BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms 38 - Bach Organ Music

BBC Proms 2010 Live from the Royal Albert Hall Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch The mighty Father Willis organ of the Albert Hall is unleashed by David Briggs, Organist Emeritus at Gloucester Cathedral, for the third of today's Bach Proms. The programme starts with two contrasting original works for the instrument - a small-scale chorale prelude based on the Advent hymn "Sleepers Wake", preceded by the great Passacaglia in C minor: twenty-one variations and a fugue founded on a repeated bass line. Three pieces demonstrate the organ's traditional role playing transcriptions of orchestral works - a role extending back to Bach's own day - including the cantata movement 'Sheep may safely graze', and David Briggs's own arrangement of the best known of Bach's orchestral suites, including the popular 'Air on the G String'. Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645 Bach, arr. Stainton B Taylor: Aria 'Schafe können sicher weiden', BWV 208 Bach, arr. Virgil Fox:'Komm, süsser Tod', BWV 478 Bach, arr. David Briggs:Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 David Briggs (organ).