Every time I hear those reeds in the bass pedals I start crying, my heart feels like it is skipping some beats and I feel like I am ready to faint, my jaw remains open as much as my mouth. I am speechless. It occurs when I listen to some REALLY GOOD interpretations of Organ music. In this case: JSBach. Another piece that makes me shiver is "Fantasia und fugue in c minor". I think I suffer from Stendhal Syndrome.
Excellent .- When in hands of an artist...every registration concept shines ! Also the improvisation before the closing is priceless. The sound of these instruments has an inward light which cannot be achieved in other organs of the period. Passacaglia is probably the monument to the art of composing, probably the best piece of music ever written. A pleasure for the spirit, ears, for the player. The Golden Number rules this universe in itself.
4:57 to 5:39 With Bach, every note tells a story, and very few musical pieces manage to give me such emotions... Nothing is left to chance with Bach, thank you for creating this, how fortunate to have been able to hear your melodies in my lifetime. In the hands of a virtuoso, with the right instrument and a beautiful natural reverberation, it magnifies this masterpiece and makes it even more wonderful.
Thunderous rendition! Full organ rendition, as it is believed to be played in the Baroque era. This Passacaglia is so much more "Sturm und Drang" when compared to Dietrich Buxtehude's Passacaglia in d...Buxtehude's is more mystical, and quiet in nature; whereas Bach's is more grandiose, that builds to a climax and ends in a fuge that caps off the "Passacaglia variations" 21 variations with fugue included...wondering if Bach wrote as a 21st B-Day milestone? I guess we'll never know. PS: I wish that they had the Passacaglia in You Tube by Andrew "Andy" Arthur..he plays the finishing chords much like a "Toten Tanz" and makes the organ sound like a cello..much akin to drifting off into one's death in a gentle way. Yes, I'm a morbid SOB! :P
I have a few minor doubts about the registration early on but this performance has all the driving inevitability and ‘I really mean it’ feeling this piece often lacks in performance.
The mellifluous sound of the register for the central thinned-out passage is almost liquid. Good use of this the Freiberger Silberman, located in one of the high points of Sachsen Sondergotik
Thanks for this ! First: this isn't a period instrument, its one of the 3 one big organs from Gottfried Silbermann (1683-1753). 1 destroyed in 1945. This organ was constructed from 1710 to 1714. Her home since that is the Cathedral of St. Mary in Freiberg. So, its an authentic intrument. Joh. Seb. Bach himself played this instrument. Instruments of Silbermann were expansive, very expansive. Some metalls, like specific silver musted be imported from England. 44 registers (stops) - many organs of our "period" have more than 100 stops and/but don't have this power of sound , not this beauty of sound. The costs: 40.000 Thal. Saxonian [in 1720], about 95.000.000 € today. Oh Yes! This kind of instruments were Royal Instruments and they are ! But not to expansive for Kings like Friedrich August II/III. The second big one organ of Gottfried Silbermann resides in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dresden. 47 registers (stops). This two organs are very hard to play in pleno, physically. So giving a concert on them is serious sport. I was maked my organ studies in Dresden. My prefered interpretation of BWV 582 is from 1969 and was played by Karl Richter in the Basilica in Ottobeuren. This Organ was build by Karl Joseph Riepp, a great german-french organ-builder (1710-1775). The sound of this organ is divine. Think twice - once you touch an Silbermann Organ, you play on - it will change your life and you never will forget this moment. Sorry for bad english.
Okay, then. David Goode is just very very good. And that organ .. is it Silbermann?? Perfection. Edited to add : played in pace as if with a solid heartbeat. Incredible.
Sergio Mallorga, I am sorry for my inadequate English. My guess is that the organist make an attempt to bring the composition closer to the original style. Therefore, it's nothing wrong by playing with pleno from the very beginning.
@@geiryvindeskeland7208 and may i ask how we know this is closer to the original style? as far as i know there is nothing indicated on the manuscript about the registration. So noone actually knows how Bach was playing this right? :)
Tarkan Sendal. No one knows Bach's original. One of the copies has written "organo pleno." Some old sources say that the common practise was to play Passacaglias with a pleno. There are already so many performances that starts with pp, so I like that somebody make attempts to bring the old music closer to the original style.
