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Over the course of the last 12 years Simon Preston has been recording Bach’s organ music for DG, and while some of these discs have been released individually during that time, many are appearing here for the first time. Sharpdesk For Windows 7 more. More than that, some of the earlier recordings have been rejected in favour of more recent ones: I’m glad that his 1992 recording of the ‘Schubler’ Chorales (6/92) has been substituted by an altogether more relaxed and elegant version, recorded in late 1999, in which he not only seems more in sympathy with the music but also feels less inclined to treat it as the latest Olympic athletics event; BWV645 takes the best part of a minute longer in this new recording and benefits enormously from it. A total of 10 organs has been used (every one, as they say, a winner) and the booklet includes adequate historic information, specifications and photographs (although none of Preston’s registrations is detailed), as well as brief, rather basic notes and a somewhat superficial interview with Preston himself.

Of course it is nigh on impossible to be complete when it comes to Bach’s organ works – perhaps only Kevin Bowyer (for Nimbus) can guarantee completeness by recording everything Bach wrote, has ever been alleged to have written, or hasn’t written but has at some stage been accused of writing – and the declared policy here is to record only works which ‘can reasonably be attributed to Bach’. Even so, many will argue with the final choices, and, for my part, the absence of the ‘Neumeister’ Chorales seems an odd omission, especially since the authenticity of 30 of them has been put more than reasonably beyond doubt since their discovery in 1985. There again, if there are any omissions from a Preston cycle it seems best that they come from the chorale-based works. For it is here that Preston is at his weakest.

He seems unable, or unwilling, to allow the merest whiff of a legato tone to creep into his playing, with the result that small works relying on the prominence of a choral melody seem to lose their raison d’etre and many (for example BWV632) seem to lose contact with the choral line altogether. Some become very disjointed (BWV622) while others hurry by with little sense of direction.