A really good performance of this challenging piece, which I played for the first time in public, yesterday, along with the Fantasia - not as well as this, of course. Most people, who do not play the organ, probably have no idea how thrilling it is physically to perform a masterpiece like this one.
Thanks for this wonderful performance. If this fugue were the only thing left after the human species is finished, it could be said that it wasn't all in vain.
Apologies to those who notice the sharp pitch, but that's the way it was built! Baroque organ pitch in Germany was typically at least a half step sharper than modern pitch, sometimes even a full step. In France, it went the other direction, the great organ of Poitiers Cathedral being a full step FLAT! Historic organ fans with perfect pitch just have to adjust!
This organ IS tuned the way it was in Bach's time. Modern pitch (440hz) was a compromise between Chorton Pitch (460hz), the pitch of this organ and Kammerton Pitch (415hz) that Bach dealt with in the Baroque Period. Retune this organ and Bach will rise from the dead and come slap you.
Bach probably wouldn't care lol, the foundation pitch is as arbitrary as railroad track widths, but similarly it is something that is good to have standardized. But there is probably good reason to keep historical instruments playing as they were made.
A Masterpiece from the great JS Bach, awesome music. Very well played too. Love the deep sound of the organ. Bach his masterpieces are timeless and everytime it amazes you how someone can write/compose such awesome music. To me the greatest ever. Nothing but respect and admiration for JS. Bach.
Everyone gives the credit to Bach in this piece and rightfully so, but half of it is in the interpretation of the piece and the other half Bach himself. Hans Andre Stamm is the winner in this video. Anyone can upload a video of this piece, but to actually execute it with this organ tuned to Bach's specs and in this manner is absolutely stunning. Raw living talent.
excelently excecuted and a very good recording. Bach i sabove every single great master. Even Ludwich van Beethoven stands in his shadow i think, he was a gift to all man kind and we should be thankfull that his scores are saved for us to enjoy. Happy listening all........
what a piece... from the very first great composer mankind has ever seen! We must face it...We owe good music (not only classical, but also rock pop etc) to bach...
If you watch Hans Andre Stamm's finger technique, it is absolutely perfect for Bach on a tracker action organ. All new organ students should be shown a video of this gentleman so they can see exactly why finger technique is important. And of course, Mr. Stamm obviously understands the musical structure and refinement of Bach on a very deep level. I expect that Stamm is about as close as one can come to hearing Bach play his compositions as originally conceived. Bravo.
I don't know if I'm spelling this correctly, but UNBELIEABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The organ, the performace, EVERYTHING!!! I have tears pouring from my eyes!!!
Wow. Absolutely amazing. I may not be overly cultured or learned in regards to classical music, but I freaking LOVE Bach and this was one of the most amazing organ pieces I've ever seen and heard. It's amazing how Hans played it so flawlessly. He freaking ROCKED those foot pedals and he made it all seem so effortless. Granted, his expression looked like he was sucking a lemon through the whole thing, but I'd probably look that way too trying to play all those melodies at once. Bravo!
Bach is so meaningful to me because his music conveys overwhelming spiritual fulfillment. I'm not a religious person by definition, but only Bach can make me feel united with the cosmos. (true story)
This is my favorite composition of all time. Beautiful performance. I played this fugue on the bassetti accordion. I only wish I made a recording of it.
Walcha, where art thou? Definitelly a talented performance. I grew up with Walcha's version, so I am biased... Always good to hear new talented interpretations. Thank you for this! :-)
Falstocat: I know just how you feel! I have kept coming back to it for years. The final trigger was hearing it played at the end of a big cathedral service, two days before & I suddenly felt I could do it, even at the most popular service we have in the year. It takes a lot of hard work, but there is a strong element of having confidence, as well. The fugue is one of those pieces where getting the right tempo makes all the difference, as well. Good luck!
the most beauty organ i´d ever seen, one of the best organist in the world played the song; an organ masterpiece and, of course, the best composer of all times. Bach= the complete music legacy -> Bach= Music in every sense of the word. Bach Brotherhood
Sorry for my inadequate English. This is a fugue. People who want the organist to change stops don't listening to the composition, they just listening to the sound.
