It's a chorale tune, and there's nothing awkward about it. It only seems awkward because of the slow tempo and the dissonant harmonies. Listen to Bach's choral harmonization of the same tune, BWV 305. There are many examples on RUclips. Here's one: ruclips.net/video/wuu84j7trk4/видео.html
The longer one takes to perform this piece, the more meaning, depth and sorrow it conveys. Great job, I really like the stops, specially the ones in the pedal :)
I remember that during a hospitalization, my mother brought me to the hospital a recording of this work ..... I really liked this listening ... and, ignoring the title of the work, I have long searched for it ...... and it troubles me enormously ..
Deeply moving music. Out of this world. An atheist could turn to a beliver instantly if he possed a minimum of sensibility to feel God's presence in these notes.
I listened the first time with Pierre Cochereau together with the trumpetist Roger Delmote. A simple and admirable work. I recommend to study it annotating the bass numbering, this provided by the left hand part.
What is amazing is that Bach was known to hate composing at the keyboard. He would literally work out an entire piece in his head, and/or on paper, and write it down almost complete. If this piece was done in this way, it means Bach heard these harmonies in his head. Incredible.
Perhaps you're not aware that the typical university undergraduate music major curriculum requires the student to pass ear training in harmony and identify chords upon hearing them. I don't know why you find it so remarkable that a composer worth his salt would not need a keyboard to compose on. Generations of composers before Bach were writing complex contrapuntal vocal compositions in 5, 6 or more parts without a keyboard crutch. As for whether Bach hated composing at the keyboard, many of his keyboard compositions sound improvisational and may have resulted from reworkings of pieces he had improvised. A famous example comes to mind: the 3-part ricercar from the Musical Offering is very likely a worked out version of the 3-part fugue the composer had famously improvised at the Prussian king's Potsdam residence on a theme provided by the king. Question: How does _literally_ alter the meaning of your sentence?
@@bzeliotis To me the op sounds more like someone that is hunting for free upvotes on youtube... ...i know nothing about music but i can imagine that with music theory and after some year of struggling everyone can compose simple stuff without the need of playing all the notes but by simply picturing accords in his brain. The stuff that Herrick Inman is saying is easy to understand, he is not being an elitist he is just bored by the youtube comments from people without any knowledge which are putting their face into technical stuff indirectly insulting all the ones that truly studied musical the theory, composition, etc. I can appreciate a piece even without filling my mouth with words i don't understand the meaning...
@@herrickinman9303It may well be said that any reasonably proficient music scholar may write down a harmonized melody directly onto paper. It is, on the other hand, not an easy task to write out such a beautiful, balanced and (comparatively) complex piece of music from just conceptualizing it out of thin air. It is easy to suppose that due to his busy schedule Bach probably was UNABLE to painstakingly edit his compositions, so he MUST have prepared them in relatively complete form IN HIS HEAD before he wrote them down. Maybe you can write music, but can you compose and edit polyphony in your head for half an hour without getting lost? Can you improvise a three-voice fugue on a random theme and make it sound beautiful? If you can, you are a consummate musician who should know better than to so jadely criticise an imprecise but reasonable and respectful comment on a RUclips video of a masterpiece.
In one word : perfect ! You made me cry with happiness (a frequent side effect for me with Bach's music !). They should give you the real organ for such a nice interpretation.
Matthew Fisher formerly of Procol Harum(also known for A Whiter Shade of Pale) on his album "A Salty Dog Returns" performs this song using what sounds like a Hammond organ of some sort,synthesizers that sounds like an entire orchestra and drums. He changes one chord that makes it sound a little more menacing. I love it. I wished he would he would have explored this type of music on the rest of that album.
I am surprised I haven't said anything about this. It is absolutely beautiful and I want more of it. I want to learn organ, but probably will never be able to
@@DrZhivago-l2b unless I regularly visit a church, too big and expensive for basically a fancy piano. Unfortunately it is easier to get a organ plug in for piano or a PC soundfont
@@TheStickCollector You said you'd use the organ sound on a digital piano. But there are actually digital organs with pedal and everything. Check this guy's channel out ruclips.net/video/TYicxVIfQnc/видео.html
Beautiful ... superb performance.... I am studying it too .... but my sample is a small "pure" Baroque Organ so I cannot have so deep and full-bodied sound...
I'm in love with this version. It is literally one of the best, simplest renditions of this prelude I have heard so far. I would love to use it in a short film I'm about to shoot in the coming year. And I was wondering if it would it be possible to have your permission to do so? Thank you!
@@pierrebourrelly2953 sounds really interesting, even if it's a midi file. Although the singers would run out of breath singing those chords XD Maybe i'd suggest a soloist singing the melody with the organ or a piano doing the rest. Or a string quarter perhaps?
