M. Reger: Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade Op. 135a No. 1. Henrik Berg, organ.
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2024
- Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade ('Abide, o Dearest Jesus') Op. 135a No. 1 by Max Reger (1873-1916), played on the 1906 Setterquist & Son organ in Falu Kristine Church, Falun, Sweden. The façade was inspired by the famous 1631 Lorentz organ in the Holy Trinity Church in Kristianstad, southern Sweden.
Here I'm using:
GR: Gamba 8', Bourdon 8'; SW: Rörflöjt 8', Flûte octaviante 4'; PED: Subbas 16', Bourdon 8', SW/PED;
two last bars w. upbeat: GR: - Bourdon; SW: - Fl. octav., + Salicional 8'; PED: - Bourdon.
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Recorded on the 22nd of March 2024. 
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Happy Easter Monday/Second Day of Easter!🐣🪻Today we commemorate the witnesses of the resurrection, more specifically the two disciples on the road to Emmaus who meet the resurrected Jesus without recognising him, but asking him - “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.”🌇🌄These words have been a source of inspiration for several hymns, among others this one, 'Abide with us with your grace'. Here in a short but lovely setting by Reger, soothing like a lullaby.🎶😴🌙The wonderful Gamba stop of this organ gets to shine in the 'cantus firmus' - that is fancy organist language for 'melody'…!✨As always - don’t forget to click the thumbs-up and subscribe!
very touching 🙏🏻
2:59 Esteemed colleague, 😊ha
Here Mark. I was born and raised in a small, one-horse, cowboy town in Apache Co, Arizona. I must have been 13-14 years old. I had +/- 3 years of piano instruction behind me. Suddenly, at the end of a church service a guy named Nick Shumway played a postlude that grabbed me by the ... ahemm. Let"s keep this convo in line with the Kantian Beautiful and the sublime. It's what you do, Henrik, in every aspect of your work here on RUclips. Even Bach had a scrappy and a wild side. But. Freshly back in Saxony from still-today nordic Lüneburg, there were those two incidents. 1) He got seen up in the Orgelempore with that cute young girl. Last time that was to happen. Unprofessional! 2) The bully-punk bassoon player who arrived at one of those single rehearsals unprepared. Hannes B outed the guy publicly with this label in German I have forgotten but it makes you lyaootf😂! The two got in a fist fight just out of the church into the town Marktplatz. Seb bopped the guy a good one in the jaw,,,,got in trouble with the law for it. First and last time! From now on it was to be "Arbeit ist Arbeit; Schnaps ist Schnaps.
But I digress. Why not? There should be 50 comments here. But hey. It was Easter. Still. It's my intention to compensate. Not too long. Long enough.
So. That sudden postlude on a 1950s Hammond organ. (!) Nick's mom was our town's high school band teacher. She had come from another neighboring town. She played several instruments well: piano, violin, mandolin, clarinet, trumpet. She was able to teach all the other band instruments. She got a Music Ed degree from Northern Arizona University. Such was the high level of education in the US under President Eisenhower. She also learned the organ at a level of intermediate competency. Had a Baldwin electronic instrument with 32 note pedalboard at home and taught organ to son Nick.
Looking back later after I finally got to study organ away "at college," age 17.5. What Nick had played was Bach's (?) "Little Prelude and Fugue" in e minor. Nothing like e minor to grab a boy in his early teens, right?
So. Fast forward to age 21 and 3 years of organ study behind me. Again I was sitting in church, this time it was during prelude. A guy 1 year ahead of me, the future Dr. of Musicology Douglas Bush, played Liebster Jesu from Reger op. 135a. Same bolt of lightning as the Bach e minor. Except this time tender, deeply spiritual, that special key of A Major (think: THAT Intermezzo by Brahms). After service I asked Doug about this piece. He showed me the score. I bought it the next day at Wakefield's Music store in Provo, Utah. It ranks with Bach's Orgelbüchlein and Dupré's 79 Chorals in my stacks of music.
And my favorite piece in 135a quickly became Ach bleib. It still is. You play it with a Reger "sehr ruhig" like few other organists who have recorded 135a as part of a "complete works" have done. I listened at near midnight on Easter Sunday. MST, here in the Rocky Mountains. Better not to gush about what that did to me. I then found a recent recording of the Schübler chorales played on a Flentrop reconstruction of the Hamburg Katharinenkirche Schnitger, which was "nuked" by the carpetbombing of 1943 or so. Of course "Bleib bei uns" had come to mind even while I was listening to your Reger. I was not disappointed. The text of the chorale appears, verseline by verseline, at the bottom of the video. Try it, Henrik. It's Monday over there but still close enough to Easter to let the Bach Ach bleib, with Liedtext, work on you.
As we both think of the unthinkable mobilization first announced by Sweden (hand in hand with Big Bro Finland), followed by dead-serious France and Poland. As I think of the surreal hesitation by my country to send much needed aid to Ukraine....
And then...
The best possible instanciation of Reger "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade," and of Bach's contrasting "Bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ."
...as I revel in the clean, bright aesthetics of so many churches I have visited in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark, and Sweden.
Finslly. as my organ teacher said about Bach: "he leads you to the edge of a tear, but not over that edge."
Put another way. Icelandic elves have been at work here in the Rocky Mountains tonight. And it started in Sweden. then got sent back.
Twinkle🎉....gone.
🙏 , Henrik Berg. From, Mark
Thank you for this lovely comment, Mark! Nice reading this little collection of stories! I will play all of the 135a eventually, not exactly sure when the time will come for Liebster Jesu though. Aren't these musical moments that glow in our memories amazing? Like in my late teens Quatuor Debussy came to town from France, playing among other things the Ravel quartet. It was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. I was sleepless the entire night out of, I don't know, inspiration and having seen a tiny bit of Heaven, I was totally high on music. The next evening I was gonna play Ravel's Ondine, still in this mood, it was so special!🤩
@@HenrikBergpianorganist Oh. God yes!
Hello. It appears to be a reed on the right hand..
That's a Swedish Gamba for you! This one is particularly incisive though. But no reeds were involved in the making of this video...!😅
Damn! Is a Swede's English not good. Great!
As in MAGA. Il Duce (let's stay away from a reductio ad hitler), all the way down to xyxy Mitläufer is mostly illiterate or if not, then worse. Aliterate. A new word for me, about one month ago. But maybe not for you! SO. 60% of us are fighting to maintain the dictionary meaning of such a simple word as "great." And it's kinda working. I contemplate what happened to the fledgling Weimar Republic, and the quick "Rutsch" into that other unthing. And I have to confess that twice came tears. I lived in Kiel for about 7 years. I made dear friends. I was lavishly treated by Pastor Knut Mackensen who asked no questions. No nothing except the hand of a brother, and in the left hand an iron key about 11" long, and of heavy iron. It was to the back hmmm "door" to a narrow spiral stairway, which ended up at the Orgelempore two stories above. I had asked to use the organ daily for practice. 😂❤ Back in about 1929 all the way to 1933 there was nothing like the smartphone I have in my hand. Nothing like a relatively large, quick appearance of a Reistenz (vs. Résistance) community like the one Reger "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade"
😈😉 started 4 days ago. I saw Germans in the North who would have bravely fought using our modern means. And maybe won.
You are tolerant to allow my seemingly off-topic incursion of politics onto your field of sublimity here.
But I trust you to make the direct connection to the tacet prayer in the form of a great chorale. "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ!" Of all possible chorales, you chose this one for your live broadcast on Easter Day.
"It hit different." Yep.
Thx, again. Mark
@@HenrikBergpianorganist Ok ! Very interessant this Gamba.