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Bernard Foccroulle

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Bernard Focleur, whose complete recording of Bachs organ worksproduced at the end of the 20th centuryenjoys immense popularity in Japan thanks to his natural and precise musical interpretation, is a virtuoso who has also held the pre-Bach masters in deep esteem. It is fair to say that the composers he has featured on solo albumsTunder, Weckmann, Scheidemann, Buxtehude, and othersare the ones truly worth paying attention to. Jacob Pretrius, featured on this album, was one of the great masters of Hamburg, a musical hub of the North (and is completely unrelated to Michael Pretrius of Terpsichore); and Melchior Schilt is another master of the same generation; both are important figures hailing from families of organists. You can fully savor the art of the organwhich flourished in northern Germany in the first half of the 17th century, on the eve of Buxtehudes eraon Lbecks historic organ, whic