Koororgal Martinikerk Groningen
Wim van Beek, organ
Helior HGWB02. 77’08.

DuMage, Clérambault, JS Bach, Mozart, CPE Bach, Zipoli, Daquin, Paradisi.

Although the Martinikerk choir organ was only acquired in 1939, it has a much earlier history. There are no records, but is seems that it was originally built around 1742 for the St Elisabethsdal cloister in the south Netherlands, probably by Jean-Baptiste Le Picard, the best known of the French family of organ builders. In 1799, during the French occupation, the cloister was closed, the organ and other furnishings sold off, and the church demolished. The two-manual organ was divided between two churches, Continue reading →