The Art of Fugue

J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue

Colm Carey

The organ of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London

Performance Notes

1	Contrapunctus i	Hf 8 Pr	[3:46]
2	Contrapunctus ii	Rug 8 Hol, 4 Oct, 2 Oct	[3:07]
3	Contrapunctus iii	Rug 8 Hol + tremulant	[4:57]
4	Contrapunctus iv	Rug 8 Hol, 4 Roerf	[4:49]
5	Contrapunctus v	Hf 8 Pr, 4 Oct, 2 Oct	[3:02]
6	Contrapunctus vi	Hf 8 Pr, 4 Oct, 2 Oct, Mix Sesq Rug 8 Hol, 4 Oct, 2 Oct, Nasard Rug/Hf bar 73 Rug + Dulciaan Ped Tutti (except 4 Roerschalmey) + Rug/Ped, Hf/Ped	[5:38]
7	Contrapunctus vii	Hf 8 Pr, 4 Oct	[4:10]
8	Contrapunctus viii	Hf 4 Baarp	[7:18]
9	Contrapunctus ix	Rug 8 Hol, 4 Oct, 2 Oct, Scherp	[3:12]
10	Contrapunctus x	Hf 8 Roerf, 8 Spitsgamba	[7:16]
11	Contrapunctus xi	Hf 8 Pr, 4 Oct, 2 Oct, Mix Rug 8 Hol, 4 Oct, 2 Oct bar 89 Rug + Nasard bar 158 Hf + Tr Rug + Dulciaan	[7:06]
12	Contrapunctus xii	Hf 8 Pr, 4 Oct, 2 Oct, Mix Rug 8 Hol, 4 Oct, 2 Oct Ped Full (not 4 Roerschalmey) Rug/Hf, Hf/Ped, Rug/Ped bar 193 Hf + Tr Rug + Scherp	[8:41]

	Total running time:		[63:08]

Key

Hf	= Hoofdwerk
Rug	= Rugwerk
Ped	= Pedaal

Acknowledgements

Signum Records wish to express their grateful thanks to the Pastor and Church Wardens for allowing this disc to be recorded at the Dutch Church.

Colm Carey would like to thank Folkert Nijboer, David Titterington, Martin Knizia, Nicholas Smith and Peter Barley for their help in making this recording.

The Organ of The Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London

The organ in the Dutch Church in Austin Friars was built in 1954 by the Dutch organ builder Willem van Leeuwen and was restored and re-voiced by Flentrop Orgelbouw, Zaandam, in 1995.

The specification is as follows:

Pedaal

Subbas 16'

Prestant 8'

Bourdon 8'

Octaaf 4'

Vlakfluit 2'

Ruispijp 5 rks

Roerschalmey 4'

Bazuin 16'

Kroomhoorn 16'

Trompet 8'

Hoofdwerk

Prestant 8'

Roerfluit 8'

Spitsgamba 8'

Octaaf 4'

Baarpijp 4'

Octaaf 2'

Mixtuur 4-6 rks

Sesquialter 1-3 rks

Rugwerk

Holpijp 8'

Quintadeen 8'

Prestant 4'

Roerfluit 4'

Octaaf 4'

Nasard 11/3'

Scherp 4 rks

Dulciaan 8'

Tremulant

COUPLERS

Hoofdwerk to Pedaal

Rugwerk to Pedaal

Rugwerk to Hoofdwerk

The key action is entirely mechanical whilst the stop action is electro-pneumatic. The instrument has one electric free-combination.

The van Leeuwen organ is characteristic of the period in which it was built. As a result of a revival in organ building starting with the so-called ‘Organ Reform Movement’ in Germany in the 1920s, some organ builders in the Netherlands began, after the Second World War, to orientate themselves towards classical organ building. The most important firms were Flentrop, van Leeuwen and van Vulpen.

These builders were inspired by results in Scandinavian organ building where, even before World War II, the ideals of the classical instrument were pursued. The floods of 1953 in the south-west of the Netherlands gave significant impetus to this as scores of organs were damaged irreparably. In order to provide churches with new organs quickly a number of Scandinavian organs were installed as well as many instruments by the Dutch firms mentioned above.

The organ in the Dutch Church is in fact the result of this revival in organ building. The increase in knowledge about the classical organ in this period is represented by van Leeuwen’s fine example.
Rudi van Straten

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Release date:	21^st June 2001
Order code:	SIGCD027
Barcode:	635212002728

Recorded:
24^th-26^th November 2000
The Dutch Church, London

Production, editing & engineering:
Floating Earth

Producer:
Peter Barley

Sound Engineer:
Limo Hearne

Editor:
Raphaël Mouterde

Booklet Notes:
Colm Carey

Translations:
French: Robert Bagur
German: Margarete Forsyth

Text and translation editor:
Christine Darby

Booklet cover design:
ATX Design Associates

Booklet layout and typesetting:
Jan Hart

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