There are several performances of this piece available on UA-cam, by some of the greatest organists in the world. Yet I continue to return to this performance, which is arguably one of the very best.
Very clean recording, no noise of fans and air. Perfect play, joyful and beautiful sounds. And this is virtual pipe organ with two touch screens on sides for selection of voices.
Wonderful performance in every possible way. The Hauptwerk system is capable of producing such authentic-sounding acoustics, but I have no doubt that it is shone to its most-superlative degree because of Rob’s sensitivity and his playing technique. Recording direct to digital provides a clarity seldom (if ever) achievable in an acoustic setting and is absolutely satisfying. Pipe organ “purists” might find issue, but one cannot logically argue negatively about the results Mr. Stefanussen has achieved here and in many of his other outstanding recordings. J.S. Bach is smiling, to be sure!
If the "pipe organ purists" ever saw what it takes to digitally record a pipe organ ... each note has to have seven mikes on it catching absolutely everything from labial opening to the resonating sides of the pipes, the tops, the sound it makes in the original chamber, the sound produced by frequencies around it, you name it, it's very complicated ... but the sound is so magnificent when done correctly.
You are truly incredible, it is always a pleasure to watch other organists who play at a high caliber. Thank-you so much for sharing all of your talents, you truly are a blessing! Grace and peace, ~Dan~
I listened to several versions of this piece and I, by far, enjoy your rendition. Good tempo and expression ... joyful and dynamic ... really love the Hauptwerk ... your reverence for the music and its intention really shine through ... PEACE!
Le Maestro doit être enchanté de la haut 👍😉 bravo pour cette très belle et très technique interprétation de cette symphonie de Johann Sebastian Bach 👍🙏
I have no words ..... I've so enjoyed all your offerings that I can't possibly pick a favorite, however,being an organist myself , this comes awfully close !!!
I absolutely love this performance! I've probably listened to it 20 times, and the sound, the bass, the registrations, the reverb and of course the playing grips me! Thank you for sharing! I've listened to many performances of this piece, and my favorite is found on "Switched on Bach", the runner-up is this! Thank you, and keep up your wonderful musical journey! Keep sharing!
A brilliant rendition! Thanks for sharing your talent. A very measured and sympathetic tempo and beautifully registered. Can't mistake the sound of a Willis. Bravo!
It takes young fingers to play this piece. I like all your recordings and download them using YTD so I can listen to them over and over again. I even create DVD's from some of them and play them on my main TV and Sound System. Thanks and keep it coming. Bill Leitzel
What a great instrument to practice and even perform on. I need to get one of these. The playing itself sounds so fantastic. I listen to this while playing games and completely forget this done on a digital instrument.
Why do I love this piece so much? I listen to it... all the time...... And to all the kids and experts who play this work. I love it. Haven't heard the E. Power Biggs version, yet. Or my own.
@motnurkep Hi Tom, the sound is recorded directly to disk. The organ does sound good through the speakers, but for something like this, there's no need to record the sound coming out of the speakers since it can be recorded directly.
Wow...all of your videos are wonderful, but you've outdone yourself with this one. Very, VERY good...I believe someone else already said, hearing you play is like receiving a gift. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
Sounds like the Violin Partita in E Major! J.S. Bach really took his original compositions and re-arranged them himself by using different instruments and a different title for the original music he composed!
As always... an absolutely great performance. They say you can't get perfection, but I think you just proved them wrong!!!! Well done, I'm sure we will be seeing a lot more of you in the future as one of America's leading organists.
The best version of this on organ I have ever heard. Perfect tempo and phrasing. You remind me of a wonderful Spanish organist named Raul Prieto Ramirez, who also has perfect phrasing, although he is more animated. You are a technical virtuoso, Rob.
