This is incredible. For a piece that is normally only brought to life to its fullest extent on a pipe organ, this is a fantastic interpretation for harpsichord and I'm honestly kind of surprised how well it worked here, but being particularly partial to the timbre of the harpsichord... I'm just that much more enthralled with it. Excellent, excellent playing and production!
I knew someone would comment on the arrangement. It is very well-done, isn’t it. It captures the spirit of the organ incredibly. You actually get the counterpart of the fugue in a brilliant way, in a way that the organ struggles with
The unique sound of the harpsichord always fascinated me. I specifically searched to see if anyone had played it on harpsichord as I thought it’d sound good. Not disappointed, works extremely well.
@@valerietaylor9615 The only problem is hes using a small harpsichord. The original piece is massive and dominating on the organ and this small harpsichord doesnt fulfill the fullness of the original composition. Itd sound much better if he used a bigger harpsichord (a classical three level). Regardless, this is amazing to hear played by a harpsichord and his playing is perfect.
Man.... Awesome cover of this classic..... One of the most difficult pieces of JS Bach..... and that too on the harpsichord, which is a rare instrument in 2023...... Really enjoyed this gem of a performance.....
There's a theory making the rounds that Bach actually wrote this piece for the harpsichord rather than the organ. I don't know if this is true or not, but this video certainly proves that it could have worked on the harpsichord.
There also is a theory (with some convincing evidence to support it) that this piece was not composed by J. S. Bach. Either way, it seems likely that the piece was written for the organ, given the independent bass line.
@@Bach6032 That theory is unlikely, in my opinion. Even many of the people who believe that Bach didn't write it acknowledge that they can't think of a more likely alternative to him. I'm not a musicologist, but I have listened to the Brandenburg Concertos. The harpsichord in Number 5 sounds very similar to parts of this composition. If Toccata and Fugue wasn't written by Bach, then it was by somebody influenced by him. As to why it has a baseline, some harpsichords do have pedals. Organists of the era often practiced on the harpsichord, and many compositions were written to be played on both instruments. That could be the case with this. Indeed, some musicologists have noted that it bears similarities with toccatas Bach wrote for both instruments.
@@stephenwells6434 I, too, believe that the work was composed by a youthful J.S. Bach, but some researchers cast *just* enough doubt on that belief that I no longer would stake my life on it. To me, “harpsichord” and “pedal harpsichord” are different instruments with different purposes [for15 years I was a harpsichord builder] and for the last 30 years I have had both: see my UA-cam channel for recordings of six large ‘organ’ works of Bach performed on the same pedal harpsichord. The two-manual harpsichord that Cordella used to render BWV 565, a work written with an independent bass line, works very well. But the exquisite musical writing of Bach holds up under an astonishingly wide range of instrumentation.
@@stephenwells6434 iirc the piece was discovered in the possession of someone who was taught by Bach, so either the piece was written by either Bach or the student
Wow... simply out of this world...thank you so much for giving us a glimpse about the way it should have been heard by Bach himself 300 hundred years ago... I doubt he was expending that much money in a real organ but hiring instead a low pay assistant who may have helped him to write down his extraordinary prelude and fugue in d minor using a harpsichord...at his home...Great!!! Thank you!!! Inspiring!!
Magnífica interpretação. Que encontro de felicidade única! Bach sempre emociona e toca no mais fundo da alma. Mas executado por um artista com tamanha sensibilidade e capacidade de mergulhar nesse delírio de sonoridades e de alcançar tamanha fusão com a obra, simplesmente revive, é como se estivesse tocando aqui e agora, e o resultado é de arrepiar. Impossível conter a emoção e as lágrimas diante de tal beleza. Parabéns e muito obrigado pelo privilégio de poder compartilhar desta preciosidade.
It was like hearing it for the first time. For all the fame and renown of this piece, I never could really follow it. It just sounded to me like a lot of bombast and virtuoso effects. Your interpretation makes it sound like music! Bravo!
Damn! Other than listening to well played sitar music, I got smoke coming out of my head listening your playing of Bach!! Not that I'll ever play any keyboard instrument to your level, but I appreciated the camera filming most of your finger movements. I didn't think some of those sequences were humanly possible!
