This is magic, 56 bars without raising the foot on the F pedal, you will hear and feel as if you were sitting on a turbine or an electric motor, and then other 58 compasses changing to C, Bach is a genius!
Words cannot describe this. That man got up, had breakfast like we all, then put on paper sounds like these. Folks, forget about drugs. Just listen to this. Music dictated directly by the Creator of the Universe to J.S. Bach !
Laboured over this piece for many weeks before I began to gain fluency. Two stupendous pedal solos followed by progressions of glorious chord sequences in various major and minor keys. What a fantastic work! Some extremely tricky interplay between manuals and pedal as the piece progresses. Even the non-musicians can tell from the score that it looks far from easy. But the rewards of mastering it are incalculable. I wonder if Bach knew how many lives he would enrich as he composed his music.
Masterful interpretation of Bach's greatest toccata! I love the lilt that you've given it by playing the bar-lines as they had been intended and given it the rhythm specified in the time signature. Way too many organists don't do that.
For all who wrote about wrong notes in the pedal: there are no "wrong notes" here. The common range of baroque german pedalboard stops on the D a second above middle C: evidently the pedalboard she plays does not reach high Eb and F, so she had to adapt the piece to the instrument. High F in the pedal solo is a very important climax, perhaps she should have to choose an organ with an appropriate pedalboard range. Apart from that, this is however a very good performance.
The precision of the phrasing and the clarity of the sound is amazing. I love this performance.....I know it's not a Virgil Fox performance but...it is precise and quite satisfying...in my opinion.
@KhagarBalugrak In your first sentence you give her the greatest compliment - "Clear and technically perfect [...] no expressivity or variety" - That is the essence of Baroque music, for the greater part. Unlike the later Romantic composers who used dynamics etc to create emotions and other sensations from the audience, Baroque is much more about technical skill - there is very little room for, say, Rubato in Bach (unless at the end of phrases) yet Chopin's music is full of it.
No, I think it is because the pedal goes up to the high f, which was very unusual at baroque organs. Actually, there was one organ in Middle Germany, where Bach lived, that has the high f: The Förner organ in Weißenfels
@tombaker1222, I will say that Handel's music is often without any real expression, but I would not classify most Baroque music like this. Italian Baroque music is often full of joy and sorrow and drama. Just listen to Albinoni's oboe concerto in d minor. The second movement is as romantic and expressive as anything written in the Romantic era.
Sorry for my bad English. KhagarBalugrak: "It's wery clear and technically perfect, but it lacks expressivity and variety". The word "variety" create a problem: In my opinion it is the musicians responsibility to restore old music. But for someone they need "variety" too enjoy this music. I am sure that this piece in Bach own livetime impressed people so much, so noone asked for "expressivity or variety". And after he was finish playing this piece, he could say to himself: I'm the greatest!
Hey! Great video. Just wondering - how do you mount the score for the video? Im interested in uploading some of my composition with scores, but I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!
I find it strange that a Bach piece makes the use of a 32-note pedalboard, rather than 27-note of the time (or at least in Silbermann organs, from what I've seen). Anyways, great performance!
I like it very much! It has the grandeur and majesty of the performances of the past, but with a clarified approach. The tempo couldn't be more right to me, because in spite of what I said before, never loses that waltzy and bouncy thing...Dull? Do you want her to play like Biondi's 4 seasons? This is Bach organ music, not punk!
Wonderful, energetic performance by organist Bine Katrine Bryndorf. The pedal reed does not belong in the beginning. You want to match manuals and pedal.
I agree with the first comment entirely - nearly every word - when you want to hear really spiritual an "juicy" organ music please listen to Pierre Cochereau ´s performance - the best I ever heard - not this hasty performance where you lose exquisite details....and because of the character of this fantastic music I feel this while a little bit bored already.....Bach does not deserve it....
@tombaker1222, well, I have to say that you're wrong about Baroque music being about expressionlessness. While your comment is in some sense true in that Baroque music abstained from personal emotions and personalized emotional communication, Baroque music is full of religious feelings and devotion toward virtue. Just look at Bach's B Minor Mass; there are moments of excruciating pain (particularly when Jesus is nailed to the cross) and moments of divine joy.
