J. S. Bach - Toccata in D minor (played by John Sherer on Chicago's largest pipe organ)
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2019
- John Sherer plays one of the most famous organ pieces on Chicago's largest pipe organ at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
From a full video exploring this instrument, including touring inside all of the pipes: • Pipe Organ (An instrum...
John Sherer is the Organist and Director of Music at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago: fourthchurch.org
Thanks so much to them for allowing us to explore this incredible instrument!
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Imagine writing a piece when you're 18 and it still being played 100s of years later. Some modern music is only relevant for 6 months lol.
When music was good
It's not fair. :/ I want to make classical music but nope, still at school being lame.
@@boseifrit5480 Music is still good.
@@boseifrit5480 wdym
@@tankpenguin175 well this modern pop rap and hip hop shit makes me angry. Dont yet me started abt mumble rap. People listen to this shit music, with horrible lyrics may I say, then bash metal and rock for its lyrics which aren't nearly as bad.
“We need to test all the pipes on our new organ.”
Bach: “Hold my beer”
You want to test all the pipes? Go for Max Reger
Hi Brother Demolay, I am from Brazil, Príncipe Serrano number 9
he was 17 so I guess orange juice it is
There is little known about why Not his piece was written, but many authors speculate it was designed to test new organs. Wind volume and pressure, each voice individually with call and response, chromatic runs through each key...
@@adam207321 Drinking ages in Europe tend to be lower than in the US,
and laws pertaining thereto are more recent. In Bach's time, everything
to do with the consumption of alcohol was somewhat discretionary.
wish he would've played fugue as well, but this was stellar
Lmbo, I commented something similar just before I saw your comment; another man of culture I see ;p
Interstellar 😇
@@BFG-hv2ml hydrostatic
One of Classical music's masterpieces. And, to think that Bach was only 18 or 19 when he wrote it! Amazing. Talent is gifted from God.
@@dougoverhoff7568 wait, really? That's crazy
Now do "Pipe Organ in very inappropriate places"!
I wanna see him play that big one in the shower
@@AshWont time to set off the fire alarm 😂
Lol. That's hilarious. Very good sir.
Macy's Philadelphia... or the old Union Station in Cincinnati...
One of the most iconic music pieces in the world
It’s literally blue lobster
ABBA is the most iconic
Please convince John to make his own channel and make more of these! I would LOVE to see more of this beautiful playing! :D
Same. Even if it's just on a regular piano. John is amazing :)
ruclips.net/video/M55Eb11Bro0/видео.html here's one of his concerts
totally agreee.
Absolutely! 😁
This video doesn't do this justice! I've heard this piece being played in person a fee times and it never gets old. You quite literally feel the music! It's quite an experience!
Live musicals are felt both in spiritual and physical manner. No matter how good your speakers or headphones are worth, live music is irreplaceable.
Once got invited into a tribal folkloric band. The drums, bagpipes, zithers and powerful voices... it was something.
@@Home_Rich I haven’t heard it a musical but at an organ concert. It is an amazing experience indeed.
Even as a kid I loved this piece, before I even knew who composed it, always referred to it as the Dracula music.
@@sovietonion72I just posted about Dracula too. I wondered if anyone out here had similar memories 🙌
Гениально@@Home_Rich
This is metal in its purest
Before metal even exists
Yes it is
Metal has its roots in classic. I used to listen to "heavy classic music" if that's a thing. Like prokofiev dance of the knights
These "metal" coments are the cringest thing I ever read
Jokes aside, this composition does have many techniques used in modern metal.
@@FockeWulfFW200 sorry i just broke my neck from the recoil of cringe your spelling of "coments" gave me
I'm in awe! His attitude and enthusiasm when playing only emphasizes the performance!
One of my first classical music loves. Ever since I was a boy I wanted to play the organ at my church.
its great to get to hear the piece in the proper instrument
It sounds so incredible ! Thank you ! And thank to John Sherer ! The video on the Pipe organ was also great !
Goosebumps every single time i listen to that!
Its crazy how deep the bass reaches
I'm so glad you put this clip out Rob. I was wishing for it when I watched the previous video
I actually clapped at the end! Wow...absolute mastery. If I had but one tenth of one percent of his musical knowledge, I could be my own star. Outstanding. 💙
...and I'll be _BACH_ next week!
*(crowd booing)*
I’m tired of LISZTening to these stupid puns
dude
😂
😂😂😂
I like the way he Handel this piece.....
Loved the full video!!!! The pipe organ is such a marvelous instrument!!!!
Thank you for uploading this, it is really something else to hear this peice performed live like this
Did he also play the Fugue? The whole piece is really "Toccata and Fugue in D minor". I personally think the Fugue, although not quite as loud, is even more impressive than the Toccata.
Indeed ...
Although the Toccata is perhaps the most famous 'half', for me the real challenge is a smooth tranisition to the Fugue, and then the Fugue itself, which I consider the more challenging of the two 'parts' ...
