Agreed, and this is one of the greatest performances of it. Leo van Doeselaar is probably one of the top half dozen organists in Europe, right up there with likes of Daniel Roth and Olivier Latry.
Interestingly enough, it was also played during the procession out of the church for Princess Diana's funeral. I saw a lot of overlap between HMs funeral and other royal funerals
@@johanbrand8601 pipe organs are made of metal, and I'd imagine they are quite heavy. Also this instrument is featured in a lot of modern metal so idk man...
Finally found this piece. Somewhat i heard it in HRH Prince Phillip funeral.. and today accidentaly pop up on my youtube recommendation. What a piece! Very beautiful.
O que podemos esperar do maior dos instrumentos nas mãos do maior dos compositores? O máximo de potência, dramaticidade, e técnica. Bach é insuperável e atemporal.
Wonderful instrument, wonderfully played! A Schnitger organ (one of the greatest Organ Builders) displaying the power and majesty of Bach's fine composition for the instrument. Truly, the "King of Instruments" - with composition by "Der Meister"
"Sur quelle planète le géant Bach pousse-t-il sa charrue ? " Jugement de la regrettée Marie-Claire Alain. Quel instrument magnifique que le Schnitger d'Alkmaar, servi par une superbe interprétation de cette oeuvre grandiose dans laquelle le Prélude affirme sa majesté et la Fugue son incroyable force. Cette Fugue n'est pas un petit ruisseau (Bach) mais un puissant fleuve. Et Beethoven de commenter qu'il n'aurait pas dû s'appeler Bach mais Mer ou Océan. La tierce picarde d'ut aussi bien à la fin du Prélude que de la Fugue donne à cet immense dyptique un aspect de Jugement Dernier.
As brilliant as some of these recordings are and although headphones are as good as ever nothing could possibly compare to hearing this live. Such power and glory in this piece
Doeselaar does it again. He produced a fantastic interpretation of BWV 542 (fantasia and fugue in G minor) and probably did not want to interfere with Havinga's BWV 543. May he be hereby thanked! An interesting piece of trivia about BWV 546: the prelude was composed after the fugue.
I agree, absolutely majestic and one of the greatest performances I know. All the more amazing when you follow the score and the magnificent pedal entries in the fugue!
This is a fabulous piece played with a nice fat yet clear tone. I absolutely love the pedal points early in the prelude. They just sound so massively powerful and daunting.
This is because of the powerful principal 22' on the pedal. It actually fuctions as an quint 21/3. Very incredible. And ofcourse the pitch at a1= 415. 👌
Unfortunately, such only recently, while on a business trip, I accidentally stumbled upon a selection of the Dutch Bach community and discovered a number of great masters, including Leo van Doeselaar. I take my hat off to a master of phrasing, such as Leo. In his articulation is no contradiction with my inner perception of this music! I am not fully supporting such his registration plan, but It right equally fantastic recording, Bravo!
Great organ, built by Galtus, Germer and Jacobus van Hagerbeer (1639-46). Renovated in North-German style by: Franz Caspar Schnitger, a son of the famous organ builder Arp Schnitger. (1722-25)
"Il ne restait plus qu'à boucler la boucle avec Jean-Sébastien Bach. Retentit à l'orgue l'une des pièces les plus puissantes du Cantor de Leipzig : le en ut mineur BWV 546. Une façon, de la part du mort, de planter, de sa bière, un dernier clou symbolique dans le cercueil allégorique de son fils Charles : ce morceau de musique fut également joué à la fin de l'enterrement de Lady Diana, en 1997. La vengeance père-fils est un plat qui se mange froid, même quand le cadavre est encore chaud. Telle était la morale d'un enterrement royal, dont nous n'eussions rien eu à faire s'il n'avait laissé transpirer, au milieu du variant anglais, des invariants tragiques remontant à la plus haute Antiquité, dont Shakespeare sut se repaître". Par Antoine Perraud 17 Avril 2021 MEDIAPART
Just love this recording. Its like this instrument was made for this piece by Bach. I own a Chandos CD of Piet Kee playing this piece on this same Hagerbeer/FC Schnitger organ and it just blows the doors off of my loudspeakers... and me... every time I play the disc. Uncanny. St Laurenskerk and Bach... a match made in Heaven.