@@marcellovacca3155 BWV 725 (almost like speech in music); BWV 700; BWV 611; BWV 758; BWV 686 and the Passacaglia and Fugue. The depth and intensity in these works - some modest and some grand - is very moving to me, I hope you like them and thanks for asking.
@@marcellovacca3155 Yes, it's one of the most beautifully melancholic of his organ works. It seems to be closer to something human than something sacred.
beautiful rendition of this prelude! can anyone out there point me towards pieces with a similar structure: i.e. cantus firmus over a steadily moving harmonic accompaniment? would be curious to discover more! thanks! :)
Hauptwerk simply replaces pipes with recordings of pipes. It does not have any bearing on the musical performance, which is being recorded live by the organist.
_TeamCobra_ Hauptwerk, with a w. But the GUI is part of a sampleset. Maybe the name of the sampleset is in the description (too lazy to scroll up to check while writing this comment lol)
Really pleasant is sound of this virtual organs and choral prelude is so nicely played ... and I am proud that my countryman is performer :) Bach wrote this so beautifully that I just had to find musical score... if you care, result is on my channel where I played this choral prelude on digital piano using organ sound. Of course on digital piano you can not play with feet like on organ so this complicates thinks ... I was really happy when found that this choral prelude can be played on piano. Maybe Bach used harpsicord when composing and that might be reason ...
Very beautiful, very melancholy. They played this at my funeral.
say what
😊0000
How can they play this at your funeral your still alive
Hopefully not JUST yet
@@nicholashodgkinson2822 How do you know?
Im addicted to this
Me too
Same
+1
God's music from Heaven. Thank you Lord for Thy Son J. S. Bach🙏
The musical equivalent of a hug when you need it..
This interpretation is totally wonderful of this great music. I can listen to it over and over again. Thank you.
I can feel my heart beating with the same tempo as the music.
Life is amazing...
This music IS a heart beating...
that is actually a great comment! Often the tempo of such pieces was meant to be heartbeat-like
The slow marching chords in the accompaniment speak to me of inevitability.
The inevitability of death and judgement - It is Passion Week, of course.
Have mercy on me oh Lord, have mercy. How gracious is this music, soft and tender and lovely and mind easing. Thank you Mr. Bach and the organist.
Such a simple and yet awkward melody, but Bach somehow turns it into musical gold.
It's a chorale tune, and there's nothing awkward about it. It only seems awkward because of the slow tempo and the dissonant harmonies. Listen to Bach's choral harmonization of the same tune, BWV 305. There are many examples on RUclips. Here's one: ruclips.net/video/wuu84j7trk4/видео.html
Came because of lazzaro felice.
A good piece of art...
Perfect for my melancholy.
Having a Bach chill out. So many lovely works like this to shut the outside world off for a while.
Timbro vocale organo magnifico per queste musiche. Bravo organista ottimo esecuzione.
Amazing, thanks JSB
I really love this... it makes me think of my sins.
The longer one takes to perform this piece, the more meaning, depth and sorrow it conveys. Great job, I really like the stops, specially the ones in the pedal :)
Con Bach ogni nota è una scala verso il cielo!
Such a beautiful piece. Such a rich sounding recording. I can hear the whole of life within it
This is one of my favorite chorale preludes, and you have done an excellent rendition (without rushing it). Thank you and congratulations!
Thank you!
I remember that during a hospitalization, my mother brought me to the hospital a recording of this work ..... I really liked this listening ... and, ignoring the title of the work, I have long searched for it ...... and it troubles me enormously ..
Deeply moving music. Out of this world. An atheist could turn to a beliver instantly if he possed a minimum of sensibility to feel God's presence in these notes.
Meilleure version à mon goût dans le tempo et le choix des registres. Une merveille ! Un grand merci à l'organiste.
thank you sir Bach. you gave me so good musics they always console my heart
This piece is so incredibly beautiful. I could hear the Angels weeping with Joy.
goosebumps and close to fainting - what a divine peace (and thx for a superb!! performance)
Lovely. Not heard this one before. Thank you for the introduction.
When i die .this melody will be my last melody in my life.very sad melody,but i love them.
Sad yet brave, or trusting.
Why sad. Meditating triggering. Cheers
Just beautiful! Incredible piece of music.
Très bonne interprétation , c'est ravissant ......; Merci Monsieur BACH vous me bouleversez les entrailles par votre Harmonie Géniale .
Very nice steady playing. The harmonics on the solo stop are beautiful.
Spellbinding - tempo, registration, Bach harmony, glorious registration. All all-time favorite clip.
I could swear it has healing qualities. Cathartic at the very least.
Epoustouflant de beauté recueillie. Quelle émotion ! Bravo et merci !
lo escucho y siento que mi alma se va poco a poco ....Bach es y será siempre el mejor músico de la historia
Vous êtes vraiment très fort pour créer de la vie dans la lenteur, bravo ! vous gagneriez à être plus connu, en France notamment !