There is a video of Karl Richter playing the entire piece, and you can just about see he exerts that little bit more effort into the Fugue, even though Richter himself, quite aside from being an amazing conductor, could have easily made a career just from playing the organ alone, which goes to show just how incredible the Fugue actually is ...
The ending of the fugue when I play it is typically louder than the toccata
Yep
What a sound! Amazing recording and acoustics!
Thank you for putting this, I hated the early cut in the original video! :D
I love this piece. It's one of the few things I can play a bit of on keyboard/piano, but nowhere near as well as it is here. My favourite part is the section where the left hand is just playing the A between each note the right hand plays.
This techique is used in so many modern songs... good to know where the inspiration comes from :p
I think its called pedalling , im not entirely sure though
Guys please please get it into your thick colonialist skull, it's Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si
Imagine living in a time where this music does not exist yet; the space for new music is immense....
One of the most beautiful classical piece, played on a beautiful instrument...
I too would like to have heard John play the fugue but I'm not going to rant about it. I enjoyed the performance for what it was and I'm thankful to Rob for uploading it. If you want to hear the full piece in all its glory there are other performances of it on RUclips.
Yeah, this performance is definitely not the best.
@@Altroante yeah my personal favorite that I've listened to us Xaver Varnus at the Berliner dome
Perhaps he's, literally, playing for the lowest common denominator? This is you tube, not Carnegie Hall. ✌😸
Thank you so much for this! I show this to my elementary music students and having the little bio information at the beginning and all the camera angles - especially with the foot pedals - is wonderful! Please consider another video that has the Fugue.
I've a story about this piece. Back in the seventies I was still living with my parents. My dad and I rented a parking spot in an old disused cinema near our home. One night, I was driving home. There was a power cut affecting the whole of the town. I stopped by the old cinema, got out of my car and walked around the front to open the huge sliding door. I drove my car inside, got out of the car and slid the huge door shut. I then drove to my regular parking spot, switched off the engine and headlights. I stepped out of the car, and started walking towards the exit. The inside of the cinema was silent and in total darkness. Suddenly I heard, DA DA DA.......dadadadaaadaaa. I nearly died. The guy who lived next door to the old cinema was so bored during the power cut, he'd gone into the old cinema to play the old cinema pedal organ.
Imagine the people’s faces as they were walking by and heard this😂
It sounds Like Halloween music
Agreed, he played it in a shit like manner and not as written.
@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234true but it was just a demonstration
Superb rendition of this famous piece!
I remember doing an "Interview" for being a child chorister in Beverly east Yorkshire and have loved the sound of the organ ever since. Grace cathedral also has lovely acoustics.
Had the pleasure of playing this organ on a tour! Absolutely ground shaking.
So utterly metal it’s crazy. Bach was a titan.
It would have been so amazing to be in that church while this is played, that bass would be amazing I'm sure.
This piece is SO DRAMATIC
Absolutely magnificent
Inspiring playing, and a great
organ! Thank you!! ❤
ive had the pleasure of playing an organ and its so fun yet so tricky. i recommend that if you get the chance to play this amazing instrument, take it.
Absolutely love that. Thanks for sharing 👍♥️♥️♥️
Writing a masterpiece and doing it at 17 years of age is wild. Who knows the amount of things being accomplished in our times that we will never find about maybe during our whole lifetimes?
Absolutely Amazing.
One of my favorite pieces of music.
Fantastic! Bravo! Top, top, top.
Incredible video!!!
One of my favorite pieces.
Sehr schön Bach gespielt Kollege!!!! Bravo 🎹 🎵 🎹 🎵 🎹 🎵 😊
Nothing is better than this
played this in our marching band and hearing it again makes me super happy lol
I see you took my suggestion anyway :P Amazing performance and sound.
THIS IS ALL I NEED
Amazing sound
Es increíble!!! Hay que tener mucha concentración para tocar esta obra maestra. Fue una grandiosa composición en su día y sigue siendo lo hoy.
Lovely organ music.
Such great music. And that organ pushes it up to 11!
11? I think you mean like 36
I love this piece, we are going to play it in a brass quintet this year and it might be a really hard piece, it will be fun
I love Bach so much. One of my favorite composers, next to Chopin and Beethoven.
Conlan McGuff Wtf ? Bach is much better than any other composer
@@orgelfan1675 I am glad that you like his work as well, although I must remind you that I am entitled to my own opinion, too.
@@Nibiru_Truthsnej
Quite the core workout. Awesome.
Honestly this song is so appealing to me its beautiful
outstanding!
Very nice work.
Bravo!
Please, please, please, Rob, do a follow-up on this video. He only played the intro and there are lots of other great pieces (especially by Bach!) that are worth listening to. I can watch for hours and hours!
You got the whole of the Toccata. The Fugue seemingly wasn't recorded - but this is really just a 'bonus' video of a demonstration recorded whilst making Rob's video about the organ - ruclips.net/video/JeB3JnKp8To/видео.html .
