Nicolas Kynaston - J S Bach: Fugue in G minor [BWV 542]

At the organ of Clifton Cathedral, recorded 1975. Part of the LP release by EMI, Great Organ Music, which won the Gramophone Award for Best Solo Recital, the Music Trade Association Award for Best Instrumental Record and an EMI award for sales. It is presented here with material from before the opening of the Cathedral in 1973 including an architect's sketch for the original organ which was to be from the Pro-Cathedral, Park Place. There is also the only known surviving footage of the shelf it was to rest on. When Rieger won the contract instead, this shelf was removed at the cost of the organ bulder who also donated a stop to the instrument. Along with images of the first Director of Music, Christopher Walker, you may see the remnants of pot plants which one architect put on the remains of the shelf and which the other architect rather brusquely removed minutes before the Mass of Consecration...