One must simply admire the genius of JSB to compose a work as beautiful and complex as this. Your play is stunning and your footwork, especially in this piece, leaves nothing left to be desired. I enjoyed every single sixteenth! Thank you very much for this magnificent presentation.
@@pjclutterbuck230473 Most certainly. Sadly, English is not my mother language and so it is quite likely to find the one or the other imprecision within my comments.
We love this one too Richard. Great playing and great fun! ❤You are terrific!!The sound and colour of the organ pitch is just lovely! Nice and pure and perfect in voicing.
Didn’t notice that! The other shoelace come undone just before I started recording, and the other must’ve come undone due to all the rapid pedal passages!
I've never understood why someone will say, 'oh dear, you didn't play it the way that X played this piece. You need to change the way you play. ' A performance isn't a carbon copy of a particular performance. Everyone has their own style and interpretation. How sad and dull life would be. No point in going to concerts or buying recordings as they would all be the same. Long live individuals.
Qui c'è una vera e propria esplosione di note, magistralmente governate dal grande organista quale e lei signore. È lo spirito che si scarica sulle tastiere e pedaliera. Complimenti!!!
Lovely piece, reminds me of a child full of energy! Beautifully played as always!💯 🌻 Great camera work as well! 👍 It's cool to see your fingers and feet dancing together, you're like a very cool organ octopus! 🐙🤩 p.s This length of video was perfect to me!
I love the bells at the end! Fantastic! Thank you for posting! Beautifully performed. Bach is my hero! Who put the little choo-choos up there? Sweet! Everyone needs a little color. I'll bet there were toys all over Bach's house. 😊
An excellent rendition. - I remember a small section of the prelude featured in the early 70's Monty Python 'fish licence' sketch at the point when the very tall Lord Mayor came into the post office. (Apologies to people not from the Monty Python era). It took me years to find out where the music was taken from. (No internet then). It's been a great favourite of mine ever since.
Beautiful and interesting registrations with great technique make listening to Bach a true pleasure. Thank you for the gift of each of your recordings. I particularly appreciate seeing your pedal technique as it helps to see what I can work on in my own practice.
One of my favorites. I had the opening as my telephone ring sound for a long time. Maybe add a little more quiet time at the beginning. It jumps right out too soon after clicking on it.
Played beautifully. J.S.Bach would certainly have been delighted with the many sound colours. Thank you very much! Just noticed the two toy locomotives. How nice! I hope they are useful talismans for you 😊
You're playing is so awesome, Richard! I enjoyed the extra decoration on the pedal scales as well as the accelerating manual scales at the end of the Prelude. The sample set was well chosen, with elements of both the argentine tone of North German school mixtures and the honk of quintatons characteristic of Thuringia, and I thank you for using them in antiphonal dialog. And top the whole thing off with a Zimbelstern. Absolutely brilliant!
Such lovely playing. I love exciting organ pieces like these. BWV 560 next, perhaps? :) I know it's questionably Bach, but it's beautiful and exuberant regardless of the author.
I think that if David Briggs hears this performanc of yours, he will be greatly inspired by it. That is just my opinion, admittedly without ever having heard any of his performances. Please take it as a compliment. ❤
A great performance and sound - that is a wonderful organ suited to the music perfectly. Registration inspiring. Playing exquisite. …… Camera work? To have a dynamic image rather than just stills very good!
First heard this played by Karl Richter on a tracker action organ. Listen carefully and you can make out some of the 'clatter' of the action. Adds to the piece somehow. Great.
My favorite rendition of this is E. Power Biggs as Zwolle. But I love your special touches to this. More proof that Bach lets people have fun and pass on the special touches they add to things. You have to match the music to the instrument, then present Back's intent to it all and think you mastered it.
A really wonderful rendition of this greatest fugue. Allows the fullness of the instrument to come through beautifully. The pedal work is just fantastic. The recording fidelity doesn't quite compare to the remastered editions of the likes of H Walcha but I would actually buy a CD with it.
