Amici della musica ,vorrei correggere ciò che qualcuno ha riferito ,il preludio e fuga non e' una canzone ma una composizione per organo solo, fa ' parte quindi di musica classica .
This is one of the most beautiful Bach organ pieces that I have heard. It certainly uplifts the spirit. The syncopation in the bass line in the fugue is superb. J.S.B. was a true genius.
👍 yes, I agree that Bach was a true genius for all times. When you compare classic music to the junk you hear today …it is sometimes , disgraceful. We need a 2022 renaissance with gifted young students to see, hear, learn about other aspects of what pure creative genius is all about. It is nice to hear good organists interpret what the composer really had in mind. I 🤔 many organists today play too fast. You don’t have to play the “ Toccata “ like an acrobat to prove your skill. Listen to others how they play too. I myself am a creative professional painter basically self taught. That includes piano , organ and teaching as well. And although, I was never interested in becoming a concert pianist or organist I listen too many of them play and like.the organist I listened too today. Surprisingly good. We are all individuals made in the image and likeness of God, but at the same time we can all listen and learn from each other,
@@alexandergavalas1398 Alexander -- for a more measured performance of the Dorian at a markedly slower tempo in both toccata and fugue, listen to Angela Metzger.
Listening to Bach inspired me to compose for organ. Makes one wonder how much of his works are still out there just waiting to be found. If they still exist, that is.
I tell people that it is my favorite fugue to perform because it opens like a beautiful rose if you play it with depth and breath in the phrase. I also love the toccata because it displays different parts of the organ at different times, and it's fun to WATCH me move like a bat out of hell until the fugue.
@Ger Dik maybe coz of their rock taste they didn't like the way the notes "clash" together since the difference is just a semitone i personally love rock music tho, but classical & barouque gives me the nostalgia and the beauty of true music...my dad introduced both genres and listening to the songs & pieces he liked is how i appreciate it
@@thebornana2468 The semitone dissonance when placed properly is one of the most gorgeous sounds that can be. Organ works are all about dissonance and consonance playing together, the most clashy sounding dissonances, sounds that are at war with eachother, contrasted with consonances, major chords with lots of notes and registers that just sound magnificent
The Toccata from this concerto is a MASTERPIECE, certainly one of the Top 5 best organ pieces ever written. This is a brilliant performance of it too, and the scrolling music really helps demand respect for all the simultaneous music being played. The organist is effectively playing trio parts at all times.
THIS... IS... *LEGENDARY* Edit: I must say that both the Toccata and Fugue are absolutely and most undeniably amazing! But I have to express my thoughts on the fugue. This is probably the most beautifully written and most well developed theme for this fugue in my opinion. This is by far my personal favourite fugue of all his fugues!
+Ruben Francisco Brett I dunno what it is about the toccata..its just so awesome. The bassline is just amazing and powerful. And I love how he jumps octaves every so often
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for posting too. I always look forward to your insights and opinions of Chapuis. I just love his usage of sounds in the Fugue. The "reeds" in the treble at 8:45 sound so wonderful.
After listening to most of Bach's great works for over 60 year, I think this may be my favorite. It's simplisity and archytipal beauty played so well, I thank you, all of you for this post. Sincerely. This truely is a treasure beyond compare. CVD
I am amazed, how contemporary the Toccata sounds: a fancy riff goes non-stop throughout the piece, a more free-form melody goes above it with a limited dose of dissonances, all voices pass initiative to each other without ever breaking the beat, dotted bass will come in like a special effect; at 4'04'' the track is put to loop for 1 1/2 measures before resolving into bass-supported phrase; the piece ends with a very explicit brake pulls.
The fancy riff idea is what is known as a "germ motif", and wasn't all that uncommon at the time. Basically like a germ, the rest sprouts from it. However yeah a surprising amount of Bach realld does hold up to this day, although I guess effectively founding Western harmony kind of helps with that hahaha
Robert Gift Thanks very muc for this explanation of the sigificants of he blue highlighted time mark. I didnt know abut the link feature to the actual video
The parts are very clear in this version. That, plus the scrolling score, allows lesser mortals like me to almost understand what makes this music so great. Thank you.
