WOW and WOW. When you held that final chord for half of forever, you took my breath away. How does music do that? Thank you. You are a magnificent organist.
@@AntoniusTertius when you listen to all of his organ works you won't be able to decide which one's the best but The Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is surely up there .
Beautifully played, as always, Richard. Registrations were excellent throughout, and I love the big Fugue! Piotr did a great job capturing a wonderful Cavaille-Coll in a superb setting. The Cathedral reverb is spectacular!
JSB would have liked this interpretation very much, indeed, I'm sure! Such a wonderful music sounds great also on French organs - why not?! Please more of that! A real enrichment. 👍👍🙏🤗🤗
Wow! I think I could hear JS Bach applauding at the end. I love how this piece starts so simple and slowly brings me in until I'm thinking this is the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Thank you for an amazing performance. What a ride!
Just found this, one of my favorite pieces, sounding fresh and new! BRAVO. I must add that, at the last phrase, I am leaping and crying and shouting as if in an old fashion country church meeting.
Absolutely magnificent, the epitome of Bach The sound heaven, and your interpretation fabulous You brought me to my knees, thank you for sharing beauty Glorious
Bravo - stunning performance. This is clearly one of your 'signature' pieces - a giant in the repertoire, and you made it sparkle at Nancy. Thank you!!
I do love it, and in fact i only learned it in 2019. I had it online on Friesach, so I feel like I've gone home playing this on one of Piotr's organs :)
I listened to this recording and remembered what a gift life is to us all I'm not a huge Bach fan but this piece of music seems to me to represent the apex of human intellectual achievement. Absolutely stunning performance!
This is one of my most loved Bach's organ composition! Thank you for the stunning performance, your selection of voicing throughout the piece is really really excellent. Note: I noticed that the volume on the live recital was way too low, so grateful for the re-upload of this piece.
Anither amazing performance! In awe again - registrations and pace perfect! Haha won my “exhibition” scholarship at the RCM in about ‘93 with this marathon of a piece - I understand it almost exactly the same as you do! Which means its fab to hear it played by you “properly”😁👌😁... always wanted to give the triplet variation a tonne of “bite” - seems to me its the climax of the passacaglia really - as my teacher said: everything else after that is just “knitting” in c minor,. Some truth in that....., and your “attaca” into the fugue is spot on.......important to get right - crucial piece of drama Herr Bach most definitely intended and.you nail it. Love it!! I want to get my copy out and start crashing about with it again!
Agree, it sounds superb. I've never heard it played on a French organ, or anything other than just the Great and/or with an unequal temperament. Very entertaining, thank you. 👏
Many consider this Passacaglia and Fugue to be Bach's greatest. I concur!! - and I love your embellishments and that wonderful Cadenza! C. P. E. Bach mentioned one time that his father would embellish everything - yet never violate the integrity of whatever he played. You can 'blame' Buxtehude for this! Heh.. Bach was never the same after his visit with him.. and we will enjoy Bach forever.. I know that Bach is smiling on you now!!
Missed the recital. I'm catching up now. I'm mesmerized.. Music has the charm to soothe the savage beast, and your rendition of Bach's music has certainly soothed my sometimes savage mind. Kudos to you, Richard!
A master-class performance of one of the most regal, ethereal and beautifully sublime pieces from the greatest composer in history on the grandest of all instruments created by the greatest organ builder of all time. I think both Bach and Aristide would have been sufficiently impressed. Meanwhile, the rest of us mortals stand--fall down?--in awe! It must have been an other-worldly experience in that cathedral during that recording. The registration, the dynamics, the tempo: pure brilliance. Those reeds that CC is so well-known for...wow...just incredibly powerful, unparalleled.
Cavaille - Coll maneged to bring back baroque organ building mixing it with the new style of his time. This version of passacaglia and fugue demonstrates the "dramatic" and austerity part of this organ (and of the piece, of course). It even shows how much this organ is versatile and powerful. Your way of playing it is fantastic, nearly how Karl Richter would have played it...Bravo!
