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Pamela Decker's first recording is a winner!

James H. H. Lampert | Fountain Valley, CA United States | 09/18/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This was Pamela Decker's first CD, and it's the CD that made me fall in love with her playing, and with the Bach "Great" Prelude and Fugue in D (BWV 532). Her tempo with the Bach is a tad fast, compared to some, but this turns the relatively dry acoustic of the Pacific Union College Church into an advantage, and highlights the work's playful sense of fun. The Krebs is rather relaxing; the Mendelssohn is appropriately exciting. Dr. Decker's own "Passacaglia," her first published work, begins with a gentle introduction that helps ease one into the modal nonatonic mode she used for it, then builds to a very turbulent climax, and a deeply satisfying resolution. With the lovely "Prelude and Double Fugue" by Litaize, we get some quiet, contemplative relaxation after the storms of the Passacaglia; the Litaize "Finale" puts a nice end to one of my favorite recordings."