Well 5 month earlier I was an idiot :P You are not right but i'm not wrong either. It's just opinion what you think wich interpretation is better because in music you can nearly not do anything wrong. You can find an interpretation more people like but it doesn't mean that it's better. Wich interpretation each one likes best is only subjectiv. I think pauses or slow passages in playing make the tension rise as well as ritardando so I like it that way :) Sorry for bad english too ^^
@toxiconegro, well, I'm referring to the slow, slightly metronomic tempo and a disposition that produces too nasal, too empty a sound. This piece is very grand, very great in scope, and requires a different sound than this. However, I'm going to listen to this again and see if I can understand the performer's intention and ideas. I might end up liking this, but probably not.
The accords are way too rushed and the passages are alright. If you want my "perfect interpretation" go search the version of Marie-Claire Alain. She plays everything right, no exception.
Fabio Gagliardi I presume you're not a sight-reader, yes? People who are used to sight reading always read one or two measures ahead of the actual music. So, for us, the sheet is quite well in sync with the sound. :-)
Timrath Oh, I see now what you mean. After a few minutes, the sheet lags behind the music. Yes, you were right; while the sheet was ahead of the sound, it was OK, but when it started lagging behind, it became unreadable.
Honestly, this performance is too dull for my liking. It's very clear and technically perfect, but it lacks expressivity and variety. Worse yet, the place this was recorded at has no echo effect, which makes the organ sound very dull indeed. I'd be interested to hear this women play in a good place for organ playing...then I could really decide if she can play this well.
Sorry for my bad English. 5 months later... No, she don't play everything right! If the organ player want to use the heels, it's ok by me. But it's wrong if you then are unable to make non legato lines. Time signature 3/8 without any rests while you play intervals of/with seconds in the pedal, sounds bad. And the way she finish - utterly no from me! The way the notes are written, don't tell us to make a hugh ritardando, or to going to sleep on the last chord. This performer do it much better!
Man... greatest composer of all time he may be but I was disappointed by the way he ended this piece. 'Uh oh we're out of time.. cadence into F major aaaand we're done'
You see,this is the diffference between you and Bach.He would never choose a user Name like ''Baroque'' and end such a Piece in e flat minor cadence like in the ''modern'' Music.
un poco sostenuto please enlighten me on what kind of youtube username Bach would have chosen. Or why you think I would have preferred this piece to end on an e flat minor cadence?
クラークヒューゴ I don't know which kind of youtube username Johann Sebastian Bach might have chosen, but I guess if he lives in modern days, he would have to try it very hard to end such a piece in e flat minor, or g sharp minor, or whatever..in oder to keep the "Baroque" fans being not disappointed. And do you really think that Bach was out of time in a Toccata which is over 400 bars (this is one of his longest organ pieces) and ended it quickly in a 2-bars cadence? Come on! Bach never , Oh yes he never did anything in his music without a reason. For me, this is the logical corollary to end this piece because of its structure and symmetry--the answer to the formal twice deceptive cadences, just like what Richard Wagner did in "Tristan und Isolde"...
Who are you to judge Bach? Bach invented the fabric of the sound/space continuum from which you draw all your irrelevant alternative endings. Without Him you wouldn't even exist! How dare you even contemplate defiling his perfection with the imagined changing of even one note? Repent!
SuspiciouslyDLicious Who are you to judge me? How dare you even make some statements about something of which you have obviously no idea? Bach didn't invent the "fabric of the sound/space continuum", God did it. Bach only use it to express what it has to be in the musical way. Without God would Bach,you and me all not exist. I'm not judging Bach, I'm not contemplating to defile his perfection and I'm not trying to change any notes, I'm just using hypothesis to make ironies. I'm afraid that you didn't even read it properly. It shows in which level you are in realizing the opinions of other people, Bach's music and the nature of our universe. Please, no matter who you are, please do the whole mankind a favor, never write anything down before you think about it at least 7 times, I thought people learn such things in the primary school. So was von blöd...Kann man nur mit dem Kopf schütteln...
