My dad was quite a talented pianist and organist. Of all the music he played, this and Fantaisie-Impromptu where my two favorite pieces. Thank you so much for sharing this.
An astounding feat of human brain power: The memory of all notes The dexterity in 10 fingers The coordination of 2 hands and 2 feet All together, amazing human talent.
@@ildanny80 Mate, this is an EXTREMELY UNCOMMON display of conglomerate neurological prowess -- memory, timing, auditory feedback, hand to eye coordination, finger manipulation. It os like whole-body chess!. Most people have trouble driving well -- two hands on the wheel, one or two feet on the peddles, watching the road in front. Then add texting ... and they crash.
@@thedolphin5428 I didn't want to belittle his skills. Mine was a semi-serious comment. But we shouldn't be surprised that we can achieve these abilities. A little bit is talent, of curse, but mostly is training, training and training. I think I could play the hand part of this piece decently, with a lot of work, there are much more challenging piano pieces. I think about Chopin Op. 10 N.4 or List's "La Campanella" and similar. I never played with feet though. If you wonder about how good he is, think about the guy who wrote the piece ;o)
@@ildanny80 Well, I also look at people like jazz drummers. Two arns, two legs, the best of them playing 4 cross rhythms, maybe in different time sigs! Such brain dislocation I find extraordinary. So a multi register organ, at speed, no music, 10 fingers, 2 feet is all such a biological mind feat. And yes, composers are mind blowing too. Although, I also find great improv (on any instrument) a pretty amazing thing too.
What's more amazing then he or anyone of us being able to play this is a man so talented that he could compose it and play it. JS Bach along with so many others will surely gifts God.
I return every time to Maestro Zecca's performance of the Dorian which is unparalleled for majesty, for crispness, clarity and absolute conviction. Bach himself would have been in admiration of this man. Mille ringraziamenti
Organo e organista fantastici, la qualità del suono e la pulizia delle note è incredibile. La toccata dorica è veramente una delle massime espressioni organistiche di Bach, semplicemente divina.
È SEMPRE MAGNIFICA ASCOLTARLA,TI DA QUESTA GRANDE FORZA E CORAGGIO GIOIA.LA NOSTRA PIÙ ALTA AMMIRAZIONE AL MAESTRO.GLI RENDIAMO LA GLORIA DELLA MUSICA.
its realy music. I played the organ. And you grow in to the instrument with hands and feet. It is just naturaly to do it when you can do it and you learn it for many years and it is fabulous when you can do it,,,, When you play you feel it and you don't know that you do it so play it. Its a feeling people will not understand when they don't know how to play the organ. This performance was excelent! Just showing that music is not just music b
@Mookie Spindlehurst Were you to have read my comment carefully you might have seen that it began "If"; surely that's about as non-committal as one can be?
@Mookie Spindlehurst It is not semantics it is simple grammar, 'were' is the correct form form here as it is used in the subjunctive mood, you are confusing it with the indicative past tense 'were'. Grammar, particularly English grammar, is a tricky field in which to beard someone if you do not have a very solid foundation on which to stand, please forgive the mixed metaphors. Incidentally that should strictly be "...as my being...".
There is a heaven and a hell...I've visited both.....heaven is big beautiful and full of joyous sound...hell is .smelly and sad,sort of evocative of NYC
Additionally, I would venture to say that every single note of this Dorian Toccata is fingered as well as the pedal. Nothing was left to chance. It's the German way. Nothing is left to chance...How refreshing to see and hear.
Don't take me wrong. I studied in the German method at Oberlin. Just a comment as to the fact that Bach probably did most of his composing on Pedal harpsichord in the warmth of his home rather than freezing his gonads in a cold church, and paying a young person to pump the organ...interesting ? contemplate it.
I will never forget this demonstration when I was a young agent of John Hancock Insurance Company at their Home Office On Berkley St. In Boston. We were in the Auditorium and a demonstration of what the new Crag Super Computer that The Hancock had on board at the home office and what this computer could accomplish. Remember we are talking 1973 and computers were relatively new. They used this very piece to show the mathematical formulas that Bach Music produced in his compositions of his music. All of this was flashed upon a giant screen as the music played. As the music played the computer computed the formulas in math to produce this music. It was amazing.