This is so beautiful. Perfectly played with astonishing sound! :)
Kralperri Thank you!
The chosen organ registration and the instrument itself makes this beautiful piece perfect for a period of meditation. Thank you Dragan.
I listened the first time with Pierre Cochereau together with the trumpetist Roger Delmote. A simple and admirable work. I recommend to study it annotating the bass numbering, this provided by the left hand part.
Beautifully played and worn with a beautiful pace.
témoignage magnifique et particulièrement émouvant du grand croyant Jean Sébastien Bach
What is amazing is that Bach was known to hate composing at the keyboard. He would literally work out an entire piece in his head, and/or on paper, and write it down almost complete. If this piece was done in this way, it means Bach heard these harmonies in his head. Incredible.
Perhaps you're not aware that the typical university undergraduate music major curriculum requires the student to pass ear training in harmony and identify chords upon hearing them. I don't know why you find it so remarkable that a composer worth his salt would not need a keyboard to compose on. Generations of composers before Bach were writing complex contrapuntal vocal compositions in 5, 6 or more parts without a keyboard crutch.
As for whether Bach hated composing at the keyboard, many of his keyboard compositions sound improvisational and may have resulted from reworkings of pieces he had improvised. A famous example comes to mind: the 3-part ricercar from the Musical Offering is very likely a worked out version of the 3-part fugue the composer had famously improvised at the Prussian king's Potsdam residence on a theme provided by the king.
Question: How does _literally_ alter the meaning of your sentence?
@@herrickinman9303 You sound like a really clever idiot. Literally!
@@bzeliotis To me the op sounds more like someone that is hunting for free upvotes on youtube... ...i know nothing about music but i can imagine that with music theory and after some year of struggling everyone can compose simple stuff without the need of playing all the notes but by simply picturing accords in his brain. The stuff that Herrick Inman is saying is easy to understand, he is not being an elitist he is just bored by the youtube comments from people without any knowledge which are putting their face into technical stuff indirectly insulting all the ones that truly studied musical the theory, composition, etc. I can appreciate a piece even without filling my mouth with words i don't understand the meaning...
@@herrickinman9303It may well be said that any reasonably proficient music scholar may write down a harmonized melody directly onto paper. It is, on the other hand, not an easy task to write out such a beautiful, balanced and (comparatively) complex piece of music from just conceptualizing it out of thin air. It is easy to suppose that due to his busy schedule Bach probably was UNABLE to painstakingly edit his compositions, so he MUST have prepared them in relatively complete form IN HIS HEAD before he wrote them down. Maybe you can write music, but can you compose and edit polyphony in your head for half an hour without getting lost? Can you improvise a three-voice fugue on a random theme and make it sound beautiful? If you can, you are a consummate musician who should know better than to so jadely criticise an imprecise but reasonable and respectful comment on a RUclips video of a masterpiece.
Wow, beautiful! The Metz sounds great!
Bach could have used the sound of a squeaky door hinge as a theme, and turned it into a musical masterpiece.
Outstanding performance!
*Je veux une dimension de toi seigneur🤲😭😭😭,je veux être amoureuse,t'aimer plus que tout Seigneur🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲☝☝☝☝☝☝😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭*
In one word : perfect ! You made me cry with happiness (a frequent side effect for me with Bach's music !).
They should give you the real organ for such a nice interpretation.
You're too kind!
This hits in my very core!
Prachtig gespeeld en met een heel mooi gedragen tempo.
Heerlijk om naar te luisteren
‘Happy as Lazzaro’ brought me here
me too. conmovedora
Same here. Beautiful and moving film. Also watched THE WONDERS, and loved it too.
Looking forward to next film from Alice.
I heard this in Happy as Lazarro was so breakHearts
Thank you for this validation of the greater gravitas of the slower ~6 minute tempo not found in faster tempi. Soli Deo gloria!
great performance!
Smashing - wish I could play it .
Excelent!!! what beautiful feelings are expressed here!!!
Amazing....
Bach zal altijd nummer 1 blijven!
Bach is my Number One. I would be any time the Number One. Best Wishes to you Dennis from a German Fan.
I ment Bach not me.
Karl Berlin Best wishes to you to! We love Bach for eternal!
So beautiful ! :)
Great sound, greets.
Thanks. :)
Thank you. Notre-Dame de Metz.
Matthew Fisher formerly of Procol Harum(also known for A Whiter Shade of Pale) on his album "A Salty Dog Returns" performs this song using what sounds like a Hammond organ of some sort,synthesizers that sounds like an entire orchestra and drums. He changes one chord that makes it sound a little more menacing. I love it. I wished he would he would have explored this type of music on the rest of that album.
