Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prélude en si mineur, BWV 544
Home Messe
Fantaisie chromatique en ré mineur
Quia respexit humilitatem
Omnes generationes
"So ist mein, Jesu nun gefangen", extrait de "La Passion selon St. Matthieu"
Gloria de la "Messe en la majeur"
"Ruhert Wohl", extrait de "Passion selon St. Jean"
Allegro de la Sonate en trio en fa majeur, BWV 529
Ricercar à 3 voix, BWV, 1079
Suite pour clavecin n° 2 en do mineur, BWV 813
Cantate n° 5, extrait de "Oratorio de Noël"
Contapunctus IV, extrait de "L'Art de la fugue", BWV 1080

Jean Gilles (1668-1705)
Messe des morts

Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Danket dem Herrn, BuxWV 181

Franz Tunder (1614-1667)
Prélude en sol mineur

William Byrd (1543-1623)
Pavane
Gaillarde

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Dominae Deus

Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667)
Tombeau de Mr Blancrocher
Fantaisie

Louis Couperin (1626-1661)
Extrait de la Suite en fa majeu

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Dies Irae, extrait du "Requiem"

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Sonate, Sancta Maria

Georg Böhm (1661-1773)
Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig

François Couperin (1668-1733)
La Superbe ou La Forqueray

Johann Brouwer, clavecin

The present double CD is a selection from fifty years of recording. They are recordings of his work as an organist, harpsichordist, conductor and orchestra leader. This CD is released on the occasion of his eightieth birthday This year it is exactly half a century ago that I made my first solo recording for Dutch radio. This year I am also celebrating my eightieth birthday – a nice number. For this double CD I have made a selection from the many recordings and live registrations of the past fifty years. The double CD opens with my first solo recording, made in Midwolda. I played there on the Hinsz organ, which had just been restored by Flentrop Orgelbouw. It was icecold in the church and my hands had to be warmed with an electric heater. In 1983 I made a new recording for Dutch radio, now in Appingedam on the restored Hinsz organ there. Unfortunately, a subse-quent recording made in Krewerd has been lost. For Dutch radio I went on to make a series called ‘Groningen organists play the organs in the province of Groningen’. Also, I organised a series of harpsichord concerts in the Lutheran Church in Groningen, where I was able to invite all Dutch harpsi-chordists of repute. Performers in this series included Gustav Leonhardt, Bob van As-peren, Menno van Delft and Glen Wilson. Furthermore, I organised chamber music concerts in the Pepergasthuis in Groningen, then the series ‘Bach in Bunders’ and the series ‘Early Music in the Lutheran Church’. Sadly, no recordings of these concerts are available. In 1995 I recorded my first solo CD as a harpsichordist, playing on my four Rubio harpsichords. The special feature of this recording is that the instruments were still in their original state as delivered by Rubio. Later three of the four instruments were renovated by Cornelis Bom, after many de-velopments had taken place in the produc-tion of wires. The result of this can be heard on the second CD. The Ruckers has special significance for me, because I quilled and voiced it myself under the supervision of David Rubio. It is still in its original state.