I'd rather not first stare through a pin hole upon that which will inevitably break free and run me through 😄 It is upon you immediately! Love this "interpretation"
I forgot. The organ in Freiberg is tuned historically higher, in 476 Hz for La/a' and not tempered ! The organ in Dresden is tuned in 440 Hz and tempered.
Better registration? Perhaps they're learning which stops work well with microphones? Or, microphones are being improved; I bet they need muffling for clarity.
One day I hope to be as good as you. It is obvious you have sacrificed much to do the excellent performance you have published on the web. I think you big time for your accomplishments!
Sorry for my inadequate English. I am a big fan of H.I.P. performances, but I expected someting more convincing. The pedal sounds too load, it is difficult to catch the other parts. Finally someone who make an attempt to improvise at the fugue-fermata, thank you! The improvisation is too short, but something is better than nothing. Some small improvised ornaments, that's good. 4:21 and some other places - is the pedal-reed out of pitch, or maybe I was tricked by the tuning?
In my opinion, I think the pedal sound is as loud as It should be, like few organists do. Instead, I think the first theme (the initial part) should sweeter, also with other stops.
Cómo se puede hacer algo tan maravilloso sin morir en el intento?. El órgano es espléndido y el organista también. El lleno es magnífico sin embargo no resta claridad al discurso musical.
While played on an excellent instrument, the registration left little room for the piece to build up from. I'm a bit partial, I guess, to exploiting every dynamic range to its utmost.
The use of dynamic, "crescendo" and lot of stops changes is a romantic evolution of the organ, more than 100 years after Bach's death. The manuscript itself by Bach reports "Passacaglia pro organo pleno", so it should be philologically correct to play like this, with full stops from the beginning. Then, other people says "if Bach had had a romantic organ, he would used it at the maximum of its possibility for sure". I think everyone is right: finally Bach sounds wonderful whatever is played!
Massimo, quote: "The manuscript by Bach..." This is not right. No one knows Bach's original. We only know this composition from copies, and one of the copies says organo pleno. One of the copies.......the oldest one? I hope so!
The beginning is paced a little too fast, or it just sounds like that (i know nothing of organs) but the notes sound really cool, put the pacing is a bit fast, again the notes, might actually consider using this peice for the theme of one of my OC's, tartivore.
Die Registrierung ist einfallslos, es fehlt besonders die Steigerung zum Ende des Stückes. Und es ist für mein Empfinden etwas zu "hektisch" - zu schnell für die Dichte dieser Musik - gespielt.
100% Zustimmung. Erstmal ohne Mixturen und Zungen anfangen, am besten nur 16/8 -8/4 und dann nach und nach 2', Koppeln, Zungen und Mixturen. Bei 4:17 dann der vorläufige Höhepunkt. Die notwendige Präzision im Rhythmus und Klarheit in der Phrasierung ist vorbildlich, das Instrument klingt grandios, kann aber noch viel mehr Klangfarben zeigen.
I feel that the registration was too heavy for the beginning of the piece, and that the 32' should be saved for a spot roughly halfway through the piece.
Hold off at the beginning of BWV 582? Seems crazy to me... Maybe back off after the beginning? But really what would the passacaglia be without overpowering pedals?
I think BWV 582 is so good, it is almost impossible to be heard badly, except maybe if wrong notes are played. I agree that the registration here overpowers the acoustics of the space for a good portion of the performance. There are some more intimate passages that are really spine tingling when played at more intimate subtle registrations. The other extreme of the spectrum to this would be Latry's Notre Dame performance in "Bach to the Future". In my opinion, some of that is under-registrated. Personally, the best balance I have heard is Latry's other Notre Dame performance on TH-cam a couple years old...unfortunately it seems that the video has been taken down. 😟
@@Jakesonaplane It sounds very quiet and lackluster without the heavy registration being used at the start/on the pedals, based on other performances I've heard. When I've played it myself I've done it exactly like this video (with more errors).