I love harpsichord but listening to this cover, i realised why it’s forgotten. It can fill all the emotions that organ has, it can’t play long notes. However i still think harpsichord is amazing and i wish it would be more popular
@@pavaomrazek Every instrument has 'limited capabilities'. Can a piano sound like an organ? Can the human voice sound like the violin? What a nonsensical way to think about music.
@@arturlascala Why is it nonsense? Nonsense is trying to play violin music on a harpsichord. I just said that composers wrote music corresponding with harpsichord's abillities.
@@pavaomrazek Hate to break it to you, but a lot of transcriptions exist, even Bach arranged some of Vivaldi's Violin Concerti for Organ. It is not musical nonsense to play music on other instruments, and to suggest so is in itself foolish.
Bravo, meu cravista favorito👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️!! Esse arranjo deu trabalho né? As soluções que encontraste em algumas passagens complicadas de adaptação ficaram geniais!
Got curious about how this would sound after listening to a piano version. I like this, it still keeps the eerie feeling, but I still think it sounds best on a pipe organ.
I've heard this composition by many forms of instruments but never done by a harpsichord. an organ yeah a violin yeah and many bands or groups and last but least Vanessa Mae with her violin.😊
Sugerimos que assista nosso programa sobre o instrumento: BACH BRASIL #5 - "O Cravo - Instrumentos de Bach" - Concerto Didático com Fernando Cordella ua-cam.com/video/G7CW7iBNZUQ/v-deo.html
I'm always amazed at the wide range of talent of Johnny Depp.
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA BYE
Yes, he plays guitar, harpsichord, pirate and lawyer rather well....
damn i was about to write the same hahaha
Or maybe even Adam driver lol
His new sonata for harpsichord : Suck it, Amber Turd, Op. 9: No. 2 in E-Flat Major
my recommended is filled with harpsichord videos and i love it
The way he turned the page at 2:46 was just so epic.
This is incredible. For a piece that is normally only brought to life to its fullest extent on a pipe organ, this is a fantastic interpretation for harpsichord and I'm honestly kind of surprised how well it worked here, but being particularly partial to the timbre of the harpsichord... I'm just that much more enthralled with it.
Excellent, excellent playing and production!
Its Bach... It will work on harpsichord haha
I knew someone would comment on the arrangement. It is very well-done, isn’t it. It captures the spirit of the organ incredibly. You actually get the counterpart of the fugue in a brilliant way, in a way that the organ struggles with
The unique sound of the harpsichord always fascinated me. I specifically searched to see if anyone had played it on harpsichord as I thought it’d sound good. Not disappointed, works extremely well.
I like it, too. I'm used to hearing this on the organ, and I'm not a big fan of the organ. I LOVE the harpsichord, though.
@@valerietaylor9615 The only problem is hes using a small harpsichord. The original piece is massive and dominating on the organ and this small harpsichord doesnt fulfill the fullness of the original composition. Itd sound much better if he used a bigger harpsichord (a classical three level). Regardless, this is amazing to hear played by a harpsichord and his playing is perfect.
Wow that harpsichord sounds amazing, amazing playing too
Best I've ever seen... and I've seen a lot.
It's all about listening 👂
For me this is The Rock and roll of Classic music!!!! 🤘🏼 🎹
baroque to be precise ☝🏽🥰
A brilliant arrangement and hearing it on a harpsichord is wonderful
The way he made it sound legato is just stunning!!!! Greetings from Leipzig ❤
Only someone who truly understands Bach's spirit could have performed toccata & fugue in such an exquisite way.
when it drops down and goes back sends chills up and down my back and it's in a minor
Man.... Awesome cover of this classic..... One of the most difficult pieces of JS Bach..... and that too on the harpsichord, which is a rare instrument in 2023...... Really enjoyed this gem of a performance.....
Wow.... that was a pleasure!
There's a theory making the rounds that Bach actually wrote this piece for the harpsichord rather than the organ. I don't know if this is true or not, but this video certainly proves that it could have worked on the harpsichord.
There also is a theory (with some convincing evidence to support it) that this piece was not composed by J. S. Bach. Either way, it seems likely that the piece was written for the organ, given the independent bass line.
@@Bach6032 That theory is unlikely, in my opinion. Even many of the people who believe that Bach didn't write it acknowledge that they can't think of a more likely alternative to him.
