This latest Guild offering features the scholarly David Ponsford turning out a pretty impeccable performance...Ponsford also includes the equally monumental Partita BWV768 and gives a fine interpretation of this glorious work.

David Ponsford presents a considered interpretation with a range of beautifully judged registrations...The recording is natural and clear and the booklet highly informative.

Ponsford is a superb Baroque stylist who brings a touch of romantic swagger to his imaginative registrations. His crisp attack and thoughtful phrasing complement his own excellent booklet.

David Ponsford has performed this repertoire for many years and is clearly at home in this musical language....[and] manages to put some stamp of interpretative individuality into most tracks. This is most noticeable in the area of registration, where again the quality of the organ is a great help.

While technically excellent there is nothing clinically academic about the playing, the heart of each piece emerging as the musical line unfolds. This is particularly true of the Partita diverse sopra Sei gegrusset,lesu gutig BWV768, which rises to a finely dramatic conclusion – a tribute to organ and performer alike.

His scholarship informs and guides his performances: it does not dry the musicianship out of them. Intelligently chosen registrations, for example, help the listener to hear clearly Bach’s masterful counterpoint, while also underlining French influences (where appropriate) and, of course, adding colour and sparkle.