J. S. Bach - Toccata in D minor (played by John Sherer on Chicago's largest pipe organ)
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2019
- John Sherer plays one of the most famous organ pieces on Chicago's largest pipe organ at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
From a full video exploring this instrument, including touring inside all of the pipes: • Pipe Organ (An instrum...
John Sherer is the Organist and Director of Music at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago: fourthchurch.org
Thanks so much to them for allowing us to explore this incredible instrument!
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Imagine writing a piece when you're 18 and it still being played 100s of years later. Some modern music is only relevant for 6 months lol.
When music was good
It's not fair. :/ I want to make classical music but nope, still at school being lame.
@@boseifrit5480 Music is still good.
@@boseifrit5480 wdym
@@tankpenguin175 well this modern pop rap and hip hop shit makes me angry. Dont yet me started abt mumble rap. People listen to this shit music, with horrible lyrics may I say, then bash metal and rock for its lyrics which aren't nearly as bad.
wish he would've played fugue as well, but this was stellar
Lmbo, I commented something similar just before I saw your comment; another man of culture I see ;p
Interstellar 😇
@@BFG-hv2ml hydrostatic
One of Classical music's masterpieces. And, to think that Bach was only 18 or 19 when he wrote it! Amazing. Talent is gifted from God.
@@dougoverhoff7568 wait, really? That's crazy
Now do "Pipe Organ in very inappropriate places"!
I wanna see him play that big one in the shower
@@AshWont time to set off the fire alarm 😂
Lol. That's hilarious. Very good sir.
Macy's Philadelphia... or the old Union Station in Cincinnati...
Please convince John to make his own channel and make more of these! I would LOVE to see more of this beautiful playing! :D
Same. Even if it's just on a regular piano. John is amazing :)
ua-cam.com/video/M55Eb11Bro0/v-deo.html here's one of his concerts
totally agreee.
Absolutely! 😁
One of the most iconic music pieces in the world
It’s literally blue lobster
ABBA is the most iconic
“We need to test all the pipes on our new organ.”
Bach: “Hold my beer”
You want to test all the pipes? Go for Max Reger
Hi Brother Demolay, I am from Brazil, Príncipe Serrano number 9
he was 17 so I guess orange juice it is
There is little known about why Not his piece was written, but many authors speculate it was designed to test new organs. Wind volume and pressure, each voice individually with call and response, chromatic runs through each key...
@@adam207321 Drinking ages in Europe tend to be lower than in the US,
and laws pertaining thereto are more recent. In Bach's time, everything
to do with the consumption of alcohol was somewhat discretionary.
This video doesn't do this justice! I've heard this piece being played in person a fee times and it never gets old. You quite literally feel the music! It's quite an experience!
Live musicals are felt both in spiritual and physical manner. No matter how good your speakers or headphones are worth, live music is irreplaceable.
Once got invited into a tribal folkloric band. The drums, bagpipes, zithers and powerful voices... it was something.
@@Home_Rich I haven’t heard it a musical but at an organ concert. It is an amazing experience indeed.
Even as a kid I loved this piece, before I even knew who composed it, always referred to it as the Dracula music.
@@sovietonion72I just posted about Dracula too. I wondered if anyone out here had similar memories 🙌
Гениально@@Home_Rich
This is metal in its purest
Before metal even exists
Yes it is
Metal has its roots in classic. I used to listen to "heavy classic music" if that's a thing. Like prokofiev dance of the knights
These "metal" coments are the cringest thing I ever read
Jokes aside, this composition does have many techniques used in modern metal.
@@FockeWulfFW200 sorry i just broke my neck from the recoil of cringe your spelling of "coments" gave me
Its crazy how deep the bass reaches
I'm in awe! His attitude and enthusiasm when playing only emphasizes the performance!
Goosebumps every single time i listen to that!
One of my first classical music loves. Ever since I was a boy I wanted to play the organ at my church.
its great to get to hear the piece in the proper instrument
I'm so glad you put this clip out Rob. I was wishing for it when I watched the previous video
It sounds so incredible ! Thank you ! And thank to John Sherer ! The video on the Pipe organ was also great !
...and I'll be _BACH_ next week!
*(crowd booing)*
I’m tired of LISZTening to these stupid puns
dude
😂
😂😂😂
I like the way he Handel this piece.....
