Pre-Order: Manuel Tomadin – Buxtehude Buttstett J.S. Bach & C.P.E. Bach: Organ

A quartet of German Baroque masters at their most daring and outlandish, exploring the harmonic quirks of mean-tone temperament on the organ.Manuel Tomadin has assembled an impressive library of Baroque-era albums on Brilliant Classics, including critically acclaimed surveys of Bach and comprehensive documents of the surviving output of lesser-known names such as Christian Erbach and Vincent Lubeck. ‘A very attractively conceived and well-executed Bach organ recital disc,’ noted Fanfare of Manuel Tomadin’s diverse recital (95786): ‘All recital discs should be this thoughtfully conceived and well done; cordially recommended.’In the same vein, this new recording leads the listener through both unfamiliar and well-known names and works, drawing out the original meaning of the term Baroque as ‘the broken pearl’ – something strange and exquisite. At a time before the ‘even-tempered’ system of tuning homogenised the spaces between different intervals – some