Kay Johannsen plays Bach: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue C major BWV 564
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2015
- Stiftskirche Stuttgart
organ by Mühleisen (2004, IV/81)
recorded 2014 by Peter Willkommen
more informations:
Stiftsmusik Stuttgart (and organ by Mühleisen): www.stiftsmusik-stuttgart.de
Kay Johannsen: www.kay-johannsen.de 
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This is Bach! Bravo Maestro! Pathos, fantasia, perfetta articolazione, musica!
Hier sind gleich mehrere Meister am Werk:
1. J.S. Bach für dieses wundervollste Werk der Orgelkunst
2. Kay Johannson für seine grandiose Darbietung
3. Orgelbauer Mühleisen für seinen unglaublich imposanten Orgelprospekt
4. Der Fotograf/ Kameramann, der diese wunderschöne Orgel visuell so wunderbar eingefangen hat.
Habe ich jemanden vergessen? Regie/ Ton/Schnitt? Alles tadellos!!
Respekt an alle Meister!
Thrilling , heartfelt , life affirming ….a glorious performance !
Eine fantastische Orgel und Organist!
Endlich einmal ein Organist, der auswendig spielt - und das auch noch so musikalisch perfekt!
MERCI pour votre magnifique interprétation d'une très grande clarté !!
Ich glaube, so würde „der Alte“ heute sein wunderschönes Werk auch spielen. Phantastische Interpretation mit ungeheuer virtuoser Präzision, in der jede Nuance musikalisch lebt und selbst in der Spielfuge immer transparent bleibt. Das Tempo ist z.T. atemberaubend, aber immer metrisch natürlich.
Herzlichen Dank!
Ganz herzlichen Dank!
The organ is, in one word, P-E-R-F-E-C-T ... the sound is really clear, and clean... I really love it!
The organist is even better ... many compliments for your performance, I'm trying to study this piece, but I will never be able to play it like you, not even at the end of my life ... Thanks for posting!
yes, i return to this records again and again..normally it is my less liked composition of Bach. But the organ as i regard as the best in the world and the organ player lift this composition out of its dull emotionally misunderstanding...That it ZEN.
Finalmente un organista veramente espressivo,grazie Maestro!
A supeb performance!
Played brilliantly!Thank you.
I love this playing of Toccata, Andante, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564!
Me too, is a great magister interpretation!
Bach is my favorite composer and I love his music more than I can say. I enjoyed your
performance of this beautiful music very much.
Magnifique ! Merci de m'avoir fait tutoyer mon maître.Quelle fraîcheur et quel bain de jouvence !
D'accord mille fois!
That was a good performance!! Rhythmic, driving, powerful. Yes, that was a good one!
Je trouve cette interprétation fabuleuse, supérieure à toutes celles (très nombreuses) que j'ai entendues dans ma déjà longue vie . Le toucher est articulé avec mesure et précision ( pas de légato collant, pas de staccato caricatural) . Le phrasé donne du sens à la musique et rythme la fugue avec une vie extraordinaire. Kay Johansen, vous êtes un Maître et j'espère que vous avez des élèves pour transmettre ce sens du jeu de l'orgue et de l'oeuvre de Bach .
Merci beaucoup!!
Hallo Herr Johannsen. Mein grosses Kompliment! ich spiele selbst Orgel und ich muss sagen, Ihr Spiel ind Ihre Registratur ist perfekt. Herzlichen Dank für all Ihre Performance. Gruss Martin Zoller
JSB another son of God sent to comfort mankind.
Excellent work ❤ That is one of my most favorite pieces 👍 Dude please continue your contribution to mine and many others enjoyment. Your skill level is excellent 😂❤😊
Thank you so much! Yes, there will be more organ videos, especially of Bach organ works. I love practicing Bach constantly and never get tired of it!
I love the Adagio!
Artful mastery of agogic rhythm. Delightful.
Fantastica esecuzione... complimenti all'organista! Ottima interpretazione!
This is almost everything I have ever wanted to hear done with this piece interpretively! Thank you!
