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Sad news for the music world: Gustav Leonhardt is no longer with us. He gave his last concert in Paris, december 12th last year. He died yesterday in Amsterdam, at the age of 83. May he rest in peace.

Charles de Wolff, former chief of the Netherlands Bach Society, died last Thursday at the age of 79. As organist he was famous for his interpretations of J.S. Bach, Max Reger and Olivier Messiaen. As conductor he had to struggle to survive in Naarden (hometown of the Bach Society) after the...

Another beautiful voice passed away: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/11/23/uk-opera-jurinac-idUKTRE7AM1GK20111123 Listen to this! [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVTfeqUyKgA"] May she rest in peace.

At another website, I was confronted with this sad news: http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/muere-soprano-montserrat-figueras-los-anos She was the wife of the renowned Jordi Savall, and a very gifted early music singer and instrumentalist. May she rest in peace.

Hi all! I've been thinking about creating this thread for a while, because I couldn't find a general thread about Bach's organ music. If I did a bad searching job, then moderators are of course welcome to merge this one with an already existing thread. It's supposed to be a thread where...

Anyone interested in this? http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/index.htm James Kibbie plays on historic organs in Germany, and one can download it for free! Sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (a.o.). Good news for both newbies and connaisseurs? :)

Hello! I'm Dutch (if that's worth mentioning ;)) and I'm new to this forum, as you might have guessed. Even though I already liked the sound of the pipe organ when I was a child, this instrument has been some kind of my changeling. Dunno why, really (or maybe I do and don't want to talk about...