Album Description

Following two highly acclaimed recordings, CORO is delighted to be releasing its third album with one of The Sixteen Orchestra’s principal members - organist Robert Quinney. This new album was recorded at Trinity College, Cambridge, on the beautiful Metzler Organ, and features as its centrepiece the wonderful Einige Canonische Veränderungen über das Weynachts-Lied ‘Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her’ (BWV 769a). These wonderful festive variations, which are full of passionate vitality and poetical feeling, are accompanied by a selection of preludes and fugues.

Robert Quinney is Director of the choir of New College, Oxford, and was until recently Sub-Organist at Westminster Abbey and Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral.

Artists

Robert Quinney

Track Listing:

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542
1. Fantasia
2. Fugue

Three preludes on Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659-661
3. à 2 Clav. et Ped. BWV 659
4. à due bassi e canto fermo BWV 660
5. in Organo pleno - Canto fermo in Pedal BWV 661

Pastorella BWV 590
6. [Prelude]
7. [Allemande]
8. [Aria]
9. [Gigue]

Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 547
10. Prelude
11. Fugue

Einige Canonische Veränderungen über das Weynachts-Lied Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her BWV 769a
12. Canone all'ottava (Canon at the octave)
13. Canone alla Quinta (Canon at the fifth)
14. Canto fermo in Canone (Cantus Firmus canon)
15. Canone alla Settima, Cantabile (Canon at the seventh)
16. Canon per augmentationem (Augmentation canon)

Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541
17. Prelude
18. Fugue

Total playing time  1hr 16 mins