Classical compositions are often regarded as timeless masterpieces that transcend eras. From complex symphonies to piano pieces, classical music has left a deep imprint in the history of art and continues to be revered today.
That would do it... way before my time (b 1957, 2 months after sputnik helped mother Russia win the first leg of the space race...Yuri Gagarin also beat shepherd & glenn into space... They also sent the 1st woman Valerya Someone or other.
Walcha's recordings inspired me to pursue organ playing when i was in High School many years ago. His playing hit me like an atom bomb. Clarity, perfect tempo and articulation and a spirited drive matched Bach's writing. He was a master of the so-called "delayed beat" which is a kind of accent on an instrument that you cannot accent like you can on other instruments such as piano. It's a very subtle technique but creates a rhythmic vitality rarely heard these days. The F Major T & F and the P & F in e minor are among the most stunning performances of any of Bach's works by anyone in my opinion.
Wunderbar das ist sensationell Helmut Walcha war ein wunderbarer Lehrer vor über 70 Jahren hat er bei ihm die Orgelprüfung abgelegt u würde einbekannter Konzertorganist durch ihn Johannes Stögbauer aus Marburg in Hessen Mein Vater hat oft von erzählt.er ist 2000 verstorben danke für diesen Film
I still find Walcha's choice of the stops for every piece of Bach's music is mostly unsurpassed. The day I will have the chance to go to Alkmaar I will go on pilgrimage to the hear that beautoful organ.
Sonorità dell'organo di Alkmaar che risuonano in me sino dall'adolescenza, per mano di questo organista stupefacente. Al punto da motivarmi a fare un viaggio sino alla Grande Chiesa di S. Lorenzo per ascoltare dal vivo quell'organo che ha riempito di dolcezza e di bellezza, ma anche di meraviglia e grande desiderio per la grande musica. Grazie per questo regalo insperato e molto apprezzato.
Чистый образ .. Чистый Ваш облик - отрада поэта. И от восторга хочу аж трубить! Вы - золотая, святая примета - что не утратил способность любить! Голос медовый, цветной и молочный. Лаком так вкус мандариновых уст. Вы - моё солнце, что светит всеочно, что побуждает раскрытия чувств! Коли Вы рядом, то тихнет буянство и распускается сердца бутон! И я желаю сего постоянства, слыша Ваш шёпот, порою и стон... Мудростью Вашею сыт я участно. С Вами так нежно и страстно всегда! С Вами спокойно и также опасно! С Вами бесстыдно и свято года! Тёплая женщина, жарче богини. Лучшая поступь из всех, с кем бродил! Даже в халате нарядней княгини! Лучшее время, что я проводил! Вам быть своею невестою прочу. Жарко тянусь и надеждами жив! Все остальные - пыль, камни и клочья. Вы ж распрекрасно-любимая дивь!
Personalmente ritengo Helmut Walcha uno dei migliori interpreti dell'organo do Bach. La precisione, la purezza di ogni tocco sulla tastiera sono straordinarie. Le interpretazioni sono miracolos
Majestueus spel. Uitblinkend in transparantie en in een tempo gespeeld met afwisselende registraties waardoor de schoonheid van Bach’s muziek tot volle uiting komt. Warnder van Meurs
I love the frequent legato playing by the pedals. Often, organists hop all over the pedal board with staccato playing. This performance is most pleasing and remarkable.
Cuando yo era adolescente a finales del siglo XX me llamaba la atención la música de órgano, en esa época logré comprar mi primer casette que precisamente era del maestro Walcha. Me parecía grandioso. Años después me sigue fascinando la música de Bach, Handel, Buxtehude y los grandes maestros barrocos. Lo que yo no sabía es que Helmut Walcha era ciego. Gran hombre y gran organista. Que descanse en paz.
Comparto su experiencia, también en mi adolescencia descubrí a Hemut Walcha quien me introdujo al majestuosa música para órgano. Es muy triste saber que su ceguera provino de una vacuna. Que paradoja ahora que es un gran tema. Le recomiendo la grabación de toda la obra de Bach por la Netherlands Bach Society, la puede encontrar en You Tube.
Bach was amazingly prolific, producing some 1128 pieces of music. My personal favorites are the Well-Tempered Clavier, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Air on the G String, Goldberg Variations, and Brandenburg Concertos. He was certainly a man of his time, studying the works of Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi, but he went beyond them in more dissonant chords (the chord build in the first few measures of Toccata) and progressions, often with extensive exploration of harmonic possibilities within one piece. In my studies, I'm convinced that he was a man of great talent.
The 3rd movement of the Trio sonata #1 has a lot of swing :-D ... Walcha had an incredible musicality, I used to listen to his recordings as a kid. Still one of the best.