I'm not a musicologist, but I have listened to the Brandenburg Concertos. The harpsichord in Number 5 sounds very similar to parts of this composition. If Toccata and Fugue wasn't written by Bach, then it was by somebody influenced by him.
As to why it has a baseline, some harpsichords do have pedals. Organists of the era often practiced on the harpsichord, and many compositions were written to be played on both instruments. That could be the case with this. Indeed, some musicologists have noted that it bears similarities with toccatas Bach wrote for both instruments.
@@stephenwells6434 I, too, believe that the work was composed by a youthful J.S. Bach, but some researchers cast *just* enough doubt on that belief that I no longer would stake my life on it.
To me, “harpsichord” and “pedal harpsichord” are different instruments with different purposes [for15 years I was a harpsichord builder] and for the last 30 years I have had both: see my UA-cam channel for recordings of six large ‘organ’ works of Bach performed on the same pedal harpsichord.
The two-manual harpsichord that Cordella used to render BWV 565, a work written with an independent bass line, works very well. But the exquisite musical writing of Bach holds up under an astonishingly wide range of instrumentation.
@@Bach6032 Bach composed it but was inspired by something he heard I'm church I think
@@stephenwells6434 iirc the piece was discovered in the possession of someone who was taught by Bach, so either the piece was written by either Bach or the student
Ive never heard this played on the harpsichord before. It sounds great!
some slick ornamentations/improv phrases! love it
Mammma Mia! Dio cosa meravigliosa.
masterful...complete understanding of the work.
Wow... simply out of this world...thank you so much for giving us a glimpse about the way it should have been heard by Bach himself 300 hundred years ago... I doubt he was expending that much money in a real organ but hiring instead a low pay assistant who may have helped him to write down his extraordinary prelude and fugue in d minor using a harpsichord...at his home...Great!!! Thank you!!! Inspiring!!
i must say i am impressed , you adapted the song really well on the harpsichord by delaying cords and modifying it a bit , it feels really good
I love this so much! You're so talented and brilliant, I can't stop listening to this...
Espetacular . Cordella arrasando como sempre .
Nunca tinha ouvido essa peça num cravo . Sequer sabia que isso era possível. Parabéns
Этот клавесин временами не уступает по звучанию оргАну.
Замечательная запись, спасибо!
🌹🌹🌹
Magnífica interpretação. Que encontro de felicidade única! Bach sempre emociona e toca no mais fundo da alma. Mas executado por um artista com tamanha sensibilidade e capacidade de mergulhar nesse delírio de sonoridades e de alcançar tamanha fusão com a obra, simplesmente revive, é como se estivesse tocando aqui e agora, e o resultado é de arrepiar. Impossível conter a emoção e as lágrimas diante de tal beleza. Parabéns e muito obrigado pelo privilégio de poder compartilhar desta preciosidade.
Bach 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Bravo ! Bela transcrição, execução! E que instrumento de sonoridade bonita!
I am amazed at how great this work sounds on a harpsichord! It's like a fresh powerful breeze.
It was like hearing it for the first time. For all the fame and renown of this piece, I never could really follow it. It just sounded to me like a lot of bombast and virtuoso effects. Your interpretation makes it sound like music! Bravo!
Bravissimo! Maravilhoso arranjo e execução! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Bellísima interpretación, me dejo sin palabras.
From the 2:49 mark to the 4:00 mark is some of the best music ever created.
Que lindo Fernando!!!!!
De arrepiar a alma, muito obrigado❤️💕💓
Cada vez mais apaixonados pela tua música 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Powerful - loved it. Thank you for sharing.
I cheered at the end! You brought life to this piece, magnificent !
Adoro o cravo e amo Bach!!
start listening from: 2:48
Interesting arrangement and great sound/playing. Thanks for uploading this!
心に響きます🎹
Magneficient!
BRAVISSIMO, F C !!!!!!! Superbe - et d'une finesse d'expression merveilleuse................
What a masterpiece!!
You are awesome!
Damn! Other than listening to well played sitar music, I got smoke coming out of my head listening your playing of Bach!! Not that I'll ever play any keyboard instrument to your level, but I appreciated the camera filming most of your finger movements. I didn't think some of those sequences were humanly possible!