Bach was a devout Christian, with all his music being dedicated "soli Deo gloria" (to the glory of God alone). His music is perhaps the most beautiful, healthful, and light-filled music ever written. For me, when I hear it, I sense the very glory of God, the same which I am sure Bach felt.
I love this piece.. It feels amazing just to close the eyes and listen.. Transistions as the one at 4:47 really gives me chill downs.. Bach truly was amazing, and with great players like Hans Andre Stamm his pieces will never be forgetten
so i've listened to this so many times because we're playing it in orchestra. you have to be truely amazing to do the parts together because just playing one and putting it together is difficult. even with the metronome/conductor.
As a fellow organist - this is absolutely beautiful. This particular piece of music along with the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor are my favourite organ pieces. Exceptional.
I hear this and I feel as if I am in the very presence of God and Bach is the gatekeeper. So pure and utterly emotional. This beautiful and my words can't even describe this at all.
The Trost organ is tuned to Chorton Pitch, around 466. Organs of the day were tuned to this or Kammerton,415 . There really has never been a real STANDARD with these historical organs. Even Bach had to be mindful of where he and his choir were performing because of the different pitches.
Kenneth Carrizal every organ is custom built to the building they are meant for. The building is also designed to acomodate the organ thus they are all unique in sound and design and exorbadantly expensive as well. Today an organ may cost millions to build simply because the building has to be so big and designed custom for the organ. Go see a organ performance in person. It is so much better to feel the vibrations in person.
Magnificent! One of Bach's greatest fugues. In memory of the organist called Ebenezer Prout,(at Oxford, I think), students fitted the following words to the fugue theme: "O, Ebenezer Prout, you are a silly man, for you play Bach's fugues as quickly as you can!." Try it; it fit's beautifully! Pip pip!
It is a rare thing to hear such haunting beauty in the world today,regardless of it's source. To the great man, Bach: god bless you and to the guy who posted this God bless you too! 'Tis a great joy to hear this piece.
@funkoforte I've read a lot about Bach from numerous internet pieces, and he was by all accounts very unpretentious. His philosophical approach to music made it seem like anyone could play a fugue, namely put in the effort and everything will fall into place. But through whatever means throughout the years, his life, legacy and music have been brought to all of us. He's wildly popular, and is known all over the world, particularly in the Orient where his influence is beyond vast.
From some accounts Bach would go heavy on the 8' stops in the plenum, especially in fugues. A strong 16' foundation along with the Principal 8' Quintadena 8' an 8' flute and the Trompette 8' in the great, at least, then going up the pitch scale. Also not omitting mutation 5ths to round out the stack.
Extraordinary performance! Bach is may favourite composer, and I really enjoy pieces like this. Just one thing: the end has been cut off: let the organ sound thorugh to end!!
@AnontheOP He is using a coupler, which basically link two different divisions of the organ together, It is a mechanical action designed to allow the organist to play a greater number of stops on a single keyboard. There are several different couplers wich "add together" divisions. I may be mistaken but I think he is using the Swell to Great coupler and the Great to Pedal coupler in this piece.
so true...from this comment i can tell you are a true musician and are competent to argue this point not like most of the jockeys around here who comment and pretend to be so good but can't even play twinkle twinkle (even without the variations). Thanks shining some light on the truth.
God showing his transcendental Music to his human children ... (but for cutting the last chord, the author of the video is sent to hell for 2000 years :))
@@anidemolimacnauj :000 omg, you're an atheist! everyone needs to know about it! Can you wait just a second? I will call all my friends and family so you can show them how you're a special little flower!
it is the biggest baroque organ in Thuringen. The builder, Trost, got a positive feedback by the famous Silbermann in 1723. The town is Waltershausen/Germany.
dont forget Bach's work went unappreciated and unplayed for almost 2 centuries before the "rediscovery" of his work and rightful assignment of him as a master in the 20th century. Makes you wonder what other "masterful" composers lie as paper in a library somewhere today.
I find it sublime and truly sensational. The music has such pure geometry and grandeur. Whilst it is true the fugue is better played after the toccata, the toccata could be seen, in my humble opinion, to be like foreplay before the most serious part of the combination which is the fugue. The is culture of the very lofty kind indeed.