Absolutely superb. The only version I prefer is that from Aarnoud Degroen. (might be a bit biaised cause I attended one or Aarnoud's concerts and this piece was somptuous in his "Bethlehemkerk" in The Hague ;) )
That's what intrigued me as well, namely, is was so "perfect." I called it "definitive." Sets the standard... and here comes Cameron C.... with light, color and video. Deo de Maximus.
What one likes is subjective, but if we are talking about the "most perfect" version... I would say Karl Richter wins, easily. Especially regarding accuracy at 1:44. Looking at the sheet, that high trill part is supposed to last longer, exactly how Karl Richter plays it ( ua-cam.com/video/B6J7c2ObAo4/v-deo.html ). Of course it's much harder like this, having to play 2 different things with the right hand for a long time. (that's how it looks like to me, a simple organ-lover, at least) Since I've heard the version I linked, I can't not notice the little "cheating" many other organists do at the part I mentioned.
I have heard of it, saw some of the sheet music a while ago, but never heard the work itself. I think I supposed it to be lesser than Bach's famous Tocatta and Fugue in Dm, but this is hardly so, just different. I am so happy to have stumbled across this amazing performance. Another work that I have come to love which has become one of my favorites after finding it here on YT is J.S. Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 {Peter Hurford}, if you aren't familiar with it, you should have a listen. ua-cam.com/video/o32X0ZPXMbY/v-deo.html
È in assoluto la più bella delle toccate e fughe di J. S. Bach, la BWV 538 dura ben 13 minuti, è anche la più lunga ed è la più difficile da suonare, un capolavoro assoluto.
@@andrewrichesson9457 exactly what has happened with my first organ piece BWV553... if I don´t play it for few weeks/month or two I still can just blast it our with closed eyes, because I´ve played it so many times :D
This really is a wonderful performance of Bach's great masterpiece: perfect in every detail and a joy to listen to. Does music get any better than this?
I miss my organist-choir director, William Schutt of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va. He loved Buxtehude. But he would have loved this too.
Complimenti per la tecnica, la profondità dell'espressione, la precisione nel mantenere il ritmo costante. Sei un Grande, riesci a commuovere il mondo intero.
This is just wonderful and so revealing about what an organist really must do. The video is, again, so revealing. And what many feel is the greatest composer in the world: J.S. Bach
Absolutely glorious rendering. No false, blurring, sentimental "mellifluousnes." A brilliantly beautifully stark performance that trusts the great master to redeem it all and does.
Astounding. I’ve heard so many versions and this is up there with the very best. I still think the Dorian particularly the toccata is one of the pinnacles of all music.
Ciao caro Luciano, grazie di cuore per il sogno in musica che hai saputo donarmi con la tua magistrale interpretazione di una composizione senza tempo. Beppe Vertemati da Lecco.
Senza la musica di Bach non si riuscirebbe a svelare quel mistero di cui ne avvolgiamo l'esistenza.
Parole sante. In 2 righe hai riassunto tutto. Chapeau.
Senza Bach non avremmo scoperto nemmeno la musica rock....
.......l' accompagnamento di basso......il contrappunto....
Alex.
Perfeito!
My dad was quite a talented pianist and organist. Of all the music he played, this and Fantaisie-Impromptu where my two favorite pieces. Thank you so much for sharing this.
An astounding feat of human brain power:
The memory of all notes
The dexterity in 10 fingers
The coordination of 2 hands and 2 feet
All together, amazing human talent.
Although this is a very good rendition, it's not so uncommon to properly use our limbs :o)
@@ildanny80
Mate, this is an EXTREMELY UNCOMMON display of conglomerate neurological prowess -- memory, timing, auditory feedback, hand to eye coordination, finger manipulation. It os like whole-body chess!. Most people have trouble driving well -- two hands on the wheel, one or two feet on the peddles, watching the road in front. Then add texting ... and they crash.
@@thedolphin5428 I didn't want to belittle his skills. Mine was a semi-serious comment. But we shouldn't be surprised that we can achieve these abilities. A little bit is talent, of curse, but mostly is training, training and training. I think I could play the hand part of this piece decently, with a lot of work, there are much more challenging piano pieces.
I think about Chopin Op. 10 N.4 or List's "La Campanella" and similar. I never played with feet though.
If you wonder about how good he is, think about the guy who wrote the piece ;o)
@@ildanny80
Well, I also look at people like jazz drummers. Two arns, two legs, the best of them playing 4 cross rhythms, maybe in different time sigs! Such brain dislocation I find extraordinary. So a multi register organ, at speed, no music, 10 fingers, 2 feet is all such a biological mind feat.