I too would like to have heard John play the fugue but I'm not going to rant about it. I enjoyed the performance for what it was and I'm thankful to Rob for uploading it. If you want to hear the full piece in all its glory there are other performances of it on UA-cam.
Yeah, this performance is definitely not the best.
@@Altroante yeah my personal favorite that I've listened to us Xaver Varnus at the Berliner dome
Perhaps he's, literally, playing for the lowest common denominator? This is you tube, not Carnegie Hall. ✌😸
So utterly metal it’s crazy. Bach was a titan.
Did he also play the Fugue? The whole piece is really "Toccata and Fugue in D minor". I personally think the Fugue, although not quite as loud, is even more impressive than the Toccata.
Indeed ...
Although the Toccata is perhaps the most famous 'half', for me the real challenge is a smooth tranisition to the Fugue, and then the Fugue itself, which I consider the more challenging of the two 'parts' ...
There is a video of Karl Richter playing the entire piece, and you can just about see he exerts that little bit more effort into the Fugue, even though Richter himself, quite aside from being an amazing conductor, could have easily made a career just from playing the organ alone, which goes to show just how incredible the Fugue actually is ...
The ending of the fugue when I play it is typically louder than the toccata
Yep
I love this piece. It's one of the few things I can play a bit of on keyboard/piano, but nowhere near as well as it is here. My favourite part is the section where the left hand is just playing the A between each note the right hand plays.
This techique is used in so many modern songs... good to know where the inspiration comes from :p
I think its called pedalling , im not entirely sure though
Guys please please get it into your thick colonialist skull, it's Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si
I actually clapped at the end! Wow...absolute mastery. If I had but one tenth of one percent of his musical knowledge, I could be my own star. Outstanding. 💙
Thank you for uploading this, it is really something else to hear this peice performed live like this
Imagine living in a time where this music does not exist yet; the space for new music is immense....
Loved the full video!!!! The pipe organ is such a marvelous instrument!!!!
This piece is SO DRAMATIC
Thank you for putting this, I hated the early cut in the original video! :D
What a sound! Amazing recording and acoustics!
One of the most beautiful classical piece, played on a beautiful instrument...
Thank you so much for this! I show this to my elementary music students and having the little bio information at the beginning and all the camera angles - especially with the foot pedals - is wonderful! Please consider another video that has the Fugue.
Absolutely magnificent
It would have been so amazing to be in that church while this is played, that bass would be amazing I'm sure.
Superb rendition of this famous piece!
Absolutely Amazing.
One of my favorite pieces of music.
Had the pleasure of playing this organ on a tour! Absolutely ground shaking.
One of my favorite pieces.
Amazing sound
Imagine the people’s faces as they were walking by and heard this😂
It sounds Like Halloween music
Agreed, he played it in a shit like manner and not as written.
@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234true but it was just a demonstration
Inspiring playing, and a great
organ! Thank you!! ❤
Nothing is better than this
Such great music. And that organ pushes it up to 11!
11? I think you mean like 36
Absolutely love that. Thanks for sharing 👍♥️♥️♥️
Lovely organ music.
Fantastic! Bravo! Top, top, top.
outstanding!
I remember doing an "Interview" for being a child chorister in Beverly east Yorkshire and have loved the sound of the organ ever since. Grace cathedral also has lovely acoustics.
THIS IS ALL I NEED
Beautiful.
Quite the core workout. Awesome.
ive had the pleasure of playing an organ and its so fun yet so tricky. i recommend that if you get the chance to play this amazing instrument, take it.
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bravo!
I really enjoyed this.
I love Bach so much. One of my favorite composers, next to Chopin and Beethoven.
Conlan McGuff Wtf ? Bach is much better than any other composer
@@orgelfan1675 I am glad that you like his work as well, although I must remind you that I am entitled to my own opinion, too.
@@Nibiru_Truthsnej
What a masterpiece!
Outstanding.
Come ooon i want the full version of this, not only the intro! 😢
This is the whole of the Toccata, as in the title of the video. The Fugue is not included.
@@DavidWood2 I know but Bach did "Toccata e Fuga" for a reason: to play it togheter!
So only the "Toccata" part is still only an intro even if you say it in the title and i've just said that want it all in one piece! :(
@@TheGabbia Rob's main video was about the organ. The limited time likely only allowed for some short demonstrations. We're lucky enough to have this full recording of the Toccata (of which an excerpt was used in Rob's video about the organ). Perhaps one day Rob and the crew can return to get some longer recordings - but the aim of this shoot was not to get concert recordings.
