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Sergio Militello organ

The most famous scion of a musical familywhich stretched across at least ten generations, Johann Sebastian Bach had avery strong sense of history, tradition, and his evolving place in it, and was instrumental in curating and adding to the library of the music of the Bachs, which was known as the Altbachisches Archiv. This archive mostly comprises vocal music; now the Italian organist has created a fascinating instrumental counter part, with short organworks by ten members of the family ranging from Heinrich Bach (1615–1692) to Wilhelm Friedemann Ernst Bach (1779–1845). And so,during the course of the disc, we move,always guided by the constraints of Protestant thought and liturgy, throughaustere low Baroque chorales to spectacular,late?Classical fantasias. Militello has chosen an organ of ideal size and disposition for this repertoire: a new instrument, built to Baroque specifications within the vestry of the magnificent Lower Austrian Benedictine Abbey of Melk,overlooking the Danube on a rocky outcropand providing a dramatic backdrop to what is already music of continually shiftingrhetoric and invention.