Secrets Of Organ Playing Podcast

SOP Podcast 31 - Pieter Dirksen On The Organ Works Of Sweelinck And Scheidemann Welcome to episode 31 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Dr. Pieter Dirksen performs as soloist on both harpsichord and organ and as continuo player with diverse chamber ensembles. He completed his musicological studies with honours in 1987 and since then published widely about baroque keyboard music. In 1996 he received his doctorate ‘cum laude’ with a dissertation on the keyboard music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, which was awarded the Dutch Praemium Erasmianum. Further books have been devoted to Bach's Art of Fugue (1994), Sweelinck (essays, 2002) and Scheidemann (2007), and critical editions appeared with music by Bull, Sweelinck, Cornet, Scheidemann, Düben, Buxtehude, Reincken, Lübeck and Bach. Continuous research into the background and the sources of the music lend the performances of Pieter Dirksen a special quality. ​ Pieter Dirksen is a member of Combattimento Consort