@@DavidWood2 so? I still want a full version...and if enough person ask it mabye Rob will do it. I didnt said anything bad about Rob or the video and I don't get the problem, you just want to complain?
@@TheGabbia This is Rob's bonus channel where he posts content that goes alongside the main channel. The main channel video from this shoot was about the organ as an instrument. The Toccata appears to have been one of the demonstrations recorded as part of that shoot - an excerpt was used in the main channel video and Rob has been gracious enough to post the entire recording here. It seems they did not record the Fugue - and they can't post what they didn't record. Grumbling that "This is only the intro" will not change that. If the Fugue wasn't recorded, it would take a new shoot to record it - and I doubt such a shoot would be a priority for Rob and the crew to return to the organ bearing in mind the focus of his channel.
There is a lot about the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 attributed to J S Bach online. The sheet music is at hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a8/IMSLP129534-WIMA.1a4a-Bach_Toccata_Dminor.pdf . The organist Fraser Gartshore discusses the work at ua-cam.com/video/ru02hGaltUg/v-deo.html (he's yet to post his recording, but he has been ill). There is the spectacular - and in light of the subsequent fire, rather emotional - 2019 recording by Olivier Latry on the grand orgue de Notre Dame de Paris at ua-cam.com/video/e2uuE5ZQN6A/v-deo.html (whilst a French symphonic organ in a very reverberant cathedral is not the tonal palette or acoustic you would most naturally associated with German baroque music, I believe Latry's performance is a tour de force).
Writing a masterpiece and doing it at 17 years of age is wild. Who knows the amount of things being accomplished in our times that we will never find about maybe during our whole lifetimes?
Magistral. 🙏
Incredible video!!!
Bravo...!
Bravo!!! 🎹
Honestly this song is so appealing to me its beautiful
Awesome Stunning Amazing 👍👍👍
Amazing!
Bravo! Bravoo!
Wow soo cool!
That place is so awesome
Sehr schön Bach gespielt Kollege!!!! Bravo 🎹 🎵 🎹 🎵 🎹 🎵 😊
It's brilliant!🎉
Bravo!!!
Very nice work.
Wonderful.
Es increíble!!! Hay que tener mucha concentración para tocar esta obra maestra. Fue una grandiosa composición en su día y sigue siendo lo hoy.
my soul is quenched
Fantastic
I love this song
Well done...
!! UNBELIEVABLY FANTASTIC!!!! AWESOME-- THANK YOU!! BLESSINGS!! GREAT SCOTT!!! AWESOME!!!
Thank you!
sublime !!!
Dam thats amazing
Plays it... ultimate chills !
Very good🎉
This piece of music is just as powerful today as it was then when J.S. Bach played it back when he was 17 years old!!!
Also ,I remember this track from when I watched Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange.
Please, please, please, Rob, do a follow-up on this video. He only played the intro and there are lots of other great pieces (especially by Bach!) that are worth listening to. I can watch for hours and hours!
You got the whole of the Toccata. The Fugue seemingly wasn't recorded - but this is really just a 'bonus' video of a demonstration recorded whilst making Rob's video about the organ - ua-cam.com/video/JeB3JnKp8To/v-deo.html .
There are plenty of other recordings of Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 out there - it's probably the most recorded organ work attributed to J S Bach (whose authorship of this work is disputed). Though a French Symphonic organ in a very reverberant building would not normally be the first choice for recording this work and certainly would alarm a baroque purist, the recording by Olivier Latry in Notre Dame earlier this year has deep emotional ramifications following the fire - ua-cam.com/video/e2uuE5ZQN6A/v-deo.html . The grand organ was in fine form following its 2014 restoration - this was one of the last (perhaps the last) recording before the fire.
Maravilhoso e complexo tocar um órgão. Bonito demais, parabéns.
У Баха навернулась бы слеза... Очень круто!!! Спасибо! 🌹 🌹 🌹
Огромное спасибо приклоняюсь удачи вам и всех благ Москва Россия
I wish I was there to hear it live!
Awesome
played this in our marching band and hearing it again makes me super happy lol
MARAVILHOSO
Danke 🌟
Killing performance
Phenomenal
Great pianist . Best and hard song.goooood
Amazing
Amazing. 👍👍👍
Super cool
Splendida interpretazione.
Maestro tantissimi complimenti.