For those complaining that Madame Alain was "all head and no heart"-- I respectfully disagree that a conservative interpretation of the work is "heartless" or "soul-less". In fact, I applaud the artist's restraint and lack of ego when they perform a piece without injecting artificial drama into it. To each their own, but Madame Alain's recordings are among my favorites, as she has what I consider to be excellent sensibilities regarding tempo-- I think her tempos "flow" like few others-- and she also has a keen sense of each organ's acoustics and matching the sound of each organ with Bach's works accordingly. Again, just my opinion as a longtime Bach fan, but one thing I can say for certain is that "Faces of Classical Music" has done us all a great service by posting these videos!
Die Perfektion des Geistes, dar gestellt durch die Königin der instrumente, zum Leben erweckt durch ein hervoragnede Organistin...hier kann man von der Unendlichkeit Träumen!
I absolutely adore the entire _Orgelbüchlein,_ and Marie-Claire Alain’s playing is so amazing! It touches the soul in such an amazing way. I played for her-badly!-in a master class a long time ago, and it didn’t matter what the students played, Alain demonstrated everything from memory….she never looked at the music unless she wanted to point something out to someone. She was beyond brilliant, God rest her soul!
Cette grande artiste rend témoignage à l'oeuvre immense de Bach , comme la mer mouvante et jamais calmée. Des instants tour à tour émouvants et eblouissants...
И с бах - вселенская душа , богом избранная , чтобы дать нам возможность услышать , хоть частично , красоту небесной гармонии , музыкальную мвтематику .... Слава Господу !
velen jaren gingen voorbij waarbij nauwelijks iets bemerkte wat deze muziek mij vanbinnen deed. De laatste jaren ben ik mij bewuster geworden van de reinigende werking deze muziek mij deed.
Gracious and kind as a dear sweet Aunt. Great organist surely actually she plays for our Lord every day on the paradise's instruments under the BACH's staring. Robert
In these current times of health, economic and political chaos, where the hope of improvement is very weak, listening to Bach allows us to remember that men are also capable of creating divine beauty in appearance simple and pure. Bach's music is a balm for the soul. And when it is interpreted by Marie-Claire Alain, just sublime.
Aimant le classique comme toutes musique , j'ai voyagé un peu dans mon passé et dans chaque ville et village de France et d'ailleurs j'aimais pénétrer dans les églises pour me recueillir, dans un moment de silence profond et si par hasard un organiste jouait, là je me passionnais de l'écouter.
Madame c'est dans l' Eglise de Hunawhir en Alsace et celle de Saint-Lô en Normandie que j' ai fait la même expérience. Cette musique est devenue mon seul refuge.
The Organ is one of the most complete musical instruments. When well executed, as we are hearing now, it is Gold on Blue! O órgão é um dos mais completos instrumentos musicais. Quando bem executado, como estamos ouvindo agora, é Ouro sobre Azul!
De fato; o órgão não é um dos instrumentos musicais mais completos - é O instrumento musical mais completo, dependendo de seu tamanho e espaço acústico In der Tat; die Orgel ist nicht eines der vollständigsten Musikinstrumente - sie ist DAS vollständigste Musikinstrument, je nach Baugröße und Akustikraum
awe inspiring this wonderful music creates visions of the southern oceans and albatrosses and the deep night skies with the southern stars while im listening to this here in tasmania... thanks for posting... greetings from tasmania
C'est magnifique. Bien sûr, JS Bach, Marie-Claire Allain, toute en finesse, poètique, interprète d'exception qui nous a quitté. Et puis, cet instrument superbe, si éloigné des grandes machines symphoniques à la mode dans la deuxième moitié du XIX ème siècle et jusqu'à maintenant. J'aime beaucoup cette musique méditative.
Sir, i would advise You to listen Helmut Walcha performance of Bach' s organ works played on 18th century Silbermann organ of Saint Pierre le Jeune Church in Strasbourg.