You and the rest of us! Perhaps the Alkmaar church authorities (acting on behalf of God?) won't let the Schnitger organ be sampled for Hauptwerk because it might then be played by those of us unworthy of it?
yes.. but in which of them. weren't there chamber pitches at about a = 415 Hz, our g sharp, or even lower. and church pitches at 465 Hz or even higher, in the same time and the same city. this then seems to show up a chamber tone in a church room?
What do you mean? This was one of the earliest organs to be tuned to equal temperament. Kees Canal confuses tuning with pitch but worth noting this organ is tuned to A=415, which I think helps with the incredible grandeur of the sound of this organ.
Also I love the true story of Bach at a major organ competition. He was rehearsing and noodling around with what would become this passacaglia, on the competition instrument. Another competitor organist from another country overheard Bach playing strains from this masterpiece and fled home. Competitor just heard Bach playing parts of this piece and forfeited the competition.
That happened in Dresden. It was meant to be a head-to-head competition between JSB and the French organist/harpsichordist Louis Marchand. Although he arrived in Dresden, Marchand realised he couldn't compete with Bach and rather than suffer a public defeat he headed back to Paris without taking part in the competition.
Bellissima 🎶. In quale cattedrale è suonata questa musica? STebbe bello conos ere le cattedrale icui i musicisti eseguono la musica a classica per conoscere di più di un luogo.di . Bach . Vivaldi ...prevedere lablezzaxelle cattedrali.grazie🙏🌸🌹
Haahahaha unreal now its goin down getcho weed getcho likka if ya need help attainin it den hit me up ill help u out bruh good ass stank n likka on da way now we talkin now we indulgin we stay chill to dis amazing music omg
van Doeselaar sounds very much better when you don't have to watch his contortions while playing. This is one of the better renditions of this piece, almost equaling that given by Piet Kee.
it was an arcade mod named Mafia. One of the choosable execution sequences has you beamed up by a fleet of Protoss motherships, takes a really fucking long time, and plays the first part of this music
The Prelude has a majestic form, I think it needs big reeds like on this recording. About the fugue, at least at the beginning, it should be lighter without reeds or 16' reeds. And the same registration during 14 minutes is too much, it is tiring.
To Nyle Evans: Hello, Nyle! I was dismayed by your equating this music with Satanism but cheered by your realization that it was a hasty mistake. (I am continually dismayed by how many of my fellow organists program Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d minor at Halloween “Spooktacular”concerts that only encourage casual listeners to equate organ music with horror films etc.) You should not feel obliged to subscribe to Bach’s religious views if that is not who you are. Could your entry into a deeper understanding of this music be that Bach’s supreme mastery of musical motion in some way taps into the structure and motion of the universe, from the atomic particle to the outer reaches of deep space? It is another one of the many ways to approach this music. As the organist E. Power Biggs once wrote, “Wherever we turn, Bach has been there before us.” You will presumably have turned 12 by the time you read this and I will shortly turn 72. I can only tell you that Bach’s music has continued to unfold wonders for me to this day (to this afternoon!). I hope that you will never stop letting it lead you into new places in your exploration of it. I can attest from a lifetime’s experience that wherever we turn, Bach has been there before us.
Dommage de ne pas varier les régistrations ! 13 mn avec les mêmes timbres sur un orgue d'une telle richesse de sons, c'est aberrant ! BACH était trop intelligent pour jouer ainsi, n'en déplaise aux baroqueux fanatiques qui joue la passacaille sur le plenum pendant 12 mn sous prétexte d'historicisme ! ! La Musique en sort appauvrie, même quand ce genre de théories vient d'une Marie Claire Alain ! C'est tellement plus simple de tout jouer sur le même clavier avec une seul type de jeux et de dire que c'est ça l'Histoire." Foutage de gueule en réalité ".
