Gramophone Magazine
June 2019
Editor's Choice

Bach, J S: Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 6
Bach, J S: Fugue in G minor, BWV578 'Little'
Bach, J S: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV721 'Erbarm' dich mein, o Herre Gott'
Bach, J S: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV542 'Great'
Bach, J S: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV542 'Great'
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV617 'Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf'
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV727 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen'
Bach, J S: Fantasia in G major, BWV572
Bach, J S: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV582

For his first CD with La Dolce Volta, Olivier Latry has chosen a programme devoted to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

This recording, made on the massive Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre-Dame de Paris, of which he is titular organist, raises a number of fascinating questions. “My approach highlights several paradoxes: the notion of performing these key works of Protestantism in one of the most emblematic centres of Catholicism, first of all, but also of playing them on an instrument that is, to say the least, far removed from the Baroque and Classical style of organ building.” - Olivier Latry

"Bach played with no hang-ups, using the full resources of a magnificent organ… happily discarding any ideas of authenticity and completely shorn of that kind of hallowed reserve with which so many organists treat it. This is a joyous celebration of Bach’s music, not a kneeling, hands-together, head-bowed worship of it." - Gramophone Magazine, June 2019.