Rob, your fans have waited for almost six months for another performance video, and this latest installment was worth the wait! Thank you so much for another elegant performance. JSB would be very proud! Tim
Wonderful...I so much enjoy you sharing the gift have been given, and which you (and your wife....she's gives sight to the sound!) allow me to appreciate. I would be delighted to hear you in concert, should you find your way to Michigan or Ohio. I look forward to your next tube!!!
MY, I enjoyed your performance of one of Virgil Fox's most memorable concert pieces and his arrangement of such. The virtual instrument continues to amaze and inspire with its present and future possibilities. I know once you have it memorized the concentration given to watching the page will issue forth the joy and musical abandon that is infectious in this piece. Thank you for your videos. I look for more.
Superb stuff! Last time I heard this piece was Carlo Curley playing on the magnificent 3-manual Harrison & Harrison Caird Hall, Dundee, organ. This interpretation is every bit as good. Nice restrained tempo and beautiful articulation. This puts a whole new slant on electronic organs. How very far removed from the Compton electronic of yesteryear! Even the Allen organ cannot beat this sound. Wonderful!
There's no visual sign of the "perpetual motion effect" being brutal to you. This seems to be so natural and easy when you play it -- but eyes can be bluffed... I know that this piece can be a torturous challenge indeed, and I'm deeply impressed by your excellent performance. Thanks a lot for sharing it!
Bravo...wonderful performance. I'm so glad you re-worked this piece. Your earlier recording was great, but it lacked the confidence and unfailing, strong tempo you mastered in this version. I've always considered Michael Murray's recording on the Boston organ (the Dupre' transcription) the definitive version, but yours is right up next to it. Thanks! Alan
Rob, I've been listening to a lot of organ music on youtube and you are certainly one of my favorites! I love the older pipe organs, but i certainly admire the organ you built and the Hauptwerk thing sounds great! keep up the good work, and if you ever come out west you need to play the Cal-Poly Forbes organ so i can meet you.
Wonderful performance! I really enjoy watching your videos, it is wonderful to see your hands and feet as you play, and your Hauptwerk set-up is awesome! Thanks for posting! Really spectacular performance here!
Hi My son (5) and I often play your J.S. Bach Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29 on the computer in our kitchen while we're cooking dinner. We love it. Thank you! Could we have some more Bach? Matt and Shane.
Wonderful! Really great played in all ways. And btw. I like much more live recordings on real instruments, but this sampleset is great and I love his sound, first of all pedal registers. Many greetings and thanks from the Czech Republic! :-)
Maestro, I was a passionate lover of Organ Music....I follow your performances and this beautiful instrument that is Hauptwerk.. (I play piano and sometimes organ )....All my congratulation for this beautiful performance
I've been waiting for you to do this piece FOREVERRRRR! Thank you so much! You play it as Bach would have....not too fast or slow. Paul Jacobs tends to make it into more of a spectacle. Glad you don't.
Мне приходилось слышать оркестровое исполнение, яркое, энергичное, в сравнении с которым эта версия с подчеркнутым ритмом и пропавшими басами выглядит бледновато. Но финал великолепен. На финале оркестр отдыхает. Nice music and excellent, incomparable finale.
this is not an organ, but a PC that runs a very sophisticated organ program. You purchase organs and pipe samples from Hauptwerk and other samplers. You can see the virtual organ consoles on his left and as touch screens. You control stops and all from the PC. I have purchased several organs. Love it. I use my Johannus church organ and the midi interface to control the PC organ. Expensive hobby!
I've always enjoyed the sound of organ. I got in the world of Hauptwerk about a month ago and I really like performances and Hauptwerk setups like yours. Just subscribed so I can get informed when you upload something new. Keep up the good work!
Beautiful perfomance. This is the first time I have ever heard this piece and you certainly did a good job of "selling" it to me. Not a bad video production either! Thanks fo much for posting it.
Again, well done. I like the CONSERVATIVE way in which you perform....not flashy but with great skill. I've been thinking about ordering the Salisbury set, but wasn't sure about the overall acoustics, and attack sampling etc. If the Salisbury is anything like the Metz,,,then I'm ready to purchase it. I think this video has answered my question. Thanks, Terry Bollinger (West Virginia)
There are several performances of this piece available on UA-cam, by some of the greatest organists in the world. Yet I continue to return to this performance, which is arguably one of the very best.