And yes, composers are mind blowing too. Although, I also find great improv (on any instrument) a pretty amazing thing too.
What's more amazing then he or anyone of us being able to play this is a man so talented that he could compose it and play it. JS Bach along with so many others will surely gifts God.
Perfect 10!
💙💙💙I have ALWAYS loved this toccata!!💙💙💙This artist brings it to life as it was meant to be performed!
PERFECTION!💙💙💙👍👍👍😃😃😃
The master did what was right with the piece. He drove me to the ground and left me speechless
Unglaublich der Organist spielt die dorische Toccata aus dem Gedächtnis. Dazu perfekt Ein einmaliges Talent. Meine Bewunderung!!
Luciano Zecca steht damit in der Tradition der Meisterorganisten Karl Richter, Helmut Walcha und Olivier Latry !
I cried when I first heard this... absolutely stunning performance
❤
Grazie per questa bellissima interpretazione. E' perfetta.
Самая божественная музыка в мире, обожаю и послушаем уже 50лет, у этой музыки нет срока действия, она бессмертна
Thank God there are Bach and Vivaldi in human history.
Yazeed Bushnag Even if it takes super-humans to play their works. :)
You are leaving out many good composers of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.
Reger, Liszt, Mendelssohn ???????
And Aram Asatryan best musician ever
@@dennissheridan8836 Can you name those composers you have in mind. I always wondered if there are good composers before Bach and Vivaldi.
Me he propuesto componer para éste instrumento, sin duda es el rey.
I return every time to Maestro Zecca's performance of the Dorian which is unparalleled for majesty, for crispness, clarity and absolute conviction. Bach himself would have been in admiration of this man. Mille ringraziamenti
There are several magnificent performances of this work, but for me this one truly stands out, for the reasons you mention.
GRANDE BACH, GRANDE MAESTRO ZECCA, GRANDE ORGANO. GRAZIE PER QUESTE MAGNIFICHE PERLE🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
My favorite Bach piece. You played it wonderfully.
4 seconds into the performance and I knew this was going to be a favorite of mine. That doesn't happen often to me.
Took me 5 seconds - but I'm getting old...
The Organ, the "Queen" of all instruments!
Listening to this music,
worldly worries disappear
Organo e organista fantastici, la qualità del suono e la pulizia delle note è incredibile. La toccata dorica è veramente una delle massime espressioni organistiche di Bach, semplicemente divina.
To me this here is the most powerful piece of Bach music.
The player is absolutely fantastic. Flawless interpretation, perfect tempo.
🇮🇹👏♥️🌟💯 OK!!
exquisite first rate performance thank you Vicki Vogrin fr Casa Grande AZ
Extraordinaire ! Merci
Perfect performance
Bach tenia Super Poderes. La musica se rendia a su voluntad y le dejaba el camino abierto para mostrarnos lo facil que era complacer a Dios.
Dijo Beethoven que "Bach fue el Dios de la armonía"
Top 3 of all time in my book. 8yo LOVES his work.
Very nice. Thank you.
Tale è l'immensità di questa musica che mi ritrovo invariabilmente senza parole e ad alzare lo sguardo al cielo...
Todos los días miro al cielo y le doy las gracias al Maestro por habernos dejado la maravilla de su inmensa obra
@@javipuente7079 Sì è qualcosa di immenso...
difficile trovare le parole giuste,ma credo che mi puoi capire 💫
I have to be two persons to do this. I can't believe the hands-feet synchronization. Millions of Bravos Maestro, as well as for Bach of course.
...as long as the music sounds all problems of the world are over, solved. Until the music ends...Great JSB!
È SEMPRE MAGNIFICA ASCOLTARLA,TI DA QUESTA GRANDE FORZA E CORAGGIO GIOIA.LA NOSTRA PIÙ ALTA AMMIRAZIONE AL MAESTRO.GLI RENDIAMO LA GLORIA DELLA MUSICA.
Bach is not from this world, GOD BLESS BACH
J'adore Cet Musique Classique
No me canso de ver y escuchar ésta impresionante y magna ejecución e interpretación es BRUTAL Y PERFECTA.
