BACH - TOCCATA & FUGUE IN D MINOR - JONATHAN SCOTT (BRIDGEWATER HALL ORGAN)
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- Jonathan Scott performs Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata & Fugue in d minor BWV 565 at the Marcussen Organ of The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester UK
Film and sound by Tom Scott (2013)
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by far one of the better versions on youtube... everytime i search up this piece i always get either like one or two organ pieces, four synthesias, and a massive amount of this piece not being played on an organ (ex. a guitar)
After hundreds of times I heard this toccata through my life, this blows me away! Such precision, tempo, all tembres are intact. You can see, what made JSB the greatest organ music composer! When human is reaching divine! His spirit lives in you Scott.
organ is beautiful and king of instrument
Never get tired listening to you play Jonathan you are such a gift to this world! Thank you for such a great performance!
You and your brother take care of your health. We need you both performing for at least another 100 years!
What completely blows me away is the composer hearing even a piece of this in his mind before he put pen to paper.
Is that how it works? Thank you so much.
I don't seek out performances of this war horse, but watching and hearing Jonathan Scott play it on this fabulous organ is a joy.
It’s a great shame, but once I learn a piece I’m no longer interested in hearing it. I’ve probably played this one hundreds of times, but Jonathan does give me some inspiration in his choice of contrasts.
Could say that of just about anything he plays.
I don't what i like more... his playing... or that organ... BOTH a big WOW!
Божествено!❤Благодаря, благодаря, благодаря! ❤
A little late to comment but I have heard this organ in Manchester's Bridgwater Hall, played by Jonathan, (home to The Halle orchestra) & it is a splendid instrument whcih sounds superb in this hall.
Now there is a rendition I wish I had heard live. Thanks for the share.
I remember so well, the first time I ever heard this Toccata, on a record played by my grade-1 teacher, way back in 1958. I never forgot. What a beautiful iteration, scottbrothersduo. Thank you for sharing your keyboard talents here. :-)
Among the many great compliments one may make about your performances and style, I am deeply warmed by seeing that you appear to be as obsessive about keeping your shoes polished as I am! SO MANY organists seem to disregard this aspect of one's presentation! I cannot tire of your performances!
Masterfully played. And the Marcussen organ is perfect here.
Un grand merci! 👍 ❤️
Jonathan is superb to listen to and to watch. It is my great regret that I never learned to play music, my grandmother was and my brother is, an organist; the most beautiful and grand instrument.
Jonathan always brings out the best of the instrument he’s playing, and here, without deviating from the way the piece was written he really exploits this amazing organ. This was the first organ piece I ever heard when I was around eleven years old and even though it was played on a far more modest organ it switched me on to the wonders of the pipe organ. Jonathan, if you see this comment, thank you for this fabulous rendition, which brought me to tears.
So clear sound!
My favorite organ piece played beautifully by one of my two favorite organists.
Great contrast in Jonathan’s playing. Better than most organists, who just leave the manuals on just one or two settings throughout the entire piece.
It helps that the organ has a modern capture combination system that lets him instantly change whole registrations at will.
I will never forget the first time I heard this piece in eighth grade music appreciation class. The purity and mathematical perfection brought tears to my eyes, as well as a love for Bach and the organ
Fantastic performance on a superb pipe organ.
Perfection. Takes you to the depths then up to the clouds, over and over.
Absolutely beautiful rendition, wonderful choice of the stops, and perfect seamless transitions between the manuals! Awesome
Absolutely great interpretation. Respectful on the rythm, shows virtuosity without sacrificing clarity.
Amazing!! I love it when you play in the Bridgewater hall!! This organ has a sound fantastic and in this place there is an impressive acoustic!! Congratulations!!😘😘👏👏👏
Would love to know where this Bridgewater is!
@@candacelubin3813 The bridgewaterhall-organ is in the centrum of Manchester.
Masterpiece as usual from Jonathan Scott...marvellous performance
Johann would be proud! Perfect pacing
Wanted to check out your version after watching Rollerball 😃
You are truly a wonderful musician. Thank you for your performances. If you were an octopus I think you could conquer the galaxy.
Great rendition... loved it
brilliant performance .. cool
MAGNIFICENT !!!!!!
Excellent! Thanks!
Estou curtindo todos concertos do Jonathan Scott. O órgão é excelente e o organista a altura. Muito bom, parabéns!
Sim, maravilhoso!
Tanto ele ao órgão como o irmão ao piano são ótimos.
I have only listend to two of your songs on the organ and they are some of the most beautiful songs ever
Have you checked out his arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture on this same organ. He is amazing.
