Und da ist noch einer, der es sich auf die Fahne geschrieben hat alle Orgelwerke Bachs einzuspielen.
Todd Fickley heißt der Interpret.
"Todd Fickley is active in his hometown of Washington, D.C. as an organist, conductor and speaker, but has also made concert tours of the US, Europe and Israel. This is volume 1 of his ambitious undertaking for the MSR label, The Bach Project, which will include all of J.S. Bach's organ music. But before I get into aspects of the performances here, let me mention a detail that might well be of primary interest to many organ aficionados regarding this recording: the organ used is the four-manual Sint-Michaëlskerk Schnitger organ (1721) in Zwolle, Netherlands. Well actually, there's a little more to this: that is the organ used alright, but via the computer program Hauptwerk, which allows for a variety of pre-recorded historic or high quality organs to be used in performance or recording. The sound of the various organs is said to be very accurate: according to Fickley's album notes, "every sound is the unaltered sound of the actual instrument." The process of recording the organ is very precise and painstaking, as Fickley details in the notes."
aus: Classical Net Review
Es ist wirklich herzallerliebst, dass der Rezensent den Umstand, dass Fickley (was für ein Name) den Pfeifenklang lediglich mittels Hauptwerk auf einer Digitalorgel nachahmt, als Detail beschreibt. Nocheinmal, als Übeinstrumente sind Digitalorgeln nahezu unverzichtbar, aber für eine kommerzielle Bachgesamtschau aus meiner Sicht eher zweifelhaft. Aber vermutlich wird es auch dafür Fans geben.
Bislang sind zwei Vol. erschienen:
Dass Fickley von seinen Aufnahmen selbstverständlich total begeistert ist, war ja nicht anders zu erwarten:
"However, there is an amazing clarity to the recording allowing the most intricate counterpoint to be distinctly heard in ways that often surpass that which is experienced through the traditional recording method. Each pipe sample is individually cleaned and de-noised, and finally the whole organ is voiced specifically to the recording listener’s perspective. the sounds are put through no further processing, but rather are simply “assembled” in real time as the organist plays. My goal is to record each program of the The Bach Project on a different Hauptwerk-based organ."
aus: MSR Classics
Hörbeispiele gibt es hier:
Auch bei YT lässt sich Einiges finden.
