For the first time on CD: the complete organ works by Walther! Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748, a near contemporary of Bach) spent the major part of his life as the organist of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Weimar, where he also was teacher of the Duke of Weimar. He formed a close friendship with Johann Sebastian Bach, of whom he was a second cousin. Walthers organ music may be divided into a large corpus of Chorale settings, in which he followed the tradition of Bach, and the transcriptions of fashionable concertos by composers like Telemann, Albinoni, Torelli, Vivaldi, Gentili and many others. Organist Simone Stella recorded for Brilliant Classics the complete organ works by Buxtehude, Böhm, Reincken (Froberger still to come!) to great critical acclaim in the international press (5 star reviews). He plays the 2006 Zanin organ in the Church of St Antonio Abate in Padua, the specifications of which are included in the booklet.