Well at least I am smart enough to appreciate the hard work of a fellow musician and appreciate the fact that someone took the time to post this on UA-cam. If you're going to say something post a constructive comment. Don't just repeat the same comments over and over again. You've said the piece is a "boring mechanical observatory reading" 4 times now. Just stop please.
@hymnistic, it is the largest organ built by Tobias Trost and first completed in 1755. A = 466Hz and uses a tuning called "1/5 Pythagorean comma meantone".
Very well played indeed - this is a fine interpretation. I find the bass of this particular organ somewhat gruff. I would love to hear Herr Stamm playing it at, say Weingarten or Ottobeuren.
Bach's organs were tuned about a=480 or about 3 semitones above a common wind instrument pitch of around 405. The organ pitch was Chorton and the lower was Kammerton, I believe
Una de las obras más difíciles de esa parte del catálogo, todo un desafío para el intérprete, dominar esas articulaciones requiere mucha maestría, maestro.
Simply put the couplers connect the keyboards so you can play more of the whole organ, but you will only see the keys move on mechanical organs. Usually we avoid coupling three manuals simply because the weight of the keyboards on the old organs are too heavy. Electronic organs don't have the same coupler affect but you can still couple the manuals. :)
@TheSolAlex - When you "couple" the "organs" together on the more modern electric organs they combine the sound in the "back". Back then the tracker movement coupled the manuals physically - hence them playing themselves.
@robertgift It's because they used multiple takes to create this recording. The audio they decided to go with was one of the takes where he doesn't play the trill. The same thing happens if you look at around the 1:30 mark during the scene change, what you see him playing is not what is being played. They just chose the best video and audio to make the best total recording they could.
also check the branderburg concertos and the violin concertos, they are absolutely gorgeous. There is a pianist who record some transcriptions of Bach works, his name is Alessio Bax, the album it's really nice.
Earlier today I listened to an interpretation by Michael Murray of the same piece. It reminds me that Stamm gives the due importance to the fugue which has been relatively neglected due to the striking expansiveness of the passacaglia.
@peterrise counterpoint is 2 or more independent voices, essentially each acting as the melody and equal in priority, there are also varying degrees of counterpoint, known as species, which can get extremely strict. This is a fugue and therefore a contrapuntal work. It is in 4 voices.
Well I guess we all have pieces and composers that connect more with our personalities than others. For some reason Schubert (outside of his lieders) bores me to tears. This is polyphonic heaven, though. I still like "Toccata," but when I first heard this piece it absolutely blew away all the preconceived notions I had about the possibilities of the organ. It remains an absolute marvel!
In a manual, tracker organ, when multiple Choirs are coupled they all speak; the keys are kept aloft by the pipes, not by striking them, so whenever any member in a coupled set, whether great-to-choir or pedal-to-great is enacted, they are all enacted; and lacking a force to keep them upright, the keys will fall; this is why many organists prefer tracker organs BUT find them difficult to play, because any voice in any register can cause the key to deflect
Bach is popular today and was popular during his time. There was a period where he was less popular (all Baroque music was less popular), but nevertheless still popular.
What a beautiful facade on this pipe organ. The song is... dare I say... great. Seriously. The organist playing in this one is outstanding. E. Power Biggs has an awesome version of this song too.
wah......How i wish i could play like Mr Hans....! Such a long piece without score and played with both hands and pedal with both legs...oh my GOD ! Only A Genius could play........
It's a cadential implied V6/4 (in figured bass nomenclature, not Rameau). The 4th is not notated so it appears as a V6 but unless the F appears we assume the chord to be a 6/4 variation of a G triad. The V6/4 (or I6/4 if you are used to the root/inversion nomenclature) is a typical cadential chord. Also Bach constantly rewrote and revised his pieces and yes, there were methods to erase ink from the sheet.
I love Bach's fugues. They put my brain in order. Also love the Brandenburg Concertos.
Handel's Concerti Grossi Nr. 3 are even better
A really good performance of this challenging piece, which I played for the first time in public, yesterday, along with the Fantasia - not as well as this, of course. Most people, who do not play the organ, probably have no idea how thrilling it is physically to perform a masterpiece like this one.