This remains the best performance of this classic. Each note is heard and enjoyed, and not blurred by speed. Well done.
Such clean technique - beautiful hand position - elegant in every respect.
Very clean recording, no noise of fans and air. Perfect play, joyful and beautiful sounds. And this is virtual pipe organ with two touch screens on sides for selection of voices.
Wonderful performance in every possible way. The Hauptwerk system is capable of producing such authentic-sounding acoustics, but I have no doubt that it is shone to its most-superlative degree because of Rob’s sensitivity and his playing technique. Recording direct to digital provides a clarity seldom (if ever) achievable in an acoustic setting and is absolutely satisfying. Pipe organ “purists” might find issue, but one cannot logically argue negatively about the results Mr. Stefanussen has achieved here and in many of his other outstanding recordings. J.S. Bach is smiling, to be sure!
If the "pipe organ purists" ever saw what it takes to digitally record a pipe organ ... each note has to have seven mikes on it catching absolutely everything from labial opening to the resonating sides of the pipes, the tops, the sound it makes in the original chamber, the sound produced by frequencies around it, you name it, it's very complicated ... but the sound is so magnificent when done correctly.
You are truly incredible, it is always a pleasure to watch other organists who play at a high caliber. Thank-you so much for sharing all of your talents, you truly are a blessing!
Grace and peace,
~Dan~
Blessed are the music makers, they shall have a song in both heart and mind.
Sublime interprétation ,félicitations. Un bel hommage à J.S.Bach.
I listened to several versions of this piece and I, by far, enjoy your rendition. Good tempo and expression ... joyful and dynamic ... really love the Hauptwerk ... your reverence for the music and its intention really shine through ... PEACE!
Le Maestro doit être enchanté de la haut 👍😉 bravo pour cette très belle et très technique interprétation de cette symphonie de Johann Sebastian Bach 👍🙏
Very nice playing. And I like the fact that you dress appropriately for your videos instead of wearing ratty jeans and a stained t-shirt. Very classy.
The playing is outstanding; I'd actually prefer the ratty jeans!
I have no words ..... I've so enjoyed all your offerings that I can't possibly pick a favorite, however,being an organist myself , this comes awfully close !!!
Thank you so much, Rob. Hearing you play is like getting a gift.
Well played! I enjoyed it very much. Thanks for putting it on the web.
Ahhh the Salisbury Willis! I grew up with this organ, and still play it regularly when I go home!
I absolutely love this performance! I've probably listened to it 20 times, and the sound, the bass, the registrations, the reverb and of course the playing grips me! Thank you for sharing! I've listened to many performances of this piece, and my favorite is found on "Switched on Bach", the runner-up is this! Thank you, and keep up your wonderful musical journey! Keep sharing!
A brilliant rendition! Thanks for sharing your talent. A very measured and sympathetic tempo and beautifully registered. Can't mistake the sound of a Willis. Bravo!
LOVE THIS GUY, WHAT MUSICAL TALENT HE HAS !!!
Cuando se ama lo que se hace , todo sale extraordinario, hermoso , gracias 🌹🌹🌹🌹
Your technique is absolutely wonderful, and your playing reflects it with such fine control over clarity.
It takes young fingers to play this piece. I like all your recordings and download them using YTD so I can listen to them over and over again. I even create DVD's from some of them and play them on my main TV and Sound System. Thanks and keep it coming. Bill Leitzel
What a great instrument to practice and even perform on. I need to get one of these. The playing itself sounds so fantastic. I listen to this while playing games and completely forget this done on a digital instrument.
Why do I love this piece so much? I listen to it... all the time...... And to all the kids and experts who play this work. I love it. Haven't heard the E. Power Biggs version, yet. Or my own.