I hope you have now been able to experience this instrument live, which I was able to do when I was a student! It is the completion of the organ in this structure (acoustics), with this composer
Heard M.C.Alain lately on classic radio.with the remarks that Bach is only to be fully understood with his organ cmps.He was the greatest organ player,of his days and the diff.grades are immense and fully genius,So B-lovers orientate to be fully aware.
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad you got a chance to meet her. Unfortunately, I can't play an organ, let alone read music. However, I have appreciated the organ for a long time now, and I have had the pleasure of seeing rooms full of pipes behind the facades of a couple churches I visited.
The Domkirche in Freiburg has three organs built by the saxon Silbermann. It was a VERY rich town these days, I think because she owned a rich silver mine or something like this.
Its amazing. I've been listening to Bach organ works since 1974 or so. Until today I did not know there was another Toccata and Fugue in d minor. I've have heard this piece before but it was only titled "Dorian". Made me feel really confused for a few minutes.
+Michael Fitzgerald : It really is in D-minor, but the key signature is C, which makes it notated as D-dorian (d-minor, but with a perfect 6th (b-natural) instead of the customary b-flat). Dorian mode is one of the 'church' modes from the medievel/renaissance, before the advent of diatonic harmony. The 'church modes' were the scales you got by starting at different places on the scale and going up an octave, but only playing the white keys. Ionian (our major scale) starts at C, Dorian at D, Phrygian at E, Lydian at F (but the music theoreticians required a flatted B anyway, to avoid the tritone between F and B-nat, so it's really a transposed Ionian, namely F-maj), Mixolydian at G and Aeolian (our relative minor) at A. However, it seems to me that the piece is really D-minor, but with an odd key signature.
There is only one: "The Dorian". The famous one was surely not written by Bach. There is a lot of research to support this opinion: wrong style, poor fugal writing, uncharacteristic use of pedals...... Galant style was late in Bach's life when he was writing much better fugues (see The Art of Fugue, "St.Anne" Prelude and Fugue, etc, etc.
Just FYI there is an inaccuracy in the contents info of this wonderful recording. Bach's work BWV 566 is the Toccata and Fugue in E Major, not C Major. Bach himself transposed it to C major for those instruments with "meantone" of which the Silbermann organ played by Mme. Alain is one of them. In modern tuning, it sounds like played in D major.
Marie-Claire Alain was known as the foremost Bach scholar for much of the last century. I can’t think of anyone else who recorded the nearly 300 organ works by Bach twice, and _Alain did it 3 TIMES!!_ When she played recitals, she performed everything from memory (my organ teacher studied with her in the 1960s, so I heard a lot o out Alain!). She was such a great organist, supreme! So I’m not a fan of Diane Bish. At all. And, just so you know, Alain recorded the second complete organ works because organs she felt represented Bach’s music best had been restored or finally made available to her. She recorded the third complete set because of the reunification of East and West Berlin, as well as others which had never been available.
Die Aussage von Carambasjokk ist überhaupt nicht tragfähig. Sie/er hat gar nichts begriffen. Aus dieser wunderbaren Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs spricht Glaube, Demut, Barmherzigkeit und Liebe! Wer nur Hass will, hat bei dieser Musik nichts zu suchen. TH-cam - bitte den Beitrag von Carambasjok löschen! Es ist eine Schande, dass so ein Beitrag bei dieser wunderbaren Musik gepostet wird.
+Niklas YT So ein Quatsch. Groß, erhaben, kraftvoll, mutig, gnadenlos, vielschichtig so wie das deutsche Wesen. Das spricht aus der Musik Bachs. Wie könnte es auch anders sein, denn das Gott IN ihm hat es ja geschaffen. So wie sämtliche Dome deutscher Baumeister. Gott wollte Tier werden, das ist der Mensch. Das Jesus-Gesülze hat noch nie jemand wirklich interessiert. Die Pfaffen drücken nur immer rein wie der Gestank. Man kanns ja nicht verhindern, dass sie sich zum Deppen machen. Glaube ist Dummheit, Demut ist Erbärmlichkeit und Liebe gibt es nur zwischen gleichartigen Menschen.