Spencer's Story Time You have probably seen it by now but his video of The Blue Danube on this same organ is wonderful. One of my favorite renditions ever.
best performance!
Love your playing.
this is fab
This just popped up...11 years late!
A master! I'd like to be "in situ" listening...and enjoying. Instead I thank this great sharing...A lot...
Fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!
Great!!!!!!!!!
Magnifica esecuzione... grazie..
Nice work, and like the camera shots of the console, seems an unusual design
como pode haver algo tão incrível....
Maravilhoso! ♡
Wonderful
Esto es la cúspide de la música. Johan Sebastián Bach gracias por haber creado música tan maravillosa.
De la ejecución ni que hablar simplemente sublime .
OK discovered your channel watching 1812 Overture vids. Saw an organ transcription and thought, "what!?". Now I've watched a few and am a subscriber. Looking forward to more. I respectfully request Bach BWV 543. :)
Heel mooi en heel prachtig gespeeld op een super instrument de orgel
Incredible
Awesome job Jon! ;)
If the walls of Jerico are by some means still standing, those pedal reeds will take care of that.
What a legendary WWE move
Excelente!!!
Superb
It's possible to feel God through Bach performed by J Scott...
Indeed!
Imagine the RUSH you must get when you have achieved this level of proficiency?!!!
I play this piece almost every day. It’s much grander on a cathedral organ than a house organ
I have seen it live in Boston..loved it before and love it now...my favorite peice
I get the RUSH every time I hear it.
Heel prachtige muziek.
WOW !
Do you think that Bach was aware that he was creating such an enduring and iconic piece of work, given that that covers most of his creations?
I play the organ, and I almost NEVER play this, because it's almost like an exercise now. What is irritating as well as it seems to be the only organ piece most people know. It's "You know, that organ song with those notes at the start", or "that Dracula piece". It's all I can do at that point to stop myself from smacking them. lol
As an old organist, roger that. However it does rock.
It's a shame that it's acquired that kind of status. I the piece; to me it's the embodiment of the triumph of happiness. It's heavy, but it's happy and in places it's funny.
Then again, I could just be seeing it that way because I grew up on Fantasia.
+Mark Tuson Funny? you haven't heard me play it! rofl!
It's interesting to note that some musicologists think this piece was composed to test organs, when Bach was invited to "test drive" them. He was acknowledged as a great organist, but not so much for his compositions, during his life. But he knew his value, you can be sure of that.
eu chego até a duvidar se essa maravilha foi realmente feita por mãos de homens
That gorgeous instrument belongs in a gothic cathedral with 6-second reverberation time.
Se nota que el órgano es nuevo no es antiguo: teclas impolutas,sin heridas de guerra etc.Un saludo desde Sevilla España.
Just discovered Jonathan, how wonderful for all us organ lovers. But I find the constant editing a bit distracting. Strange, I had to watch two videos before I ever saw his face.
sure. good interpretation.
Whew!
I've never seen wind flow backward through a pipe organ before. The sound comes out before he touches the keys. :-"
OMG
Who the hell can foucus they're mind on 4 thing at once!!! Appreantly this guy and alot of other people
La revelation de l'autre monde
EL SER HUMANO SIRVE PARA TODO
A pesar de que el ser humano ha demostrado servir para cosas espantosas y terribles; obras como estas que estamos escuchando nos hacen ver que también sirve para cosas maravillosas y bellas.
Now that is a theme suitable for Halloween
2.57... best fugue ever
Jhr. Humphrey. Excellent, geen bladmuziek nodig unbelievable. Prachtig orgel.
Is this organ tracker or electric playing action?
I understand that the organ has a tracker (i.e. mechanical) action, and a mechanical console. There is also an electric action and detached console (the one you see in the video.) Despite the snob value attached to tracker action (which has many advantages, but also some drawbacks) I am told that most performers use the electric console! When your teeth hurt, you go to a dentist and not to a man who talks about teeth, and in the same way there are some, influential, people who fail to grasp that no one kind of action fits all circumstances. For a large organ, tracker action is often not a good choice. Once the organ gets above a certain size, with a certain number of stops, the whole mechanism is too unwieldy to be successful for a mechanical design.
What few will admit to is that this organ as a whole is far from a complete success. The main complaint is that it is under-powered for the room and that the builders made the elementary error of trying to boost the sound by adding more than one pipe of the same kind in some of the stops. This goes against all reason and also the laws of physics and has been tried before, many years ago, and found to be useless. (Identical pipes, sounded together, do not give double the volume. Indeed, under adverse circumstances, they can result in a *decrease* in volume.)
When it was built, there was much concern that the possibility of a British builder was ruled out. (Some nonsense to do with EU funding?)