Completely agree. Cavaille-Coll very often integrated much of the existing pipework from the 18th and early 19th Centuries and built his own conceptions around it. This is why some of his most famous instruments contain much older pipework. Perhaps the most famous example is St Sulpice in Paris, where 40% of the pipework is the original 18th Century Clicquot work. He didn't change the older pipework much either. I believe JSB can be played on any instrument, his genius is universal. And it can certainly be played on a Cavaille-Coll instrument!
The best part is always the coda starting after the Neapolitan sixth and subsequently mind blasting 32‘ coming in. Many thanks for sharing this masterpiece 😍
Richard. Thank you so much for going the extra mile to replay this piece. Agree with comments below even though just an organ music lover and not an expert. Hope those who talked in chat during recital will watch and show appreciation by leaving a thank you comment.
Put on headphones, closed my eyes and took in the sound. Richards choice of organs from his fleet did a phenomenal job on this piece. Of course Richard as usual did a fantastic job.
Great choice to show the different registrations. It would be great if you could make a video where you talk about the new sample set and how it differs from f.x. Caen!
Nothing says "tonic reconciliation" like the end of JSB's Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor. The last few minutes has it all: Dominant preparation, deceptive cadence on the Neapolitan 6th, fully diminished 7th over tonic pedal, and glorious Picardy 3rd to bring it home. One of my all-time fav pieces, and you're nailing it on your channel time and again!! I hope you win the prize of "organist to have held the last note the longest!" As it should be.
Cavaillé-Coll was probably the greatest organ builder ever. His organs are perfect for all styles and periods, including baroque. Perfect sample set and very, very beautiful performance!
To Sir Richard McVeigh, WOW! Your interpretation opened new insights for me into this famous Passacaglia. Its like a world-famous but favorite painting at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg that I have seen many times up close. And now, thanks to you, I can see and experience it with a new pair of eyes. More power to ya!
I realy liked the cadenza at the end of the fugue. First time I have heard some one do that and it really worked - it was also appropriate and well judged. Once you hear this here it totally makes sense.
Hey Richard - There are 2 big clues to anyone who is considering watching/listening to your performance of this piece - as you describe in the title 'WOW and AMAZING.' It sounds superb to my ears. Many thanks indeed. (I'm just going back for a 4th listen)
BWV582 is said to be the masterpiece of Bach's organ songs on another video site here. Thank you for playing. I felt solid while being strong. If possible, I would like you to play Bach's songs from time to time. (Especially related to chorale. Leipzig chorale etc ... When request is accepted) I want to hear it with good sound. I have to buy a portable amplifier.
@@beautyinsound ruclips.net/video/FpZfvlWJbjg/видео.html it really does remind me! I mean it as the highest compliment , as the Biggs version has always been my favourite. You are a great player . Sublime articulation 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Would love to know whats behind the improvisation on the massive D flat chord at the end section? Would have been shot for doing so much as a trill 25 years ago😳😂😂.
Nothing behind it as such - it just strikes me as an obvious place to do such a thing. Vivaldi's music has lots of cadenzas, and Bach would've been very aware of them. Having a sudden Neapolitan sixth chord (D flat major in 1st inversion) followed by a halt just cries out for 'something'. 99% of people don't do this, but I'm happy to be that 1% who do things a bit different....
I do wonder how JSB himself would play it on this organ. Why WOULDN'T he use all those powerful reeds? He was a very elaborate organist back in his day who was very ahead of his time, and who loved to show off after all! I'm convinced he'd do the same!
Well played and one of the best sample sets. Sounds gigantic good. I want it too.... Perhaps try the sonus paradisi sample set of the Isnard in St maximin de la baume. The original organ sounds so thrilling, filling this big church with sound. And then the reeds. In original absolutely impressive. If this Sampleset captures only a tenth of that organ, it will be worth more than that money.
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Since a teenager in the early 60s I have heard many organists playing this monumental piece, one of the very few that doesn't tire you with repeated hearings. I have used Piet Kee's version at the Bavo as the yardstick for the last 30 years. You have equaled him, Richard, but to be fair, I'd like to hear you playing it on the great Muller organ or a similar large tracker instrument in a resounding acoustic..
