Dear SMM Community,

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, today's instrument is a musical facsimile of the Kuhn organ at the Philharmonie in Essen.

Today, I present Benedict Jucker's Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B.A.C.H.

Benedict Jucker (1811-1876) was a pupil of Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (a pupil of a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach), and organist of Basler Münster from 1846 until his death. His Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B.A.C.H. was possibly the first organ work to feature a four-part chord in the pedals.

With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music