The Fantasia that precedes the Fugue in C minor, performed by Erwin Wiersinga for All of Bach, is a lamento pur sang. The rarefied notes floating high up seem to be lamenting some tragic loss or other. It is hard to imagine a greater contrast with the fugue that follows. Still in mournful mood from the fantasia, you suddenly plunge into an extremely energetic first theme of the fugue. Recorded for the project All of Bach on August 24th 2015 at the Stiftskirche St. Georg, Goslar-Grauhof. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating http://bit.ly/2uZuMj5. For the interview with organist Erwin Wiersinga on the Fantasia and fugue in C minor go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFfkhgyCmxo For more information on BWV 537 and this production go to http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-537/ All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society / Nederlandse Bachvereniging, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and its guest musicians. Visit our free online treasury for more videos and background material http://allofbach.com/en/. For concert dates and further information go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/nederlandse-bachvereniging. Erwin Wiersinga, organist Organ: Christoph Treutmann, 1731

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