Adam Brakel plays Buxtehude Praeludium in D Minor

Bach Sous les Tilleuls (Bach Under the Lime Trees), Loris Barrucand and Clément Geoffroy harpsichordists. L’Encelade, ECL2303E, €18. Available from encelade.net.

March 16–20

Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m.

Much has been written about Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565, and it seems that everything has been said. The work is considered an outstanding example of stylus phantasticus, a style of composition that encourages rhythmic and harmonic freedom. Effects play a greater role than contrapuntal substance, and in this respect BWV 565 has always been admired.