@tombaker1222, well, I have to say that you're wrong about Baroque music being about expressionlessness. While your comment is in some sense true in that Baroque music abstained from personal emotions and personalized emotional communication, Baroque music is full of religious feelings and devotion toward virtue. Just look at Bach's B Minor Mass; there are moments of excruciating pain (particularly when Jesus is nailed to the cross) and moments of divine joy.
This is magic, 56 bars without raising the foot on the F pedal, you will hear and feel as if you were sitting on a turbine or an electric motor, and then other 58 compasses changing to C, Bach is a genius!
Words cannot describe this. That man got up, had breakfast like we all, then put on paper sounds like these. Folks, forget about drugs. Just listen to this. Music dictated directly by the Creator of the Universe to J.S. Bach !
I feel like i'm on a port hearing the ship's siren
Fifty-six bars of the pedal as a drone, a sleeping giant who suddenly awakes and stands aloft!
Laboured over this piece for many weeks before I began to gain fluency. Two stupendous pedal solos followed by progressions of glorious chord sequences in various major and minor keys. What a fantastic work! Some extremely tricky interplay between manuals and pedal as the piece progresses. Even the non-musicians can tell from the score that it looks far from easy. But the rewards of mastering it are incalculable. I wonder if Bach knew how many lives he would enrich as he composed his music.
I could listen to Bach for hours at a time. Amazing that one man was able to compose so much music .
The infinite energy of the Universe.............God forging the first galaxies with the tremendous chords. These sounds are superhuman.
Une pure merveille, vraiment l'apogée de l'orgue baroque.
Une des plus belles oeuvres de Bach, et même de toute l'histoire de la musique.
An absolutely gorgeous interpretation by its CLARITY and its registration... Endly, we can listen something else as a magma of notes.
Masterful interpretation of Bach's greatest toccata! I love the lilt that you've given it by playing the bar-lines as they had been intended and given it the rhythm specified in the time signature. Way too many organists don't do that.
an absolutely perfect Version of the BWV 540. Listening to it with Subwoofer near maximum lvl. Wow...
For all who wrote about wrong notes in the pedal: there are no "wrong notes" here. The common range of baroque german pedalboard stops on the D a second above middle C: evidently the pedalboard she plays does not reach high Eb and F, so she had to adapt the piece to the instrument. High F in the pedal solo is a very important climax, perhaps she should have to choose an organ with an appropriate pedalboard range. Apart from that, this is however a very good performance.
Though there is a rogue F# in the final bar of the first pedal solo at the C major Ic V7 I cadence!
The precision of the phrasing and the clarity of the sound is amazing. I love this performance.....I know it's not a Virgil Fox performance but...it is precise and quite satisfying...in my opinion.
What happened at 3:03 ? Pedals do not go high enough so the notes skipped?
3:33 Unfortunate the the left-hand notes are hardly heard.
@KhagarBalugrak In your first sentence you give her the greatest compliment - "Clear and technically perfect [...] no expressivity or variety" - That is the essence of Baroque music, for the greater part. Unlike the later Romantic composers who used dynamics etc to create emotions and other sensations from the audience, Baroque is much more about technical skill - there is very little room for, say, Rubato in Bach (unless at the end of phrases) yet Chopin's music is full of it.
3:00 there is something very different about the editions used in the performance and the scrolling music.
Probably a lapsus by the organist.
No, I think it is because the pedal goes up to the high f, which was very unusual at baroque organs. Actually, there was one organ in Middle Germany, where Bach lived, that has the high f: The Förner organ in Weißenfels
Greatest performance.
@tombaker1222, I will say that Handel's music is often without any real expression, but I would not classify most Baroque music like this. Italian Baroque music is often full of joy and sorrow and drama. Just listen to Albinoni's oboe concerto in d minor. The second movement is as romantic and expressive as anything written in the Romantic era.
