Composers: Bach
Performers: Benjamin Alard org, hpscd
Catalogue Number: HMM90245356 (4CD)

With the sounds of Benjamin Alard’s brilliant first volume in his survey of the complete keyboard works of JS Bach still ringing in my ears, I was eager to listen to this 4CD second volume. It did not disappoint. Alard’s approach is musico-biographical. This second volume, entitled Towards the North, focuses on Bach’s time in Ohrdruf, Lüneburg and Arnstadt and how he handled the tradition of the stylus fantasticus.