I agree agree agree!!!
thank you. Thank You. THANK YOU !! Thanks so much for leaving legato play in the cupboard. Can't convey half of the joy and liveliness of this piece with legato playing. Except for Christian Barthen, I can't think of anyone whose interpretation of the 564 I like better. A real wonderpiece.
Absolutely superb playing! Thank you so much! The organ looks as stunning as it sounds. It was a mono LP recording by the late Jeanne Demessieux playing this Bach piece (in a very different style I might add!!) that inspired me 50 years ago to (attempt to) learn the organ. Listening to an organist of your calibre, musicianship and technical mastery makes wish I'd never even bothered; I would have spared myself a lifetime of frustration and despair! Peter A
Wunderbar gespielt!!!
Played brilliantly!
That was so cool 😎! Thanks Bravo!
Ich kenne BWV 564 sehr gut und auch viele Interpretationen. Gratulation zur hervorragenden Performance. Ich mag die erfrischende Interpretation.
Stupendous performance, Kay!!! Utterly enjoyable in every way!
Thank you!!
Das ist wirklich groß! Ich habe mir ein Lesezeichen angelegt!😊
Vielen Dank!
J'avais en mémoire les interprétations de Marie-Claire Alain, et surtout Michel Chapuis. Désormais, la vôtre sera au rang de mes favorites.
I remembered Interpretations of Marie-Claire Alain and all over Michel Chapuis. Yours will now remain among my favorites. Thank you so much, Mr Johannsen.
Durch ihren Spiel, kann der Kantor ruhig und froh bleiben.
Bonjour Julien. Puis-je vous suggerer de preter votre oreille a l'interpretation de Christian Barthen de cette 564 (dispo sur youtube) ? Je suis persuade que vous l'apprecierez egalement beaucoup.
Yvan Azastrasz Merci à vous. J'essaierai.
moi je vous conseil celle de Kerstin Wolf et celle de Hans André Stamm
BRILLIANT!
Thank you!
Sehr sehr schön, danke, merci !
Thank you. 👏🏻 bravo.
Bello! Non ci sono altre parole!
Hallo Herr Johannsen, ich habe Sie einmal abonniert. Ihre Orgelimprovisationen sind übrigens Spitze. Vielen Dank dafür und natürlich auch für die BWV 564.
+Alfred unbekannt Vielen Dank, das freut mich sehr! Es kommt demnächst eine weitere Improvisation heraus.
Great player
It may be a feature of the song, but it is a solid and strong performance. I like Bach's organ songs played by Kay, so I'd like to continue searching for videos little by little. Please note that it may be difficult to read because it was written by machine translation.
You are so expressive in your great performance.I have enjoyed your work here and I think I will subscribe and find more .Thank you .
Thank you very much!
I am with you ,Key,a new fan .Keep on blowin' strong .
I love how the organ is matched to it's environment and supports the intent of the organist. Wonderful sound. I find the tempo a bit rushed and not considered from a global point of view . I really enjoyed the Toccata and return to this performance just for the Toccata.
¡ Excelencia!
Ich habe so meine Probleme mit Orgelklängen, aber wenn ich diese Aufnahmen höre und sehe, sind die Probleme weggeblasen.
beste Registrierung !
tres belle interprétation tout en délicatesse et virtuosité
Merci!
Die Fuge ist der Hammer 👍
+Jakob Frisch Danke!
Great. Close up on pedals now and then would be even better.
The organ is simply stunning 😇
Sorry for my inadequate English. Some people criticize this tempo, "too fast." I disagree, I think the Toccata goes too slowly. Scholars think that Bach composed this pieces around 1707-1710. Do people even thinking about that we need to go more than 300 years back in time to understand the background for this composition? Bach was a young man, he wanted to impress, he loved to show off his technical skills. And at the same time he show people what was possible to play. In my opinion, the pedal solo here should be played much faster. A story from United Kingdom goes something like this(my own poor translation:) Felix Mendelssohn visit the English queen, and she asked Mendelssohn to play some of Bach's organ pieces. But Mendelssohn couldn't play because there wasn't any pedal board on organs in the UK at the time. Later on some of the organs got the pedal board, and the organists said: "You may put them there, but I will never going to use them." So almost 150 years earlier, Bach play this pedal solo in Germany! Johannsen knows much more then I do about the pedal board in different countries, I think that it was not possible to perform the solo even in France or Spain at the time Bach was young. I also criticized an another organist to play the solo too slow, her answer was funny: "This is music, not sport." In general she is absolutely right! But the pedal soli is sport, not music! How do I know that? Well, do we find a single pedal solo in his later organ works? No, not a single one!