What a coordinationsabilities Fmajor toccata Bach
Bravo super music
3:05 + differs from the autograph. A lapsus by the organist ?
I like to read the music as I listen, but the recording seems not to be in sync.
Adorno: "Der gebildete Hörer mit Partitur"!
Anyone else notice that prolonged cadence thing has 7 cadences everytime? Can't be a coincidence
Sorry for my bad English.
KhagarBalugrak: "It's wery clear and technically perfect, but it lacks expressivity and variety". The word "variety" create a problem: In my opinion it is the musicians responsibility to restore old music. But for someone they need "variety" too enjoy this music. I am sure that this piece in Bach own livetime impressed people so much, so noone asked for "expressivity or variety". And after he was finish playing this piece, he could say to himself: I'm the greatest!
Hey! Great video. Just wondering - how do you mount the score for the video? Im interested in uploading some of my composition with scores, but I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks!
Yes and she has to make other alterations where the pedal part goes above D.
I find it strange that a Bach piece makes the use of a 32-note pedalboard, rather than 27-note of the time (or at least in Silbermann organs, from what I've seen). Anyways, great performance!
I like it very much! It has the grandeur and majesty of the performances of the past, but with a clarified approach. The tempo couldn't be more right to me, because in spite of what I said before, never loses that waltzy and bouncy thing...Dull? Do you want her to play like Biondi's 4 seasons? This is Bach organ music, not punk!
what hapened with the second pedal solo ?
i never heard this version before :)
did you notice something different ?
what is disposition of the pedal? 16' have?
Wonderful, energetic performance by organist Bine Katrine Bryndorf.
The pedal reed does not belong in the beginning. You want to match manuals and pedal.
She misses a few bars, but that is because the pedal compass only reaches d1 not f1 which the solo requires.
I agree with the first comment entirely - nearly every word - when you want to hear really spiritual an "juicy" organ music please listen to Pierre Cochereau ´s performance - the best I ever heard - not this hasty performance where you lose exquisite details....and because of the character of this fantastic music I feel this while a little bit bored already.....Bach does not deserve it....
What happened at 5:30 ? Played the pedal line an octave lower?
+Robert Gift Probably scale of this pedal is to short
Thats it!
schlossgeist45 Thank you. Shortest pedalboard I played was 30 notes.
@tombaker1222, well, I have to say that you're wrong about Baroque music being about expressionlessness. While your comment is in some sense true in that Baroque music abstained from personal emotions and personalized emotional communication, Baroque music is full of religious feelings and devotion toward virtue. Just look at Bach's B Minor Mass; there are moments of excruciating pain (particularly when Jesus is nailed to the cross) and moments of divine joy.
EXCELLENT !!!
(Chantal / LePianoArcEnCiel)
Well 5 month earlier I was an idiot :P
You are not right but i'm not wrong either. It's just opinion what you think wich interpretation is better because in music you can nearly not do anything wrong. You can find an interpretation more people like but it doesn't mean that it's better. Wich interpretation each one likes best is only subjectiv. I think pauses or slow passages in playing make the tension rise as well as ritardando so I like it that way :)
Sorry for bad english too ^^
@toxiconegro, well, I'm referring to the slow, slightly metronomic tempo and a disposition that produces too nasal, too empty a sound. This piece is very grand, very great in scope, and requires a different sound than this. However, I'm going to listen to this again and see if I can understand the performer's intention and ideas. I might end up liking this, but probably not.
Where did this man, who never left Germany, get this kind of inspiration from ?
Deutschland. Das Land der dichter und denker. Why leave it?
God.
@KhagarBalugrak, if you claim this is hard try listening to it on a Hammond Organ :p
If this would be for choir i think the basso would pray for air.
The accords are way too rushed and the passages are alright. If you want my "perfect interpretation" go search the version of Marie-Claire Alain. She plays everything right, no exception.
So does Helmut Walcha.
I hate when seet music and audio are not in the correct syncro.