Not saying this isn't absolute genius but if we're talking the most intellectually elevated music, bach doesn't come close to the insanity composers like Milton Babbitt and Iannis Xenakis worked with and implemented in their music regularly. I'm not saying you have to like their music because of this (Xenakis himself said that the intellectual appeal will only give you so much), but again if we're talking intellectuality, contemporary classical is on top.
@@jimit.4220 No. What Babbitt and xenakis do is stupid, not intellectual. Music without beauty is worthless and senseless, for something to be intellectual it has to be done with purpose and quality.
@@jimit.4220 I dunno man. Thy works are not as enjoyable, beautiful, with such a developed aesthetic as Bach. Seems that the creme de la creme of music from all history regarding polyphony came to its peak with Johann Sebastian, in the organ and keyboard works. And if Xenakis says it's the greatest, why should we believe him? I personally don't. Contemporary music is just random notes with no beauty or appeal
Toccata is such a joy! Noone can use such radical dissonances as masterfully as the Master himself! And then the fugue! One of the most dramatic, beautiful fugue themes ever created...
What I love about the Dorian fugue is how Bach appeared to have no idea how to end it. Either that, or he just ran out of gas. So we get a set of simple block chords parachuting into the ending. I can also visualize Bach laughing about it.
Funny thing is that the entirety of the final five and a half bars are actually all chord I. The pedal point in the bass proves this; you can have a pedal point D like we do here and do effectively whatever on top. So the final V-I and tierce de Piccady actually happens in the sixth last bar, and the rest is just a really prolonged decoration of the final chord V. I don't know if this goes against what you're saying or really just backs it up even more, to be honest "crap don't want to end like that, whatever let's just make my final I go forever and put block chords on top to make it sound like things are happening yeah she'll be right" EDIT: Just realised I was talking only about the toccata, not the fugue, sorry
He probably had to rush because one of his 30 sons shit his pants again and his wife was already stressed enough. Just kidding, and sorry, Bach ;) I think the transition into those block chords is smooth though, fits well together, but it might just end a little too quickly there all of the sudden.
I downloaded this MUSIC on MY Phone to listen to it while im running And idk why but through all the toccata i imagine that i play it on Electric organ in my school and everyone around me is so impressed lol
Nick, thanks for your postings! Besides all the graphics & animating, audio selection for presentations is just as tough. Bach left us with limited expression/tempo markings in his masterpieces. And even if he did elaborate more on tempos, dynamics & articulations there is, also, the issue of modern or period instruments too! In a nutshell, one's taste will always be questioned or not agreed with. Hopefully this will inspire others to learn this art and post other renditions of Bach.
Me: Mom, can we have Toccata and Fugue in D minor? Mom: No, we already have Toccata and fugue in D minor at home Toccata and Fugue in D minor at home: This is just a joke, I still love this piece XD
With seriousness, this is easily the more accomplished work between the two. The more famous one is likely an improvisation by him jotted down by one of his students, or in the eyes of the more 'ambitious', it's not even *by* him but a transcription of a solo violin work by another composer. Wikipedia has quite a lot to say about that piece. I second Christoph Wolff - it is a non-issue. The academic snobbery behind Bach is astounding these days, questioning the authorship of a work when something doesn't display the quasi-miraculous contrapuntal prowess he was usually known for.
@@dedede5586 yep, is it theorised by many Bach scholars that the famous BWV 565 wasn't written by him and I can believe it wasn't, although it could've been of course!
It's funny, I can understand why the other Toccata and Fugue doesn't sound like bach, but it also does. The pedal note fugue subject reminds me of his A Minor fugue for organ. The sequences and chord progressions are also very Bach. But it does sound more immature than his later works. Like a frenzied improvisation full of cliches. Gould used to say a lot of his earlier pieces were like that, check out the fugue on the name B-A-C-H for something kind of in the same spirit - very improvisational, cliche chord progressions, a style that almost sounds more like Handel than Bach. I think it was probably by him, from his earlier days, but it also wouldn't surprise me if it was a transcription of somebody else.
You know what I love about this organist? He plays the whole trill at 1:40 and does so at a good speed too. Just goes to prove that most organists who stop short, as if it were impossible to play, are just cheating themselves out of a challenge.