You're in luck! There are now 3 performances of me playing it on the channel: St Laurenskerk, Rotterdam: ruclips.net/video/Vuy3DMnJ-Fk/видео.html St Bavokerk, Haarlem: ruclips.net/video/l_tm42RRNSQ/видео.html Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation, Nancy: this one. Which one do you prefer? I think I prefer this Nancy version.
@@beautyinsound Which of the three do I prefer? That's like asking if I'd like aged cheeses gouda, cheddar or edam! All of them thank you very much! All I can say, though, is that your sample sets are as good as any I have heard, given the limitations of touch compared with the good thumping a tracker with many stops pulled would require and the physical presence of a registrant to do most of that for you. Congratulations on a truly superb production - speaking for myself and maybe some others as well, I appreciate your unhurried tempi and that you do not bow & scrape, duck & dive around pulling funny faces while playing! Col, NZ
A great "new" organ you have there! Certainly a good listen, the only thing I would do slightly differently is the very first pedal part spelling out the groundwork. A slightly more separated notes would give a clearer view of what is ahead.
Curious if you're using a "wet" sample set or one that has inherent mistuning (I forget what it's called). BTW I love the decoupling of everything at the end -- fascinating detail!
It's an 8-channel surround sample (ie - 4 groups of stereo: Close, Front, Middle and Rear) with all the channels brought together very carefully to find the right balance.
Clicking through to the organ/sample set's web page was amazing. What an interesting story! As a DSP engineer I am floored by the largest set's RAM requirements. You used all four... @24 bits 82G of RAM? As always, superb playing of one of my most favorite works!! 🙏🏻
Bravo! Does anyone know why the facade pipes always look bright blue on this organ? I've been there to hear it, and take photos of it with very high-quality gear, and I get the same result! Was an odd alloy used for the pipes, maybe?
@@beautyinsound I also love to begin very soft and then slowly get louder. Sometimes I get a few minor complaints from the choir, but it is well worth it.
@@beautyinsound Yeah I definitely get what you mean, I'm just proposing something different, an idea for the future maybe! Anyways great playing as always!
I wonder how himself (Herr JSB that is) handled the dynamics... Varnus does a nice, quiet version of this, which makes you wonder. But heck, as they say, if you've got 'em, smoke 'em! And there's no rush -- let the building speak too!
Loved the performance! Registration is sublime... Sample set is stunning and I'm really enjoying they way you manage to make it sound! The only thing I would change for the sake of clarity is the amount of reverb present or the mix of rear vs nearer mics. It sounds a bit too 'wet' at times, especially when semi quavers are present on the pedals.
The acoustic is the cathedral's own, and is actually far clearer than you'd hear if you were in the building itself. There's a lot going on in this piece and it's impossible to hear everything due to the nature of the acoustic. For me, it's perfect! :)
In the 1950s a number of persons tried to claim the works if Bach can't not be properly performed on this type of instrument. This just proves they were totally wrong.
My! You have gathered a few comments here then Richard. (Must be a popular piece. lol) Just as well I can still play it too but sadly not as well as you can!
Well, I guess it is just a matter of time before the Nancy wondermachine becomes a template from which to build a customised "virtual cavaille-coll." Frankly speaking, my ears have become so "scandalised" by the orgelbewegung movement which has contributed in my being turned-off of many a Baroque organ. So for me, CC and other Romantic Symphonic Organs have got my creative juices flowing unceasingly. Almost forgot, now, if there would be a sample set of the combined resources of, say, St. Pauls in London and Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, well, that would be quite something to dazzle the mind with, N'est ce pas?
Who says that you can't play Bach on a Cavaillé-Coll??...allhough as with a lot of his organs there is older Pipework there,.....but it all depends on the Voicing ....and in that part the Cavaillé-Coll company was perfect allways, also mixing he old with the new.....wether being his earlier organs, or his later ones
beautifully played - articulation and registration (reminiscent of E. Power Biggs on the Harvard Flentrop); almost a bit too much reverb (~10 seconds after the last chord) - diatonic 2nds in pedal overlapping strongly - could be dialed back slightly - maybe shave off a second or so ...
