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'Though the compilation may lack the organic unity of his earlier
keyboard collections, it does contain some extremely beautiful
writing, and some chorale movements of impressive proportions -- the
second of the two pieces on Komm, heiliger Geist ("Come Holy Ghost")
is almost ten minutes in performance. It would seem that Bach wished
to extend the form to the limits of its possible sustainability. The
recording is arranged with great care, and the performances are
exquisite. Each chorale is sung under the direction of Urban
Stillhardt by the chamber choir Concentus Vocalis Griensis, and
precedes the performances of the preludes and fantasias by Claudio
Astronio.'
- Patric Standford, writing in today's Music & Vision magazine
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