These two pieces undoubtedly belong to the "Greatest Hits" among Bach's works. This issue of Alfred Loritz is characterized by the following features:

• Maintaining the clear voice and role distribution of the originals.
• No romanticising ingredients and superficial instrumentation effects.
• Some variability in the use of certain instruments (e.g. the saxophone). Bach's artistic chorale arrangements (actually chorale preludes!) have been accompanied by full-sounding tutti lyrics; this signi...