I'd have to knock part of Nancy Cathedral down and install lots of carpet to shave off a second or so because this is the exact reverberation you'd hear in the building itself. I love it!! :)
@@beautyinsound for sure - I understand - it's just really noticeable when those pedal 2nds sustain over each other - just a bit of a jolt there at the beginning - especially the D to Eb and B to C half-steps - but it's a beautiful performance - I'm not complaining :-)
The reverberation of the cathedral, your tempo, the build up to the beautiful last chord are perfect to my ears!
WOW and WOW. When you held that final chord for half of forever, you took my breath away. How does music do that? Thank you. You are a magnificent organist.
Thank you again!
Passacaglia is Bach's best organ composition by far!
Not just Bach's best, but in the reasoning of many, the best of all.
@@peteacher52 Yeah, quite possibly the best one. I am still to listen to all organ compositions ever made, so I can't affirm it yet.
@@AntoniusTertius when you listen to all of his organ works you won't be able to decide which one's the best but The Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is surely up there .
@@tahaouhabi3520 I listened to all of his organ works twice, the best ones are the Passacaglia and toccata&fugue in D minor (at least for my tastes).
@@AntoniusTertius i highly suggest the Chorale prelude starting with Erbarm Dich Mein O Herr Gott it's my favourite
And a cadenza just where Bach would have played one. BRAVO!! Loved it!
Bach is so perfect that can be played in any way, i mean, piano, little pipe organ, a big one or even a synthesizer. 😉
See what you think of this: ruclips.net/video/uCvK-ScNA5k/видео.html
George Fields recorded this (multi-tracked) in his home studio.
I came across this about a year or so ago. I was blown away by it. ruclips.net/video/g7l9I7nQ9-w/видео.html
What a glorious sound, this is one of my many favourites of JSB's compositions, superbly played as one has become accustomed to. Thank you Richard
Wow! What a stunning performance. That final chord is just sublime. 🙏
I held the final chord for a touch longer because it just sounded so good!!
I could listen to this on repeat for hours.
I wouldn’t do that - you’ll hear all the blemishes! 🤫
@@beautyinsound oh, Richard you're being to hard on yourself! You play beautifully!
@@beautyinsound A lively acoustic covers a multitude of sins :P
Beautifully played, as always, Richard. Registrations were excellent throughout, and I love the big Fugue! Piotr did a great job capturing a wonderful Cavaille-Coll in a superb setting. The Cathedral reverb is spectacular!
JSB would have liked this interpretation very much, indeed, I'm sure! Such a wonderful music sounds great also on French organs - why not?!
Please more of that! A real enrichment. 👍👍🙏🤗🤗
Nancy! My darling. Thanks Richard. We have all been waiting in great anticipation for this.
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I always LOVE when you include the piston “thunk” when you’re finished! Thanks Richard!!
Wow! I think I could hear JS Bach applauding at the end. I love how this piece starts so simple and slowly brings me in until I'm thinking this is the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Thank you for an amazing performance. What a ride!
Just found this, one of my favorite pieces, sounding fresh and new! BRAVO. I must add that, at the last phrase, I am leaping and crying and shouting as if in an old fashion country church meeting.
Absolutely magnificent, the epitome of Bach
The sound heaven, and your interpretation fabulous
You brought me to my knees, thank you for sharing beauty
Glorious
Can’t resist to come back for your rendition, good choice of stops, I love it, thank you Richard
Bravo - stunning performance. This is clearly one of your 'signature' pieces - a giant in the repertoire, and you made it sparkle at Nancy. Thank you!!
I do love it, and in fact i only learned it in 2019. I had it online on Friesach, so I feel like I've gone home playing this on one of Piotr's organs :)
I imagine you have heard this before but this is the way this piece is to be played. Not timid bold, slow especially at the last system. Thank you!!
Brilliant - the slow pianissimo introduction sets the atmosphere and gives the piece room to move to a great crescendo - ps love the socks
Was soll das Theater mit den Socken....? Na ja, wenns Spaß macht.
Bravo ! Great ! The preparation must have been dense. Bach is always beyond a great experience of great commitment. Super ! P.H.
I listened to this recording and remembered what a gift life is to us all I'm not a huge Bach fan but this piece of music seems to me to represent the apex of human intellectual achievement. Absolutely stunning performance!
