E. Power Biggs - E. Power Biggs plays Historic Organs of Switzerland (Remastered) (1967/2024) [Digital Download 24/192]

The legendary English organist E. Power Biggs became a household name when his Sunday morning CBS broadcasts introduced radio listeners all over North America to the sound of historic pipe organs and the classical organ repertoire from every period.

In a lifelong search for authenticity, the indefatigable Biggs visited places in Holland, North Germany, England, France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland where some of the great organist-composers of the Renaissance and Baroque had lived and worked. Between 1961 and 1970, Columbia recorded him in a “Historic Organs of Europe” series, performing music by Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin, Dunstable, Frescobaldi, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, Purcell, Soler, Sweelinck, Tallis and many others.

In his original notes to this ambitious project, which Sony Classical is now reissuing complete in a collection of 6 CDs, Biggs wrote: “It is fascinating to play a composer’s music on the organ he played. You feel that you have touched the lifeline of history… Beethoven’s orchestra, Bach’s choir are all gone, but the same organs on which great musicians played are still available.” All CDs are remastered from the original analog tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology.

Tracklist:
1. Musica enchiriadis: Sit gloria Domini (2024 Remastered Version) (00:19)
2. Orientis Partibus "Song of the Ass" (2024 Remastered Version) (00:20)
3. Christo psallat (2024 Remastered Version) (00:16)
4. Hymn to St. Magnus (2024 Remastered Version) (00:34)
5. Codex Wolfenbuttel 677: Hec Dies (organum) [2024 Remastered Version] (01:59)
6. Motet For "Hec Dies": Huic Main - Hec Dies (2024 Remastered Version) (00:50)
7. Motet For "Hec Dies": Deo confitemini - Domino (2024 Remastered Version) (00:57)
8. Robertsbridge Codex, 1360: Estampie (2024 Remastered Version) (01:39)
9. Agincourt Hymn (2024 Remastered Version) (01:28)
10. Mit ganczem Willen wünsch ich dir (From "Fundamentum organisandi Magistri Conradi Paumanns Ceci") [2024 Remastered Version] (01:25)
11. Praeambulum in fa (2024 Remastered Version) (00:54)
12. Gloria tibi Trinitas (2024 Remastered Version) (01:03)
13. 3 Verses from "Te Deum": Tu patris & Tu devicto & Judex crederis (2024 Remastered Version) (02:09)
14. Pavana alla Venetiana (From "Intabulatura de lauto - Book IV") [2024 Remastered Version] (00:51)
15. Chaconne in F Major (2024 Remastered Version) (05:52)
16. In dulci jubilo, BWV 751 (2024 Remastered Version) (01:49)
17. Passacaglia in G Minor (2024 Remastered Version) (01:31)
18. Le Trophée - Fugue on the Kyrie (2024 Remastered Version) (03:40)
19. Livre d'orgue - Suite No. 1: Basse et Dessus de Trompette (2024 Remastered Version) (02:19)
20. Chorale Prelude–Wer Nur Den Lieben Gott Lasst Walten, BWV 691 (2024 Remastered Version) (02:10)
21. Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544 "The Great": I. [Praeludium] [2024 Remastered Version] (07:18)
22. Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 544 "The Great": II. Fuga (2024 Remastered Version) (06:34)


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