MR BATACHAN: BLESSINGS, HOLDINGS, GREETINGS, thanks a lot for this gift, i have many albums of BACH works by the professor WALCHA. He is a master. This music lives in me , I love BACH organ masterworks, and in the hands of this great performer sounds heavenly!
callemos los brutos E . When I was in undergraduate school, 1970’s, my organ class went to a masterclass of Walcha at Virginia Intermont College and sat on the same stage with him listening to him play Bach and some of his own works! It is something I will never forget!
Ton Koopman and Helmut Walcha are two Great Masters with their Magical performance on the organ of Bach's Productions Introduce into our souls The Spiritual World !!!
Rarely can I withstand Ton "Kan't konnect notes" Koopman's performances. He sounds like it is too much trouble to "finger it out" and have fingers placed to continue lines unbroken. But I like some of Ton's tempi better than Helmut's a little too slow tempos.
The Organ shown in the picture is in the Stephansdom in Passau, Bavaria, Germany. It is one of the biggest Organs in the World with more organ pipes at the sides of the church
Who is Batachan Desu? Sounds Indian, but I know Japanese & KOreans who are also fond of Bach... I think they put a recording of Bach music on one of the mariner space probes that was due to fly beyond our puny solar system. Even extraterrestrials may be able to enjoy it.... Soli Deo Gloria!!!
@@helloman1051 the notes of Bach are available in special writing for blind musicians. He could "read" them like braille script for blind people. Then he learnt the music by heart. Also we should respect the interpretation. With "dignity" and "slowly" which is very close to the intention of Bach, according to one of his sons.
@@helloman1051 His wife played out the voices line-by-line and then he would play the parts together. Not that inconceivable, but you need to work with somebody very loyal, and have the recording profits in mind. Maybe not the first, as that was Marcel Dupré if I am mistaken please correct me.
PO russky mollayo, but looks succinct (unlike my comments) . I can read the cyrillic, but only recognise slooshi as something about listening. Why bother wth 3 exclamation marks or say anything if u dont like it. Walcha is an oldie but a goodie!
It's absolutely amazing that he was blind and still able to penetrate this body of amazing music, isn't it? (Jean Langlais, another great organist and organ composer was blind from a very early age too)
This is what I’d expect to the players of Bach's organ works - Helmut Walcha does precise reading of the scores and is the master of tempo, never plays overstated yet never does he boring, Thanks for uploading the entire works, BTW No. 8 (BWV542) is "Fantasia" and Fugue G-moll instead of "Toccata."
You need to get a grip and look before and after, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Vivaldi, his sons and family, Guilmant, Franck, many many others. JSB was not created from nothing.
This long anthology sums up his main masterpieces of Bach for the organ. In particular, the toccata and fugue in F is impressive. It is indeed a gem. Thank you for sharing this compilation.
Upon hearing this great Toccata and Fugue in F Major at the age of 13 while standing in a record store in Moscow, Idaho with headphones on... with tears running down my face, I knew this moment had changed my life forever. The record label said that some one named Fernando Germani had been the artist. And strangely enough, I was to meet him in person five years later when he played this sublime work in our church. This was one of those moments in life that says, "There is intelligent life on earth and life is worth saving!"
@@charlesdavis7087 Do you know that Mendelssohn told something k like: "Bach was indeed a frightening cantor! I thought that the walls of the church were about to collapse". When I personally played organ reasonably well, I used to play it in the evening on the organ of our cathedral with the kind permission of the priest in charge, who had given me a copy of all the keys. He was a generous and holy man, respected by everybody including hard atheists who invited him often to drink a coffee in public. I played it with he H minor prelude and fugue and the F# minor prelude and fugue by Buxtehude. Now, I am too old and I do not play anymore. In quite technical termes, you find in this work tremendous uses of the so-called diminished seventh chord, which was a clear forerunner of the Romantic times, and also chord links through thirds move in the bass, which was typical of Debussy. And clearly, this sound neither romantic nor like Debussy !!!!
@@gerardbegni2806 Thank you so much for your insightful reply. Sorry to hear your not playing much anymore. I'm 76 now and don't play much anymore either. But about 40 yrs. ago a got myself a degree in Music Therapy. It works wonders with the Alzheimer patients. I think this is one of the most exciting advances in medicine, namely, using music therapy in hospitals, rest homes and mental wards. I just remembered something that Plato said, "Music is the only gift given to us by the gods that gives us direct access to the soul." Thanks again Gerard.
Ecouter Johan Sebastian, c'est abolir le déferlement de bruits et d'images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. Une fois refermée la porte sur l'agitation du monde, un silence sous-jacent s'installe, une lenteur saisit, préludes à une dilatation de la perception et de la conscience. Le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers fabuleux où la couleur et le rythme constituent une expiration qui donne voix à l'exaltation !!
Walcha spielt mit bewundernswerter Klarheit, man hört alles. Nie langsam, aber ohne das Tempo zu überziehen. Da könnte sich mancher der derzeitigen Organisten orientieren.
@@michaelm5926Vielleicht weil das eigentlich Musikalische dem Wunsch des jeweiligen Interpreten weicht, das eigene techn. Können unter Beweis zu stellen....? Es sieht so aus, daß Walcha sich nicht zu behaupten brauchte.