Cesar Trombeta, quote: "Too fast". Dear readers. I am tired of short replies like this one. Only two words don't give me any useful information at all! Please tell me why this performance is too fast, thank you.
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Every time I hear those reeds in the bass pedals I start crying, my heart feels like it is skipping some beats and I feel like I am ready to faint, my jaw remains open as much as my mouth. I am speechless. It occurs when I listen to some REALLY GOOD interpretations of Organ music. In this case: JSBach.
Another piece that makes me shiver is "Fantasia und fugue in c minor". I think I suffer from Stendhal Syndrome.
Morgenstern For me it is Chaconne
Morgenstern And Mozart’s Requiem
Purcell's? Me too. It haunts me to my very soul.
Excellent .- When in hands of an artist...every registration concept shines ! Also the improvisation before the closing is priceless. The sound of these instruments has an inward light which cannot be achieved in other organs of the period. Passacaglia is probably the monument to the art of composing, probably the best piece of music ever written. A pleasure for the spirit, ears, for the player. The Golden Number rules this universe in itself.
4:57 to 5:39 With Bach, every note tells a story, and very few musical pieces manage to give me such emotions...
Nothing is left to chance with Bach, thank you for creating this, how fortunate to have been able to hear your melodies in my lifetime. In the hands of a virtuoso, with the right instrument and a beautiful natural reverberation, it magnifies this masterpiece and makes it even more wonderful.
crazy organist ! great organ! as i know this is frieberg silbermann organ
Just caught this, I believe this is exactly how this piece should be played and I love it.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.This is by far the most majestic sounding interpretation of the Passacaglia i've ever heard.
Thunderous rendition! Full organ rendition, as it is believed to be played in the Baroque era. This Passacaglia is so much more "Sturm und Drang" when compared to Dietrich Buxtehude's Passacaglia in d...Buxtehude's is more mystical, and quiet in nature; whereas Bach's is more grandiose, that builds to a climax and ends in a fuge that caps off the "Passacaglia variations" 21 variations with fugue included...wondering if Bach wrote as a 21st B-Day milestone? I guess we'll never know. PS: I wish that they had the Passacaglia in You Tube by Andrew "Andy" Arthur..he plays the finishing chords much like a "Toten Tanz" and makes the organ sound like a cello..much akin to drifting off into one's death in a gentle way. Yes, I'm a morbid SOB! :P
The chord change at 0:50 is what does it for me. Hits you right in the gut.
Valygarx yeah, same
13:00
@@MaxwellKaye yup I think Bach liked it too.
One of the best interpretations I have ever heard with Karl Richter.
Jimmy Charneau try Rubsam 1975 Philips recording. One of the best in my humble opinion. th-cam.com/video/6qqxu-IkKn8/w-d-xo.html
Simon Preston
I have a few minor doubts about the registration early on but this performance has all the driving inevitability and ‘I really mean it’ feeling this piece often lacks in performance.
doing it with +0 is the amazing beat on the organ
The mellifluous sound of the register for the central thinned-out passage is almost liquid. Good use of this the Freiberger Silberman, located in one of the high points of Sachsen Sondergotik
Thanks for this ! First: this isn't a period instrument, its one of the 3 one big organs from Gottfried Silbermann (1683-1753). 1 destroyed in 1945. This organ was constructed from 1710 to 1714. Her home since that is the Cathedral of St. Mary in Freiberg. So, its an authentic intrument. Joh. Seb. Bach himself played this instrument. Instruments of Silbermann were expansive, very expansive. Some metalls, like specific silver musted be imported from England. 44 registers (stops) - many organs of our "period" have more than 100 stops and/but don't have this power of sound , not this beauty of sound. The costs: 40.000 Thal. Saxonian [in 1720], about 95.000.000 € today. Oh Yes! This kind of instruments were Royal Instruments and they are ! But not to expansive for Kings like Friedrich August II/III. The second big one organ of Gottfried Silbermann resides in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dresden. 47 registers (stops). This two organs are very hard to play in pleno, physically. So giving a concert on them is serious sport. I was maked my organ studies in Dresden. My prefered interpretation of BWV 582 is from 1969 and was played by Karl Richter in the Basilica in Ottobeuren. This Organ was build by Karl Joseph Riepp, a great german-french organ-builder (1710-1775). The sound of this organ is divine. Think twice - once you touch an Silbermann Organ, you play on - it will change your life and you never will forget this moment. Sorry for bad english.