Je suis en partie d'accord avec vous. Mais en ce qui concerne le prélude, ici, en do mineur, je trouve que le jouer entièrement plenum organum, lui insuffle une dramatique supplémentaire. Alors que des fois, certains changements de registre sont simplement des effets (spéciaux). En fait, changement de registre ou pas, c'est la musique qui compte. Il y a des organistes qui font trois tonnes de changements de registre, sans que ça apporte quoi que ce soit à la musique , bien au contraire, ça complique la compréhension de la musique plus qu'autre chose. Ou parce que il cherche l'originalité ? Le problème est de savoir utiliser l'instrument à bon escient, en fonction de comment on ressent personnellement et honnêtement le morceau.
Quando voglio sentire Dio, oltre al testo biblico, la seconda fonte per me è la musica di Johann Sebastian Bach.
I personally think this has to be one one of J S Bach's greatest organ works.
There are so many organ masterpieces from Bach !! The P&F in C, the one in D, in Eb, etc.... are as magnificent as BWV 546, in my opinion.
Agreed, and this is one of the greatest performances of it. Leo van Doeselaar is probably one of the top half dozen organists in Europe, right up there with likes of Daniel Roth and Olivier Latry.
@@keplergso8369 the Fugue - starting at 7:33 is one of the very Masterpieces of J.S.Bach transcriptions.. Do you have a Fugue of Bach with more Power?
@@not4nothing1982 Maybe equal to the fuga of the Passacaglia ? Or from BWV 552 ?
Yes. And what must be one of the finest organs in the world
Bach...Cijeli je Kosmos u Njegovoj muzici...❤️🌹💫
I listened to this piece many times and it still gives me goosebumps
It's like being in the presence of something greater than all of us...
The was played during the end of the Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Such a hauntingly, beautiful piece.
Interestingly enough, it was also played during the procession out of the church for Princess Diana's funeral. I saw a lot of overlap between HMs funeral and other royal funerals
Also played at the end of St Giles service
The Queen went out to the C minor fantasia BWV 562. But this piece was the out music to the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral.
@@nickvela1992 The prelude was, but the fugue was omitted and the Maestoso from Symphony no 3 for Organ by Saint Saens was played instead.
WOW! What a room-what a builder-what a player-
and what a BACH!!!
La musica di Bach entra nell animo siamo quasi al divino
Pipe Organ - the original Heavy Metal.
Tons of it actually :p
@Skyler Case it totally work for me...
Well, not really. Actually, I don't even have a girlfriend
What a rubbish comment. Original heavy metal?! What?!
@@johanbrand8601 pipe organs are made of metal, and I'd imagine they are quite heavy. Also this instrument is featured in a lot of modern metal so idk man...
@@johanbrand8601 The similarities between heavy metal (and the like) to the classical genre is an often made comparison.
Finally found this piece. Somewhat i heard it in HRH Prince Phillip funeral.. and today accidentaly pop up on my youtube recommendation. What a piece! Very beautiful.
O que podemos esperar do maior dos instrumentos nas mãos do maior dos compositores? O máximo de potência, dramaticidade, e técnica. Bach é insuperável e atemporal.
Bach is a musical genius
Leo van Doeselaar! The best organist!
Wonderful instrument, wonderfully played! A Schnitger organ (one of the greatest Organ Builders) displaying the power and majesty of Bach's fine composition for the instrument. Truly, the "King of Instruments" - with composition by "Der Meister"
+Higgs Boson RICHTIG, DU KENNST!
"Sur quelle planète le géant Bach pousse-t-il sa charrue ? " Jugement de la regrettée Marie-Claire Alain. Quel instrument magnifique que le Schnitger d'Alkmaar, servi par une superbe interprétation de cette oeuvre grandiose dans laquelle le Prélude affirme sa majesté et la Fugue son incroyable force. Cette Fugue n'est pas un petit ruisseau (Bach) mais un puissant fleuve. Et Beethoven de commenter qu'il n'aurait pas dû s'appeler Bach mais Mer ou Océan. La tierce picarde d'ut aussi bien à la fin du Prélude que de la Fugue donne à cet immense dyptique un aspect de Jugement Dernier.
The JUDGE has won!
I would love to experience this live in a church!
7:33 the fugue.
for me this is one of the very few Bach transmissions where the Fugue really overtops the Prelude. What is your meaning?