Ach, Zarathustra 963, Du hast Dein Leben und Dein Empfinden, von Deinem Leben geeprägt - das ist halt so. Andere empfinden und erleben das anders. Für Bach war der Glauben wichtig und wie die Musik und seine Familie sein Lebensinhalt. Das läßt sich mühelos aus seinem Werk heraus hören. Jedem das seine ...
+Horst Bilkenroth Meine Aussage "Glaube ist Dummheit" muss ich vielleicht etwas differenzieren. Es ist ja inzwischen ein Jahr her. Es gibt zum Einen das Glauben im Sinne von Annahmen, und zum Anderen den Glauben im Unterbewusstsein, also den religiösen Glauben, der den Deutschen aufgedrängt wurde. Die Künstler damals arbeiteten zwar alle für die Kirche, brachten aber alle ihr deutsches Wesen in ihre Werke ein. Demut muss man vor seinem Selbst haben, denn man muss sich jeden Tag immer wieder selbst überwinden um so allmählich zur Selbstschöpfung zu gelangen. Mit der Deutschen Gotterkenntnis wird das negative Christentum überwunden.
Unter den Kompositionen von Johann Sebastian Bach steht "soli deo gloria" - weitere Kommentare erübrigen sich, falls Sie der lateinischen Sprache mächtig sind.
There is always a superficiality about Marie-Claire Alain's performances of Bach, as though she has played them to death and is just going through the motions. Compare Helmut Walcha at Alkmaar.
I agree with all of that. A synthesiser can do that too. I agree with the writer below who says "Listen to Walcha". For all his slow-downs, he made the music human. Alain is all head and no heart. She was undoubtedly a wonderful musician technically. I heard her improvise at Sydney Opera House and it was remarkable. Still cold though.
James Moule Mme. Alain dares to play the music exactly as written, with little added "personality;" and by doing so, she shows a humility that becomes the music well.
There is no such thing as playing music "exactly as written". A music score is not a computer program. The true musician understands the composer's message and plays the nuances that the composer could not express in black and white. Mme Alain was a technician. Most other organists go too far in the other direction.
Without J.S. Bach no music, no music without Bach!
For those complaining that Madame Alain was "all head and no heart"-- I respectfully disagree that a conservative interpretation of the work is "heartless" or "soul-less". In fact, I applaud the artist's restraint and lack of ego when they perform a piece without injecting artificial drama into it. To each their own, but Madame Alain's recordings are among my favorites, as she has what I consider to be excellent sensibilities regarding tempo-- I think her tempos "flow" like few others-- and she also has a keen sense of each organ's acoustics and matching the sound of each organ with Bach's works accordingly.
Again, just my opinion as a longtime Bach fan, but one thing I can say for certain is that "Faces of Classical Music" has done us all a great service by posting these videos!
Die Interprtation ist wohltuhend ruhig, der Klang der Orgel ist unbeschreiblich schön - ein Klangkunstwerk immer noch nach 300 Jahren.
mein Herz geht auf ,ich weine und lache in der Vollkommenheit dieser Töne!
das Video ist endlich wieder öffentlich zugänglich...ich bin sooo unfassbar happy
Die Perfektion des Geistes, dar gestellt durch die Königin der instrumente, zum Leben erweckt durch ein hervoragnede Organistin...hier kann man von der Unendlichkeit Träumen!
I absolutely adore the entire _Orgelbüchlein,_ and Marie-Claire Alain’s playing is so amazing! It touches the soul in such an amazing way. I played for her-badly!-in a master class a long time ago, and it didn’t matter what the students played, Alain demonstrated everything from memory….she never looked at the music unless she wanted to point something out to someone. She was beyond brilliant, God rest her soul!
marie clarie alain foi um espirito de luz que passou pela terra sua interpretação é pura luz
Aus dieser Musik kann man Kraft schöpfen, einfach unbeschreiblich. Er ist für mich der größte Tonschöpfer aller Zeiten!
Cette grande artiste rend témoignage à l'oeuvre immense de Bach , comme la mer mouvante et jamais calmée. Des instants tour à tour émouvants et eblouissants...
Ich finde das einfach göttlich das erinnert mich immer an meine oma😢😢
Halt eben eine Organistin.
