Improvisation on "Ein feste Burg" | A Mighty Fortress is Our God | Bálint Karosi
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- Bálint Karosi: Improvisation on Ein Feste Burg(A Mighty Fortress)| Stamford, CT | Richards & Fowkes Op. 5 (1995)
00:10 - Versus I
01:11 - Var. I: C.F. in alto
03:27 - Versus II
04:30 - Var. II a 3: C.F. in alto
06:44 - Versus III
08:06 - Var. III a 4: C.F. in tenor
10:32 - Fuga a 5
More info: www.richardsfowkes.com/pages/3...
Opus 5 Specifications
Werk Hinterwerk swell
Quintadena 16' Gedackt 8'
Principal 8' Viol d'Gamba 8'
Hohlflöte 8' Principal 4'
Octave 4' Blockflöte 4'
Spitzflöte 4' Octave 2'
Nasard 3' Mixture
Octave 2' Schalmey 8'
Mixture
Trompet 8'
Vox Humana 8'
Rückpositiv Pedal
Gedackt 8' Principal 16'
Quintadena 8' Octave 8'
Principal 4' Octave 4'
Rohrflöte 4' Mixture
Octave 2' Posaune 16'
Waldflöte 2' Trompet 8'
Quint/Sesqui II Cornet 2'
Scharff
Dulcian 16'
5 couplers Zymbelstern
Tremulant Vogelgesang
Wind stabilizer
Temperament Kellner
The mixture in the Hinterwerk contains a tierce rank in the tradition of Thuringian organs, especially those of Heinrich Gottfried Trost. - เพลง
Have been doing a "Bach Binge" for his birthday. This sounds very Bach and brings out some of the lighter parts. The fortress is not only mighty, but welcoming here. From Chicago, U.S.A.
To be able to improvise in baroque style takes a great level of skill and understanding of music between 15 and 17th century. Wow!! 👏🏿 👏🏿 👏🏿
The fugue in five parts with the double pedal is simply outstanding!
Beautiful
--A Catholic here who enjoys good Lutheran music. Compliments and admiration. Praise God !
Dear brother, the Protestants (including myself) must thank the Catholic Church, because the Roman Church was the guardian of the knowledge of the Western, including music! The music as we know was developed by the catholics. And for this I'm so grateful; God Bless catholics, protestants and sacred music! Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
@@diogolimaorquestra --God bless you, Diogo ! All together in Christ !
May we once be united in God our Father!
Soli Deo Gloria! =)
@@diogolimaorquestra wonderful all faiths can enjoy music, so many of the great hymns come from Bach, Luther and so many other great Lutheran musicians we still hear today.
Highly impressed by your consummate skill and good taste. You should have this published (if it's not already). And the organ sounds wonderful, as well.
Many thanks for sharing this exciting improvisation. 👍💞
Thank you for sharing. I like it, when the "dancing character" of this wonderful melody is´hearable. And very nice harmonies!
Your playing is brilliant and I love when you visit and demonstrate other organs. Thank you.
Masterful and majestic improvisation!! Bravo, Balint Karosi!!
That's a lovely bassoon.
Golden hands, a great heart, and a God-witted mind.
Extremely impressive level of improvisation
Bravo, molto bello.
👏👏👏
The little organ that could. Nice solo stops and good balanced plenum. A nice set of variations. Very canonic but they worked quite well. I enjoyed the fugues and your registration choices. Again showing a side of play the organ that is not so easy to do well. You have done it admirably Balint. Thanks for sharing once again.
Var. 2 is very beautiful, thank you very much!
Fantastic partita. Each variation is more beautiful than the next.
Beautiful, inventive playing. And great use of a lovely instrument. 🤗🥰
A wonderful piece that I have really enjoyed. Thanks so much.
Outstanding improvisation from Balint Karosi! Keep these videos coming!
I particularly loved the 'Aus tiefer Not' inspired fugue. Let me congratulate you on the service you are rendering to the organ world by your carefully explained videos.
Wunderbar!
