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Bach in Weimar, Episode 5
Donald Macleod explores Bach's ten years in the city of Weimar, where he was court organist and concertmaster. Donald looks at the composer's eventful final years at the ducal court, when his manoeuvres to secure a new job landed him in Weimar's prison for a brief spell. Prelude (Suite in E minor, BWV 996) Kim Heindel (lautenwerk) KINGDOM KCLCD 2020, Tr 10 Cantata: Komm, du susse Todesstunde, BWV 161 Matthew White (alto) Hans Jorg Mammel (tenor) Collegium Vocale Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901969 Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903 Christophe Rousset (harpsichord) OISEAU LYRE 433 054-2, Trs 16-17 Preludes and Fugue in B (The Well-Tempered Clavier), BWV 868 Till Fellner (piano) ECM ECM 4760482 CD2, Trs 21-22 Toccata and Fugue, BWV 538 Woolfgang Rubsam (organ) Philips 420860-2 CD1, Tr 13.