Perfectly played and showing your splendid virtuoso performance skills. I am a big fan of yours Richard and am in awe of you but I do believe in being honest and to the point whilst always wishing to maintain due respect, especially to someone of such prestigious ability, I would like to comment as follows; This is one of my favourite JSB compositions which I play from the Novello edition and I have always adhered to the majority of the notation and ornamentation which works very well for me and having listened to a lot of UK and European recordings of the piece, I am accustomed to hearing and playing it that way, together with a reduced tempo and unwritten ornamentation also with a much more uniformed choice of registration and manual changes. I am a big fan of authentic performances of JSB organ works and prefer such performances rather than virtuoso performances which include unwritten cadenzas and elaborate ornamentation which are a pet hate of mine. For some reason the Fugue is always played too fast so that in very cavernous acoustics such as a Cathedral it can sometimes sound like a complete blur. Not what JSB had in mind, together with numerous other Toccatas, Preludes and Fugues which can be spoiled by hurried tempo, mainly by virtuoso performers. The late Kingston Upon Hull City Organist , Peter Goodman, who was one of my mentors, once said at one of his Organ Recitals on the famous Forster and Andrews Organ in the City Hall, that Classical Organ music should be treated largely as inspirational rather than entertaining and I have completely bourn that in mind when learning, practicing and performing a recital. He and my main organ teacher were very much “Old School” and I make no apologies for continuing to strictly adhering to the way I was taught. I certainly wouldn’t be where I am or perform as I do without that grounding which I would add was hard work with no shortcuts or room for complacency. David Craggs ALCM.
Sounds great on this organ! Though this sounds fabioulous, I must say I like your ‘Classic’ interpretation on Ermelo (or Haarlem) just a little bit more, but that is probably just my own opinion opting for a majestic tempo! (And may have to do with the fact that playing this interpretation as good as you do here is very difficult on a tracker organ IMO). Anyway: great work, wonderful music: true beauty in sound!
Thank you for the wonderful, energetic and powerful interpretation of the Bach piece on the organ in Regensburg. I'm not sure whether a slightly slower interpretation with fewer overtones would make the structure of the piece clearer and come closer to the original interpretation. Please forgive these little hints.
Echo all the great comments on your superb playing. Question on the tablet with your music. Can you provide info on it. I saw the page turn and it looked automatic.
LOVE your ornamentation.... FABULOUS playing... you make me want to get it out again and drive it around a bit... (the "alla breve" could have moved a little faster for my taste... just a personal thing... all that being said... I LOVED IT! A plus plus plus!)
@@beautyinsound Fantastic! You have a cathedral in your home. Bach would be floored to see something like this. I like the two little locomotives on the side. Will you teach your children to play music?
I never get sick of hearing this piece! What a great performance on an organ I wish I could play for just an hour. haha
You could listen to my video on repeat for an hour…? 😉
One must simply admire the genius of JSB to compose a work as beautiful and complex as this. Your play is stunning and your footwork, especially in this piece, leaves nothing left to be desired. I enjoyed every single sixteenth! Thank you very much for this magnificent presentation.
By "sixteenth," you mean "semiquaver," surely?
@@pjclutterbuck230473 Most certainly. Sadly, English is not my mother language and so it is quite likely to find the one or the other imprecision within my comments.
JSB yes, but I have always liked Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood coming up with “Johann Sebastian ‘Mighty’ Bach”.
Every university level organ major should be required to play THAT good for graduation.
Sono d'accordo. Qui si sente la padronanza dello strumento, da parte dell'organista
Aus Bach kein Firlevanz machen! Pfarrer Tietzel-Grassall
We love this one too Richard. Great playing and great fun! ❤You are terrific!!The sound and colour of the organ pitch is just lovely! Nice and pure and perfect in voicing.
