21st Century Bach (2003-2009) - Season 1 Episodes and Ratings

Season 1 Episodes

1. Naumburg, Wenzelkirche

February 16th, 2003

‘Great’ Prelude & fugue in G Major (BWV 541) (Progamme 10)

2. Arnstadt, Bachkirche

March 8th, 2003

‘Lüneburg’ Prelude & fugue in C Major (BWV 531) (Programme 13)

3. Freiberg, Dom St. Marien

March 15th, 2003

‘Great’ Fantasia & fugue in C minor (BWV 537) (Programme 5)

4. Freiberg, Dom St. Marien

March 18th, 2003

‘Great Eighteen Chorales’: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659) (Programme 4)

5. Naumburg, Wenzelkirche

March 20th, 2003

Organist John Whiteley plays Bach’s Schübler Choräle: Meine Seele erhebt den Herr’n (BWV 648) and Ach bleib bei uns (BWV 649) (Programme 8)

6. Naumburg, Wenzelkirche

March 29th, 2003

Prelude & ‘Wedge’ fugue in E minor (BWV 548) (Programme 7)

7. Arnstadt, Bachkirche

April 1st, 2003

‘Little’ Fugue in G minor (BWV 578) (Programme 14)

8. Bath Abbey

May 4th, 2003

Toccata & fugue in D minor (BWV 565) (Programme 1 [Pilot])

9. Freiberg, Dom St. Marien

July 1st, 2003

York Minster organist John Whiteley plays Orgel-Büchlein [Christmas II]: Christum wir sollen loben schon (BWV 611) Wir Christenleut (BWV 612) (Programme 3)

10. Freiberg, Dom St. Marien

June 7th, 2003

Played by York Minster organist John Whiteley plays Orgel-Büchlein [Christmas sequence I]: Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar (BWV 607), Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 610) and In dulci jubilo (BWV 608) (Programme 2)

11. Naumburg, Wenzelkirche

July 9th, 2003

Individually-transmitted setting: Erbarm’ dich mein, O Herre Gott (BWV 721) (Programme 9)

12. Arnstadt, Bachkirche

July 10th, 2003

Organist John Scott Whiteley plays Prelude in A minor (BWV 569) (Programme 15)

13. Arnstadt, Bachkirche

July 4th, 2003

York Minster organist John Whiteley plays Orgel-Büchlein [Advent to Christmas Sequence]: Puer natus in Bethlehem (BWV 603), Der Tag der ist so Freudenreich (BWV 605) and Vom Himmel hoch (BWV 606)

14. Freiberg, Dom St. Marien

July 18th, 2003

York Minster organist John Whiteley plays Clavier-Übung III: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (BWV 669), Christe, alle Welt Trost (Alio modo) (BWV 673) and Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist (BWV 671) (Programme 6)

15. Arnstadt, Bachkirche

March 15th, 2004

Organist John Scott Whiteley plays Orgel-Büchlein [New Year]: Das alte jahr vergangen ist (BWV 614) and In dir ist Freude (BWV 615) (Programme 17). The programme employs a variety of unusual filming techniques to give a dramatic interpretation of the music, including using miniature cameras on the inside of the organ to show the mechanical works.

16. Arnstadt, Bachkirche

May 12th, 2004

Organist John Scott Whiteley plays Individually-transmitted settings: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 730) and Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 731) (Programme 12)

17. Naumburg, Wenzelkirche

May 29th, 2004

York Minster organist John Whiteley plays Sonata VI (BWV 530) (Programme 11)