Side One
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 656
Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540
Side Two
Toccata and Fugue in D minor "Dorian", BWV 538
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
DISCOVERY; Let's spend some time at Robert's house. He was starting to acquire a few albums at this point. We hung out a lot so I got to hear a lot of records I subsequently didn't need to purchase for myself. Initially it was his parent's record collection and their stereo. Classical music and a rich sounding console. He'd play the Mozart and Beethoven and we'd pretend to be conductors. But you don't conduct some bloke playing the organ, you just sit in your pew, worrying about your sins. "This is like church music" I would have said. Robert set the scene (which helped). Imagine you are in a giant cathedral in a foreign land, the bloke playing the organ is surrounded by keyboards high above you in a tiny loft. The music is coming through gigantic metal pipes hundreds of feet tall! Obviously we turned the volume knob up a little, laid there on the floor, soaked it all up. We weren't "conducting", maybe that's why it made more of an impression than the other classical music he played for me. We were just listening.
WHERE & WHEN; I had a sort of reverse-snob-mosis when it came to classical music. Why did they name things so boring? Why did they follow structures? Why was it so formal? Etc. etc. Took me a while to get over it.
HIGHLIGHTS; It's an interesting recording. Play it loud if you ever get a chance.
STATUS; Temporary MP3 copy
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