This is almost the 100' time i hear it, and i am still captivated. Thank you Bach and thank you very much to the Organist
Pure perfection
A superb performance in every respect, I don't think this could be surpassed. Such energy and clarity of sound.
its realy music. I played the organ. And you grow in to the instrument with hands and feet. It is just naturaly to do it when you can do it and you learn it for many years and it is fabulous when you can do it,,,, When you play you feel it and you don't know that you do it so play it. Its a feeling people will not understand when they don't know how to play the organ.
This performance was excelent! Just showing that music is not just music b
Спасибо
Semplicemente meravigliosa 💖💖💖 ai tempi dell'esame di matematica per la maturità l'avevo in sottofondo
La dorica è un pezzo stupendo, e lui è perfetto ed entusiasmante....
If there were a heaven I would expect to hear this sort of sound in it.
@Mookie Spindlehurst Were you to have read my comment carefully you might have seen that it began "If"; surely that's about as non-committal as one can be?
@Mookie Spindlehurst It is not semantics it is simple grammar, 'were' is the correct form form here as it is used in the subjunctive mood, you are confusing it with the indicative past tense 'were'. Grammar, particularly English grammar, is a tricky field in which to beard someone if you do not have a very solid foundation on which to stand, please forgive the mixed metaphors. Incidentally that should strictly be "...as my being...".
There is a heaven and a hell...I've visited both.....heaven is big beautiful and full of joyous sound...hell is .smelly and sad,sort of evocative of NYC
There is Heaven and hell... Anybody who doesn't know it is simply miserable... 🍂
Commovente interpretazione. Grandioso
Listening to Bach the past 4 years has saved my sanity. At last the citizens of the United States will have a true leader not a CLOWN!!
perfect in every way. Thank you!
Bach is fantastic ! As always... :)
Additionally, I would venture to say that every single note of this Dorian Toccata is fingered as well as the pedal. Nothing was left to chance. It's the German way. Nothing is left to chance...How refreshing to see and hear.
Don't take me wrong. I studied in the German method at Oberlin. Just a comment as to the fact that Bach probably did most of his composing on Pedal harpsichord in the warmth of his home rather than freezing his gonads in a cold church, and paying a young person to pump the organ...interesting ? contemplate it.
I will never forget this demonstration when I was a young agent of John Hancock Insurance Company at their Home Office On Berkley St. In Boston. We were in the Auditorium and a demonstration of what the new Crag Super Computer that The Hancock had on board at the home office and what this computer could accomplish. Remember we are talking 1973 and computers were relatively new. They used this very piece to show the mathematical formulas that Bach Music produced in his compositions of his music. All of this was flashed upon a giant screen as the music played. As the music played the computer computed the formulas in math to produce this music. It was amazing.
Phantastisch!
This is the one of the most perfect versions i have ever heard before. Beautiful organ, clear and fine sound. I love it.
He did a good job.
agree
Absolutely superb. The only version I prefer is that from Aarnoud Degroen. (might be a bit biaised cause I attended one or Aarnoud's concerts and this piece was somptuous in his "Bethlehemkerk" in The Hague ;) )
That's what intrigued me as well, namely, is was so "perfect." I called it "definitive." Sets the standard... and here comes Cameron C.... with light, color and video. Deo de Maximus.
What one likes is subjective, but if we are talking about the "most perfect" version... I would say Karl Richter wins, easily.
Especially regarding accuracy at 1:44. Looking at the sheet, that high trill part is supposed to last longer, exactly how Karl Richter plays it ( ua-cam.com/video/B6J7c2ObAo4/v-deo.html ).
Of course it's much harder like this, having to play 2 different things with the right hand for a long time. (that's how it looks like to me, a simple organ-lover, at least)
Since I've heard the version I linked, I can't not notice the little "cheating" many other organists do at the part I mentioned.
I didn't know this piece, isn't it wonderful when you come across something so beautiful and thrilling for the first time. Thanks so much.
I have heard of it, saw some of the sheet music a while ago, but never heard the work itself. I think I supposed it to be lesser than Bach's famous Tocatta and Fugue in Dm, but this is hardly so, just different. I am so happy to have stumbled across this amazing performance.
Another work that I have come to love which has become one of my favorites after finding it here on YT is J.S. Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 {Peter Hurford}, if you aren't familiar with it, you should have a listen. ua-cam.com/video/o32X0ZPXMbY/v-deo.html
I know what you're talking about.