It sounds fine, on You Tube, and looks impressive, and of course Jonathan Scott could make a harmonium sound impressive (and does so on some of his videos!) But my impression is that the organ is no great credit to its makers, or anyone else involved in the project.
My mother and stepfather were in the piano and organ business and although I don't play any instrument, I have acquired a good knowledge of organ building.
Tracker action and slider chests can be (and often are) a very complex feature which affects the reliability and also the maintainability of an organ. Temperature variations exacerbate the problem and I've often wondered how churches can afford to maintain medium and large track organs such as those in Northern Europe. Tracker action and slider chests are an example of "Failure by design" and any mechanical engineer would avoid this technique.
However so called "Direct Magnetic" action is a good compromise between tracker action with slider chests and the electro-pneumatic control used on most organs in the U.S.
Direct magnetic action uses an electromagnet to open the valves directly without the use of an intermediate diaphragm actuated valve and slider chests are not required either.
This minimizes pressure drop, maximizes air flow, and gives a better response time. Subsequently, a lower air pressure (like that associated with pipes voiced on the "Classic Baroque" genre) can be used.
The main organ in the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles (built by Schlicker Organ Co. in 1969) is an example of how direct magnetic action with classic voicing can be used in a large organ.
kansasthunderman1 I'm afraid that you lay yourself open to criticism with your assertion that tracker action is an example of 'failure by design.' Mechanical actions in organ-building developed over centuries, by trial and error, to cope with the conditions found in (usually north European) churches - i.e. cold and probably damp. Providing that the building is not ridiculously damp or dry, they do very well indeed, routinely lasting for over 100 years with enviable reliability. If a tracker organ is not subject to unreasonable conditions (and this includes over-drying via the modern heating system) and is not physically damaged, its lifespan is almost indefinite, and is far, far longer than either electro-pneumatic or direct electric. If the conditions are appropriate the organ which needs the least maintenance and will last for ever will be a tracker organ.
However, there are limitations. Flexibility is one of them; you cannot put the organ in one place and the console in an entirely different one, or spread the instrument around the building in different sections, or have the console movable. Another limitation is on the size of the instrument. Once modest sizes are exceeded, tracker action becomes impracticable, because of the complexity of the action and the force required from the player to press the keys.
Other forms of action (direct electric, electro-pneumatic or straight pneumatic) are much more flexible as regards layout and the size of organ possible, However, they are also more complex and some of their component parts have a limited life-span (maybe 60 to 100 years, depending on conditions.)
Add to this, the fact that many organists prefer the 'feel' of tracker action, though some don't, and the fact that different organ actions affect the speech of the pipes in a way which some prefer and others don't, and you have the situation I described in my first post - no one action is suitable for all situations and anyone who advocates one system over another *in every case* is mistaken.
(After more than 35 years in organ-building, I count myself as one of the dentists, by the way, not someone who talks about teeth!)
Obviously, tracker action is well proven in 1000s of organs and it does have advantages such as intimacy of control over a musical instrument rather than the artist having remote control of an industrial air valve.
Organ building involves both art and engineering. However those who design for industrial and commercial projects are initially confounded why some builders prefer the keyboard and valves to be mechanically linked rather than being actuated by solenoids.
In modern control systems engineering, "Fly By Wire" technology is the standard technique and electrical actuation of anything (from a aircraft wing flaps to pipe organ valves) is always taken for granted as the better and more reliable approach.
Accordingly, the phrase "failure by design" is more of what I believe an layman engineer's opinion would be of tracker action rather than a literal interpretation by those skilled in the art of organ building.
By the way, in the 1970s, I considered going into the organ building trade and profession and possibly working with the Reuter Organ Co. in Lawrence, Kansas here in the U.S. Unfortunately, the salary for the organ business is not competitive with the commercial and industrial sector so I became an elevator contractor then a electro-mechanical engineer for the San Francisco mass transit agency.
However I still would like to visit working in the organ field somehow possibly as a consultant to churches and schools who are considering the purchase or overhaul of their organ equipment.
kansasthunderman1 Thanks for your interesting reply. However, I would like to make 2 points:
Firstly, the overwhelming advantage of tracker action is its reliability, long-term. Anyone who would think that an electrical control system is inherently superior has no idea, at all, of the factors involved. If space, money and the size/disposition of the organ are not limiting factors (the organ-builder's fantasy, of course) then the choice of action is a no-brainer. It must be tracker, because it will last longer, give the least trouble and produce the most musical outcome. In the real world, organ-building is a compromise, and that is where these (many) alternative control systems have their place.
