Another pull from our LP library. This one isn’t quite so random as it features some works of Bach appropriate for the holiday season. Helmut Walcha again and once again at the Great Organ of the Laurenskirk in Alkmaar, The Netherlands.
Album: The Works of Johann Sebastian Bach Series F: Organ Works
ARC 3030
Artist: Helmut Walcha
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major (BWV 564)
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 645)
Kommst du nun, vom Himmel herunter? (BWV 650)
Chorale Partita on “Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig (BWV 768)
Wie soll ich fliehen hen (BWV 646)
Organ: 1722 Franz Schnitger III/84 St. Laurenskirk, Alkmaar, Netherlands
Specification
| Great Organ | Swell Organ |
| 16 Open Diapason | 8 Prestant |
| 8 Prestant | 8 Bear-pipe |
| 6 Quint-Prestant | 8 Chimney flute |
| 4 Octave | 8 Quintadena |
| 3 Quint | 4 Octave |
| 2 Octave | 4 Floit dous |
| 2 Flak-Fluit, Flute | 3 Spire flute |
| II Tertian | 2 Super-Octave, Fifteenth |
| II Rauschpfeife | 2 Spire flute |
| VI Mixture | II Sesquialtera |
| 16 Trumpet | IV Sharp, high mixture |
| 8 Viola da gamba (reed) | III Octave to mixture |
| 4 Trumpet | 8 Trumpet |
| 8 Oboe | |
| 8 Vox Humana |
| Choir Organ | Pedal Organ |
| 8 Prestant | 22 Principal |
| 8 Quintadena | 16 Prestant |
| 8 Diapason half stopt | 12 Fourth below the diapason stopt |
| 4 Octave | 8 Octave |
| 4 Flute | 6 Quint |
| 3 Stopt-flute | 4 Octave |
| 2 Super-Octave or Fifteenth | 2 Cor de nuit |
| 2 Forest-Flute | III Raushfpfeife |
| 1 1/3 Quint | VI Mixture |
| II Sesquialtera | 16 Trombone |
| VI Mixture | 8 Trumpet |
| III Octave to mixture | 4 Trumpet |
| 8 Trumpet | 2 Cornet |
| 8 Bassoon | |
| 8 Vox humana |
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