Johann Pachelbel: Organ Works, Volume 2 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Smith presents three seminal chamber

Smith presents three seminal chamber works from the first half of the twentieth century

but his harmonic and textural language offers us a fascinating insight into the changing fashions of musical taste and composers’ attempts to keep with them

10 were published in September 1798 and were written with Beethoven the pianist as much to the forefront as Beethoven the composer

publishing over 100 collections of Suites

with works performed by a variety of ‘voyces or Instruments’ as the composer himself directs

Johann Pachelbel: Organ Works, Volume 2 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Smith presents three seminal chamberMatthew Owens (organ) Organ by Bernard Aubertin A close contemporary of Buxtehude, Johann Pachelbel was, by all accounts, an outstanding keyboard player himself, and his compositions provide a fascinating stylistic bridge between early Baroque composers such as Frescobaldi and Froberger (both of whom influenced him) and the later music of J. S. Bach and his contemporaries. Organist Matthew Owens continues his major exploration of the many extant organ