We should be thankful for the wonderful Helmut Walcha's trios interpretation, in a time where internet even the cd music was a dream... I remember until todas of a cassete recording of this passage...🙏...( sorry for my English, I'm not anglo speaker
I've listened to these recordings of Bach organ since I was an infant. My father put me down in front of the loudspeakers and I sat mesmerised. These days, it's through headphones with my special twelve-cd collection of the complete organ works, and to me they are an unsurpassed, genius body of work. Measured, calm and infinitely consoling. A mind-blowing achievement.
My mother gave to me a box with 10 CDs with Walcha's recordings of Bach's works: remarkable in all aspects, including the quality, specially for those he recorded in 1947.
Eduardo Poblete de Chile, el maestro Walcha, el mejor intérprete de órgano de J.S.Bach, hermoso sonido en las integrales del genial Bach, muy agradecido por este maravilloso aporte ....un abrazo fraterno desde Chile....
GLORY BE TO THE FATHER, AND TO THE SON (JESUS) AND TO THE HOLY SPIRIT....THANK YOU BACH AND WALCA.... I USED YOUR WORKS TODAY IN NYC TO DO SOME STREET MINISTRY TO SAVE SOULS FROM THE FIRES OF HELL...BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD(YAHWEH). +AMEN+
Mein Orgelehrer 1973-1975 hat bei Helmut Walcha studiert, der leider viel zu früh verstorbene Hans-Joachim Erhard. Er ist auf einigen Aufnahmen der Gächinger Kantorei unter Rilling zu hören.
Robert Gift. When I was just a young person attending undergraduate school, 1970’s, my organ class went to Virginia Intermont College to hear the great Walcha. I will never forget sitting with my classmates and hearing his music. He was a master!
@@georgefelty6357 Wonderful! Did Helmut speak English? I thought Helmut never traveled abroad, concerned that required immunizations may cause further damage. Was it not an immunization which caused his blindness? People praising my playing areally praising Helmut because it is his phrasing and articulation I am performing.
Robert Gift.To the best of my memory, Helmut Walcha was able to speak in English but with a German accent. When he did this master class at Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Virginia, my organ class which amounted to about four people travelled with the organ professor who was Ann McGlothlin, a graduate of Indiana University and former student of Dr. Robert Rayfield, and professor of organ at Concord University which is in Athens, West Virginia. Walcha lectured on and played some of his chorale preludes and music of J.S. Bach. Walcha was absolutely stunning and I will never forget him!
On which Schnitger organ and where is it been recorded? I think the picture is not a Schnitger organ but the organ of the Passauer Dom organ and is not a Schnitger organ but Steinmeijer and Eisenbarth.
Helmut Walcha has no equal, and never will. I have listened to all the prominent organists of the last couple generations....Helmut Walcha kicks all their asses....he completely understood Bach's emotional and spiritual dimensions embedded in the mathematics of the music....
Mathias. Someday when it’s my time to go to heaven, I want to see Walcha again playing the organ as no one could! When I was young back in the 1970’s, my organ class in undergraduate school went to Virginia Intermont College and attended a master class! We all sat around the organ he played! I will never forget!
Helmut Walcha, one of the greatest! My first introduction to Bach and through what a musician! His attempt at completing The Art of Fugue is no mean achievement. Thanks for this upload starting with Bach's formidable Six-pack, the Trio Sonatas!
Por cierto Helmuth Walcha era ciego. Aunque tuvo problemas con los ojos desde su ninez, se quedo ciego a los 19 anos. Por consiguiente, para poder tocar en publico y grabar discos tuvo que memorizar toda la obra para organo de Bach, sus principales obras para clavecin y obras sueltas de composidores alemanes y neerlandeses (como Bohm, Buxtehude, Lubeck, Sweelinck). Fue tambien composidor y improvisador. Un artista fuera de lo comun!
How anyone couldnt like this little gem is totally byond me... I'm flat out playing one line of music when I have to note bash my choir peices, so when someone can play with ten fingers & 2 feet, I'm totally in awe of the discipline it must've taken them to get there. Meanwhile i can enjoy playing my vocal chords to one line of music, esp with Bach cantatas....
Just read his bio details; born 1907, blind by 16, around the time when hitler & his thugs were starting to gather momentum in Germany.... no reference to his attitudes to the NSDAP in the Bio, but at least they (Nazis) must've recognized his talent, so he seems to have survived the ruthless slaughter of Jews, disabled, non conformists etc......
Reading btw the lines, I assume he kept his mouth shut & perhaps even allowed his work to be hijacked for propaganda purposes.... The Nazis had ways & means of 'persuading' recalcitrant Germans to fall into line... I couldn't say with certainty, that i would've flown in the face of my fears during this gutwrenching (for Germans & all nations who fought WWII) time. Could you?
