E Power Biggs, Bach - The Four Great Toccatas And Fugues
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Table of Contents
Tracks
Track | Duration | Preview |
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Toccata And Fugue In F Major, BWV 540 | 15:25 | |
Toccata, Adagio And Fugue In C Major, BWV 564 | 15:00 | |
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565 | 9:39 | |
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor "Dorian", BWV 538 | 13:10 | |
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, BWV 656 | 9:39 |
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Catalog Numbers
- 1R1 6368
- SQ 73394, CBSQ 73394
- M 32933
Labels
- Columbia Masterworks
- CBS
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Formats
- Reel-To-Reel
- 7 ½ ips
- 4-Track Stereo
- 7" Cine Reel
- Vinyl
- LP
- Quadraphonic
- Album
- Stereo
Companies
Role | Company |
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Manufactured By | CBS Records Ltd. |
Credits
Role | Credit |
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Engineer | Ed Michalski, Hellmuth Kolbe, Raymond Moore |
Liner Notes | Andrew Kazdin, E. Power Biggs |
Organ | E. Power Biggs |
Producer | Andrew Kazdin |
Composed By | Bach |
Notes
- A Quadrophonic Spectacular
- The Four Antiphonal Organs Of The Cathedral Of Freiburg Played Simultaneously
- SQ Quadrophonic
- Sister release to E. Power Biggs - Bach / Die Vier Grossen Toccaten und Fugen simultan auf den vier Orgeln des Freiburger Münster
- Comes with 11" x 11" Notes insert.
- "It is with great pride that we present this first quadraphonic recording ever made in one of the world's most natural quadraphonic settings: the magnificent Cathedral of Freiburg." - from Notes On The Production.
- Label variation with CBS MASTERWORKS around rim of label, once in each quadrant.
Barcodes
- Matrix / Runout (Label, Side A): QAL 32933
- Matrix / Runout (Label, Side B): QBL 32933
- Matrix / Runout (Runout, side A): QAL 32933-1A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout, side B): MQ BL 32933-1B
- Other (Library of Congress Card No.): 74-750180
- Matrix / Runout (side 1): AL-32933-1A-2H
- Matrix / Runout (side 2): AL-32933-1B-2H
- Other (Library of Congress catalog card number): 74-750180
- Matrix / Runout (alternate runout side 1): MAL-32933-1C
- Matrix / Runout (alternate runout side 2): MAL-32933-1K
- Matrix / Runout (SIDE A Runout-stamped): MAL-32933-1A
- Matrix / Runout (SIDE B Runout-stamped): MBL-32933-1K
About E Power Biggs, Bach
English organist and harpsichordist.
*29 March 1906 in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, UK
10 March 1977 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biggs was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England; a year later, the family moved to the Isle of Wight. Biggs was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with G.D. Cunningham. Biggs emigrated to the United States in 1930. In 1932, he took up a post at Christ Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lived for the rest of his life.
Biggs did much to bring the classical pipe organ back to prominence, and was in the forefront of the mid-20th-century resurgence of interest in the organ music of pre-Romantic composers. On his first concert tour of Europe, in 1954, Biggs performed and recorded works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Sweelinck, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Pachelbel on historic organs associated with those composers. Thereafter, he believed that such music should ideally be performed on instruments representative of that period and that organ music of that epoch should be played by using (as closely as possible) the styles and registrations of that era. Thus, he sparked the American revival of organ building in the style of European Baroque instruments, seen especially in the increasing popularity of tracker organs analogous to Europe's Orgelbewegung.
Among other instruments, Biggs championed G. Donald Harrison's Baroque-style unenclosed, unencased instrument with 24 stops and electric action (produced by Aeolian-Skinner in 1937 and installed in Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts) and the three-manual Flentrop tracker organ subsequently installed there in 1958. Many of his CBS radio broadcasts and Columbia recordings were made in the museum. Another remarkable instrument used by Biggs was the Challis pedal harpsichord; Biggs made recordings of the music of J.S. Bach and Scott Joplin on this instrument.
His critics of the time included rival concert organist Virgil Fox, who was known for a more flamboyant, colorful style of performance. Fox decried Biggs' insistence on historical accuracy, claiming it was "relegating the organ to a museum piece." However, most observers agree that Biggs "should be given great credit for his innovative ideas as far as the musical material he recorded, and for making the organs he recorded even more famous." Despite different approaches, both artists enjoyed hugely successful careers and Biggs rose to the top of his profession.
In addition to concertizing and recording, Biggs taught at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at various times in his career and edited a large body of organ music.
For his contribution to the recording industry, E. Power Biggs has a star on California's Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6522 Hollywood Blvd.n
Real Name
- Edward George Power Biggs
Name Vars
- Biggs
- E Power Biggs
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- Edward George Power Biggs
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