J. S. Bach and the Möller Manuscript

This is the fourth solo recording by Gramophone

Award winner Carole Cerasi. Continuing her

adventurous programming on disc, she has chosen a

programme inspired by the Möller Manuscript, a

manuscript compiled by Johann Sebastian Bach's elder

brother Johann Christoph, with whom Johann

Sebastian lived after the death of his parents in 1695.

The 'Möller' manuscript is one of the most precious

musical treasures from the lifetime of Johann

Sebastian Bach, not least because it is one of the few

sources of his early works that has a close connection

with the young composer. The manuscript is named

after one of its later owners, Johann Gottfried Möller, a

pupil of Bach's. The special strength of this collection of pieces, saved by the young Bach's intimate family

circle, is the consistently high musical quality of its