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Ampleforth Abbey

Organ Recital - Robert Sharpe

J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565

J. S. Bach - Chorale Preludes
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV 614
In dir ist Freude BWV 615
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659

Buxtehude - Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne

Buxtehude - Chorale Preludes:
In dulci jubilo
Komm, heiliger Geist
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland

J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor ‘The
Dorian’ BWV 538

J. S. Bach, arr Gordon Philips -
Air (from Orchestral Suite No
3in D)

J. S. Bach Fugue alla Gigue BWV 577


In 1705, Bach, then a young man of twenty, walked nearly 300 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear the renowned organist Dietrich Buxtehude play and, as he put it, ‘to comprehend one thing and another about his art’.

This recital celebrates this famous musical voyage in the organ works of Bach and Buxtehude, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor and is performed by Robert Sharpe - one of our most eminent local musicians and Director of Music at York Minster.