Johann Pachelbel: Organ Works, Volume 2 BBC National Orchestra of Wales The sixteenth-century madrigal

The sixteenth-century madrigal

exploring the instrument’s limits

Director and keyboardist Julian Perkins and his acclaimed ensemble Sounds Baroque join soprano Anna Dennis for this celebration of the songs of Henry Purcell

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

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

Johann Pachelbel: Organ Works, Volume 2 BBC National Orchestra of Wales The sixteenth-century madrigalMatthew 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