After the uncharacteristically lighthearted trio sonata with its dance like rhythms, most of the fugues are too heavy & ponderous.... too much of a good thing... I recommend the cantatas, even better wenn du deutsch verstehst... he had a very practical outlook on life, borne no doubt of his childLIKE faith & difficulties in life & his own perfectionist standards.
Soy un analfabeto de la musica clasica, pero mi alma es una esponja para la buena misica, incluida la musica clasica y con la musica de Bach mi alma se pone a viajar por todo el universo. Por si hay algun australiano que no entienda lo que escribo: I am an illiterate about clasic music, but my soul is a Sponge from good music, even the clasical music and when Bach coming to my ears my soul starts traveling through the universe. see you
Classical compositions are often regarded as timeless masterpieces that transcend eras. From complex symphonies to piano pieces, classical music has left a deep imprint in the history of art and continues to be revered today.
by fewer and fewer, sadly. this is the zenith of western culture.
Helmut Walcha was a great musician and the best in playing Bach. I'm sure that because he was blind he understood Bach's music in a very special way.
That would do it... way before my time (b 1957, 2 months after sputnik helped mother Russia win the first leg of the space race...Yuri Gagarin also beat shepherd & glenn into space... They also sent the 1st woman Valerya Someone or other.
J.S. Bach with his organ chords stronger than all other composers awakens in man's soul his Spiritual Dignity !!! Tepper Michael.
What do u mean?
Walcha's recordings inspired me to pursue organ playing when i was in High School many years ago. His playing hit me like an atom bomb. Clarity, perfect tempo and articulation and a spirited drive matched Bach's writing. He was a master of the so-called "delayed beat" which is a kind of accent on an instrument that you cannot accent like you can on other instruments such as piano. It's a very subtle technique but creates a rhythmic vitality rarely heard these days. The F Major T & F and the P & F in e minor are among the most stunning performances of any of Bach's works by anyone in my opinion.
Wunderbar das ist sensationell Helmut Walcha war ein wunderbarer Lehrer vor über 70 Jahren hat er bei ihm die Orgelprüfung abgelegt u würde einbekannter Konzertorganist durch ihn
Johannes Stögbauer aus Marburg in Hessen
Mein Vater hat oft von erzählt.er ist 2000 verstorben
danke für diesen Film
Bach, Walcha, Alkmaar. That is the pinnacle of everything for me! My first recorded experience was Triosonata 1. Sheer bliss!
Wunderbare orgelmusik bach war ein virtuose und ein toller komponist , danke Helmut Walcha großartige Leistung von ihnen
I still find Walcha's choice of the stops for every piece of Bach's music is mostly unsurpassed. The day I will have the chance to go to Alkmaar I will go on pilgrimage to the hear that beautoful organ.
Sonorità dell'organo di Alkmaar che risuonano in me sino dall'adolescenza, per mano di questo organista stupefacente. Al punto da motivarmi a fare un viaggio sino alla Grande Chiesa di S. Lorenzo per ascoltare dal vivo quell'organo che ha riempito di dolcezza e di bellezza, ma anche di meraviglia e grande desiderio per la grande musica. Grazie per questo regalo insperato e molto apprezzato.
Чистый образ
..
Чистый Ваш облик - отрада поэта.
И от восторга хочу аж трубить!
Вы - золотая, святая примета -
что не утратил способность любить!
Голос медовый, цветной и молочный.
Лаком так вкус мандариновых уст.
Вы - моё солнце, что светит всеочно,
что побуждает раскрытия чувств!
Коли Вы рядом, то тихнет буянство
и распускается сердца бутон!
И я желаю сего постоянства,
слыша Ваш шёпот, порою и стон...
Мудростью Вашею сыт я участно.
С Вами так нежно и страстно всегда!
С Вами спокойно и также опасно!
С Вами бесстыдно и свято года!
Тёплая женщина, жарче богини.
Лучшая поступь из всех, с кем бродил!
Даже в халате нарядней княгини!
Лучшее время, что я проводил!
Вам быть своею невестою прочу.
Жарко тянусь и надеждами жив!
Все остальные - пыль, камни и клочья.
Вы ж распрекрасно-любимая дивь!
Hang in there, mate!
Forever, There won't be another Bach in music.
Of course not, every one is uniquely IMAGO DEI. NOT a perfect image tho.... sorry megalomaniacs....
@@martinbeach8459 how old are you? 12?
Personalmente ritengo Helmut Walcha uno dei migliori interpreti dell'organo do Bach. La precisione, la purezza di ogni tocco sulla tastiera sono straordinarie. Le interpretazioni sono miracolos
se. Ogni aggettivo in più è di troppo e pleonastico.
Majestueus spel. Uitblinkend in transparantie en in een tempo gespeeld met afwisselende registraties waardoor de schoonheid van Bach’s muziek tot volle uiting komt. Warnder van Meurs
Wenn ich Bachs Orgelmusik höre, erlebe ich eine ungeheure Freude, die meinen Geist auf der anderen Seite der Erde erhebt !!! Tepper Michael.