Very good post, thanks for the informative lesson, also, your English is near perfect.
Was the third one in St. Sophia or Our lady's church?
Great organist, excellent organ, also good recording!!
Finest Song - hope a lot of people will hear it
Okay, then. David Goode is just very very good. And that organ .. is it Silbermann?? Perfection. Edited to add : played in pace as if with a solid heartbeat. Incredible.
As far as I can hear, the reeds being French sounding in character, sounds like this is indeed the Silbermann-Organ of the Freiburg Cathedral.
I think it starts on a "too much" registration, not leaving room to make it grow through time.
Sergio Mallorga, I am sorry for my inadequate English. My guess is that the organist make an attempt to bring the composition closer to the original style. Therefore, it's nothing wrong by playing with pleno from the very beginning.
geir øyvind eskeland That’s like driving a flintstones car because one wants to drive like how it originally was. Not much good.
@@geiryvindeskeland7208 and may i ask how we know this is closer to the original style? as far as i know there is nothing indicated on the manuscript about the registration. So noone actually knows how Bach was playing this right? :)
Tarkan Sendal. No one knows Bach's original. One of the copies has written "organo pleno." Some old sources say that the common practise was to play Passacaglias with a pleno. There are already so many performances that starts with pp, so I like that somebody make attempts to bring the old music closer to the original style.
I'd rather not first stare through a pin hole upon that which will inevitably break free and run me through 😄
It is upon you immediately!
Love this "interpretation"
It sounds as D Minor Cause this Organ transposes up a Whole Step.
nice work. from the get-go, i can hear your work comparing favorably with karl richter.
I forgot. The organ in Freiberg is tuned historically higher, in 476 Hz for La/a' and not tempered ! The organ in Dresden is tuned in 440 Hz and tempered.
That is the best pirate I have ever seen-POTC
That is the best ORGAN I have ever seen/heard
this organ sounds better with each new recording. but how?
constant care for the organ, and an adjusting ear on your part.
Better registration? Perhaps they're learning which stops work well with microphones? Or, microphones are being improved; I bet they need muffling for clarity.
One day I hope to be as good as you. It is obvious you have sacrificed much to do the excellent performance you have published on the web. I think you big time for your accomplishments!
Sorry for my inadequate English. I am a big fan of H.I.P. performances, but I expected someting more convincing. The pedal sounds too load, it is difficult to catch the other parts. Finally someone who make an attempt to improvise at the fugue-fermata, thank you! The improvisation is too short, but something is better than nothing. Some small improvised ornaments, that's good. 4:21 and some other places - is the pedal-reed out of pitch, or maybe I was tricked by the tuning?
In my opinion, I think the pedal sound is as loud as It should be, like few organists do. Instead, I think the first theme (the initial part) should sweeter, also with other stops.
Very nice, a dream of harmony and peace 🌺🎶...Bach
655 - bellissima musica - ciao da VALERIO !!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Breathtaking
Speechless.
Superbe, superbe, superbe 🤩❤️🎇
Cómo se puede hacer algo tan maravilloso sin morir en el intento?. El órgano es espléndido y el organista también. El lleno es magnífico sin embargo no resta claridad al discurso musical.
Thank you for providing us of such a great organ performance.
I'd like to know who is the organist.
This is AWESOME. In the biblical sense.
C'est très beau
While played on an excellent instrument, the registration left little room for the piece to build up from. I'm a bit partial, I guess, to exploiting every dynamic range to its utmost.
The use of dynamic, "crescendo" and lot of stops changes is a romantic evolution of the organ, more than 100 years after Bach's death. The manuscript itself by Bach reports "Passacaglia pro organo pleno", so it should be philologically correct to play like this, with full stops from the beginning.