As brilliant as some of these recordings are and although headphones are as good as ever nothing could possibly compare to hearing this live. Such power and glory in this piece
Absolutely majestic! First class interpretation on one of the most suitable organs around the world to play Bach's music.
Walcha did this and others on that same organ in the 50s. Seminal work.
The greatest musician forever
It,s wonderful majestuosic omnipotent absolut genius I heard this work BWV546 from 1985 I hope playing organ
BWV 546 shows the beast that the Pipe organ holds within.
Doeselaar does it again. He produced a fantastic interpretation of BWV 542 (fantasia and fugue in G minor) and probably did not want to interfere with Havinga's BWV 543. May he be hereby thanked! An interesting piece of trivia about BWV 546: the prelude was composed after the fugue.
Une performance excellente dans une église majestueuse - mes félicitations à l'organiste.
Simply divine!
I agree, absolutely majestic and one of the greatest performances I know. All the more amazing when you follow the score and the magnificent pedal entries in the fugue!
This is a fabulous piece played with a nice fat yet clear tone. I absolutely love the pedal points early in the prelude. They just sound so massively powerful and daunting.
TheApostleofRock This is because of the roaring Basuin 16' rank of the pedal. Of course the plenum of this organ is quite impressive also.
TheApostleofRock This is because of the roaring Basuin 16' rank of the pedal. Of course the plenum of this organ is quite impressive also.
+TheApostleofRoc du hast Recht.
+raul reyes
Warum müssen Sie alle Großbuchstaben eintippen?
This is because of the powerful principal 22' on the pedal. It actually fuctions as an quint 21/3. Very incredible. And ofcourse the pitch at a1= 415. 👌
Very very beautiful organ, and organist !!
Splendide interpretation par M. van Doeselaar. Instrument sublime.
Superb - never tired listening to this majestic interpretation!
This would make a great boss theme
Magnificent, certainly the best I've heard ever.
Unfortunately, such only recently, while on a business trip, I accidentally stumbled upon a selection of the Dutch Bach community and discovered a number of great masters, including Leo van Doeselaar. I take my hat off to a master of phrasing, such as Leo. In his articulation is no contradiction with my inner perception of this music! I am not fully supporting such his registration plan, but It right equally fantastic recording, Bravo!
Turning up the volume, I can hear the glasses in the cupboard shaking!
There needs to be a recording of this from netherlands bach society
Questa musica ci accompagna direttamente al cospetto dell'Eterno
Complimenti!! Bellissimo!! 👏👏👏👏
Great organ, built by Galtus, Germer and Jacobus van Hagerbeer (1639-46).
Renovated in North-German style by: Franz Caspar Schnitger, a son of the famous organ builder Arp Schnitger. (1722-25)
+2212jan SEHR GUT, DU KENNST!
Fantastic. Brilliant piece, totally world class organ (arguably the finest) and a brilliant performance.
RIP Prince Philip - this will be played at the end of his funeral service today.
Yes, yes, it was touching and beautiful, I immediately noticed it too ... JSB forever, a royal instrument, divine music 💝❤️👑💝❤️
"Il ne restait plus qu'à boucler la boucle avec Jean-Sébastien Bach. Retentit à l'orgue l'une des pièces les plus puissantes du Cantor de Leipzig : le en ut mineur BWV 546. Une façon, de la part du mort, de planter, de sa bière, un dernier clou symbolique dans le cercueil allégorique de son fils Charles : ce morceau de musique fut également joué à la fin de l'enterrement de Lady Diana, en 1997.
La vengeance père-fils est un plat qui se mange froid, même quand le cadavre est encore chaud. Telle était la morale d'un enterrement royal, dont nous n'eussions rien eu à faire s'il n'avait laissé transpirer, au milieu du variant anglais, des invariants tragiques remontant à la plus haute Antiquité, dont Shakespeare sut se repaître".
Par Antoine Perraud 17 Avril 2021 MEDIAPART
Yes, it's one of my favourites of JSB and I will always relate this piece to our Prince Philip now.
rip bozo
Bach and Battenberg. Relating in the heart of Germany.
The Judge has won
Just love this recording.