This is one of my most loved Bach's organ composition! Thank you for the stunning performance, your selection of voicing throughout the piece is really really excellent.
Note: I noticed that the volume on the live recital was way too low, so grateful for the re-upload of this piece.
I agree w/your note.
Anither amazing performance! In awe again - registrations and pace perfect! Haha won my “exhibition” scholarship at the RCM in about ‘93 with this marathon of a piece - I understand it almost exactly the same as you do! Which means its fab to hear it played by you “properly”😁👌😁... always wanted to give the triplet variation a tonne of “bite” - seems to me its the climax of the passacaglia really - as my teacher said: everything else after that is just “knitting” in c minor,. Some truth in that....., and your “attaca” into the fugue is spot on.......important to get right - crucial piece of drama Herr Bach most definitely intended and.you nail it. Love it!! I want to get my copy out and start crashing about with it again!
Agree, it sounds superb. I've never heard it played on a French organ, or anything other than just the Great and/or with an unequal temperament. Very entertaining, thank you. 👏
I zoomed in on just your hands. Ten fingers all playing different notes.......oh and feet playing as well. Incredible!
Many consider this Passacaglia and Fugue to be Bach's greatest. I concur!! - and I love your embellishments and that wonderful Cadenza! C. P. E. Bach mentioned one time that his father would embellish everything - yet never violate the integrity of whatever he played. You can 'blame' Buxtehude for this! Heh.. Bach was never the same after his visit with him.. and we will enjoy Bach forever.. I know that Bach is smiling on you now!!
Missed the recital. I'm catching up now. I'm mesmerized.. Music has the charm to soothe the savage beast, and your rendition of Bach's music has certainly soothed my sometimes savage mind. Kudos to you, Richard!
What a lovely performance!!!
I love this piece, I ♡ Bach!
Dear Richard; You made it live again. Thrilling!
A constellation of fabulous composition, registration, interpretation!
A master-class performance of one of the most regal, ethereal and beautifully sublime pieces from the greatest composer in history on the grandest of all instruments created by the greatest organ builder of all time. I think both Bach and Aristide would have been sufficiently impressed. Meanwhile, the rest of us mortals stand--fall down?--in awe! It must have been an other-worldly experience in that cathedral during that recording. The registration, the dynamics, the tempo: pure brilliance. Those reeds that CC is so well-known for...wow...just incredibly powerful, unparalleled.
Cavaille - Coll maneged to bring back baroque organ building mixing it with the new style of his time. This version of passacaglia and fugue demonstrates the "dramatic" and austerity part of this organ (and of the piece, of course). It even shows how much this organ is versatile and powerful. Your way of playing it is fantastic, nearly how Karl Richter would have played it...Bravo!
Completely agree. Cavaille-Coll very often integrated much of the existing pipework from the 18th and early 19th Centuries and built his own conceptions around it. This is why some of his most famous instruments contain much older pipework. Perhaps the most famous example is St Sulpice in Paris, where 40% of the pipework is the original 18th Century Clicquot work. He didn't change the older pipework much either. I believe JSB can be played on any instrument, his genius is universal. And it can certainly be played on a Cavaille-Coll instrument!
It’s like a Biggs/Richter style mash up.
What else but Bach's music & your magnificent performances of it, would keep me glued to my computer at 2AM? Bravo!
Wow - hope you managed to get some sleep!
WOW! History repeats! Here I am, same time & place, enjoying this incredible performance again!! Thank you for such grand music!
Beautiful performance Richard! This piece always tugs my heart.
Sublime. Incroyable !Merci.
It's funny how it's so sad yet so beautiful! You play it very skilfully Richard! Marvellous!🥲🌹👏👏👏
WOW!!! That was superb. Thank Richard for that. I love Bach's music. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
😃😃😃
A surprise sighting of BiS. So very good to see you on our Memorial Day. Great music. Thanks so much
The best part is always the coda starting after the Neapolitan sixth and subsequently mind blasting 32‘ coming in. Many thanks for sharing this masterpiece 😍
Love the immaculate articulation in the fugue. Superb playing. Thank you.
Thanks David, and thank you also for your donation this evening!