Herr Bach applauds you. A perfectly fine rendiiton to say the very least. Wonderful voicing of the instrument as well.
Thank you
Even the shoe lace couldn’t keep up with this fun fugue
Didn’t notice that! The other shoelace come undone just before I started recording, and the other must’ve come undone due to all the rapid pedal passages!
I really like the Zimbelstern at the end. A novel registration. Thank you.
I admire you Richard. You inspire me. How I wish I could learn how to play an organ.
Oh, love the zymberstern at the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔
I've never understood why someone will say, 'oh dear, you didn't play it the way that X played this piece. You need to change the way you play. ' A performance isn't a carbon copy of a particular performance. Everyone has their own style and interpretation. How sad and dull life would be. No point in going to concerts or buying recordings as they would all be the same. Long live individuals.
Qui c'è una vera e propria esplosione di note, magistralmente governate dal grande organista quale e lei signore. È lo spirito che si scarica sulle tastiere e pedaliera. Complimenti!!!
Mr McVeigh I absolutely LOVED your interpretation... you reminded me in it so very much of my old teacher.
Lovely piece, reminds me of a child full of energy!
Beautifully played as always!💯 🌻
Great camera work as well! 👍
It's cool to see your fingers and feet dancing together,
you're like a very cool organ octopus! 🐙🤩
p.s This length of video was perfect to me!
Thank you so much 😀
Wonderful as usual. Thanks for sharing your talent with us all 👍🏻
I love the bells at the end! Fantastic! Thank you for posting! Beautifully performed. Bach is my hero! Who put the little choo-choos up there? Sweet! Everyone needs a little color. I'll bet there were toys all over Bach's house. 😊
An excellent rendition. - I remember a small section of the prelude featured in the early 70's Monty Python 'fish licence' sketch at the point when the very tall Lord Mayor came into the post office. (Apologies to people not from the Monty Python era). It took me years to find out where the music was taken from. (No internet then). It's been a great favourite of mine ever since.
The foot work is neat. That shoe is it custom made me want one 😅 beautiful interpretation indeed. As always it's a pleasure watching you perform sir.
Outstanding Richard. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
There goes one of the best toe stopping 😂 effort ever ! Nobody does it better! ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Maestro you are a genius, thank you for gracing out lives with this heavenly music 🎶 Richard New York
Beautiful and interesting registrations with great technique make listening to Bach a true pleasure. Thank you for the gift of each of your recordings. I particularly appreciate seeing your pedal technique as it helps to see what I can work on in my own practice.
Thanks for listening 😊
Loved this, Richard. Glad you didn't hit a low C on the final pedal note in the fugue...heard of someone doing that in a concert years ago. 😂
Beautiful. Lovely performance of this piece.
Many thanks!
Wow! Thank you Richard! Fabulous as usual. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely awesome as always Richard! Your always make the Organ sing with just so much joy!
Glad you enjoy it!
3:29 the best part
One of my favourite pieces delivered perfectly, as always, well played Richard!
Mine too!
One of my favorites. I had the opening as my telephone ring sound for a long time. Maybe add a little more quiet time at the beginning. It jumps right out too soon after clicking on it.
Another joyful piece - Concerto in A minor BWV 593, particularly the first movement.
Played beautifully. J.S.Bach would certainly have been delighted with the many sound colours. Thank you very much!
Just noticed the two toy locomotives. How nice! I hope they are useful talismans for you 😊
Absolutely AWESOME ‼️👍🏻✝️
Excellent performance, very clean and tidy. Lovely registrations and lots of contrast. I felt a real connection with the music. Well played
I have already watched this video many times and it's always most enjoyable.
Glad you’re enjoying it!
my favourite Bach P & F, ever since I heard Michael Murray play it on a Telarc CD and watched Benjamin Righetti play it on UA-cam. Well done maestro
Loved the stop choices, registration changes and manual changes. Thank you so much!
You're so welcome!