Vielen herzlichen Dank für die tolle Musik. Die Musik reinigt meine Seele.
Einer meiner Lehrer sagte immer Bach sei wie ein Dusche für dei Seele.
+Marcel Kann ich nur bestätigen.
Ja, es ist die wahre Musik!
Thomas Michael ware musik ist das und nicht Hop hop du hast voll Recht
JS Bach's toccatas are like a supplication to Heaven, divine music.
И с бах - вселенская душа , богом избранная , чтобы дать нам возможность услышать , хоть частично , красоту небесной гармонии , музыкальную мвтематику .... Слава Господу !
velen jaren gingen voorbij waarbij nauwelijks iets bemerkte wat deze muziek mij vanbinnen deed. De laatste jaren ben ik mij bewuster geworden van de reinigende werking deze muziek mij deed.
I still treasure an old LP record of Marie-Claire Alain playing Bach's organ music. I fell in love with her playing ever since.
Gracious and kind as a dear sweet Aunt. Great organist surely actually she plays for our Lord every day on the paradise's instruments under the BACH's staring. Robert
I intended say intense look of BACH
Ich liebe diese Aufnahme von den ersten beiden Stücken so sehr...es klingt so wunderschön und gleichsam so prachtvoll und gigantisch
Listening deeply to such divine liturgical (sacred) music is probably the best therapy for troubled souls.
In these current times of health, economic and political chaos, where the hope of improvement is very weak, listening to Bach allows us to remember that men are also capable of creating divine beauty in appearance simple and pure. Bach's music is a balm for the soul. And when it is interpreted by Marie-Claire Alain, just sublime.
Ich höre den Himmel auf Erden!
Many thanks for publishing this beautiful music and for presenting it in such an informative and accessible format.
Aimant le classique comme toutes musique , j'ai voyagé un peu dans mon passé et dans chaque ville et village de France et d'ailleurs j'aimais pénétrer dans les églises pour me recueillir, dans un moment de silence profond et si par hasard un organiste jouait, là je me passionnais de l'écouter.
Madame c'est dans l' Eglise de Hunawhir en Alsace et celle de Saint-Lô en Normandie que j' ai fait la même expérience. Cette musique est devenue mon seul refuge.
Super Interpretation des Werks.
Beautiful-sounding instrument, beautifully played.
The Organ is one of the most complete musical instruments. When well executed, as we are hearing now, it is Gold on Blue!
O órgão é um dos mais completos instrumentos musicais. Quando bem executado, como estamos ouvindo agora, é Ouro sobre Azul!
Verdade
De fato; o órgão não é um dos instrumentos musicais mais completos - é O instrumento musical mais completo, dependendo de seu tamanho e espaço acústico
In der Tat; die Orgel ist nicht eines der vollständigsten Musikinstrumente - sie ist DAS vollständigste Musikinstrument, je nach Baugröße und Akustikraum
Geen dag zonder Bach!
Idd. Ein Leben ohne Bach ist möglich, aber sinnlos.
awe inspiring this wonderful music creates visions of the southern oceans and albatrosses and the deep night skies with the southern stars while im listening to this here in tasmania... thanks for posting... greetings from tasmania
C'est magnifique. Bien sûr, JS Bach, Marie-Claire Allain, toute en finesse, poètique, interprète d'exception qui nous a quitté. Et puis, cet instrument superbe, si éloigné des grandes machines symphoniques à la mode dans la deuxième moitié du XIX ème siècle et jusqu'à maintenant. J'aime beaucoup cette musique méditative.
entièrement en accord avec vous ; de plus ces instruments ancien bien conservés sont plein de douceur et de poésie
une grande artiste , merci
das ist GÖTTLICH!
Marie Claire always produces a superb rendition of anything she plays
Beautiful interpretation by a great master with a storied pedigree
Sir, i would advise You to listen Helmut Walcha performance of Bach' s organ works played on 18th century Silbermann organ of Saint Pierre le Jeune Church in Strasbourg.
Best of the best...this instrument is so clear and the resonance is sublime. Have to visit Freiberger Dom soon!!
