Your performance is an inspiration to observe and hear, it brings Bach to life, at least IMHO :) Greatly appreciate your "flying tempo" as well. After some scholastic research during a visit to Leipzig several years ago I've come to believe your style really is closer to how J.S. Bach more than likely performed and you've been prescient in illustrating this for many years. There's no reason to believe J.S. Bach was constrained in his keyboard technique and probably his only organ performance limitations were finding enough energetic bellows pumpers and registration assistants. The BWV-540 Toccata in F with it's long sustained pedal note, where else in the 1700s could folks hear music, or any continuous sound at all of such duration? Fascinating on so many levels today in our digital age. Thank you again for sharing this on TH-cam. All the best.
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Your performance is an inspiration to observe and hear, it brings Bach to life, at least IMHO :) Greatly appreciate your "flying tempo" as well. After some scholastic research during a visit to Leipzig several years ago I've come to believe your style really is closer to how J.S. Bach more than likely performed and you've been prescient in illustrating this for many years. There's no reason to believe J.S. Bach was constrained in his keyboard technique and probably his only organ performance limitations were finding enough energetic bellows pumpers and registration assistants. The BWV-540 Toccata in F with it's long sustained pedal note, where else in the 1700s could folks hear music, or any continuous sound at all of such duration? Fascinating on so many levels today in our digital age. Thank you again for sharing this on TH-cam. All the best.
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And that Steven Russel can really build an organ.