Just beautiful!
Richard. Thank you so much for going the extra mile to replay this piece. Agree with comments below even though just an organ music lover and not an expert. Hope those who talked in chat during recital will watch and show appreciation by leaving a thank you comment.
Put on headphones, closed my eyes and took in the sound. Richards choice of organs from his fleet did a phenomenal job on this piece. Of course Richard as usual did a fantastic job.
Welk played Richard
Thanks 🙏 and Nancy for the sheets and stops.
Greetings from Hoorn Nh. , the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Wow! Never thought of playing quasi-tutti all through the fugue, but it definitely works!
Astonishing giant performance , Bach on Cavaill'e Col in Nancy is a top event for all organ fans . Written from Leipzig ..
Fabulous!
Great choice to show the different registrations. It would be great if you could make a video where you talk about the new sample set and how it differs from f.x. Caen!
Bravissimo!
Nothing says "tonic reconciliation" like the end of JSB's Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor. The last few minutes has it all: Dominant preparation, deceptive cadence on the Neapolitan 6th, fully diminished 7th over tonic pedal, and glorious Picardy 3rd to bring it home. One of my all-time fav pieces, and you're nailing it on your channel time and again!! I hope you win the prize of "organist to have held the last note the longest!" As it should be.
Well it just sounded so good, I didn't want to let go of the keys!! 😄
Sublime
Just superb!! I'm going in for another listen or two or more...
Wow just Amazing the sampleset and how it is played!
Cavaillé-Coll was probably the greatest organ builder ever. His organs are perfect for all styles and periods, including baroque. Perfect sample set and very, very beautiful performance!
Wow!!!
Wonderful performance. I especially appreciated the cadenza on the Neapolitan 6th at the end of the fugue.
Two Thumbs Up, Everyone Please.
Thank You. You Sir are a Masrto!
To Sir Richard McVeigh,
WOW! Your interpretation opened new insights for me into this famous Passacaglia. Its like a world-famous but favorite painting at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg that I have seen many times up close. And now, thanks to you, I can see and experience it with a new pair of eyes.
More power to ya!
Wow, thank you!
Great performance!
I realy liked the cadenza at the end of the fugue. First time I have heard some one do that and it really worked - it was also appropriate and well judged. Once you hear this here it totally makes sense.
Bravo Richard!!! Greetings from Spain
One of my very favourite pieces. ( the list changes weekly) one of the few Organists who plays the final system correctly.
Hey Richard - There are 2 big clues to anyone who is considering watching/listening to your performance of this piece - as you describe in the title 'WOW and AMAZING.' It sounds superb to my ears. Many thanks indeed. (I'm just going back for a 4th listen)
he plays it powerfull, always!
¡Qué emoción! Estuve el domingo 25 de enero de 2004 en la Catedral de Nancy. Hermosísima como hermoso es Nancy
Me encantaría ir a la vida real. ¡Quizás pronto!
BWV582 is said to be the masterpiece of Bach's organ songs on another video site here. Thank you for playing. I felt solid while being strong. If possible, I would like you to play Bach's songs from time to time. (Especially related to chorale. Leipzig chorale etc ... When request is accepted)
I want to hear it with good sound. I have to buy a portable amplifier.
Then Bach said, "Bonjour, NANCY. Excellente! J'ai apprecie ca." 💥👏👏👏
Well done
Someone’s an E Power Biggs fan 😃. Superb work.
I confess to having not heard EPB. Is my performance quite similar?
@@beautyinsound ruclips.net/video/FpZfvlWJbjg/видео.html it really does remind me! I mean it as the highest compliment , as the Biggs version has always been my favourite. You are a great player . Sublime articulation 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The long-held final C-major chord took me to the central climax C-major chord of Messiaen's l'Apparition de l'église éternelle.
Would love to know whats behind the improvisation on the massive D flat chord at the end section? Would have been shot for doing so much as a trill 25 years ago😳😂😂.
Nothing behind it as such - it just strikes me as an obvious place to do such a thing. Vivaldi's music has lots of cadenzas, and Bach would've been very aware of them. Having a sudden Neapolitan sixth chord (D flat major in 1st inversion) followed by a halt just cries out for 'something'. 99% of people don't do this, but I'm happy to be that 1% who do things a bit different....
