 649
10. Benoît Mernier - Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542



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