About Us
A brief bio of Will FraserWill Fraser grew up in the west of England and the east of Canada. He was educated at three contrasting universities, Dalhousie in Canada, Cambridge in the UK, and the University of Mississippi in the USA. He is a musician, writer and film-maker. He has won awards for the classical music documentaries he makes through Fugue State Films (BBC Music Magazine “best DVD” twice, and the Deutschenschallplattenkritikpreis three times).
These music films include Martinikerk Rondeau, The Genius of Cavaillé-Coll and Maximum Reger. He is fascinated by America and has made three films about the country so far – Soul Searching for the Blues, Once Upon a Time in Knoxville and Cowboy and Preacher: the Life and Times of Tri Robinson. This last film premiered in Hollywood at the 2018 Dances with Films festival.
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J. C. Fischer Suites
£8.50J. C. F. Fischer - perhaps J. S. Bach’s most important mentor, and 15 years his senior - wrote these wonderful suites which served as inspiration for the Well-tempered Clavier.
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Lighten Our Darkness: Illuminating Choral Evensong
£95.00 – £2,400.00An exploration and celebration of one of the oldest forms of worship used around the world, this documentary goes behind the words and music and looks at how and why Choral Evensong continues to be the mainstay of Anglican daily worship in many cathedrals and large churches.
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Bach: The Great Toccata
£28.50 – £2,000.00Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, and certainly the greatest composer who wrote for the organ. Daniel Moult, explores the extraordinary Toccata and Fugue in D minor, an instantly recognisable masterpiece that is one of the most popular pieces of music ever written.
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Bach’s Missing Pages – Buy DVD
£34.50In seven thirty-minute films Sietze de Vries performs the entire Orgelbüchlein, demonstrates the organs at the Martinikerk in Groningen and the Petruskerk in Leens, improvises 45 new chorale preludes in the style of Bach, discusses the philosophy of improvisation, and demonstrates how to improvise according to the techniques Bach uses in his great collection of chorale preludes. For the first time on film we can glimpse the enormous scale of Bach's vision for his Orgelbüchlein. All performances are also presented on two CDs.
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Bach’s Missing Pages – Digital
£29.00Sietze de Vries plays Bach's entire Orgelbüchlein and improvises 45 of the missing chorales. Filmed at the Martinikerk in Groningen and the Petruskerk in Leens.