I absolutely love this piece - possibly my favourite of all the Chorale Preludes; thank you for playing it so beautifully. In bar 3, I notice that you play the second E (left hand) as a flat. In all the times I have heard this piece, I have never heard that before, so I looked at the music ... Most confusingly, while the other two Es are naturalised, that one is not - but then, neither is it re-flattened!! May I ask ... what made you choose the flattened reading?
Well... you made me go and double check the score myself. Interestingly you are right: the E in question is a natural, and somehow I never noticed! While the score was in front of me, I was probably playing this more from memory. I have been playing this for so many years and have done at times without the score in front of me so I can only conclude that the error crept in a very long time ago and simply remained undetected until now. But it clearly sounds alright otherwise I would have noticed a very long time ago. Full points for attention to detail. The question now is will I remember the next time I go to play it without the score?
artman40 The pipes become about half as big with every octave you go up the keyboard. I would have used some of the smaller pipes, but the really small ones are on the high-pitched stops at the top of the keyboards (some of those pipes being around the size of a pencil).
Shining Armor Basically the size of pipes halve every time you go up an octave. I was playing around the middle of the keyboard. If I was playing up another two octaves then yes, I would be using many of the smallest pipes which would be a quarter of the size of the ones you hear in this video. The bottom pipe on a Terz rank is about the same size as middle E on an 8' rank. So the smallest pipes on the organ have to be of high pitches AND at the top of the keyboard.
First time I heard this on a pipe organ. I was first introduced to this peace through an interpretation of Isao Tomita named ‘a sea named solaris’ I never knew it was this beautiful when played on a real instrument, probably a lot closer to what was originally intended. I love the registration you chose, thanks for making this video.
I think it is unfair how you pick and choose which comments you reply to so I will downvote 223-0 to 222-1 now. 2 years I waited for a reply from you that never came.
Great performance Samuel. Bach would be proud of you. Did Bach indicate what stops he wanted you to use when he composed this piece or he gave you the freedom to choose the stops that you felt was right for the piece?
Someone may correct me, but I am not aware of any cases where Bach gives more than a general direction with regard to registering the organ. For this piece, like many, no direction is provided; it is really in the hands of the organist to make an appropriate choice. Reviewing the text that accompanied the theme in its original chorale setting is always good practice.
Great selection of stops on this Bach masterpiece. That is the 2 or 1 and 1/3 foot high pitched pipes and 16 foot sounding Bourdon/Stopped diapason pipes with the stopper at the top but physically 8 foot long.
@@oludotunjohnshowemimo434 On the pedal I used the Subbas 16' and Principal 8'; on the lower manual the Rohrflöte 8'; and on the upper manual I used the Bordun 8' and, Terz 1-3/5'. I like tierces as they give a lovely bell-like quality.
Fantastic playing! This is my favorite prelude by Bach.
What a lovely piece, and very well played. Thank you sir!
Once again, beautiful tone. Suits the piece to perfection.
I absolutely love this piece - possibly my favourite of all the Chorale Preludes; thank you for playing it so beautifully. In bar 3, I notice that you play the second E (left hand) as a flat. In all the times I have heard this piece, I have never heard that before, so I looked at the music ... Most confusingly, while the other two Es are naturalised, that one is not - but then, neither is it re-flattened!! May I ask ... what made you choose the flattened reading?
Well... you made me go and double check the score myself. Interestingly you are right: the E in question is a natural, and somehow I never noticed! While the score was in front of me, I was probably playing this more from memory. I have been playing this for so many years and have done at times without the score in front of me so I can only conclude that the error crept in a very long time ago and simply remained undetected until now. But it clearly sounds alright otherwise I would have noticed a very long time ago.
Full points for attention to detail. The question now is will I remember the next time I go to play it without the score?
Thank you for your honest reply! I hope you manage to remember. Good luck!
He flat out forgot to check it.
a bit to high pitched for me but its still good
It sounds out of tune!! 🧐 This piece is supposed to be sad and melancholy but this perfomance sounds silly and fun ! :)
Nice....
Wonderfully played....good!!!! great!!!! Bach would be proud, where are you? What church?
Chesterbarnes1 All that information is in the video description.
This tune probably puts the smallest pipes to use.
artman40 The pipes become about half as big with every octave you go up the keyboard. I would have used some of the smaller pipes, but the really small ones are on the high-pitched stops at the top of the keyboards (some of those pipes being around the size of a pencil).
You make use of a tertian (1 3/5' + 1 1/3')in this video. In what universe is 1 1/3' not small?
Shining Armor Basically the size of pipes halve every time you go up an octave. I was playing around the middle of the keyboard. If I was playing up another two octaves then yes, I would be using many of the smallest pipes which would be a quarter of the size of the ones you hear in this video. The bottom pipe on a Terz rank is about the same size as middle E on an 8' rank. So the smallest pipes on the organ have to be of high pitches AND at the top of the keyboard.
As the musical notes increase in pitch, the size and length of the pipes decrease by half.
It gave me a headache!! It’s so shrill and high pitched! :/ 😖😣
It’s kinda annoying ngl
It’s way too high
Again.... a dangerous answer these days............to mechanical.............sorry......also worth talking about stops I guess
Fantastic playing! This is my favorite prelude by Bach.
First time I heard this on a pipe organ. I was first introduced to this peace through an interpretation of Isao Tomita named ‘a sea named solaris’
I never knew it was this beautiful when played on a real instrument, probably a lot closer to what was originally intended. I love the registration you chose, thanks for making this video.
I think it is unfair how you pick and choose which comments you reply to so I will downvote 223-0 to 222-1 now. 2 years I waited for a reply from you that never came.
I love Bach's organ works... as one great critic put it "their a ocean unto themselves, by the way I think you play beautifully.
I think it really demands a bigger organ
very well played ... i like the choice of high pitch stops as well but some notes sound slightly out of tune, right?
Yeah they are out of tune 😖😣
Very nice, beautiful piece.
W O N D E R F U L !!!
Great performance Samuel. Bach would be proud of you.
Did Bach indicate what stops he wanted you to use when he composed this piece or he gave you the freedom to choose the stops that you felt was right for the piece?
Someone may correct me, but I am not aware of any cases where Bach gives more than a general direction with regard to registering the organ. For this piece, like many, no direction is provided; it is really in the hands of the organist to make an appropriate choice. Reviewing the text that accompanied the theme in its original chorale setting is always good practice.
Great selection of stops on this Bach masterpiece. That is the 2 or 1 and 1/3 foot high pitched pipes and 16 foot sounding Bourdon/Stopped diapason pipes with the stopper at the top but physically 8 foot long.
@@oludotunjohnshowemimo434 On the pedal I used the Subbas 16' and Principal 8'; on the lower manual the Rohrflöte 8'; and on the upper manual I used the Bordun 8' and, Terz 1-3/5'. I like tierces as they give a lovely bell-like quality.