Das macht mir mehr Sinn, oder wenigstens ist sinnvolliger.....
I love the frequent legato playing by the pedals. Often, organists hop all over the pedal board with staccato playing.
This performance is most pleasing and remarkable.
His legato is superb
Cuando yo era adolescente a finales del siglo XX me llamaba la atención la música de órgano, en esa época logré comprar mi primer casette que precisamente era del maestro Walcha. Me parecía grandioso. Años después me sigue fascinando la música de Bach, Handel, Buxtehude y los grandes maestros barrocos. Lo que yo no sabía es que Helmut Walcha era ciego. Gran hombre y gran organista. Que descanse en paz.
Comparto su experiencia, también en mi adolescencia descubrí a Hemut Walcha quien me introdujo al majestuosa música para órgano. Es muy triste saber que su ceguera provino de una vacuna. Que paradoja ahora que es un gran tema. Le recomiendo la grabación de toda la obra de Bach por la Netherlands Bach Society, la puede encontrar en You Tube.
Le agradezco la recomendación.
Bach was amazingly prolific, producing some 1128 pieces of music. My personal favorites are the Well-Tempered Clavier, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Air on the G String, Goldberg Variations, and Brandenburg Concertos. He was certainly a man of his time, studying the works of Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi, but he went beyond them in more dissonant chords (the chord build in the first few measures of Toccata) and progressions, often with extensive exploration of harmonic possibilities within one piece. In my studies, I'm convinced that he was a man of great talent.
The 3rd movement of the Trio sonata #1 has a lot of swing :-D ... Walcha had an incredible musicality, I used to listen to his recordings as a kid. Still one of the best.
Listening to Helmut Walcha makes the music by Bach 3- dimensional for me. Outstanding understanding and playing.
MR BATACHAN: BLESSINGS, HOLDINGS, GREETINGS, thanks a lot for this gift, i have many albums of BACH works by the professor WALCHA. He is a master. This music lives in me , I love BACH organ masterworks, and in the hands of this great performer sounds heavenly!
I agree. The best for me too.
when i hear the organ works heaven comes to me.BACH is the ligth of spirit, every single note takes me to the eternity. Thanks for sharing your music.
callemos los brutos E . When I was in undergraduate school, 1970’s, my organ class went to a masterclass of Walcha at Virginia Intermont College and sat on the same stage with him listening to him play Bach and some of his own works! It is something I will never forget!
@@georgefelty6357 What a honor to have him as your teacher/professor!
The Trio Sonata in Eb Major is such a beautiful catalog of emotions
Belissimo
Hörend Bachs Orgelmusik der Mensch mit flaue Stimung, Pflegmatiker kann gesund werden. Er wird ohne Zweifel froh werden !!! Tepper Michael.
Listening to Bach's organ music, I experience a tremendous Joy that exalts my spirit on the other side of the Earth !!! Tepper Michael.
BWV572 Fantasia G-Maijor ----Diese Phantasie kündet an von der alles Beherrschenden Kraft des Geistes !!! Tepper Michael.
Не когда не думала что буду в в восторге от органной музыки ...БРАВО........ Получила истенное удовольствие...... и наслождение..........
J.S.Bach in einer Reihe seiner Orgelpräludien, Fugen und Toccaten zeigt uns sein wahrhafte Wesen - LÖWE !!! Tepper Michael-
Lion? Or Architect?
Ton Koopman and Helmut Walcha are two Great Masters with their Magical performance on the organ of Bach's Productions Introduce into our souls The Spiritual World !!!
Perfectly said
Rarely can I withstand Ton "Kan't konnect notes" Koopman's performances. He sounds like it is too much trouble to "finger it out" and have fingers placed to continue lines unbroken. But I like some of Ton's tempi better than Helmut's a little too slow tempos.
The ultimate music played by the ultimate organist.
El Maestro Walcha sencillamente un virtuoso interpretando a Bach. Gracias por compartir esta joya
Soläs para la mente y el espíritu.😊
The Organ shown in the picture is in the Stephansdom in Passau, Bavaria, Germany. It is one of the biggest Organs in the World with more organ pipes at the sides of the church
Absolutely heavenly. Thanks Batachan Desu. This performings of the great Master Walcha are amazing. Blessings.
Christmas carrolls
Who is Batachan Desu? Sounds Indian, but I know Japanese & KOreans who are also fond of Bach... I think they put a recording of Bach music on one of the mariner space probes that was due to fly beyond our puny solar system. Even extraterrestrials may be able to enjoy it.... Soli Deo Gloria!!!
Masterfully played! Every note...crystal clear! Bravo! ❤😊
Organ Music of J.S.Bach pierces the Depths of the Oceans and Rises to the Throne of the Deity !!! Tepper Michael.
Special respect to Helmut Walcha because he was blind. But managed to surpass his limitation.