To say nothing of the music, I'm loving the Brio trains on the console. It's so relatable 😂
You're playing is so awesome, Richard! I enjoyed the extra decoration on the pedal scales as well as the accelerating manual scales at the end of the Prelude. The sample set was well chosen, with elements of both the argentine tone of North German school mixtures and the honk of quintatons characteristic of Thuringia, and I thank you for using them in antiphonal dialog. And top the whole thing off with a Zimbelstern. Absolutely brilliant!
What a lovely surprise a Thursday evening, thank you!
Enjoy!
Such lovely playing. I love exciting organ pieces like these. BWV 560 next, perhaps? :)
I know it's questionably Bach, but it's beautiful and exuberant regardless of the author.
Hmmm. Questionably Bach? Who then? Ludwig Krebs?
@@infledermausPerhaps they were thinking of BWV 565?
I think that if David Briggs hears this performanc of yours, he will be greatly inspired by it. That is just my opinion, admittedly without ever having heard any of his performances.
Please take it as a compliment. ❤
Thank you
The ornamentation made my day.
😃
Love the brio trains
Amazing execution of a pillar of music.
But the best part is your facial expression at the end!
Valueless !!!!😊
Great work, as always. I really enjoyed listening to this performance of one of my favorite works by Bach!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A great performance and sound - that is a wonderful organ suited to the music perfectly. Registration inspiring. Playing exquisite. …… Camera work? To have a dynamic image rather than just stills very good!
Camera work was by Charlotte McVeigh, age 4 weeks 😂
Splendid! Tnks Richard
First heard this played by Karl Richter on a tracker action organ. Listen carefully and you can make out some of the 'clatter' of the action. Adds to the piece somehow. Great.
Absolutely Stunning Richard. So clean! Wow!!! Loved the ornaments, fun manual changes and superb videography! Bravo!!!!
Told you I’d publish something (even if it was 3 hours later than I’d intended)! Back to noises today… 😉
My favorite rendition of this is E. Power Biggs as Zwolle. But I love your special touches to this. More proof that Bach lets people have fun and pass on the special touches they add to things. You have to match the music to the instrument, then present Back's intent to it all and think you mastered it.
So beautiful!
Absolutely beautiful!
❤
J.S. Bach geniusz, Organista Arcymistrz🌷🌹
Beautifully played! Thank you.
Many thanks!
You are simply amazing.
Thank you so much 😀
Really wonderful rendition of this amazing(ly complex) prelude and fugue! I really love your channel!
Thank you kindly!
A really wonderful rendition of this greatest fugue. Allows the fullness of the instrument to come through beautifully. The pedal work is just fantastic. The recording fidelity doesn't quite compare to the remastered editions of the likes of H Walcha but I would actually buy a CD with it.
love the arpeggios
Oh, my God 🎉❣️🎹
Excellent as always, and I enjoy your decoration notes. Fun and you’re a master!
Thank you very much!
This was superb, Richard. 🎉
Wonderful...
Great performance that sounds more like you just tossed this off. My favorite Bach prelude & fugue
Love it Richard
Besides being a great organist, you show that you're also a dad. The toy loco's on the organ were a nice touch!
Bob From Santa Barbara, California.
The house is literally full of toy trains, cars and tractors!
Wonderful playing, nice filming.
Amazing
Great performance, Richard. Sebastian Bach would be well pleased. I like your shirt too. {grin}
Many thanks!
Ottima esecuzione👍
👏👏👏
The best.
Jolly good! Have a great day/evening
Thank you Gregory!
The train engines on the key cheeks are a nice touch
I now wished I’d listened to my music teacher way back
Perfectly played and showing your splendid virtuoso performance skills. I am a big fan of yours Richard and am in awe of you but I do believe in being honest and to the point whilst always wishing to maintain due respect, especially to someone of such prestigious ability, I would like to comment as follows;
This is one of my favourite JSB compositions which I play from the Novello edition and I have always adhered to the majority of the notation and ornamentation which works very well for me and having listened to a lot of UK and European recordings of the piece, I am accustomed to hearing and playing it that way, together with a reduced tempo and unwritten ornamentation
also with a much more uniformed choice of registration and manual changes.