Yes, Bach is truly an angel!!
Thanks for this wonderful performance. If this fugue were the only thing left after the human species is finished, it could be said that it wasn't all in vain.
So true.
Perhaps better examples of human ingenuity exist
Alexander Alekhine What ?
@@colinmurphy2214 Nope, you're wrong.
@@orgelfan1675 There's other composers besides Bach. Hell, this is not the most complex composition by Bach.
Apologies to those who notice the sharp pitch, but that's the way it was built! Baroque organ pitch in Germany was typically at least a half step sharper than modern pitch, sometimes even a full step. In France, it went the other direction, the great organ of Poitiers Cathedral being a full step FLAT! Historic organ fans with perfect pitch just have to adjust!
The organ in France with the lowest pitch is at Wissembourg collegiate. Organ by Louis Dubois from 1766, a= 370Hz, C sounds like A!
Make Germany Great Again....Tune the damn organs or J.S. Bach will come back and make you tear down and rebuild that organ!!
This organ IS tuned the way it was in Bach's time. Modern pitch (440hz) was a compromise between Chorton Pitch (460hz), the pitch of this organ and Kammerton Pitch (415hz) that Bach dealt with in the Baroque Period. Retune this organ and Bach will rise from the dead and come slap you.
Kenneth Carrizal. Oh i will!
Bach probably wouldn't care lol, the foundation pitch is as arbitrary as railroad track widths, but similarly it is something that is good to have standardized. But there is probably good reason to keep historical instruments playing as they were made.
Fantastic recording! I just wish the last chord wasn't cut off at the end.
A Masterpiece from the great JS Bach, awesome music. Very well played too.
Love the deep sound of the organ. Bach his masterpieces are timeless and everytime it amazes you how someone can write/compose such awesome music.
To me the greatest ever. Nothing but respect and admiration for JS. Bach.
The climax of this Fugue at 4:48 is one of the greatest moments in Bach's works. Simply astounding.
4:21
3:38.
0:49
I don't get tired of seeing this guy,I'm working on doing this on one classical guitar.
Everyone gives the credit to Bach in this piece and rightfully so, but half of it is in the interpretation of the piece and the other half Bach himself. Hans Andre Stamm is the winner in this video. Anyone can upload a video of this piece, but to actually execute it with this organ tuned to Bach's specs and in this manner is absolutely stunning. Raw living talent.
excelently excecuted and a very good recording. Bach i sabove every single great master. Even Ludwich van Beethoven stands in his shadow i think, he was a gift to all man kind and we should be thankfull that his scores are saved for us to enjoy.
Happy listening all........
This is one of my favorite pieces by Bach, and I don't think I'll ever find a better recording.
what a piece...
from the very first great composer mankind has ever seen!
We must face it...We owe good music (not only classical, but also rock pop etc) to bach...
If you watch Hans Andre Stamm's finger technique, it is absolutely perfect for Bach on a tracker action organ. All new organ students should be shown a video of this gentleman so they can see exactly why finger technique is important.
And of course, Mr. Stamm obviously understands the musical structure and refinement of Bach on a very deep level.
I expect that Stamm is about as close as one can come to hearing Bach play his compositions as originally conceived.
Bravo.
I am absolutely in awe of this man's talent. He plays with such grace. He truly has the feel of Bach's music.
I'm so inspired by this performance. There is hope for the world.
This is so beautiful that I can barely hold back tears, especially at the 4:20 section
Stamm is simply great on everything Bach you can find here on UA-cam.
My favorite, such a beautiful melody!
I don't know if I'm spelling this correctly, but UNBELIEABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The organ, the performace, EVERYTHING!!! I have tears pouring from my eyes!!!
Wonderful interpretation of one of my favorite fugues. Great tempo!
Wow. Absolutely amazing. I may not be overly cultured or learned in regards to classical music, but I freaking LOVE Bach and this was one of the most amazing organ pieces I've ever seen and heard. It's amazing how Hans played it so flawlessly. He freaking ROCKED those foot pedals and he made it all seem so effortless. Granted, his expression looked like he was sucking a lemon through the whole thing, but I'd probably look that way too trying to play all those melodies at once. Bravo!
i love bach...i played this a lot of years ago at my final exam in organ....very very beatiful...and i like how Stamm plays too
my god..a truly magnificent performance of one of the greatest organ pieces ever concieved.