Sir Bach would be proud!
I do wonder how JSB himself would play it on this organ. Why WOULDN'T he use all those powerful reeds? He was a very elaborate organist back in his day who was very ahead of his time, and who loved to show off after all! I'm convinced he'd do the same!
Well played and one of the best sample sets. Sounds gigantic good. I want it too....
Perhaps try the sonus paradisi sample set of the Isnard in St maximin de la baume. The original organ sounds so thrilling, filling this big church with sound. And then the reeds. In original absolutely impressive. If this Sampleset captures only a tenth of that organ, it will be worth more than that money.
I love the socks!
💟 Truly Magnificent! And to My ear GOTHIC..!!💟👍😁💕 [of course I'm No expert.. I just know what I like!..]😸
Hello Richard!😇 READ THIS i would absolutely love if you could in any possible way have the world class organist Mr. Markus Wargh join any of your concert in the future👌. He is in my opinion the best organist in scandinavia by far! His Bach interperations are so unique and wonderful! He have had concerts all over the world. But its a same that not everyone have heard of him. He is truly amazing. Look at some of his recordings on RUclips and you will know exactly why i think that he is soo good. I have been to some of his concerts and I will never forget it!. I know this is too much to ask but I and many others would absolutely love it.😄. He is now the organist in Luleå cathedral in sweden, but he is originally from Finland and he got out from the Sibelius Academy (studying Church music)the highest grades possible!! I think that he aftet that went to sweden to study even more organ music. Greetings from🇫🇮
Since a teenager in the early 60s I have heard many organists playing this monumental piece, one of the very few that doesn't tire you with repeated hearings. I have used Piet Kee's version at the Bavo as the yardstick for the last 30 years. You have equaled him, Richard, but to be fair, I'd like to hear you playing it on the great Muller organ or a similar large tracker instrument in a resounding acoustic..
You're in luck! There are now 3 performances of me playing it on the channel:
St Laurenskerk, Rotterdam: ruclips.net/video/Vuy3DMnJ-Fk/видео.html
St Bavokerk, Haarlem: ruclips.net/video/l_tm42RRNSQ/видео.html
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation, Nancy: this one.
Which one do you prefer? I think I prefer this Nancy version.
@@beautyinsound Which of the three do I prefer? That's like asking if I'd like aged cheeses gouda, cheddar or edam! All of them thank you very much! All I can say, though, is that your sample sets are as good as any I have heard, given the limitations of touch compared with the good thumping a tracker with many stops pulled would require and the physical presence of a registrant to do most of that for you.
Congratulations on a truly superb production - speaking for myself and maybe some others as well, I appreciate your unhurried tempi and that you do not bow & scrape, duck & dive around pulling funny faces while playing! Col, NZ
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A great "new" organ you have there! Certainly a good listen, the only thing I would do slightly differently is the very first pedal part spelling out the groundwork. A slightly more separated notes would give a clearer view of what is ahead.
Curious if you're using a "wet" sample set or one that has inherent mistuning (I forget what it's called). BTW I love the decoupling of everything at the end -- fascinating detail!
It's an 8-channel surround sample (ie - 4 groups of stereo: Close, Front, Middle and Rear) with all the channels brought together very carefully to find the right balance.
Clicking through to the organ/sample set's web page was amazing. What an interesting story! As a DSP engineer I am floored by the largest set's RAM requirements. You used all four... @24 bits 82G of RAM? As always, superb playing of one of my most favorite works!! 🙏🏻
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Hi Richard im have a question Wouldn't you like to record a recital on the famous organ in the cathedral in Gdańsk Oliwa?
I’d love to
@@beautyinsound it's a beautiful place.
@@beautyinsound it's a beautiful place. and people will be shocked and after that you would have your first recital in Poland.
By the way, have you given a thought about adding to the fleet, the Aristide St. Ouen Sample set?
I have thought about it, and maybe one day I'll try it. I don't have Metz which is quite a limiting factor!
Bravo! Does anyone know why the facade pipes always look bright blue on this organ? I've been there to hear it,
and take photos of it with very high-quality gear, and I get the same result! Was an odd alloy used for the pipes, maybe?