Esecuzione definitiva. Tutto giusto e perfetto, emozione e commozione a piene mani. Bravissimo!!
Da ascoltare anche quella di Carl Weinrich
Bravissimo, molte grazie.
Maestro sempre magnifico bach
Beautiful.
One year later... still perfect. Thank you.
just !!! incredible !!
Perfektion ...das ist bach..wie ich ihn gerne höre..danke
A wonderful piece, an exciting organ, an excellent organist. Perfect!
Thank you for sharing!
Нет ничего глубже, сокровенней и вдохновенней, чем Органная музыка Баха, особенно в таком филигранном исполнении
Slava Ukraine
Semplicemente impeccabile
they guy deserves a medal being able to play this.
YES
organ olympics
A medal for his work on the pedal
+Orientable Lentil ped med
This music is a medal for him
@Dinkelstein Kerman - Okay, that’s fine! 👍🏅
Sublime!
Wow!!!!...what powerful beauty this is!!!
Excellent tempo. Magnifique interprétation. Le tout est parfait. Merci
Emozione allo stato puro
È in assoluto la più bella delle toccate e fughe di J. S. Bach, la BWV 538 dura ben 13 minuti, è anche la più lunga ed è la più difficile da suonare, un capolavoro assoluto.
Ascoltare, venerare e..tenere la bocca chiusa! Superba interpretazione
Certamente!
I’ll agree one of the best versions, top 3 on youtube
THIS IS INDEED GOD’s MUSIC! Masterful playing
Simply amazing!
And he's playing strictly from memory! WOW!
I've found that when some pieces take so much practice, you end up memorizing them anyway.
@@andrewrichesson9457 exactly what has happened with my first organ piece BWV553... if I don´t play it for few weeks/month or two I still can just blast it our with closed eyes, because I´ve played it so many times :D
Bach: “He is the master of us all!”
Magnificently played!🎵
Бах жив💪
BELLISIMO GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR
This really is a wonderful performance of Bach's great masterpiece: perfect in every detail and a joy to listen to. Does music get any better than this?
Music gets better with company, but it never gets perfect🇺🇸💜💀
Bach is best!
@@Adam58293 wow, so edgy!!!!! xdxdxdxxddxdx
The best version I've heard since Biggs.
No!
Fabelhaft, wunderbar, wunderschön, ausgezeichnet
Great performance, thanks!
RINGRAZIO TUTTI COLORO CHE HANNO SRITTO DUE PAROLE DI RINGRAZIAMENTO AL NOSTRO MAESTRO.MILLE GRAZIE.
I miss my organist-choir director, William Schutt of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va. He loved Buxtehude. But he would have loved this too.
Complimenti per la tecnica, la profondità dell'espressione, la precisione nel mantenere il ritmo costante. Sei un Grande, riesci a commuovere il mondo intero.
This is just wonderful and so revealing about what an organist really must do. The video is, again, so revealing. And what many feel is the greatest composer in the world: J.S. Bach
After Rossini!
Absolutely glorious rendering. No false, blurring, sentimental "mellifluousnes." A brilliantly beautifully stark performance that trusts the great master to redeem it all and does.
The humanity would be very lonely without Bach and his great performer like he
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
Excelente! Thanks!
Wonderful.piece.of.Bach,wonderful.sound.of.the.organ.Super.
Der Organist bekommt von mir von maximal 10 möglichen Punkten 11!
great composition, great performance, and great organist!
Super !!!!! Super 😀👍
BEST version I've heard so far if not ever .. superb
Some of THEE very best pieces played by the experts!!
Grazie per le emozioni che mi fai provare....
Buon pomeriggio
La perfección del gran Bach..y la perfeccion de este gran maestro al organo.
To my ears probably one of the best renditions of the Dorica on UA-cam.
Эта Токката моя самая любимая..!!!! Александр Одессит
........bravo.......
Organo con suono magnifico, e, come sempre organista bravissimo!! Complimenti!
Astounding. I’ve heard so many versions and this is up there with the very best. I still think the Dorian particularly the toccata is one of the pinnacles of all music.
Ciao caro Luciano, grazie di cuore per il sogno in musica che hai saputo donarmi con la tua magistrale interpretazione di una composizione senza tempo.
Beppe Vertemati da Lecco.
@1:40 Holding the trill in the right while handling parallel 6ths in the left. This guy is a beast.
The best music never dies...