And learnt to play the whole of Bach's works for organ by heart! And much more.
@@helloman1051 the notes of Bach are available in special writing for blind musicians. He could "read" them like braille script for blind people. Then he learnt the music by heart.
Also we should respect the interpretation. With "dignity" and "slowly" which is very close to the intention of Bach, according to one of his sons.
@@helloman1051 His wife played out the voices line-by-line and then he would play the parts together. Not that inconceivable, but you need to work with somebody very loyal, and have the recording profits in mind. Maybe not the first, as that was Marcel Dupré if I am mistaken please correct me.
Великолепно, слушаешь и забываешь обо всем. Божественно!!!
PO russky mollayo, but looks succinct (unlike my comments) . I can read the cyrillic, but only recognise slooshi as something about listening. Why bother wth 3 exclamation marks or say anything if u dont like it. Walcha is an oldie but a goodie!
THIS STYLE OF PLAYING OS A PLUS PERFECT RENDITION IN EVERY REGARD. IT´S GOOD FOR THE SPIRIT.
I just love the organ playing of H,Walcha!
It's absolutely amazing that he was blind and still able to penetrate this body of amazing music, isn't it? (Jean Langlais, another great organist and organ composer was blind from a very early age too)
BWV572 Fantasia G-Maijor - This Fantasy Proclaims of the All-overkoming Power of the Spirit !!! Tepper Michael.
I think that the similarity coefficient of the Bach's Music in regard to the Original Music of the Sphere is unusually high !!! Tepper Michael.
Fantastic. Bach must be played in a resonating building such as this.
This is what I’d expect to the players of Bach's organ works - Helmut Walcha does precise reading of the scores and is the master of tempo, never plays overstated yet never does he boring,
Thanks for uploading the entire works, BTW No. 8 (BWV542) is "Fantasia" and Fugue G-moll instead of "Toccata."
Orgelmusik von J.S. Bach durchbohrt die Tiefen der Ozeane und Erhebt sich zum Thron der Gottheit !!! Tepper Michael.
You need to get a grip and look before and after, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Vivaldi, his sons and family, Guilmant, Franck, many many others. JSB was not created from nothing.
This long anthology sums up his main masterpieces of Bach for the organ. In particular, the toccata and fugue in F is impressive. It is indeed a gem. Thank you for sharing this compilation.
Upon hearing this great Toccata and Fugue in F Major at the age of 13 while standing in a record store in Moscow, Idaho with headphones on... with tears running down my face, I knew this moment had changed my life forever. The record label said that some one named Fernando Germani had been the artist. And strangely enough, I was to meet him in person five years later when he played this sublime work in our church. This was one of those moments in life that says, "There is intelligent life on earth and life is worth saving!"
@@charlesdavis7087 Do you know that Mendelssohn told something k like: "Bach was indeed a frightening cantor! I thought that the walls of the church were about to collapse". When I personally played organ reasonably well, I used to play it in the evening on the organ of our cathedral with the kind permission of the priest in charge, who had given me a copy of all the keys. He was a generous and holy man, respected by everybody including hard atheists who invited him often to drink a coffee in public. I played it with he H minor prelude and fugue and the F# minor prelude and fugue by Buxtehude. Now, I am too old and I do not play anymore. In quite technical termes, you find in this work tremendous uses of the so-called diminished seventh chord, which was a clear forerunner of the Romantic times, and also chord links through thirds move in the bass, which was typical of Debussy. And clearly, this sound neither romantic nor like Debussy !!!!
@@gerardbegni2806 Thank you so much for your insightful reply. Sorry to hear your not playing much anymore. I'm 76 now and don't play much anymore either. But about 40 yrs. ago a got myself a degree in Music Therapy. It works wonders with the Alzheimer patients. I think this is one of the most exciting advances in medicine, namely, using music therapy in hospitals, rest homes and mental wards. I just remembered something that Plato said, "Music is the only gift given to us by the gods that gives us direct access to the soul." Thanks again Gerard.
List : BWV534 Prelude & Fugue F-Minor, BWV540 Toccata & Fugue F-Major -
Thank you
Браво, браво, Свет Матери нашэй! Так с немецкого, кажецца?
Ecouter Johan Sebastian, c'est abolir le déferlement de bruits et d'images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. Une fois refermée la porte sur l'agitation du monde, un silence sous-jacent s'installe, une lenteur saisit, préludes à une dilatation de la perception et de la conscience. Le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers fabuleux où la couleur et le rythme constituent une expiration qui donne voix à l'exaltation !!
Totalement en accord avec ce constat
Hihetetlen jó az ornamentikája. Köszönöm.
Som doa céus!
Walcha spielt mit bewundernswerter Klarheit, man hört alles. Nie langsam, aber ohne das Tempo zu überziehen. Da könnte sich mancher der derzeitigen Organisten orientieren.