I hope you have now been able to experience this instrument live, which I was able to do when I was a student! It is the completion of the organ in this structure (acoustics), with this composer
it was not only musician and composer but some more, for me the maximum expression of art in music
musica preciosa saludos desde COSTA RICA
Wunderbare Musik
Un instrument absolument magnifique et captivant
Maravilhoso
C'est magnifique
Ms Alain plays with totally insight, respect and panache.
Herrlich.
Very well performed.
Nos quedaron sus interpretaciones:una forma de seguir entre nosotros.
El Leon de todos los instrumentos. El rey del reino de la música . Magistral interpretación en el más sublime de los instrumentos
Heard M.C.Alain lately on classic radio.with the remarks that Bach is only to be fully understood with his organ cmps.He was the greatest organ player,of his days and the diff.grades are immense and fully genius,So B-lovers orientate to be fully aware.
bejutifol mucik 👏👏👏👏👏
Incredible polyphonic music.
THANK YOU!!..
fantastique
wonderful
AMAZING !!! Love that sound ♫
Outstanding!
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad you got a chance to meet her. Unfortunately, I can't play an organ, let alone read music. However, I have appreciated the organ for a long time now, and I have had the pleasure of seeing rooms full of pipes behind the facades of a couple churches I visited.
G R A N D I O S O !!!!!!!!!! B E L Í S S I M O !!!!!!!!!!!
I was waiting to hear the chord
The Domkirche in Freiburg has three organs built by the saxon Silbermann. It was a VERY rich town these days, I think because she owned a rich silver mine or something like this.
Its amazing. I've been listening to Bach organ works since 1974 or so. Until today I did not know there was another Toccata and Fugue in d minor. I've have heard this piece before but it was only titled "Dorian". Made me feel really confused for a few minutes.
+Michael Fitzgerald : It really is in D-minor, but the key signature is C, which makes it notated as D-dorian (d-minor, but with a perfect 6th (b-natural) instead of the customary b-flat). Dorian mode is one of the 'church' modes from the medievel/renaissance, before the advent of diatonic harmony.
The 'church modes' were the scales you got by starting at different places on the scale and going up an octave, but only playing the white keys. Ionian (our major scale) starts at C, Dorian at D, Phrygian at E, Lydian at F (but the music theoreticians required a flatted B anyway, to avoid the tritone between F and B-nat, so it's really a transposed Ionian, namely F-maj), Mixolydian at G and Aeolian (our relative minor) at A.
However, it seems to me that the piece is really D-minor, but with an odd key signature.
+Michael Fitzgerald This is the good one.
There is only one: "The Dorian". The famous one was surely not written by Bach. There is a lot of research to support this opinion: wrong style, poor fugal writing, uncharacteristic use of pedals...... Galant style was late in Bach's life when he was writing much better fugues (see The Art of Fugue, "St.Anne" Prelude and Fugue, etc, etc.
Musically speechless. The organ is indeed the King of Instruments that conveys sublime emotions, like in this work of art.
Lindo
Makes one proud to known as an human.
J’ai vu jouer MC Allain à ST Germain en laye.
Entendu le Silbermann deFreiberg.
Hélas je n’ai pas entendu les deux ensemble.
💕
ich bin dabei.
Just FYI there is an inaccuracy in the contents info of this wonderful recording. Bach's work BWV 566 is the Toccata and Fugue in E Major, not C Major. Bach himself transposed it to C major for those instruments with "meantone" of which the Silbermann organ played by Mme. Alain is one of them. In modern tuning, it sounds like played in D major.
Bach was transitional between the baroque and early classical
I prefer Toccata d-moll"Dorisch" to the populer one. With Fuge it has deep religeous atmosphere. Sounds like corridors or arches of a monastery.
Diane Bish or marie claire Alain ? please who is the best female organ player ? thanks for the answer !
A very good question. I prefere Diane Bish.