Such a beautiful video with exquisitely performed music. Thank you for posting the registrations at the beginning of each variation. What a joy it must have been to hear this performed live!
What a brilliant improvisation! Each variation more interesting than the one before. Love the woody, dark sounds of this instrument. Bravo, maestro.
Fantastic!!!
Meisterhaft. More than an enjoyable improvisation, a fascinating one. I almost thought you were going to play both parts of a fugue in the pedal. Long unheard in the Catholic church, in the 1970s, I played it as a recessional at a Catholic wedding mass. No one seemed to recognize it, and a parishioner asked later if the tune had words. I said, "probably." 😇
I could sit in those hard Lutheran pews for hours listening to this music. :)
Front row? ;-)
Hee!
Very nice counterpoint. Lovely music. If these sort of videos keep coming then I think we are looking at an upcoming internet organ celebrity.
And a fugue in five parts with double pedal, that's an exciting final variation; I was already noting your skill before you even got that far!
Unfortunately we live in a society which does not widely celebrate people with real skill, such as organists. A tub of yogurt has more culture than most people these days. However, I second your thought that this young man has a level of skill and ability which justly deserves celebration, and I join you in celebrating it.
@@edifyguy a tub of yogurt! Ha! But Balint is quite talented. I was fortunate to hear him play Art of the Fugue on the Richards/ Fowks, First Lutheran Boston.
Kedves Bàlin Karosi, ez egy fantasztikus improvizáció Martin Luther „Ein feste Burcht ist unser Gott” dalához. Köszönjük, hogy feltöltötte a TH-cam-ra. Tisztelettel a Hoorn Nh. , Hollandia. Készítettem neked lejátszási listát a TH-cam-on.
Simply exquisite and so is that beautiful organ.
Joseph Santana
I had to listen a second time-there is a lot of depth in your improvisations.I've listened to the Geneva improv at least a dozen times.
Beautiful. Thank you !!
You have an amazing gift!
Absolutely brilliant, many thanks for presenting this here! I wish I had a sheet music version to play this myself....
Thank you Balint. That was very enjoyable
Bach ist wieder auferstanden.
Also known as "A mighty fortress is our God" in Baptist hymnals.. Beautifully played.. Beautifully arranged.. Bravo, Balint...
And in Lutheran hymnals in US too (and various versions of song), it’s likely one of the most famous of many hymns from Lutheran composers (in this case Luther, sometimes inaccurately attributed to another great Lutheran composer, Bach).
@@mic1240 A better way to say it would have been "in English hymnals." This is definitely the best known and most widely-used Lutheran hymn across all Christian traditions.
Beautiful! Greetings from Poland ;)
Bravissimo!
This sounds awesome!
00:10 - Versus I
01:11 - Var. I: C.F. in alto (pedal)
03:27 - Versus II
04:30 - Var. II a 3: C.F. in alto (manual)
06:44 - Versus III
08:06 - Var. III a 4: C.F. in tenor
10:32 - Fuga a 5
If this improvisation would be available as sheet music I would definitely buy it. Think about it. ;-)
BEAUTIFULLY done...BRAVO, sir! :)
Thank you! I really needed to hear something beautiful tonight.
Nicely done. Playing and videography wonderful. It is strange to see no one in the sanctuary listening to this wonderful music.
Sometime can you please go through the acoustic and video setup you go through before your performances.
Magnifique BRAVO...MERCI...LOVE...
Amazing self-effacing artistry of the highest order. Bálint, you enrich us with your demonstrations of some of the world's great organs and your understanding of how they can be played with distinction.
It's wonderful to hear such a lyrical Principal 8' (Var. III)! that really sings. Overall this is brilliant.
beautiful
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Üdvözlet a Hoorn Nh-tól. , Hollandia
Love this.... brilliant !
I love it!
Very nice. Thanks
Bravo, sir! Really enjoyed that.
A very good job! Thanks for this nice interpretation
Great!
Nice job! Everything was great about this piece, especially the double pedal in the final fugue. Very interesting registration choices, especially the liberal use of 16 foot stops. I can't wait to hear this on my home system with decent speakers; my phone does not do this fine performance justice!