I am a big fan of authentic performances of JSB organ works and prefer such performances rather than virtuoso performances which include unwritten cadenzas and elaborate ornamentation which are a pet hate of mine.
For some reason the Fugue is always played too fast so that in very cavernous acoustics such as a Cathedral it can sometimes sound like a complete blur. Not what JSB had in mind, together with numerous other Toccatas, Preludes and Fugues which can be spoiled by hurried tempo, mainly by virtuoso performers. The late Kingston Upon Hull City Organist , Peter Goodman, who was one of my mentors, once said at one of his Organ Recitals on the famous Forster and Andrews Organ in the City Hall, that Classical Organ music should be treated largely as inspirational rather than entertaining and I have completely bourn that in mind when learning, practicing and performing a recital.
He and my main organ teacher were very much “Old School” and I make no apologies for continuing to strictly adhering to the way I was taught. I certainly wouldn’t be where I am or perform as I do without that grounding which I would add was hard work with no shortcuts or room for complacency.
David Craggs ALCM.
Very good Bravissimo solei deo gloria
This reminds me so much of the first time I saw and heard Virgil Fox perform this piece. Your performance of this piece was Great!
Thank you very much!
Wonderful piece
Sounds great on this organ! Though this sounds fabioulous, I must say I like your ‘Classic’ interpretation on Ermelo (or Haarlem) just a little bit more, but that is probably just my own opinion opting for a majestic tempo! (And may have to do with the fact that playing this interpretation as good as you do here is very difficult on a tracker organ IMO). Anyway: great work, wonderful music: true beauty in sound!
Thank you for the wonderful, energetic and powerful interpretation of the Bach piece on the organ in Regensburg. I'm not sure whether a slightly slower interpretation with fewer overtones would make the structure of the piece clearer and come closer to the original interpretation. Please forgive these little hints.
Wonderful tempo on the alla breve
Awesome. Did Carolyne do the nifty moving camera? Great work.
She did indeed, and she is rather nifty isn’t she?!
6:59 till the end 🙏 - 💪💪
Echo all the great comments on your superb playing. Question on the tablet with your music. Can you provide info on it. I saw the page turn and it looked automatic.
My favorite part of this song is the ending part. It looks hard
Reminds me of Michael Murray's organ cd's
Nice!😊
Thanks! 😄
LOVE your ornamentation.... FABULOUS playing... you make me want to get it out again and drive it around a bit... (the "alla breve" could have moved a little faster for my taste... just a personal thing... all that being said... I LOVED IT! A plus plus plus!)
Kontrapunkt elegant like very very much solie deo gloria
This was played for my wedding.
Great choice!
OUTSTANDING !!! Thanks Richard. Bells, too?
Yes, cymbelstern and carillon which are both on the original organ
4:47 fugue
I just know that Virgil is nodding his head and smiling!!
Yoo quiero unos zapatos como esos. Y un órgano como ese. Y tocar así, también.
Amazing performance and the foot work, wow! way above what I could dream of getting to 👍. What are the make of shoes you wore?
Thank you. They’re Supadance - an English company based in London.
@@beautyinsound Thanks. I'll check them out. 👍
I like your tempo
p.s. I love the trains!
Most enjoyable. Please let me know, if this is via Hauptwerk, then what console are you playing on?
It’s my own console at home. It’s known as the BIS Organ 😊
@@beautyinsound Fantastic! You have a cathedral in your home. Bach would be floored to see something like this.
I like the two little locomotives on the side. Will you teach your children to play music?
ivii
summa cum laude! nothing else left to say. just gorgeous and awesome. 🎉
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