Fabio Gagliardi I presume you're not a sight-reader, yes? People who are used to sight reading always read one or two measures ahead of the actual music. So, for us, the sheet is quite well in sync with the sound. :-)
Timrath Oh, I see now what you mean. After a few minutes, the sheet lags behind the music. Yes, you were right; while the sheet was ahead of the sound, it was OK, but when it started lagging behind, it became unreadable.
Is it me or does she completely miss the second pedal cadenza....???
@toxiconegro I read your reply to KhagarBalugrak you could give lessons in diplomacy and good manners. Thank you for your posts.
1700th superpiece probably only then compared to Beethoven Mozart sonata for piano
جوي
by hard I mean harsh
Honestly, this performance is too dull for my liking. It's very clear and technically perfect, but it lacks expressivity and variety. Worse yet, the place this was recorded at has no echo effect, which makes the organ sound very dull indeed. I'd be interested to hear this women play in a good place for organ playing...then I could really decide if she can play this well.
Sorry for my bad English.
5 months later...
No, she don't play everything right! If the organ player want to use the heels, it's ok by me. But it's wrong if you then are unable to make non legato lines. Time signature 3/8 without any rests while you play intervals of/with seconds in the pedal, sounds bad. And the way she finish - utterly no from me! The way the notes are written, don't tell us to make a hugh ritardando, or to going to sleep on the last chord. This performer do it much better!
The reed in long pedal was too much. Just use in the pedal solo and after.
With the visual, all they need to do is add the performance of Gert or Cameron.
Man... greatest composer of all time he may be but I was disappointed by the way he ended this piece. 'Uh oh we're out of time.. cadence into F major aaaand we're done'
You see,this is the diffference between you and Bach.He would never choose a user Name like ''Baroque'' and end such a Piece in e flat minor cadence like in the ''modern'' Music.
un poco sostenuto please enlighten me on what kind of youtube username Bach would have chosen. Or why you think I would have preferred this piece to end on an e flat minor cadence?
クラークヒューゴ I don't know which kind of youtube username Johann Sebastian Bach might have chosen, but I guess if he lives in modern days, he would have to try it very hard to end such a piece in e flat minor, or g sharp minor, or whatever..in oder to keep the "Baroque" fans being not disappointed. And do you really think that Bach was out of time in a Toccata which is over 400 bars (this is one of his longest organ pieces) and ended it quickly in a 2-bars cadence? Come on! Bach never , Oh yes he never did anything in his music without a reason. For me, this is the logical corollary to end this piece because of its structure and symmetry--the answer to the formal twice deceptive cadences, just like what Richard Wagner did in "Tristan und Isolde"...
Who are you to judge Bach? Bach invented the fabric of the sound/space continuum from which you draw all your irrelevant alternative endings. Without Him you wouldn't even exist! How dare you even contemplate defiling his perfection with the imagined changing of even one note? Repent!
SuspiciouslyDLicious Who are you to judge me? How dare you even make some statements about something of which you have obviously no idea? Bach didn't invent the "fabric of the sound/space continuum", God did it. Bach only use it to express what it has to be in the musical way. Without God would Bach,you and me all not exist. I'm not judging Bach, I'm not contemplating to defile his perfection and I'm not trying to change any notes, I'm just using hypothesis to make ironies. I'm afraid that you didn't even read it properly. It shows in which level you are in realizing the opinions of other people, Bach's music and the nature of our universe. Please, no matter who you are, please do the whole mankind a favor, never write anything down before you think about it at least 7 times, I thought people learn such things in the primary school. So was von blöd...Kann man nur mit dem Kopf schütteln...
Her registration is a bit Lurch-ish...just saying
@tombaker1222, well, I have to say that you're wrong about Baroque music being about expressionlessness. While your comment is in some sense true in that Baroque music abstained from personal emotions and personalized emotional communication, Baroque music is full of religious feelings and devotion toward virtue. Just look at Bach's B Minor Mass; there are moments of excruciating pain (particularly when Jesus is nailed to the cross) and moments of divine joy.