MY GOD! i have been looking for BWV542 live playing for years!!! Thanks a lot
Absolutely divine (and therefore all the more regrettable that the last note is cut short)!
Crisp and precise;every voice of the fugue clear and sharp. Wonderful.
Bach is so meaningful to me because his music conveys overwhelming spiritual fulfillment. I'm not a religious person by definition, but only Bach can make me feel united with the cosmos.
(true story)
This is my favorite composition of all time. Beautiful performance. I played this fugue on the bassetti accordion. I only wish I made a recording of it.
One of the Best of Bach ever👍 Thanks a lot😊
It is the best playing what I heard. Great Bach, great organist, great organ, great poker face. :-)
Walcha, where art thou?
Definitelly a talented performance. I grew up with Walcha's version, so I am biased... Always good to hear new talented interpretations.
Thank you for this! :-)
Falstocat: I know just how you feel! I have kept coming back to it for years. The final trigger was hearing it played at the end of a big cathedral service, two days before & I suddenly felt I could do it, even at the most popular service we have in the year. It takes a lot of hard work, but there is a strong element of having confidence, as well. The fugue is one of those pieces where getting the right tempo makes all the difference, as well. Good luck!
Hans Stamm needs no comments from me! His performances speaks for itself
Brilliant!
the most beauty organ i´d ever seen, one of the best organist in the world played the song; an organ masterpiece and, of course, the best composer of all times.
Bach= the complete music legacy -> Bach= Music in every sense of the word.
Bach Brotherhood
That’s an amazing rendition of J.S. Bach’s “Great” Fugue. I love the A flat/G sharp minor key.
This is perfect Bach-articulate, transparent, and elegant!
wow, a truly magnificent performance of one of the greatest organ pieces ever concieved.
Great Fugue in Ab minor hehehehe. I love the powerful and enthusiastic feel of Stamm's interpretation.
Sorry for my inadequate English. This is a fugue. People who want the organist to change stops don't listening to the composition, they just listening to the sound.
i agree, stop changes can interrupt the flow of a fugue. Sometimes it works but for 542, full blast all the way is the best.
@@angryjalapeno Yes, you're right.
Bach was a devout Christian, with all his music being dedicated "soli Deo gloria" (to the glory of God alone). His music is perhaps the most beautiful, healthful, and light-filled music ever written. For me, when I hear it, I sense the very glory of God, the same which I am sure Bach felt.
Ich liebe Johan Sebastian Bach!
Omar, you are right. Bach's output is extraordinary in its richness, complexity, and above all, its great emotional content.
I love this piece.. It feels amazing just to close the eyes and listen.. Transistions as the one at 4:47 really gives me chill downs..
Bach truly was amazing, and with great players like Hans Andre Stamm his pieces will never be forgetten
so i've listened to this so many times because we're playing it in orchestra. you have to be truely amazing to do the parts together because just playing one and putting it together is difficult. even with the metronome/conductor.
This is a wonderful performance! I added to my favorites.
As a fellow organist - this is absolutely beautiful. This particular piece of music along with the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor are my favourite organ pieces. Exceptional.
Besides an intro music course in uni, I have zero musical training and I've found Bach is my favorite composer!
I hear this and I feel as if I am in the very presence of God and Bach is the gatekeeper. So pure and utterly emotional. This beautiful and my words can't even describe this at all.
The Trost organ is tuned to Chorton Pitch, around 466. Organs of the day were tuned to this or Kammerton,415 . There really has never been a real STANDARD with these historical organs. Even Bach had to be mindful of where he and his choir were performing because of the different pitches.
Kenneth Carrizal every organ is custom built to the building they are meant for. The building is also designed to acomodate the organ thus they are all unique in sound and design and exorbadantly expensive as well. Today an organ may cost millions to build simply because the building has to be so big and designed custom for the organ.
Go see a organ performance in person. It is so much better to feel the vibrations in person.