La plus belle œuvre en contrepoint du répertoire de l orgue qui s'entend plutôt après la Toccata au niveau de la fugue (contra Punto). La difficulté est présente du début jusqu'à la fin. Le thème et le contre thème se répondent d'une manière égale. Les combinaisons sont appropriées, vraiment très belle œuvre du Maestro Johann Sebastian Bach à jamais égalé. Dixit Buxtehude.D.😉👍
There are so many gems that linger in Bach's treasure chest. I'll do my best to exhibit them all for you to enjoy you "Aussie Boxing Composer"! (KA-POW!).
Oh Gosh, oh golly, oh WOW! In 1986 I was totally "kidnapped" by this score (thanks Marie-Claire Alain) forthe first time, but even now, while hearing that "inlassable mouvement d'acier" (like the sixth movement of the quartet pour la fin du temps by O. Messiaen) I perceive a sense of thrill: how will those phrasing intricacies be handled in terms of legato and staccato? How will frenzy and majesty mix and melt into a towering building? Michel Chapuis gives a very convincing synthesis.
I think it's fairly unusual for a self-contained piece of this era to end on a minor chord. A striking example of one which does is the other, more famous D minor toccata and fugue BWV 565 and that is one of its features (one of many) which has given doubts in the minds of some scholars to Bach's authorship of it (unlike this piece).
The 13 people who gave this thumbs down have no souls. There is more music in this piece than many musicians manage in a lifetime. When people talk about towering geniuses, they are talking about the likes of JS Bach.
You lost 50 subscribers?! Yikes. I can't believe people are like that. That video was totally cool. I heard the Emerson Quartet and yes, thanks to your suggestion, I'll be using them (just bought the 'used' CD now). Zoltan Kocsis' (piano) recording will also be used on a couple of tracks (the animation will contain both full 4-part scoring and piano reduction so I'll want to present both versions).
Well, one of my professors always says "bach called the bass the second melody" lol. But if you want another composer with great basslines, check out Guilmant's organ works, or really any of the great romantic organ composers.
I love this piece and Michel Chapuis' interpretation of it. Unfortunately this is a transcription from an LP, possibly via a CD re-issue and the sound is quite degraded. The LP original, which I bought when it came out in the 70's, is crystal clear. For those who prefer a more relaxed tempo in the prelude (tocatta), there's a very nice version to be found here on RUclips by the late, great Marie-Claire Alain.
You all should hear the late Robert Noerhen playing this on the organ he built at St John's Cathedral in Milwaukee. Talk about a recording to take if you're stranded on a desert island!
Has anyone done as I have, playing E instead of the the pedal D quarter-note at 4:19 ? Start listening here: 4:12 The Manual E and Pedal D creates a delicious dissonance!
@@enricmasipfont1797 In the pedal I continue the "up-down" motif which makes the quarter-note up to an E instead of repeating the D. The Manual E with Pedal D creates a wonderful dissonance! Could the D in the score be incorrect?
![J. S. BACH: EIGHT SHORT PRELUDES AND FUGUES BWV 553-560 (complete) - [DENES KAPITANY]](/img/1.gif)
I played this song through headphones on a overnight bus trip from Adelaide to Melbourne in December 2020. Really made the trip really epic.
Amici della musica ,vorrei correggere ciò che qualcuno ha riferito ,il preludio e fuga non e' una canzone ma una composizione per organo solo, fa ' parte quindi di musica classica .
This is one of the most beautiful Bach organ pieces that I have heard. It certainly uplifts the spirit. The syncopation in the bass line in the fugue is superb. J.S.B. was a true genius.
more. the implementation of God on Earth
Bach is not of this world, God Bless Bach
👍 yes, I agree that Bach was a true genius for all times. When you compare classic music to the junk you hear today …it is sometimes , disgraceful. We need a 2022 renaissance with gifted young students to see, hear, learn about other aspects of what pure creative genius is all about. It is nice to hear good organists interpret what the composer really had in mind. I 🤔 many organists today play too fast. You don’t have to play the “ Toccata “ like an acrobat to prove your skill. Listen to others how they play too. I myself am a creative professional painter basically self taught. That includes piano , organ and teaching as well. And although, I was never interested in becoming a concert pianist or organist I listen too many of them play and like.the organist I listened too today. Surprisingly good. We are all individuals made in the image and likeness of God, but at the same time we can all listen and learn from each other,
@@alexandergavalas1398 Alexander -- for a more measured performance of the Dorian at a markedly slower tempo in both toccata and fugue, listen to Angela Metzger.