There are plenty of other recordings of Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 out there - it's probably the most recorded organ work attributed to J S Bach (whose authorship of this work is disputed). Though a French Symphonic organ in a very reverberant building would not normally be the first choice for recording this work and certainly would alarm a baroque purist, the recording by Olivier Latry in Notre Dame earlier this year has deep emotional ramifications following the fire - ruclips.net/video/e2uuE5ZQN6A/видео.html . The grand organ was in fine form following its 2014 restoration - this was one of the last (perhaps the last) recording before the fire.
What a masterpiece!
!! UNBELIEVABLY FANTASTIC!!!! AWESOME-- THANK YOU!! BLESSINGS!! GREAT SCOTT!!! AWESOME!!!
Bravo!!! 🎹
How inspiring! Guy was 18 when he wrote it?! That’s crazy! Gives me hope I can do something like that too; that I don’t have to be old to do amazing things is amazing to think about
I really enjoyed this.
Beautiful.
It's brilliant!🎉
Awesome Stunning Amazing 👍👍👍
This piece of music is just as powerful today as it was then when J.S. Bach played it back when he was 17 years old!!!
Also ,I remember this track from when I watched Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange.
Wow soo cool!
Amazing!
Well done...
Bravo...!
Magistral. 🙏
Thank you!
Outstanding.
I wish I was there to hear it live!
Great quality content 👌🏻
Nice voicing for the opening of the tocatta. Would've loved to hear a call and response in the first section. However, voicing the tocatta with principles and foundational stops vs fiery reeds and "loud organist syndrome" was awesome. Thise mixtures sound awesome too!
That place is so awesome
Still a great piece of music. Now we just need you to make a metal cover of it and all will be well in the world.
Thanks Rob. Looking forward to hearing it.
😀🤘
That's as Metal as it gets. Literally playing a building.
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Count has a lot to be thankful for with Bach's piece being synonymously attached with him.
Bravo!!!
Just when it's about to kick in and get fast he stops!!
I love his cool dancing!! 😉
excellent execution - it's rare to get this right... :)
Thats what I was looking for.
my soul is quenched
Come ooon i want the full version of this, not only the intro! 😢
This is the whole of the Toccata, as in the title of the video. The Fugue is not included.
@@DavidWood2 I know but Bach did "Toccata e Fuga" for a reason: to play it togheter!
So only the "Toccata" part is still only an intro even if you say it in the title and i've just said that want it all in one piece! :(
@@TheGabbia Rob's main video was about the organ. The limited time likely only allowed for some short demonstrations. We're lucky enough to have this full recording of the Toccata (of which an excerpt was used in Rob's video about the organ). Perhaps one day Rob and the crew can return to get some longer recordings - but the aim of this shoot was not to get concert recordings.
@@DavidWood2 so? I still want a full version...and if enough person ask it mabye Rob will do it. I didnt said anything bad about Rob or the video and I don't get the problem, you just want to complain?
@@TheGabbia This is Rob's bonus channel where he posts content that goes alongside the main channel. The main channel video from this shoot was about the organ as an instrument. The Toccata appears to have been one of the demonstrations recorded as part of that shoot - an excerpt was used in the main channel video and Rob has been gracious enough to post the entire recording here. It seems they did not record the Fugue - and they can't post what they didn't record. Grumbling that "This is only the intro" will not change that. If the Fugue wasn't recorded, it would take a new shoot to record it - and I doubt such a shoot would be a priority for Rob and the crew to return to the organ bearing in mind the focus of his channel.
There is a lot about the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 attributed to J S Bach online. The sheet music is at hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a8/IMSLP129534-WIMA.1a4a-Bach_Toccata_Dminor.pdf . The organist Fraser Gartshore discusses the work at ruclips.net/video/ru02hGaltUg/видео.html (he's yet to post his recording, but he has been ill). There is the spectacular - and in light of the subsequent fire, rather emotional - 2019 recording by Olivier Latry on the grand orgue de Notre Dame de Paris at ruclips.net/video/e2uuE5ZQN6A/видео.html (whilst a French symphonic organ in a very reverberant cathedral is not the tonal palette or acoustic you would most naturally associated with German baroque music, I believe Latry's performance is a tour de force).
Bravo! Bravoo!
I just heard the obvious inspiration for Dancing Mad from Uematsu. Great playing and awesome revelation as far as I'm concerned.
멋진연주에요~👍
I came here to see if I could learn the first part on my 88 key electric piano I bought on Amazon by watching a "How to Play" video and I was wondering how Bach seemed to have either fourteen fingers or three hands so I scrolled down and clicked on this video only to find a dude in a tuxedo absolutely shredding his ass off on five sets of organ keys and some foot pedals and it all makes sense now.
Very good🎉
Maravilhoso e complexo tocar um órgão. Bonito demais, parabéns.
Plays it... ultimate chills !
Wonderful.
Can't get the Ekseption version out of my head now!