A new volume from The Orgelbuchlein Project, a 21st-century completion of Bach’s Little Organ Book, has just been published, with a special offer on the price until the end of November 2024.

Historian Christoph Wolff and American organist George Ritchie discuss Bach’s Art of Fugue. They consider how it came to be written, and some of the issues around a performance of the piece.

Sietze de Vries explores Bach’s Orgelbuchlein on instruments of Bach’s time in a new CD/DVD boxset from Fugue State Films, filling in some of the missing pages in a masterclass of improvisation in the style of Bach.

The RCO was delighted to present Professor Suzuki Masaaki with the RCO Medal at a masterclass for Royal Academy of Music organ students in London this January.

Organists Daniel Moult and Martin Schmeding provide an introduction to the issues surrounding the nature, history and performance practice of Bach’s organ works. They discuss the philosophical as well as musical arguments around how we should play Bach today, demonstrating on organs in Central Germany of Bach’s time.

Bach’s Orgelbüchlein (or Little Organ Book) was left incomplete on his death. Now contemporary composers have been comissioned to fill in the 118 missing pieces, and the completed Orgelbüchlein Project will have its UK premiere this September.

Nicholas Cleobury gives an introduction to preparing one of Bach’s best known cantatas, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, for performance with an orchestra.

The clear division of Bach’s keyboard works into those for organ and those for clavier is one that is more evident to modern editors than it probably was to performers in eighteenth-century Germany.  Francis Knights discusses a few works that appear to fall into neither camp, and the evidence they provide for the particular instrument they may have been played on.

Tom Bell uses W. T. Best’s editions of Bach to open a window into the world of a Victorian musician, and to explore nineteenth-century performance practice.