Listening to Bach inspired me to compose for organ. Makes one wonder how much of his works are still out there just waiting to be found. If they still exist, that is.
The fugal structure in between 8:10 and 8:45 is unbelievable
I'll have another look/listen; thanks for sharing that.
This is one of Mankind's greatest achievements in art.
I tell people that it is my favorite fugue to perform because it opens like a beautiful rose if you play it with depth and breath in the phrase. I also love the toccata because it displays different parts of the organ at different times, and it's fun to WATCH me move like a bat out of hell until the fugue.
Not a bat out of hell. Nothing hellish about this. More like a flitting hummingbird.
538, 542: masterpieces for all eternity
582!
552
548, 543
542 , 565 just the Fugue , 543, 538, 564, 582, and 550
Thank you for your kind comments Nick. It pleases me to know my channel is appreciated by music lovers like yourself.
Beginning of measure 11 at 0:49 is a complete tone cluster and I love it
One of the strangest suspensions I know of
@Ger Dik maybe coz of their rock taste they didn't like the way the notes "clash" together since the difference is just a semitone
i personally love rock music tho, but classical & barouque gives me the nostalgia and the beauty of true music...my dad introduced both genres and listening to the songs & pieces he liked is how i appreciate it
@@thebornana2468 The semitone dissonance when placed properly is one of the most gorgeous sounds that can be. Organ works are all about dissonance and consonance playing together, the most clashy sounding dissonances, sounds that are at war with eachother, contrasted with consonances, major chords with lots of notes and registers that just sound magnificent
@@javierdiazsantana damn that's what i thought too
using minor 11 chords 200 years before everyone else
The Toccata from this concerto is a MASTERPIECE, certainly one of the Top 5 best organ pieces ever written. This is a brilliant performance of it too, and the scrolling music really helps demand respect for all the simultaneous music being played. The organist is effectively playing trio parts at all times.
This is a freakin masterpiece!! I never thought that I'd fall in love with a fugue this much
THIS... IS... *LEGENDARY*
Edit: I must say that both the Toccata and Fugue are absolutely and most undeniably amazing! But I have to express my thoughts on the fugue. This is probably the most beautifully written and most well developed theme for this fugue in my opinion. This is by far my personal favourite fugue of all his fugues!
The toccata is such a crazy thrilling headbanging piece, especially that long Picardy end.
Picardy
@@jr_freiberg tru
Michel Chapuis - one of the great luminaries of baroque organ interpretation, and, since he is still living, a musical treasure of France.
I think the Toccata is now one of my favorite organ pieces. Although, in reality I have far too many to choose
+MrMansfield Studio The Fugue seems to be largely in Dorian but the Toccata is very chromatic, uses raised sevenths and ends in D major.
+Ruben Francisco Brett I dunno what it is about the toccata..its just so awesome. The bassline is just amazing and powerful. And I love how he jumps octaves every so often
@@TheApostleofRock I know what you mean. I just heard the "Dorian" Toccata on another video and immediately scampered off to find the title.
ruclips.net/video/pu981iihWKU/видео.html
All Bach pieses is good
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for posting too. I always look forward to your insights and opinions of Chapuis. I just love his usage of sounds in the Fugue. The "reeds" in the treble at 8:45 sound so wonderful.
What absolutely beautiful music, beautifully played! I love Bach! 😀🌸💕👍🍀
After listening to most of Bach's great works for over 60 year, I think this may be my favorite. It's simplisity and archytipal beauty played so well, I thank you, all of you for this post. Sincerely. This truely is a treasure beyond compare. CVD
I am amazed, how contemporary the Toccata sounds: a fancy riff goes non-stop throughout the piece, a more free-form melody goes above it with a limited dose of dissonances, all voices pass initiative to each other without ever breaking the beat, dotted bass will come in like a special effect; at 4'04'' the track is put to loop for 1 1/2 measures before resolving into bass-supported phrase; the piece ends with a very explicit brake pulls.
^ 4:04 - takes you right to the place.
