Christum, wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611 (Orgelbüchlein Series)

Manuel Piazza plays J. S. Bach's "Christum, wir sollen loben schon," recorded on the Beckerath organ at Dwight Chapel, Yale University.
Manuel Piazza is currently a graduate student at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, having spent the 2019-20 academic year as organ scholar at Truro Cathedral. A native of Toronto, Manuel completed his undergraduate studies with John Tuttle at the University of Toronto, serving as choir director and organist at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, organ scholar at Trinity College (University of Toronto), organ scholar at St. James' Anglican Cathedral, and one of the five organists of St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica.

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So beautiful!! So proud ❤️

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Good job, Manuel!

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There are settings galore for this melody: Scheidt, Titelouze, de Grigny and I've been exploring them in the past weeks when practice time has been easier to find in my locked down life. I've come to quite enjoy it. The fact that it is a Phrygian mode melody ending in E whose beginning note is a swoop up from D is a great part of the enjoyment.
And Dwight Chapel gets to look so European because it is in fact the repurposed Old Campus library building and avoids all the New England Chapel vernacular styles that otherwise prevail.