Stefano Molardi adds to his ongoing survey of Bach’s complete organ music an extensive assortment of chorale preludes, concertos after other composers and some of the largest works in Bach’s sizeable organ repertoire. Mr. Molardi plays the Zacharias Hildebrandt organ of the St. Jacobikirche, Sangerhausen, which has a close affinity with Bach’s organ music: the composer was friendly with Hildebrandt, who lived in Leipzig from 1734. The sound and variety of tonal color offered by this instrument allows us to hear the music as closely as possible to how Bach himself might have known it.
