Marie-Claire Alain discusses Bach

[sawyl]

Via the wonders of YouTube, here's a video of Marie-Claire Alain talking about and performing a couple of Bach's chorale preludes, including a quick and rather fun demonstration of how the different components of Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich work, and a more complete performance of Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ:

ETA: checking Stephen Farr's Building a Library survey, I've discovered that Mme Alain's third set of Bach recordings come highly recommended but aren't expected to be reissued until mid-2011. How annoying.