Marie-Claire Alain was known as the foremost Bach scholar for much of the last century. I can’t think of anyone else who recorded the nearly 300 organ works by Bach twice, and _Alain did it 3 TIMES!!_ When she played recitals, she performed everything from memory (my organ teacher studied with her in the 1960s, so I heard a lot o out Alain!). She was such a great organist, supreme! So I’m not a fan of Diane Bish. At all. And, just so you know, Alain recorded the second complete organ works because organs she felt represented Bach’s music best had been restored or finally made available to her. She recorded the third complete set because of the reunification of East and West Berlin, as well as others which had never been available.
1st music is not the BWV 561?
30:40!!
#
Perfectempo!
Unfortunate that the pedal reed is too loud. I play the wholenote trill for the whole measure. Disappointing here.
Die Aussage von Carambasjokk ist überhaupt nicht tragfähig. Sie/er hat gar nichts begriffen. Aus dieser wunderbaren Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs spricht Glaube, Demut, Barmherzigkeit und Liebe! Wer nur Hass will, hat bei dieser Musik nichts zu suchen. TH-cam - bitte den Beitrag von Carambasjok löschen! Es ist eine Schande, dass so ein Beitrag bei dieser wunderbaren Musik gepostet wird.
+Niklas YT
So ein Quatsch. Groß, erhaben, kraftvoll, mutig, gnadenlos, vielschichtig so wie das deutsche Wesen. Das spricht aus der Musik Bachs. Wie könnte es auch anders sein, denn das Gott IN ihm hat es ja geschaffen. So wie sämtliche Dome deutscher Baumeister. Gott wollte Tier werden, das ist der Mensch. Das Jesus-Gesülze hat noch nie jemand wirklich interessiert. Die Pfaffen drücken nur immer rein wie der Gestank. Man kanns ja nicht verhindern, dass sie sich zum Deppen machen.
Glaube ist Dummheit, Demut ist Erbärmlichkeit und Liebe gibt es nur zwischen gleichartigen Menschen.
Ach, Zarathustra 963, Du hast Dein Leben und Dein Empfinden, von Deinem Leben geeprägt - das ist halt so. Andere empfinden und erleben das anders. Für Bach war der Glauben wichtig und wie die Musik und seine Familie sein Lebensinhalt. Das läßt sich mühelos aus seinem Werk heraus hören.
Jedem das seine ...
+Horst Bilkenroth
Meine Aussage "Glaube ist Dummheit" muss ich vielleicht etwas differenzieren. Es ist ja inzwischen ein Jahr her. Es gibt zum Einen das Glauben im Sinne von Annahmen, und zum Anderen den Glauben im Unterbewusstsein, also den religiösen Glauben, der den Deutschen aufgedrängt wurde. Die Künstler damals arbeiteten zwar alle für die Kirche, brachten aber alle ihr deutsches Wesen in ihre Werke ein.
Demut muss man vor seinem Selbst haben, denn man muss sich jeden Tag immer wieder selbst überwinden um so allmählich zur Selbstschöpfung zu gelangen.
Mit der Deutschen Gotterkenntnis wird das negative Christentum überwunden.
Unter den Kompositionen von Johann Sebastian Bach steht "soli deo gloria" - weitere Kommentare erübrigen sich, falls Sie der lateinischen Sprache mächtig sind.
Silbermann Freiberg.....
There is always a superficiality about Marie-Claire Alain's performances of Bach, as though she has played them to death and is just going through the motions. Compare Helmut Walcha at Alkmaar.
I agree with all of that. A synthesiser can do that too. I agree with the writer below who says "Listen to Walcha". For all his slow-downs, he made the music human. Alain is all head and no heart. She was undoubtedly a wonderful musician technically. I heard her improvise at Sydney Opera House and it was remarkable. Still cold though.
James Moule Mme. Alain dares to play the music exactly as written, with little added "personality;" and by doing so, she shows a humility that becomes the music well.
There is no such thing as playing music "exactly as written". A music score is not a computer program. The true musician understands the composer's message and plays the nuances that the composer could not express in black and white. Mme Alain was a technician. Most other organists go too far in the other direction.
j kramer nay the baby jesus open your mind and shut your mouth, ingrate
Schwul
maul
Andac Gümüs fresse