When I go in real life, I'll perhaps see what you mean...
Wow, thanks for that! Question - is the stop action sampled too? There were some very realistic clunks.
They are indeed!
i gotta say, it would be fun to see you perform this piece in ''ton koopman style'' all tuti from the beggining 😂🙏🏼
I just love starting REALLY quiet and then ending REALLY loud - it makes the journey from beginning to end so much more fun, in my view!
@@beautyinsound I also love to begin very soft and then slowly get louder. Sometimes I get a few minor complaints from the choir, but it is well worth it.
@@beautyinsound Yeah I definitely get what you mean, I'm just proposing something different, an idea for the future maybe! Anyways great playing as always!
I wonder how himself (Herr JSB that is) handled the dynamics... Varnus does a nice, quiet version of this, which makes you wonder. But heck, as they say, if you've got 'em, smoke 'em! And there's no rush -- let the building speak too!
Haha! Thought the same, but you nail the registration without making it “victorian” that it sounds so natural!,
Not to detract from Richard's performance, but I can't hear this without thinking of the string version in White Nights.
Loved the performance! Registration is sublime... Sample set is stunning and I'm really enjoying they way you manage to make it sound! The only thing I would change for the sake of clarity is the amount of reverb present or the mix of rear vs nearer mics. It sounds a bit too 'wet' at times, especially when semi quavers are present on the pedals.
The acoustic is the cathedral's own, and is actually far clearer than you'd hear if you were in the building itself. There's a lot going on in this piece and it's impossible to hear everything due to the nature of the acoustic. For me, it's perfect! :)
@@beautyinsound then it's purely our job to get accustomed to it! :) keep it up!
How did you manual play on a 3 manual console with your feet on a 4 manual console's pedalboard? That's quite a stretch!!
In the 1950s a number of persons tried to claim the works if Bach can't not be properly performed on this type of instrument. This just proves they were totally wrong.
My! You have gathered a few comments here then Richard. (Must be a popular piece. lol) Just as well I can still play it too but sadly not as well as you can!
Even If compsitören say one thing in dynamik solie deo gloria
Always listen by yourself your ear.
Well, I guess it is just a matter of time before the Nancy wondermachine becomes a template from which to build a customised "virtual cavaille-coll." Frankly speaking, my ears have become so "scandalised" by the orgelbewegung movement which has contributed in my being turned-off of many a Baroque organ. So for me, CC and other Romantic Symphonic Organs have got my creative juices flowing unceasingly. Almost forgot, now, if there would be a sample set of the combined resources of, say, St. Pauls in London and Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, well, that would be quite something to dazzle the mind with, N'est ce pas?
Who says that you can't play Bach on a Cavaillé-Coll??...allhough as with a lot of his organs there is older Pipework there,.....but it all depends on the Voicing ....and in that part the Cavaillé-Coll company was perfect allways, also mixing he old with the new.....wether being his earlier organs, or his later ones
That’s a great recording. One of the last before the fire I think.
Don't compare 'Notre Dame' in Paris with other organs.....Too much has changed over the years
beautifully played - articulation and registration (reminiscent of E. Power Biggs on the Harvard Flentrop); almost a bit too much reverb (~10 seconds after the last chord) - diatonic 2nds in pedal overlapping strongly - could be dialed back slightly - maybe shave off a second or so ...
I'd have to knock part of Nancy Cathedral down and install lots of carpet to shave off a second or so because this is the exact reverberation you'd hear in the building itself. I love it!! :)
@@beautyinsound for sure - I understand - it's just really noticeable when those pedal 2nds sustain over each other - just a bit of a jolt there at the beginning - especially the D to Eb and B to C half-steps - but it's a beautiful performance - I'm not complaining :-)
nice fade, bruh
Really lovely - but, P:LEASE, keep your shoes on...
Many organist play with socks for the precise touch
Sorry, but all the noise loses any sense of the sensitivity of Bach's writing. It's too loud and ponderous. Bach in hobnail boots, and not for me.
Can’t resist to come back for your rendition, good choice of stops, I love it, thank you Richard