Das finde ich auch... die "modernen" Interpretationen neigen dazu, alle Tempi zu übersteuern
@@michaelm5926Vielleicht weil das eigentlich Musikalische dem Wunsch des jeweiligen Interpreten weicht, das eigene techn. Können unter Beweis zu stellen....? Es sieht so aus, daß Walcha sich nicht zu behaupten brauchte.
Музыка вечности)))
We should be thankful for the wonderful Helmut Walcha's trios interpretation, in a time where internet even the cd music was a dream... I remember until todas of a cassete recording of this passage...🙏...( sorry for my English, I'm not anglo speaker
Bravo bravo bravo super genial grandiose fantastic music
I've listened to these recordings of Bach organ since I was an infant. My father put me down in front of the loudspeakers and I sat mesmerised. These days, it's through headphones with my special twelve-cd collection of the complete organ works, and to me they are an unsurpassed, genius body of work. Measured, calm and infinitely consoling. A mind-blowing achievement.
Beautiful.
Funny, my grandfather did the same thing to me when I was 1 year old to at least 5...
ha, what a wonderful thing he did, now you will eternally remember that moment and your old home :)
Eu tenho a mesma lembrança de minha infância. Walcha - Bach, entre outros gênios, fizeram parte dessa minha infância, pelo que sou muito grato.
Es war ein kapel maister naturlich Got mitt uns
Idóneo Bach para repasar lecciones de Jung sobre Alquimia.
Si. Tienes la razon absoluta. Se complementa perfecto. Musica y alquimia. Es la emanacion de la conciencia astral.
Walcha : l'évidence ...
My mother gave to me a box with 10 CDs with Walcha's recordings of Bach's works: remarkable in all aspects, including the quality, specially for those he recorded in 1947.
Eduardo Poblete de Chile, el maestro Walcha, el mejor intérprete de órgano de J.S.Bach, hermoso sonido en las integrales del genial Bach, muy agradecido por este maravilloso aporte ....un abrazo fraterno desde Chile....
Ist das ein Silbermann ?
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GLORY BE TO THE FATHER, AND TO THE SON (JESUS) AND TO THE HOLY SPIRIT....THANK YOU BACH AND WALCA.... I USED YOUR WORKS TODAY IN NYC TO DO SOME STREET MINISTRY TO SAVE SOULS FROM THE FIRES OF HELL...BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD(YAHWEH). +AMEN+
Amen.
Oh dear me... son't u get Soli Deo Gloria?
Mein Orgelehrer 1973-1975 hat bei Helmut Walcha studiert, der leider viel zu früh verstorbene Hans-Joachim Erhard. Er ist auf einigen Aufnahmen der Gächinger Kantorei unter Rilling zu hören.
Bach ist kein Bach sondern ein Ozean
When listening to these pieces brings back memories when I had a. masterclass with Walcha and class mates.
Howonderful! What was dear Helmut like?
Robert Gift Helmut Walcha was a wonderful keyboard player and so full of knowledge!
Robert Gift. When I was just a young person attending undergraduate school, 1970’s, my organ class went to Virginia Intermont College to hear the great Walcha. I will never forget sitting with my classmates and hearing his music. He was a master!
@@georgefelty6357 Wonderful! Did Helmut speak English? I thought Helmut never traveled abroad, concerned that required immunizations may cause further damage.
Was it not an immunization which caused his blindness?
People praising my playing areally praising Helmut because it is his phrasing and articulation I am performing.
Robert Gift.To the best of my memory, Helmut Walcha was able to speak in English but with a German accent. When he did this master class at Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Virginia, my organ class which amounted to about four people travelled with the organ professor who was Ann McGlothlin, a graduate of Indiana University and former student of Dr. Robert Rayfield, and professor of organ at Concord University which is in Athens, West Virginia. Walcha lectured on and played some of his chorale preludes and music of J.S. Bach. Walcha was absolutely stunning and I will never forget him!
Отдыхаю под великую музыку,спасибо.Лайк.
Hab dieser Mann einmal live gehört in Trier. Man hört das dieser Mann nicht sieht !
Helmuth Walcha play by heart all the 9 books for organ of J.S.Bach and the other book of the 6 partitas.
Walcha don't can to look from the 13 old.
No, he lost his sight at 19, after vaccination for small pox
Double adverts every 2 minutes - makes this unwatchable.
there is a remedy...many others have used it.....no ads......be a bit more resourceful !!!!
Zavartalanul elmerülni Bach bennünket körülölelő csodálatos orgonamuzsikájában fenséges kiváltság, amit nem lehet eléggé megköszönni!
I agree, I just feel the same that you
hey- wie doll ist daas den?
On which Schnitger organ and where is it been recorded? I think the picture is not a Schnitger organ but the organ of the Passauer Dom organ and is not a Schnitger organ but Steinmeijer and Eisenbarth.
@ianl707 Thank you. Souds better.
So was olso my father. Blind but also he sound a lot of fantastic music to the orgel or pianoforte.