+hlhent Sorry about the grammatical error. I didn't see it until it posted.
I am surprised I haven't said anything about this.
It is absolutely beautiful and I want more of it. I want to learn organ, but probably will never be able to
How come?
@@DrZhivago-l2b unless I regularly visit a church, too big and expensive for basically a fancy piano. Unfortunately it is easier to get a organ plug in for piano or a PC soundfont
@@TheStickCollector There's digital organs
@@DrZhivago-l2b that's what I meant. Besides it would mainly be for a hobby anyways, so not critical
@@TheStickCollector You said you'd use the organ sound on a digital piano. But there are actually digital organs with pedal and everything. Check this guy's channel out ruclips.net/video/TYicxVIfQnc/видео.html
beautiful
The harmony is so interesting, you almost don't need the hymn lead.
Feed my melancholy
So thanks
Danke schön!
Beautiful ... superb performance.... I am studying it too .... but my sample is a small "pure" Baroque Organ so I cannot have so deep and full-bodied sound...
Super!
...on peut mourir après... et rejoindre Dieu...
Thanks! I played it.
Take it a tad quicker myself, but it's wonderful at this relaxed pace.
BEAUTIFUL
Njegova muzika je sublimirana u neprestanu tihu molitvu
I'm in love with this version. It is literally one of the best, simplest renditions of this prelude I have heard so far.
I would love to use it in a short film I'm about to shoot in the coming year. And I was wondering if it would it be possible to have your permission to do so?
Thank you!
Thank you very much. By all means, use it freely!
mrSymphonic Wow, thank YOU!
Sublime
Ottimo!
bravo!
I wish someone would just install hauptwerk in my house so I could play and it sounds like this
il m est arrivé d etre au bord des larmes par l intensité émotionnelle de ce choral
tres bien joué mais un tantinet trop lent a mon gout.
Thank you, Andrea!
Here after twoset video of AI vs real composers
Shame they found it to be weird and funny, to me this is a highly emotional piece.
@@kneza96BG What would you think of this piece whith lyrics on it ? ruclips.net/video/yxj5ww69UqA/видео.html
@@pierrebourrelly2953 sounds really interesting, even if it's a midi file. Although the singers would run out of breath singing those chords XD
Maybe i'd suggest a soloist singing the melody with the organ or a piano doing the rest. Or a string quarter perhaps?
this is the best song of Bach ever made! and well played here...
I rate 6 of Bach's organ works above this piece, but still very high up in my estimation
@@hugoclarke3284 could you list them? 🙂
@@marcellovacca3155
BWV 725 (almost like speech in music); BWV 700; BWV 611; BWV 758; BWV 686 and the Passacaglia and Fugue.
The depth and intensity in these works - some modest and some grand - is very moving to me, I hope you like them and thanks for asking.
@@hugoclarke3284 Gosh, apart from the Passacaglia they where still unknown to me. What about BWV 639? 🙂
@@marcellovacca3155 Yes, it's one of the most beautifully melancholic of his organ works. It seems to be closer to something human than something sacred.
Jhr. Humphrey. Briljant played
Grazie Lazzaro Felice...
Bach Plus infinite equalls bach
Céleste...
Solo stop Sesquialtera coupled to a flute? Gorgeous sound.
I would say it’s a Cornet
지구가 있는한 바흐는 영원히 우리와 함께 살 것이다
맞습니다
So viel Ja. Soi Deo gloria!
It would be interesting to hear this played in different tunings.
prachtige vertolking!
beautiful rendition of this prelude! can anyone out there point me towards pieces with a similar structure: i.e. cantus firmus over a steadily moving harmonic accompaniment? would be curious to discover more! thanks! :)
divno
Easeful
Mooi
Bitte!
Did you play this piece or is it piped through Hauptwerk? If so, how? Beautiful piece & playing by the way.
Hauptwerk simply replaces pipes with recordings of pipes. It does not have any bearing on the musical performance, which is being recorded live by the organist.
What is this program with a virtual console called? Nice version of this piece.
_TeamCobra_ Hauptwerk, with a w. But the GUI is part of a sampleset. Maybe the name of the sampleset is in the description (too lazy to scroll up to check while writing this comment lol)
So can I
Really pleasant is sound of this virtual organs and choral prelude is so nicely played ... and I am proud that my countryman is performer :) Bach wrote this so beautifully that I just had to find musical score... if you care, result is on my channel where I played this choral prelude on digital piano using organ sound. Of course on digital piano you can not play with feet like on organ so this complicates thinks ... I was really happy when found that this choral prelude can be played on piano. Maybe Bach used harpsicord when composing and that might be reason ...
Bach non dovevi morire.
@abbedego : Thanks a lot!
Très beau mais il y a apparemment quelques fautes de texte.