This piece is wonderful,great organ and great performance! Really very beautiful
Magnificent! One of Bach's greatest fugues.
In memory of the organist called Ebenezer Prout,(at Oxford, I think), students fitted the following words to the fugue theme:
"O, Ebenezer Prout, you are a silly man,
for you play Bach's fugues as quickly as you can!."
Try it; it fit's beautifully! Pip pip!
Personally,,I think you're phenomenal,, from me a classical guitar player, God bless, my brother.
It is a rare thing to hear such haunting beauty
in the world today,regardless of it's source. To the great man, Bach: god bless you and to the guy who posted this God bless you too! 'Tis a great joy to hear this piece.
Absolutely divine, i could watch this daily ^^
@funkoforte I've read a lot about Bach from numerous internet pieces, and he was by all accounts very unpretentious. His philosophical approach to music made it seem like anyone could play a fugue, namely put in the effort and everything will fall into place. But through whatever means throughout the years, his life, legacy and music have been brought to all of us. He's wildly popular, and is known all over the world, particularly in the Orient where his influence is beyond vast.
What a beautiful, resonate instrument...he's great.
The best interpretation till now :) gr8 job
This is my favorite piece by JSB. It's like listening to a keliedoscop.
From some accounts Bach would go heavy on the 8' stops in the plenum, especially in fugues. A strong 16' foundation along with the Principal 8' Quintadena 8' an 8' flute and the Trompette 8' in the great, at least, then going up the pitch scale. Also not omitting mutation 5ths to round out the stack.
this guy is so awesome!
Extraordinary performance! Bach is may favourite composer, and I really enjoy pieces like this. Just one thing: the end has been cut off: let the organ sound thorugh to end!!
Very nice performance, I have the DVD and the 5,1 surround makes the recording so much more immersive, no disrespect to stereo fans,
Beautifully played Herr Stamm!!!!!
Incredible, inspiring piece and playing. Shame about the end being cropped. Thanks.
@AnontheOP He is using a coupler, which basically link two different divisions of the organ together, It is a mechanical action designed to allow the organist to play a greater number of stops on a single keyboard. There are several different couplers wich "add together" divisions. I may be mistaken but I think he is using the Swell to Great coupler and the Great to Pedal coupler in this piece.
Amazing performance!
so true...from this comment i can tell you are a true musician and are competent to argue this point not like most of the jockeys around here who comment and pretend to be so good but can't even play twinkle twinkle (even without the variations). Thanks shining some light on the truth.
This is fantastic...Thanks for sharing.
God showing his transcendental Music to his human children ... (but for cutting the last chord, the author of the video is sent to hell for 2000 years :))
No Sir :) I has nothing to do with the interpretation which is excellent but with the sharp video cut in the end :)
Are you insinuating that there was no Happy Ending?
Pro tip: No God, no hell.
@@anidemolimacnauj :000 omg, you're an atheist! everyone needs to know about it! Can you wait just a second? I will call all my friends and family so you can show them how you're a special little flower!
it is the biggest baroque organ in Thuringen. The builder, Trost, got a positive feedback by the famous Silbermann in 1723. The town is Waltershausen/Germany.
dont forget Bach's work went unappreciated and unplayed for almost 2 centuries before the "rediscovery" of his work and rightful assignment of him as a master in the 20th century. Makes you wonder what other "masterful" composers lie as paper in a library somewhere today.
I find it sublime and truly sensational. The music has such pure geometry and grandeur. Whilst it is true the fugue is better played after the toccata, the toccata could be seen, in my humble opinion, to be like foreplay before the most serious part of the combination which is the fugue.
The is culture of the very lofty kind indeed.
Esta fuga para cuatro voces,acaso la mejor de JSB,es interpretada de una forma impresionante.
Well at least I am smart enough to appreciate the hard work of a fellow musician and appreciate the fact that someone took the time to post this on UA-cam. If you're going to say something post a constructive comment. Don't just repeat the same comments over and over again. You've said the piece is a "boring mechanical observatory reading" 4 times now. Just stop please.
@hymnistic, it is the largest organ built by Tobias Trost and first completed in 1755. A = 466Hz and uses a tuning called "1/5 Pythagorean comma meantone".
