Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Sara Mohr-Pietsch surveys the musical landscape surrounding JS Bach's iconic Toccata and Fugue BWV 565. This keyboard tour-de-force is instantly recognisable: ask anyone to think of a piece for organ and they'll instantly recite those opening notes. But the work had to be rescued from obscurity, first by the great Bach revivalist Mendelssohn, then in the twentieth century with the classic reworking by Stokowski for Walt Disney's Fantasia. Sara follows a path along some of the other great works for this monumental instrument, including music by Saint-Saens and a performance by Anna Lapwood. Then there's a tiptoe around the murky world of misattributed music with Haydn and Chopin, to ask - was it even meant to be for organ?