BACH’S ORGAN MUSIC
Sir,-May I express my appreciation of the series of programmes now being presented from 2YA on Sunday afternoons featuring the organ music of J. S. Bach? The recordings used are good, and the programmes for the most part well arranged. However, may I draw your attention to a somewhat misleading point which came up in the first programme featuring the Little Organ Book? The great chorale prelude on "O Lamb. of- God Most Holy" was presented as being a fine example of Bach’s use of his grief motif, the descending chromatic scale. So it is, but it does not come from the Little Organ Book: It belongs to the Eighteen Chorale Preludes, written at @ much later period of his life. There is however, another version of "O Lamb of God" in the Little Organ Book, There are other fine examples of the grief motif in the Little Organ Book. notably the beautiful prelude on "C Man, Thy Grievous Sin Bemoan."
THOMAS E.
SIMS
(Trentham).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 5
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167BACH’S ORGAN MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 5
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