Then, other people says "if Bach had had a romantic organ, he would used it at the maximum of its possibility for sure".
I think everyone is right: finally Bach sounds wonderful whatever is played!
Massimo, quote: "The manuscript by Bach..." This is not right. No one knows Bach's original. We only know this composition from copies, and one of the copies says organo pleno. One of the copies.......the oldest one? I hope so!
The beginning is paced a little too fast, or it just sounds like that (i know nothing of organs) but the notes sound really cool, put the pacing is a bit fast, again the notes, might actually consider using this peice for the theme of one of my OC's, tartivore.
so enchanting!
Excellente interprétation sur le sublime Silberman-Orgel zu Freiberger Dom.
👏muito belo
Super génial
thank you
Superb! Bravo.
It was played in D minor???? It sounds like that for me... 🤔🤔🤔
i guess it sounds like that because the organ has an higher a1 tone than 440...
This organ is tuned on 476hz if am not mistaken
Wow, fantastic performance. What organ ???? Who is playing ???? Without knowing I'd say it was the Silberman Frieberg organ
yes , correct.- and David Goode plays.
Formidabel
es klingt etwas anders, trotzdem geht es gut!
Do not make a cadenza at the end because you destroy the perfect numerical simmetry of the piece.
Super
Die Registrierung ist einfallslos, es fehlt besonders die Steigerung zum Ende des Stückes. Und es ist für mein Empfinden etwas zu "hektisch" - zu schnell für die Dichte dieser Musik - gespielt.
100% Zustimmung. Erstmal ohne Mixturen und Zungen anfangen, am besten nur 16/8 -8/4 und dann nach und nach 2', Koppeln, Zungen und Mixturen. Bei 4:17 dann der vorläufige Höhepunkt.
Die notwendige Präzision im Rhythmus und Klarheit in der Phrasierung ist vorbildlich, das Instrument klingt grandios, kann aber noch viel mehr Klangfarben zeigen.
Who built this instrument and where is it installed?
Freiberg Cathedral (Germany) - G. Silbermann (builder)
Very ... goode, though you can never beat Peter Hurford
Yes you can - Piet Kee at St Bavo.
I must take a listen but believe me Hurford is in a class of his own
not available on TH-cam - a big disadvantage
I feel that the registration was too heavy for the beginning of the piece, and that the 32' should be saved for a spot roughly halfway through the piece.
Hold off at the beginning of BWV 582? Seems crazy to me... Maybe back off after the beginning? But really what would the passacaglia be without overpowering pedals?
I think BWV 582 is so good, it is almost impossible to be heard badly, except maybe if wrong notes are played. I agree that the registration here overpowers the acoustics of the space for a good portion of the performance. There are some more intimate passages that are really spine tingling when played at more intimate subtle registrations. The other extreme of the spectrum to this would be Latry's Notre Dame performance in "Bach to the Future". In my opinion, some of that is under-registrated. Personally, the best balance I have heard is Latry's other Notre Dame performance on TH-cam a couple years old...unfortunately it seems that the video has been taken down. 😟
@@Jakesonaplane It sounds very quiet and lackluster without the heavy registration being used at the start/on the pedals, based on other performances I've heard. When I've played it myself I've done it exactly like this video (with more errors).
What organ is this?
+Oceananswer
Its the 1714 Silbermann Organ of Freiberg Cathedral
+on Period Instruments how many manuals
+AECEntertainment
Three manuals.
For more information see here:
www.baroquemusic.org/silfrei.html
Please upload more bach music played on this organ. soooooooo much better than modern organ when it comes to bach pieces.
Hi, Here you have it.
th-cam.com/video/4UN2AxNGsko/w-d-xo.html
NOT "on period instruments." This is mislabeled, as there ARE such recordings here on TH-cam. Downvoted for the mislabeling.
Period instruments? Like on tampons and so?
Too fast
Cesar Trombeta, quote: "Too fast". Dear readers. I am tired of short replies like this one. Only two words don't give me any useful information at all! Please tell me why this performance is too fast, thank you.
Always the same recording... stove!!! I don't like it... Bach is fantasy and creativity