E.Power Biggs Plays Bach [1974]

1. Toccata in D Minor       play
2. Fuga in D Minor
3. Toccata in F Major
4. Fuga in F Major
5. Toccata in D Minor Doriana
6. Fuga in D Minor Doriana
7. Toccata in C Major
8. Adagio in C Major        play
9. Fuga in C Major

E. Power Biggs - organ

This is an excellent multichannel SACD, which takes great advantage of what the medium can do. The multiple opposing organs playing through different channels creates a great effect. And the tremendous detail of the SACD allows you to savor the hall's acoustics, through every last nuance of the reverberations. The spaciousness and sonority is unmatched by any other CD I own, including other big "organ blaster" albums.

Regarding Biggs' performance, I like his choices of registers on the organs pretty much all the time. I have 3 other recordings of the great D minor (BWV 565), and I find his articulation a bit less pleasing than the others. It almost seems he is forced to use exaggerated staccato on some notes so that the room's large reverberations do not muddy the piece. Others have written that Biggs' technique had deteriorated slightly at this point in his career.

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