Very well played indeed - this is a fine interpretation. I find the bass of this particular organ somewhat gruff. I would love to hear Herr Stamm playing it at, say Weingarten or Ottobeuren.
Bach's organs were tuned about a=480 or about 3 semitones above a common wind instrument pitch of around 405. The organ pitch was Chorton and the lower was Kammerton, I believe
I'm a huge metalhead, yet I find him and other composers to be some of my primary influences.
Una de las obras más difíciles de esa parte del catálogo, todo un desafío para el intérprete, dominar esas articulaciones requiere mucha maestría, maestro.
Simply put the couplers connect the keyboards so you can play more of the whole organ, but you will only see the keys move on mechanical organs. Usually we avoid coupling three manuals simply because the weight of the keyboards on the old organs are too heavy. Electronic organs don't have the same coupler affect but you can still couple the manuals. :)
@TheSolAlex They are mechanically connected to the middle keys. Middle keys = middle and bottom, bottom keys = bottom only.
@TheSolAlex - When you "couple" the "organs" together on the more modern electric organs they combine the sound in the "back". Back then the tracker movement coupled the manuals physically - hence them playing themselves.
@robertgift It's because they used multiple takes to create this recording. The audio they decided to go with was one of the takes where he doesn't play the trill. The same thing happens if you look at around the 1:30 mark during the scene change, what you see him playing is not what is being played. They just chose the best video and audio to make the best total recording they could.
Wow this just creeps under your skin and plucks the strings of your heart.
also check the branderburg concertos and the violin concertos, they are absolutely gorgeous.
There is a pianist who
record some transcriptions of Bach works, his name is Alessio Bax, the album it's really nice.
watch out for the meticulous footwork
this guy is amazing
Earlier today I listened to an interpretation by Michael Murray of the same piece. It reminds me that Stamm gives the due importance to the fugue which has been relatively neglected due to the striking expansiveness of the passacaglia.
@peterrise counterpoint is 2 or more independent voices, essentially each acting as the melody and equal in priority, there are also varying degrees of counterpoint, known as species, which can get extremely strict. This is a fugue and therefore a contrapuntal work. It is in 4 voices.
Nada mejor que empezar la mañana con una buena música xD
Well I guess we all have pieces and composers that connect more with our personalities than others. For some reason Schubert (outside of his lieders) bores me to tears.
This is polyphonic heaven, though.
I still like "Toccata," but when I first heard this piece it absolutely blew away all the preconceived notions I had about the possibilities of the organ. It remains an absolute marvel!
wah......How i wish i could play like Mr Hans....! Great Playing...
In a manual, tracker organ, when multiple Choirs are coupled they all speak; the keys are kept aloft by the pipes, not by striking them, so whenever any member in a coupled set, whether great-to-choir or pedal-to-great is enacted, they are all enacted; and lacking a force to keep them upright, the keys will fall; this is why many organists prefer tracker organs BUT find them difficult to play, because any voice in any register can cause the key to deflect
Bach is popular today and was popular during his time. There was a period where he was less popular (all Baroque music was less popular), but nevertheless still popular.
Probably the most beautiful instrument mankind has ever constructed.
fantastic .... the organ is wonderful ! compliments
What a beautiful facade on this pipe organ. The song is... dare I say... great. Seriously. The organist playing in this one is outstanding. E. Power Biggs has an awesome version of this song too.
My heart aches at 4:49...I melt and pine at the same time.
wah......How i wish i could play like Mr Hans....! Such a long piece without score and played with both hands and pedal with both legs...oh my GOD ! Only A Genius could play........
I love the huge pedal offsets on either side although the right side is obstructed by a large pillar
It's a cadential implied V6/4 (in figured bass nomenclature, not Rameau). The 4th is not notated so it appears as a V6 but unless the F appears we assume the chord to be a 6/4 variation of a G triad. The V6/4 (or I6/4 if you are used to the root/inversion nomenclature) is a typical cadential chord. Also Bach constantly rewrote and revised his pieces and yes, there were methods to erase ink from the sheet.
Well, I know a bunch of people who never studied music and like Bach. Also, the polyphony is the main reason why this music is so magnificent.