Impressive!
Very nice and unlike any other.
Szuper improvizacio :) koszonet a sok szep zeneert, amit megosztasz velunk
Wow, great playing! Gotta love the 16' dulzian ;)
Agreed...the Richard and Fowkes organs also have wonderful full sounding Pousane 16' ranks!
Indeed. Those stops have such a deep and brassy sound..
@@tacovanwijk couldn't agree more!
Really excellent! And that organ is wonderful! I am blessed with a amazing but small North German style Casavant. But I have to admit to a little envy here. lol
Smart!!! I love this melody also a Hymn in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. But also well known for Opera lovers as the Huguenots main theme. You have great talent Wish I could hear you our Cities Organ in Port Elizabeth ZA!
Wow, I'm so suprised! I'm from P.E too! Small world, filled with great music! 🌍
Mr. Karosi, have you published this improvisation? That is something that you should consider, as well as an expansion of the previous improvisation at Arnstadt. Thank you so much for this video.
Its like i hear Sietze de Vries....Bert good!!
J.S.B. reborn. Great! Thanks!
This organ has a very fine sound......
Wonderful and brilliant performance. I do have a question. In the early performances, as a younger musician,you were more physically animated and expressive. What was the lesson that you have learned and who was instrumental in teaching you to present yourself in a less physically demonstrable manner. Was this self taught by observation? Maturity as a musician? Less energy expended physically but more refined technique and expressive now, especially with your creative improvisation.
Originally (before TH-cam!) you couldn't see the organist, so really your question is superfluous. A pianist or a violinist may be an expressive contortionist. But not an organist!
@@missasinenomine why not?
@@classicaldeb Because it's unnecessary. You can't see the organist. A concert instrumentalist is center stage in front of a large audience, so they put on much more of a show of body language.
@@missasinenomine I think you may have misunderstood the question.
@@JoshuaSobel Hmm, I don't think so. The question is, who, or what, caused you to be less physically animated when playing the organ. Correct? My answer is, because it's pointless. Nobody can see it! (except on YT). Why is a conductor so animated when on the podium? Because the whole auditorium is watching him/her! In rehearsals, they are not so demonstrative. In fact Sergiou Celibadache used to conduct in a sitting position. A lot of it is all show. The audience wants this. They think it's great. An organist is more of an introvert. He/she doesn't need all this freaking out nonsense.
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I only miss the congregation singing!
I have listened all ; it' s on style of compositions for organ of J.S.Bach.
I keep playing this out of fascination for this instrument... And I guess a plus is that Martin Luther wrote this song to drive the Devil crazy. ;)
is var II really on 16' basis in both hands?
When was the organ built?
1995
:)
Very good. JSB would be impressed! The organ is lovely, but could do with a better acoustic, IMHO.
Oh, if only there were at least -one- proper German Baroque Orgel in the whole state of Utah…
Brilliantly conceived and executed but the amount of 16' sound in the manuals became a bit wearing.
The second part has a very funny tone. =] Soo funny....
He added a 1/3 stop to one variation, though it doesn't say it on the screen. It adds a sound that you would normally only hear as a harmonic overtone as a played note. It's a little distracting at times, even to someone who has listened to a lot of organ music (me), but does add color.
Too dainty for this great hymn.
These are just memorized composed variations. Why do so many people call these things improvisations?
I could not have possibly memorized all these!
@@bkarosi Not note by note, but I think some improvs are more organized/prepared than others. At least here, you said "Ein feste Burg," so you have memorized part of it even though you didn't have the entire thing worked out. If you watch piano musicians on Twitch, they are mostly improvising the music they play. I think I opened a can of worms by debating whether something is improv or composition. I apologize for starting this argument.
Kedves Bàlin Karosi, ez egy fantasztikus improvizáció Martin Luther „Ein feste Burcht ist unser Gott” dalához. Köszönjük, hogy feltöltötte a TH-cam-ra. Tisztelettel a Hoorn Nh. , Hollandia. Készítettem neked lejátszási listát a TH-cam-on.