Secondly (an I hope you will forgive me for saying this) as someone with an obvious interest in the organ, but with no practical experience of organ-building, I'm afraid you come into the category of the 'man who talks about teeth.'
Talking and writing about organ-building is easy and pleasurable. Actually doing it is a very different matter and only those with real, practical experience should be advising anyone on anything organ-related. Again, this is a fantasy which almost never happens - hence the proliferation of 'consultants' in organ projects. I met with one just the other day, who was not sure if 'Scotch' glue was waterproof. I rest my case!
what just happened in 1:38??? why did those keys move
Why was the tempo so weird?
Si è inceppato un paio di volte, ma nel complesso bravo
G.F.Haendel allelujach mesjach please
Sir, you are second just to Karl Richter!
Marco Ilariuzzi , I agree. It’s hard to compare talent wise as Richter and Scott are such different artists, but I just like Richter’s timing and expression just a little more especially the introduction. I still have a recording of him from the 1964 at the Jagersborg Church organ in Copenhagen. Although, I like the sound of the Bridgewater organ better but that may have to do with newer recording.
Lol
Didn't read all
But no one noticed
No sheet music
I noticed that right away. Since this piece is such an "old chestnut", I think Jonathan must have played it dozens of times and has it memorized, as well as in motor memory!
Decent effort on the Toccata; better on the Fugue.
The video looks like someone was trying too hard to make it interesting.
No vote either way.
Ho Hum, Let's dispense with the performance. - Delightful. Another playing, one of thousands that litter the web. The organ. Typical stupidity of putting a neo-baroque organ in a dead building and have something come of it - besides screech. There is one thing to be said for this crap, they do sort of hold together in poor acoustics when they are really large. But this is an English hall. Why in hell didn't they buy and English made organ instead of a builder that exists so far back in time he had yet to lear that there is such a thing as electricity. Oh, wait. He uses hogh powered, high current magnets to open valves in an organ that is supposed to extole the virtues of mechanical action. That seems to strange. If tracker action is so goo, why the electric console? Why bother with all the fuss and problems of hybred organs. This monstrosity is neither tracker, nor electric and has all the problems inherent in both. What a waste of money. Try playing Widor.s 5th symphony - I mean all of it, on this collection of penny whistles. What a shock that will be. Does anyone remember that Back was not the only composer for organ?
Jeez, take it down a notch my friend. It is quite obvious that the hall's acoustics are different from a church's. It has its drawbacks, sure, but it is not without its advantages. I personally do not know that organ, but I do not think there is anything wrong with an organ made by a Danish maker in an English hall, which you seem to think.
Bach definitely is not the only composer for organ, but to the masses, at least where I live, he is the most popular by a long shot, which is why us organists play his works often.
And seeing your comments on several videos already, do you never have anything positive to say about any interpretation of any work?
You´re very negative and you are not very clear and or very confused in your post. Somehow you managed critisize the builder, the organ and the room itself. Oh wait, you actually praised the organ player! And then at the end you also randomly praise Widor´s music i guess.... I don´t know if you know anything about the process of building up organ´s, but it doesn´t seem so to me. It´s not always easy. Many things goes into consideration. And that is all even be4 the building process. These danes are known for taking up difficult tasks and their reputation makes people choose them, cause people who order such work trust that reputation. I think in the end you are just a very picky person who disregards everything else than your own concerns. Now i also made a very long post like yours. I could have made it all alot more simpler and said that you are just a "very difficult person".
Sir. I have been building pipe organs longer than you have been alive. Workmanship is one thing. Tonal perfections is quite another. What works for the Danes does not work for England. What may be good in a small room for one period of music may not be suited for all types of music. Buying a broqen organ is like buying a car that can only turn left. Well suited for the purposed of the 1600 perios but impossible to properly play anythying else with any thing like the composer imagines. Styles of organs were the result of the music of their time. What works in a Franch cathedral might not be suitable for a delicate fugeue by Buxtehude. Understand.
Samuel; Apparently you have not seen allmy coments. Yes, I have a great deal to say about those workes played well on decent organs, even those out of tune. Bach is only one of many composers. Bach brought forth all the forms of composing that are in use today. Without his fundamental work likely we would not have the great symphonic or instrumental works that we can all enjoy. But like most others, his works have their failings. And, like most others, should be played on instruments that can represent the environment he played in and prodice the proper registration that he expected. That is NOT represented by the current Baroqen organs of the tracker fad period. The Danes are more than capable of building good instruments, as are builders from many other places that are not stuck in a glue pot of the 1960 period. Listen to Gert van Hoeff for some interesting work - and my many compliments, by the way.
Absolutely!! My God!