Buxtehude: Ciacona in E minor BuxWV 160

In the mid-20th century, organ builders began to build historically inspired instruments modelled on Baroque organs famous for their bright tone. They returned to building mechanical key actions, voicing with lower wind pressures (with ‘open’ pipe feet), slider-windchests and specifications with more mixture and mutation stops. In addition the organ case-work was made wide and shallow in depth to enable the pipes to speak freely and clearly into the auditorium. Such neo baroque organs were being built particularly in northern Europe, the USA, UK and elsewhere. In 1973, Southern Organ Builders built their first mechanical organs in South Africa. The adviser of the organ on which this recording was made, Prof. Henk Temmingh, mentioned that this instrument is to his knowledge the first successful organ that was manufactured entirely according to the principles of the old Baroque master builders in South Africa and therefore contributed to the South African organ renaissance which followed. Regard