Robert Gift thanks, though you may miss the idea, when starting exactly at 404.
The fancy riff idea is what is known as a "germ motif", and wasn't all that uncommon at the time. Basically like a germ, the rest sprouts from it. However yeah a surprising amount of Bach realld does hold up to this day, although I guess effectively founding Western harmony kind of helps with that hahaha
Peter Rybin I meanthat if you post the time as " 4:04 " it becomes a link to that place in the recording.
:46 will not link. 0:46 becomes a link.
Robert Gift Thanks very muc for this explanation of the sigificants of he blue highlighted time mark. I didnt know abut the link feature to the actual video
The parts are very clear in this version. That, plus the scrolling score, allows lesser mortals like me to almost understand what makes this music so great. Thank you.
I consider this the most intellectually elevated work of music from all the history of mankind
I believe the Passacaglia (BWV 582) outpaces it by a tiny bit.
Not saying this isn't absolute genius but if we're talking the most intellectually elevated music, bach doesn't come close to the insanity composers like Milton Babbitt and Iannis Xenakis worked with and implemented in their music regularly. I'm not saying you have to like their music because of this (Xenakis himself said that the intellectual appeal will only give you so much), but again if we're talking intellectuality, contemporary classical is on top.
@@jimit.4220 No. What Babbitt and xenakis do is stupid, not intellectual.
Music without beauty is worthless and senseless, for something to be intellectual it has to be done with purpose and quality.
@@jimit.4220 I dunno man. Thy works are not as enjoyable, beautiful, with such a developed aesthetic as Bach. Seems that the creme de la creme of music from all history regarding polyphony came to its peak with Johann Sebastian, in the organ and keyboard works. And if Xenakis says it's the greatest, why should we believe him? I personally don't. Contemporary music is just random notes with no beauty or appeal
Toccata is such a joy! Noone can use such radical dissonances as masterfully as the Master himself! And then the fugue! One of the most dramatic, beautiful fugue themes ever created...
no composer is greater than Bach!
… until Debussy was born… 😁
Fact
Man woke up and started spittin facts
You’re goddamn right
I do agree
What I love about the Dorian fugue is how Bach appeared to have no idea how to end it. Either that, or he just ran out of gas. So we get a set of simple block chords parachuting into the ending. I can also visualize Bach laughing about it.
Funny thing is that the entirety of the final five and a half bars are actually all chord I. The pedal point in the bass proves this; you can have a pedal point D like we do here and do effectively whatever on top. So the final V-I and tierce de Piccady actually happens in the sixth last bar, and the rest is just a really prolonged decoration of the final chord V. I don't know if this goes against what you're saying or really just backs it up even more, to be honest "crap don't want to end like that, whatever let's just make my final I go forever and put block chords on top to make it sound like things are happening yeah she'll be right"
EDIT: Just realised I was talking only about the toccata, not the fugue, sorry
He probably had to rush because one of his 30 sons shit his pants again and his wife was already stressed enough.
Just kidding, and sorry, Bach ;) I think the transition into those block chords is smooth though, fits well together, but it might just end a little too quickly there all of the sudden.
Yeah, I was on a deadline for some church work (like cantatas and shit) so I might have rushed the ending. Judge me!
Johann Sebastian Bach the trouble people go through just to make this joke from the account under Bach’s name ..incel !
That, indeed, would fit Bach's sense of humor.
Magnifique ! Une grande interprétation ! Très beau travail !
Love the fugue subject and the suspensions in the bass!
Bach is the best composer in the world...
Every time I'm looking for a piece by bach and the first video it's by gerubach I get happy
Since I was a kid I love it. I had always listen to this on CD till today.
Thank you for this great and helping project
What a lovely warm sounding organ.
It is very professional... Thank you for sharing with us
I downloaded this MUSIC on MY Phone to listen to it while im running
And idk why but through all the toccata i imagine that i play it on Electric organ in my school and everyone around me is so impressed lol
Grandioso, magnánimo, imponente, sublime!!!
Q mas se puede esperar de un Genio unico como Bach...
Bellísima como todas las interpretaciones, gracias.