Its like this instrument was made for this piece by Bach. I own a Chandos CD of Piet Kee playing this piece on this same Hagerbeer/FC Schnitger organ and it just blows the doors off of my loudspeakers... and me... every time I play the disc. Uncanny.
St Laurenskerk and Bach... a match made in Heaven.
Its not Hagerbeer and Schnitger. Its built by Schonat-Duyschott
magnifico Bach...organo e organista stupefacenti!
If there's a better organ to play this great work on, I'd be very surprised!
mothership extended
lol!!!😂 yes!!!!
-ship
saltship
An enjoyable piece - I'll be Bach!
Very funny.😆
Schwarzenegger might prefer Bruckner over Bach 🤗
Well done Mr. van Doeselaar, Brilliant. Merci.
Hi, thanks for publishing, God bless you with peace. Jesus loves you
Great sound. Everyone who likes organ music must be a fan of this instrument. I'm dreaming about a hauptwerk sample set release in the future.
You and the rest of us! Perhaps the Alkmaar church authorities (acting on behalf of God?) won't let the Schnitger organ be sampled for Hauptwerk because it might then be played by those of us unworthy of it?
Quelle belle interprétation bravo
Grande orgão, potente e expressivo. A música de Bach sai bem interpretada que impressiona a execução de L. van Doeselaar.
It’s cool that this is actually in baroque tuning as well!
yes.. but in which of them.
weren't there chamber pitches at about a = 415 Hz, our g sharp, or even lower. and church pitches at 465 Hz or even higher, in the same time and the same city.
this then seems to show up a chamber tone in a church room?
What do you mean? This was one of the earliest organs to be tuned to equal temperament. Kees Canal confuses tuning with pitch but worth noting this organ is tuned to A=415, which I think helps with the incredible grandeur of the sound of this organ.
June 18, 2020. TEARS.
Questo pezzo meraviglioso , mi piacerebbe sentirlo suonare al grande organo della basilica di santa croce a firenze
Nice plenum on the pipe organ and the playing is even better!
What a growler of a reed on the pedal.
Nagyon-nagyon gyönyörű előadás! Gratulálok!!!
Magnificent!
The Sound of Gott...
@@SpitzPrincipal4 I don't think there's salvation in ANY church, to be honest.
@@SpitzPrincipal4 Salvation is in deeply committed personal relationships. God and Christ are just symbols reminding us of this truth.
This is absolutely fantastic!!! Thank you so Much!!😍😍
Please inform me about 3april!🙏
Formidabel spel en interpretatie passend bij de klank van dit orgel.
Inouï ! Tout !'Fantastique !
What beauty, what power!
love this organ ,had many Germanni records of this
Also I love the true story of Bach at a major organ competition. He was rehearsing and noodling around with what would become this passacaglia, on the competition instrument. Another competitor organist from another country overheard Bach playing strains from this masterpiece and fled home. Competitor just heard Bach playing parts of this piece and forfeited the competition.
That happened in Dresden. It was meant to be a head-to-head competition between JSB and the French organist/harpsichordist Louis Marchand. Although he arrived in Dresden, Marchand realised he couldn't compete with Bach and rather than suffer a public defeat he headed back to Paris without taking part in the competition.
This is no passacaglia...
une de mes oeuvre préferé. J.S. Bach forever!
💝💖💝💖💝💖💝💖💝💖
spine chillng
organ is actually the most bad_ass instrument ever made
Until the invention of electric amplifiers, a pipe organ was the loudest musical instrument on the planet.
The Queen of instruments. Interesting choice of gender.
Bellissima 🎶. In quale cattedrale è suonata questa musica? STebbe bello conos ere le cattedrale icui i musicisti eseguono la musica a classica per conoscere di più di un luogo.di . Bach . Vivaldi ...prevedere lablezzaxelle cattedrali.grazie🙏🌸🌹
SDG, Soli Deo Gloria...otherwise the interpreter omits JSB essence. Impressive interpretation by G.van Hagerbeer on a majestic instrument. Thank you!
What van Hagerbeer interpretation? It's Leo van Doeselaar playing on FC Schnitger organ... Read the title.
