Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
Xaver Varnus plays the great Sauer Organ in Bach’s Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany. Recorded live in the great recital on the 23rd of August, 2014. Bach Organ Festival 2014. Special thanks to Thomasorganist Prof. Ullrich Böhme for his kind permission to broadcast this recording.
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Xaver Varnus' first piano teacher was Emma Németh, one of the last pupils of Debussy. He has played virtually every important organ in the world, including those in Bach's Thomaskirche in Leipzig (2014), Berliner Dom (2013), Notre-Dame (1981), Saint-Sulpice (2006) and Saint-Eustache (1996) in Paris, National Shrine in Washington, D.C. (1985), and Canterbury Cathedral (2004), as well as the largest existing instrument in the world, the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (1985). His Quadruple Platinum Disc winning album "From Ravel to Vangelis" (SONY, 2007), is the best-selling organ CD ever. As a Canadian citizen, Xaver Varnus resides in Berlin, and in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia Peninsula, where he opened Varnus Hall in a 19th century church. "Put simply, Varnus is a monster talent, every bit as stimulating and individual as the late Glenn Gould" (The Globe & Mail, Canada's National Newspaper). "He is one of the most influential figure in organ music in the early twenty-first century." (Mark Wigmore, The New Classical FM, Canada).
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The specification of the great Sauer Organ in St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig:
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