Hope I can play the toccata someday :) sounds beautiful and so imposing. I love this side of Bach
Nick, thanks for your postings! Besides all the graphics & animating, audio selection for presentations is just as tough. Bach left us with limited expression/tempo markings in his masterpieces. And even if he did elaborate more on tempos, dynamics & articulations there is, also, the issue of modern or period instruments too! In a nutshell, one's taste will always be questioned or not agreed with. Hopefully this will inspire others to learn this art and post other renditions of Bach.
I've always thought this toccata sounded like something Bach made up from a keyboard exercise, to show how almost any theme can be used for a piece.
Great Just what I need right now .Beautiful
Great organ piece...I love it
Me: Mom, can we have Toccata and Fugue in D minor?
Mom: No, we already have Toccata and fugue in D minor at home
Toccata and Fugue in D minor at home:
This is just a joke, I still love this piece XD
With seriousness, this is easily the more accomplished work between the two. The more famous one is likely an improvisation by him jotted down by one of his students, or in the eyes of the more 'ambitious', it's not even *by* him but a transcription of a solo violin work by another composer. Wikipedia has quite a lot to say about that piece. I second Christoph Wolff - it is a non-issue. The academic snobbery behind Bach is astounding these days, questioning the authorship of a work when something doesn't display the quasi-miraculous contrapuntal prowess he was usually known for.
@@dedede5586 yep, is it theorised by many Bach scholars that the famous BWV 565 wasn't written by him and I can believe it wasn't, although it could've been of course!
@Moises Badgley begone bot
It's funny, I can understand why the other Toccata and Fugue doesn't sound like bach, but it also does. The pedal note fugue subject reminds me of his A Minor fugue for organ. The sequences and chord progressions are also very Bach. But it does sound more immature than his later works. Like a frenzied improvisation full of cliches. Gould used to say a lot of his earlier pieces were like that, check out the fugue on the name B-A-C-H for something kind of in the same spirit - very improvisational, cliche chord progressions, a style that almost sounds more like Handel than Bach. I think it was probably by him, from his earlier days, but it also wouldn't surprise me if it was a transcription of somebody else.
Bruhh what a cringe joke
Beleza vinda de DEUS diretamente para seu filho Sebastian!
Doch, wieder Perfekt! Danke sehr.
I play this piece on my iPod (A christopher herrick´s version) when running hills. I keeps your body, mind and soul focused and working really hard.
Love it. The part at 11:00 is fixed into my head.
The Toccata is a genius’s masterpiece!
Por la tonalidad y la energía el comienzo recuerda a la célebre "Tocata y Fuga" q todos conocen... NEVER FORGET: BACH = GOD
Bach the grandfather of death metal
LOL!!!
There are no words to describe this.
This is appallingly beautiful...
This toccata is amazing!
Very nice performance!
Simplesmente divinal!!
superba....
grazie!
You know what I love about this organist? He plays the whole trill at 1:40 and does so at a good speed too. Just goes to prove that most organists who stop short, as if it were impossible to play, are just cheating themselves out of a challenge.
And then, he loses it in the next bar...
BACH Musik in meiner Seele bleiben, mein Herz und mein Verstand.
This a Monster of a piece by Papa Bach!
Exquisito!!! ❤
1:42 The trill with the right hand and the eights notes with the same hand made me think about Beethoven or Liszt !!! Waouw!!!
I think Bach had four hands
Josh Putnam He did, his feet were the 2 extra.
No me habia percatado de ese trino con semicorcheas, esta tremendamente difícil!
I think Bach composed that without playing the whole score.
What about a trill in the legs? This must be pretty hard to pull off.
Merci Antox
La plus belle œuvre en contrepoint du répertoire de l orgue qui s'entend plutôt après la Toccata au niveau de la fugue (contra Punto). La difficulté est présente du début jusqu'à la fin. Le thème et le contre thème se répondent d'une manière égale.
Les combinaisons sont appropriées, vraiment très belle œuvre du Maestro Johann Sebastian Bach à jamais égalé. Dixit Buxtehude.D.😉👍
Whaou trop beau j'aime bien
There are so many gems that linger in Bach's treasure chest. I'll do my best to exhibit them all for you to enjoy you "Aussie Boxing Composer"! (KA-POW!).
So good
Mi fuga favorita del maestro J.S Bach
Oh Gosh, oh golly, oh WOW!