Beethoven once commented: “BACH IS NOT A BACH (Brook) HE IS AN OCEAN”
Hi Juan. Bach laid the foundation for all of us and one day I will go to heaven and see him and hear the master play!
Helmut Walcha plays here the Hagerbeer-F.C. Schnitger organ of the St. Laurenskerk in Alkmaar (1643 and 1725).
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Bach played to pure mind blowing perfection by a serious organist
His skill is his tempo. It is better than time itself.
Helmut Walcha has no equal, and never will. I have listened to all the prominent organists of the last couple generations....Helmut Walcha kicks all their asses....he completely understood Bach's emotional and spiritual dimensions embedded in the mathematics of the music....
Could not be said any better!
His harpsichord is fantastic as well
As far as it's possible to understand so complex a mind..... one who respected God above all else...
Heavenly. Look forward to meeting Helmut in heaven and hearing him play live. He gave such a gift to us by using his gifts so well. Glory to God!
Mathias. Someday when it’s my time to go to heaven, I want to see Walcha again playing the organ as no one could! When I was young back in the 1970’s, my organ class in undergraduate school went to Virginia Intermont College and attended a master class! We all sat around the organ he played! I will never forget!
Walcha had a very special legato style, unusual in playing of Baroque works. But his judicious tempi keep everything clear.
A wonderful balance.
Helmut Walcha, one of the greatest! My first introduction to Bach and through what a musician! His attempt at completing The Art of Fugue is no mean achievement. Thanks for this upload starting with Bach's formidable Six-pack, the Trio Sonatas!
A nice primer.
三時間半とは、やるね！
Hearkening to Bach's sublime music is as though one discovered God Himself .
What a great organist. And he was blind.
Listening to this while reading Montague Summers books is pretty cool.
Thanks you is very wonderfull & beautiful ! Total grace ...
Maravilloso.Sabian que Helmuth Walcha era ciego?
Por cierto Helmuth Walcha era ciego. Aunque tuvo problemas con los ojos desde su ninez, se quedo ciego a los 19 anos. Por consiguiente, para poder tocar en publico y grabar discos tuvo que memorizar toda la obra para organo de Bach, sus principales obras para clavecin y obras sueltas de composidores alemanes y neerlandeses (como Bohm, Buxtehude, Lubeck, Sweelinck). Fue tambien composidor y improvisador. Un artista fuera de lo comun!
Truly the king of instruments ✈
Himmel auf Erde ist das.
Maestro Walcha...YOU'RE AN INSPIRATION! God bless you!
Дизлайки наверно ютюб подбрасывает, чтоб ... были.
15. BWV 564. Toccata, ADAGIO, & Fugue in C major. 2:44:22
Dissily Mordentroge Your reply button doesn't work. My reply to you vanished! (2x). I disagree with you. The recording is so clear.
How anyone couldnt like this little gem is totally byond me... I'm flat out playing one line of music when I have to note bash my choir peices, so when someone can play with ten fingers & 2 feet, I'm totally in awe of the discipline it must've taken them to get there. Meanwhile i can enjoy playing my vocal chords to one line of music, esp with Bach cantatas....
Just read his bio details; born 1907, blind by 16, around the time when hitler & his thugs were starting to gather momentum in Germany.... no reference to his attitudes to the NSDAP in the Bio, but at least they (Nazis) must've recognized his talent, so he seems to have survived the ruthless slaughter of Jews, disabled, non conformists etc......
Reading btw the lines, I assume he kept his mouth shut & perhaps even allowed his work to be hijacked for propaganda purposes.... The Nazis had ways & means of 'persuading' recalcitrant Germans to fall into line... I couldn't say with certainty, that i would've flown in the face of my fears during this gutwrenching (for Germans & all nations who fought WWII) time. Could you?
After the uncharacteristically lighthearted trio sonata with its dance like rhythms, most of the fugues are too heavy & ponderous.... too much of a good thing... I recommend the cantatas, even better wenn du deutsch verstehst... he had a very practical outlook on life, borne no doubt of his childLIKE faith & difficulties in life & his own perfectionist standards.
Ah, finally, somebody who understands Bach!
Królewski instrument,Boska muzyka i Mistrzowskie wykonanie❤
Soy un analfabeto de la musica clasica, pero mi alma es una esponja para la buena misica, incluida la musica clasica y con la musica de Bach mi alma se pone a viajar por todo el universo.
Por si hay algun australiano que no entienda lo que escribo: I am an illiterate about clasic music, but my soul is a Sponge from good music, even the clasical music and when Bach coming to my ears my soul starts traveling through the universe. see you
J S Bach est (à ce jour) la plus belle preuve de l'existence de Dieu.
J. S. Bach mit seinen Orgelakkorden stärker als alle Komponisten, erweckt in der Seele des Menschen seine geistige Würde !!! Tepper Michael.
Deshalb erfanden Atheisten die Maschinenmusik, den Rap, und überfluteten unseren Klangraum mit industriellen Mengen unerheblicher Musik :S