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54 BACH_THE ORGANWORKS You recorded your complete Bach set over a very long period of time, and on six different organs. The choice of place seems important . . . For Bach, yes, it is. And although I didn’t do it on purpose, I recorded everything on organs by German builders. Odd, isn’t it? How did you go about it? Did you have to do a lot of scouting to locate them? No, they were instruments I knew already. The highpoint came with Weingarten – the organ on which I recorded the Passacaglia – which is an exceptional instrument in itself. Every organist dreams of playing that legendary instrument. It’s conceived around the figure 6, the Number of the Beast in Revelation – six windows, six departments, 6,666 pipes: just imagine the effect it produces! The resulting sound is something quite extraordinary! But alongside that one, which is really in a category of its own, my favourite instrument is the organ at Saint-Cyprien in the Périgord.