In 1986 I was totally "kidnapped" by this score (thanks Marie-Claire Alain) forthe first time, but even now, while hearing that "inlassable mouvement d'acier" (like the sixth movement of the quartet pour la fin du temps by O. Messiaen) I perceive a sense of thrill: how will those phrasing intricacies be handled in terms of legato and staccato? How will frenzy and majesty mix and melt into a towering building? Michel Chapuis gives a very convincing synthesis.
12:53 i love this resolution
Picardy third hits really hard here
I think it's fairly unusual for a self-contained piece of this era to end on a minor chord.
A striking example of one which does is the other, more famous D minor toccata and fugue BWV 565 and that is one of its features (one of many) which has given doubts in the minds of some scholars to Bach's authorship of it (unlike this piece).
The 13 people who gave this thumbs down have no souls. There is more music in this piece than many musicians manage in a lifetime. When people talk about towering geniuses, they are talking about the likes of JS Bach.
Bach über alles!
Once again WUNDER !!! Tepper Michael.
MAESTRO J.S. Bach!!!
감사합니다
One goal of mine is to hear Bach's pieces played in one of Europe's great cathedrals.
6:31 ... Beautiful!!
Happy birthday, Capellmeister.
Smashing
This is much better than the other one
Some scholars contend that the "other one" (BWV 565) may not be by Bach at all.
4:31 is magnificent
You lost 50 subscribers?! Yikes. I can't believe people are like that. That video was totally cool. I heard the Emerson Quartet and yes, thanks to your suggestion, I'll be using them (just bought the 'used' CD now). Zoltan Kocsis' (piano) recording will also be used on a couple of tracks (the animation will contain both full 4-part scoring and piano reduction so I'll want to present both versions).
calkowicie sie z toba zgadzam Krzysztof,sam jestem organista i kocham Jana Sebastiana
I just spilled a drink trying to follow along with the left hand in that toccata
My eyes got crossed for the same reason.
I knocked my trashcan trying to follow the pedals
@Liam Nicholson Next to my trashcan
@Liam Nicholson please respect my privacy chris
Was there ever another composer who gave the bass lines such equal melodic treatment?
Well, one of my professors always says "bach called the bass the second melody" lol. But if you want another composer with great basslines, check out Guilmant's organ works, or really any of the great romantic organ composers.
Mozart
@@kiren3168 LOL
100% cure for depression 😎
I'm amazed that Bach noted youtube in his compositions!
Musique Céleste. Vive BachJS
Am I the only one who at 16 years old has 80% of his tastes in classical music?))
Bravo bravo bravo bravo bravo
I love this piece and Michel Chapuis' interpretation of it. Unfortunately this is a transcription from an LP, possibly via a CD re-issue and the sound is quite degraded. The LP original, which I bought when it came out in the 70's, is crystal clear.
For those who prefer a more relaxed tempo in the prelude (tocatta), there's a very nice version to be found here on RUclips by the late, great Marie-Claire Alain.
When you don’t expect, Bach let discover you other planets
You all should hear the late Robert Noerhen playing this on the organ he built at St John's Cathedral in Milwaukee. Talk about a recording to take if you're stranded on a desert island!
A M A Z I N G !!! A M A Z I N G !! And ofcours B R A V O !!!
Je l'aime
Fucking riveting pieces and performance.
THE TRESHOLD OF MIRACLES
Pour lecteur : chanter la main gauche. On se retrouve "au coeur de la musique" comme Bach aimait à se trouver en jouant les partie de violon 2
that bizare epic tocatta
the whole piece is awesome but the 00:58 to 2:05 its just astonishing
Hay que mantener el tiempoooo!!!!
Has anyone done as I have, playing E instead of the the pedal D quarter-note at 4:19 ?
Start listening here: 4:12
The Manual E and Pedal D creates a delicious dissonance!
+Robert Gift I don't play by any means, but I agree. The E and the D do make a positively delicious dissonance. I wouldn't have it any other way.
yeah my barenreiter says E
Isn't that a regular seventh chord?
@@enricmasipfont1797 In the pedal I continue the "up-down" motif which makes the quarter-note up to an E instead of repeating the D. The Manual E with Pedal D creates a wonderful dissonance!
Could the D in the score be incorrect?
I like this version of the Toccata because it's fast.