7:33 fugue
THERE'S the bass!
My favorite Prelude and Fugue.
This is wonderful!
Very beautiful!!
There is not a better sounding organ anywhere on this planet !
Wow, impressive!
FANTASTISCH
Super!!
First rate! Thanks for sharing!
What a music...
Very magistic!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
ES GEFÄLLT MIR!!!
When someone types: xship as their final wish for execution in SC2 Mafia.
Haahahaha unreal now its goin down getcho weed getcho likka if ya need help attainin it den hit me up ill help u out bruh good ass stank n likka on da way now we talkin now we indulgin we stay chill to dis amazing music omg
Beyond epic. The dissonance at 0:39...
van Doeselaar sounds very much better when you don't have to watch his contortions while playing. This is one of the better renditions of this piece, almost equaling that given by Piet Kee.
Starcraft 2 brought me here
Why? Is this theme played in SC? I don't think to recall..
it was an arcade mod named Mafia.
One of the choosable execution sequences has you beamed up by a fleet of Protoss motherships, takes a really fucking long time, and plays the first part of this music
Spoopy
Unbelievable
The Prelude has a majestic form, I think it needs big reeds like on this recording. About the fugue, at least at the beginning, it should be lighter without reeds or 16' reeds. And the same registration during 14 minutes is too much, it is tiring.
To Nyle Evans:
Hello, Nyle! I was dismayed by your equating this music with Satanism but cheered by your realization that it was a hasty mistake. (I am continually dismayed by how many of my fellow organists program Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d minor at Halloween “Spooktacular”concerts that only encourage casual listeners to equate organ music with horror
films etc.) You should not feel obliged to subscribe to Bach’s religious views if that is not who you are. Could your entry into a deeper understanding of this music be that Bach’s supreme mastery of musical motion in some way taps
into the structure and motion of the universe, from the atomic particle to the outer reaches of deep space? It is another one of
the many ways to approach this music. As the organist E. Power Biggs once wrote, “Wherever we turn, Bach has been
there before us.” You will presumably have turned 12 by the time you read this and I will shortly turn 72. I can only tell you that Bach’s music has continued to unfold wonders for me to this day (to this afternoon!). I hope that you will never stop letting it lead you into new places in your exploration of it. I can attest from a lifetime’s experience that wherever we turn, Bach has been there before us.
All music should be to the PRAISE OF GOD and to edify the spirit ...
this just kinda went full organist boomer here
You put your ad after the song started. Thumb down.
Dommage de ne pas varier les régistrations ! 13 mn avec les mêmes timbres sur un orgue d'une telle richesse de sons, c'est aberrant ! BACH était trop intelligent pour jouer ainsi, n'en déplaise aux baroqueux fanatiques qui joue la passacaille sur le plenum pendant 12 mn sous prétexte d'historicisme ! ! La Musique en sort appauvrie, même quand ce genre de théories vient d'une Marie Claire Alain ! C'est tellement plus simple de tout jouer sur le même clavier avec une seul type de jeux et de dire que c'est ça l'Histoire." Foutage de gueule en réalité ".
Je suis en partie d'accord avec vous. Mais en ce qui concerne le prélude, ici, en do mineur, je trouve que le jouer entièrement plenum organum, lui insuffle une dramatique supplémentaire. Alors que des fois, certains changements de registre sont simplement des effets (spéciaux). En fait, changement de registre ou pas, c'est la musique qui compte. Il y a des organistes qui font trois tonnes de changements de registre, sans que ça apporte quoi que ce soit à la musique , bien au contraire, ça complique la compréhension de la musique plus qu'autre chose. Ou parce que il cherche l'originalité ? Le problème est de savoir utiliser l'instrument à bon escient, en fonction de comment on ressent personnellement et honnêtement le morceau.
Love those Picardy thirds
Why is it in B minor?
because of the pitch (A=415 hz), a semitone lower than the modern pitch (A=440 hz).
You stayed in Heaven too long...Just come back here to refresh your memories and give us some concerts..OK?
Try the westminster abbey organ to play that music
It was played on lady di funeral
and before that, first try on two other organs in your region
For fun I would play the organ withe case doors closed.
Ship