@motnurkep Hi Tom, the sound is recorded directly to disk. The organ does sound good through the speakers, but for something like this, there's no need to record the sound coming out of the speakers since it can be recorded directly.
WOW WONDERFUL, THANK YOU AND THANK GOD FOR J S BACH
Wow...all of your videos are wonderful, but you've outdone yourself with this one. Very, VERY good...I believe someone else already said, hearing you play is like receiving a gift. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
Rob...Thank you for an outstanding performance!
Sounds like the Violin Partita in E Major! J.S. Bach really took his original compositions and re-arranged them himself by using different instruments and a different title for the original music he composed!
One of my favorite Bach pieces! Thank you!
Bravo!! That was magnificent playing!! Very nice too! I love Bach and most classical
music. And i just love the organ! Debbie.
As always... an absolutely great performance. They say you can't get perfection, but I think you just proved them wrong!!!! Well done, I'm sure we will be seeing a lot more of you in the future as one of America's leading organists.
This is brilliant.
superb performance!
The best version of this on organ I have ever heard. Perfect tempo and phrasing. You remind me of a wonderful Spanish organist named Raul Prieto Ramirez, who also has perfect phrasing, although he is more animated. You are a technical virtuoso, Rob.
Fantastic playing! Such a fresh and lively performance and beautifully articulated. Well done!
Rob, your fans have waited for almost six months for another performance video, and this latest installment was worth the wait! Thank you so much for another elegant performance. JSB would be very proud!
Tim
Wonderful...I so much enjoy you sharing the gift have been given, and which you (and your wife....she's gives sight to the sound!) allow me to appreciate.
I would be delighted to hear you in concert, should you find your way to Michigan or Ohio. I look forward to your next tube!!!
Thank'you very much.Molto bravo e molto bello!
Perfect tempo.
I want to give this Guy a hug :)
MY, I enjoyed your performance of one of Virgil Fox's most memorable concert pieces and his arrangement of such. The virtual instrument continues to amaze and inspire with its present and future possibilities. I know once you have it memorized the concentration given to watching the page will issue forth the joy and musical abandon that is infectious in this piece. Thank you for your videos. I look for more.
Superb stuff! Last time I heard this piece was Carlo Curley playing on the magnificent 3-manual Harrison & Harrison Caird Hall, Dundee, organ. This interpretation is every bit as good. Nice restrained tempo and beautiful articulation. This puts a whole new slant on electronic organs. How very far removed from the Compton electronic of yesteryear! Even the Allen organ cannot beat this sound. Wonderful!
There's no visual sign of the "perpetual motion effect" being brutal to you. This seems to be so natural and easy when you play it -- but eyes can be bluffed... I know that this piece can be a torturous challenge indeed, and I'm deeply impressed by your excellent performance. Thanks a lot for sharing it!
I have to perform it in a month at church, it is an organist killer.
And I forgot to mention that it was great playing and a wonderful piece!
Bravo...wonderful performance. I'm so glad you re-worked this piece. Your earlier recording was great, but it lacked the confidence and unfailing, strong tempo you mastered in this version. I've always considered Michael Murray's recording on the Boston organ (the Dupre' transcription) the definitive version, but yours is right up next to it. Thanks! Alan
Rob, I've been listening to a lot of organ music on youtube and you are certainly one of my favorites! I love the older pipe organs, but i certainly admire the organ you built and the Hauptwerk thing sounds great! keep up the good work, and if you ever come out west you need to play the Cal-Poly Forbes organ so i can meet you.
I'd like to have such an organ! It sounds incredible!
Wonderful performance! I really enjoy watching your videos, it is wonderful to see your hands and feet as you play, and your Hauptwerk set-up is awesome! Thanks for posting! Really spectacular performance here!
That is one amazing instrument. Suitable for an amazing player. Thanks for sharing, mate.
I don't play the organ but I would imagine that this is pretty hard. It has an absolutely relentless quality to it.