Surreal!!
Minha peça predileta!!!!! Primeira vez a vendo ser tocada em um cravo... espetacular!!!!
Very well played and what a beautiful sound. Congratulations.
Brutally beautiful...
Que orgulho deste canal , sem palavras .
I love harpsichord but listening to this cover, i realised why it’s forgotten. It can fill all the emotions that organ has, it can’t play long notes. However i still think harpsichord is amazing and i wish it would be more popular
Yes, harpsichord had limited capabilities, so composers adapted to it. But, it's still a beautiful instrument
@@pavaomrazek Every instrument has 'limited capabilities'. Can a piano sound like an organ? Can the human voice sound like the violin? What a nonsensical way to think about music.
@@arturlascala Why is it nonsense? Nonsense is trying to play violin music on a harpsichord. I just said that composers wrote music corresponding with harpsichord's abillities.
@@pavaomrazek Hate to break it to you, but a lot of transcriptions exist, even Bach arranged some of Vivaldi's Violin Concerti for Organ. It is not musical nonsense to play music on other instruments, and to suggest so is in itself foolish.
MARVELOUS !!! 😃😃😇😇😍😍😍🤌🤌👏👏👏👍👍👍😍
Bravo, meu cravista favorito👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️!! Esse arranjo deu trabalho né? As soluções que encontraste em algumas passagens complicadas de adaptação ficaram geniais!
Que maravilla 😍 esprecioso....
Maravilhoso!!!
Interesting alternative to the organ version. Richard in Dallas
I'm amazed! So unexpected and brilliant!
"It was a dark and stormy night..."
Bravo
i’m so in love woOW … fantastically splendid 👏🏽… 💖✨🐬
Amazing!
No órgão é divino. Mas ficou maravilhoso no cravo também 😊❤
Amazing
this maestro must have put a whole lot of effort to make it sound so effortless
Genial, maravilloso
Amazing performance! 👏✨
Sensacional!!
Bravooo !!! 💐🎉👏👏👏👏👏💖🇨🇱
Esplêndido!
Biiiiiiizzzzzzzz, Braaaaavooooooo!
bravissimo!
Bravo 👏 👏
I need this version on my spotify
Em breve
I think it actually sounds better on harpsichord
I totally agree!
I judt love dit song and especially on da harpsichord
Got curious about how this would sound after listening to a piano version. I like this, it still keeps the eerie feeling, but I still think it sounds best on a pipe organ.
I agree.
Muito bom!
I adore the harpsichord ❤❤❤❤✝️✝️✝️✝️😎😎😎😎🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏
Incredible
Brilliant 2:48
Fino señores 🧐🍷
yeahhhhhhhh!
Alguien que tenga la partitura para clavicémbalo o que sepa que adaptación, les agradecería mucho que me lo dijeran.
This was so amazing that i shat mine britches. I soiled my wig.
By the way any plan to upload BWV 538 too? Another of my favorite :)
Nice
This is far beyond nice!
Ts tuff keep it up
Otimo. Beleza.
Que bom.
👏👏👏👏🎼
Foi escrita para órgão .
Inscrição mais fácil em anos.
Does anyone know if Bach originally composed Fugue in D minor for harpsichord or organ?
Me recuerda s mis hermanos gemelos. que no se prrdian el programa 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Here because the soundtrack for the Gauntlet game series borrows a lot from this piece. I can especially hear it during the opening to Fugue.
❤
I've heard this composition by many forms of instruments but never done by a harpsichord. an organ yeah a violin yeah and many bands or groups and last but least Vanessa Mae with her violin.😊
Ah man, was hoping there was a foot-pedalboard. The pedal-harpsichords are so damned cool. Great performance nonetheless!
Olá! Uma curiosidade de uma leiga, esse instrumento é o cravo? Fico grata.
Sugerimos que assista nosso programa sobre o instrumento: BACH BRASIL #5 - "O Cravo - Instrumentos de Bach" - Concerto Didático com Fernando Cordella
ua-cam.com/video/G7CW7iBNZUQ/v-deo.html
Dude is high on speed fr
Bach makes me believe in God. As a side note, bow ties are cool.
Love to see a harpsichordist who uses arm weight