Toccata in F! 2x
I had the same thought that the pedal solo is too slow in comparidon to the incredible fast opening.
...e stupendamente eseguito l'Adagio,molto Vivaldiano..
Più andante che adagio però.
I would trade all I own for those skills.
Genial! Eine der besten Interpretationen, die ich kenne. Wenn ich mir mal eine Frage erlauben darf, steht denn auch mal BWV 542 in Aussicht?
+JRorgel Danke! Von BWV 542 gibt es eine CD bei hänssler classic, allerdings ist die Aufnahme an der Trautmann-Orgel in Goslar schon ein paar Jahre alt. BWV 548 wird hier als nächstes kommen. Ich denke dann gerne auch an BWV 542!
Fabulous playing as usual from Kay Johannsen. Too bad the videography is so poor with those strong shadows.
Well done (Bach dixit).
The organ is just a notch better than me says Martyn Parfect - perfect
🎶👍👏👏👏❤️
Wunderbar gespielt! Vielleicht gibt es auch BWV 543 eines Tages zu hören?
PS: Kann mich noch an ihre Zeit in Balingen erinnern.
+Bernd W Danke, freut mich! BWV 548 kommt vorher, glaube ich, aber irgendwann sicher auch 543. Viele Grüße!
That is my kind of flute! Just imagine the size and breath power of the Paul Bunion guys blowing these HUGE tubes! then see the tiny and otherwise sized blowing nymph chorus. Notice how close they like to dwell in veritable fore play, and then wham bam! they dance together intricate interweaving contortions, wild energetic running in ecstatic union.
Also alles ist toll gespielt aber die Fuge gefällt mir am besten! Der Grave-Teil im Adagio geht ein bisschen unter da wär ne andere Registrierung vielleicht schön gewesen, mehr streicher / flöten...?
Hallo Herr Johannson, wer ist der Orgelbauer?
Mühleisen
Chissà cosa ne pensa Edgar Krapp di questo modo di suonare !
A superb performance. However, I do get tired of musicians who feel they must rush, rush, rush Baroque music. So much of the intricate polyphonic, imitative interplay is lost and blurred. Just because one has the technical prowess to "play fast" very seldom properly serves the music... even though it may stroke the performer's ego.
Baroque tempi should be relaxed and genial, not frantic and hurried. "Allegro" in Baroque music simply means "light-hearted and cheerful," not "break-neck fast."
Yeah, this is just too fast.
I respect both you commenters, but this was exactly what i was craving. And while slower tempos might be great for many, i really needed this.
I agree. I'm not into slow Baroque playing but this was fast even for me.
I agree that rushing Bach or baroque music generally is a common practice, but there were no metronome markings in the baroque era. Kay Johannsen's performances have-persuaded me that some artists have the gift, the technique, and the inner feeling required to play much faster-than others without rushing and while expressing more rather than less of the music. I would recommend listening again to Mister Johannsen's performances with that possibility in mind.
Exactly so and well said.
Smuk orgelmusik.......
The beginning is too fast for my taste
Der leitet den Chor meiner Mutter
Way too fast-- what's the hurry?
It is better if you use 3 keyboards for the fuge, It is possible.
You can do this if you like! But as far as we know this was not was Bach did himself - even the use of two manuals is not "correct", but sometimes I do it (depends on the organ).
Excellent sound of the organ and the recording. However, the performance leaves somewhat to desire - it's too fast. Really.
I respect your comment, but many recordings I've heard really drag and bore me. This speed is what my brain was craving.