Fantastic playing.
Wow. Speechless. Thank you.
Excellent and outstanding hand and foot work.
Fabulous! A piece I've been wanting to learn and you've given me the motivations!
I'm back again...wonderful tempo.
WOW! Non pensavo che esistessero organi virtuali come questo. Le differenze si percepiscono ma comunque il risultato mi piace
Hi
My son (5) and I often play your J.S. Bach Sinfonia to Cantata No. 29 on the computer in our kitchen while we're cooking dinner. We love it. Thank you! Could we have some more Bach?
Matt and Shane.
sounded great bravo!
Dazzling! Superb work, Rob!
Easily the best thing piece bach ever wrote for the church. Would love to hear you play this on an actual organ!!!
Wonderful! Really great played in all ways. And btw. I like much more live recordings on real instruments, but this sampleset is great and I love his sound, first of all pedal registers.
Many greetings and thanks from the Czech Republic! :-)
Superb playing!
Amazing!
Maestro,
I was a passionate lover of Organ Music....I follow your performances and this beautiful instrument that is Hauptwerk.. (I play piano and sometimes organ )....All my congratulation for this beautiful performance
I've been waiting for you to do this piece FOREVERRRRR! Thank you so much! You play it as Bach would have....not too fast or slow. Paul Jacobs tends to make it into more of a spectacle. Glad you don't.
Another outstanding performance!!
Мне приходилось слышать оркестровое исполнение, яркое, энергичное, в сравнении с которым эта версия с подчеркнутым ритмом и пропавшими басами выглядит бледновато. Но финал великолепен. На финале оркестр отдыхает.
Nice music and excellent, incomparable finale.
Well played and great recording!
Excellent... I want one of those! Many thanks. Master of your art!
this always brings me great joy! well played!
wat een geweldig goed spel
ben allang opzoek naar dit stuk ,ik wil het ook graag hebben
Bravissimo! Complimenti.
this is not an organ, but a PC that runs a very sophisticated organ program. You purchase organs and pipe samples from Hauptwerk and other samplers. You can see the virtual organ consoles on his left and as touch screens. You control stops and all from the PC. I have purchased several organs. Love it. I use my Johannus church organ and the midi interface to control the PC organ. Expensive hobby!
I've always enjoyed the sound of organ. I got in the world of Hauptwerk about a month ago and I really like performances and Hauptwerk setups like yours. Just subscribed so I can get informed when you upload something new. Keep up the good work!
Absolutely beautiful ... !
Utterly fantastic
Excellent job! Keep 'em coming!
Bloody Brilliant That Thanks for posting this!
very listenable. especially the footwork!
Perfekt. Danke fürs hochladen..
Just magnificant.
That is some amazing talent.
Very nice interpretation. Thanks!
Like wow!!!! Man i feel so inspired!!!! Thank you so so much!!
Well played!
fantastické, nádherné:-)
You are Amazing! I wish I could play like that.
Bellísimo,gracias.
EXCELLENT!
Very elegant!
Very nice. I enjoyed the choice or organ and voicing too.
One of my favorites...
Very nice playing, you sound completely in control.
Beautiful perfomance. This is the first time I have ever heard this piece and you certainly did a good job of "selling" it to me. Not a bad video production either! Thanks fo much for posting it.
Very good man. It was very nyce. Bach, The Father of Music.
You Play awesome, great player, great console ( good Hauptwerk organ LOL) and good sound. Thats necessary for a good song to be heard.
Wonderful interpretation.-
Again, well done. I like the CONSERVATIVE way in which you perform....not flashy but with great skill. I've been thinking about ordering the Salisbury set, but wasn't sure about the overall acoustics, and attack sampling etc. If the Salisbury is anything like the Metz,,,then I'm ready to purchase it. I think this video has answered my question.
Thanks,
Terry Bollinger (West Virginia)
Very nice, my complimensts beautiful sound
Magical.
Magnificent!