Bach - Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (E. Power Biggs, pedal harpsichord)

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  • @Emre-tf8hp
    @Emre-tf8hp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    the distorted analogue sound makes this even better

  • @andrewheermeyer5988
    @andrewheermeyer5988 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Amazing!!! The entire human life in just 14 minutes. And only Bach could do this.

    • @tomowenpianochannel
      @tomowenpianochannel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The same thought struck me... this magnificent piece is a journey, once embarked upon it must be followed to the end, but with Bach the second half of the piece becomes indescribably rich as it escapes from the confines of the Passacaglia into a multi-textured fugue... the most incredible thing is that whichever instruments it is transposed to, the mathematical progressions and harmonies impress beyond anyone else.

  • @JimBites
    @JimBites 11 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    Back in 1968, I used to place myself between my stereo speakers and blow this album, and equipment, to the moon. NOTHING, regardless of idiom, could rival, could even begin to approach one of the truest interpretations of one of the greatest minds to ever occupy human form, JSBach. Obsessive compulsive in the most productive fashion, giving of himself so that we, so far from his era, could still gain so much inspiration from tones arranged by genius. Thank you for posting.

    • @christinericart4554
      @christinericart4554 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I completely agree!! This music has been a thread throughout my life. It is in my blood!

    • @jesuisravi
      @jesuisravi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I can relate. I used to listen to this recording every day for years back in the 80's. Nothing can whack you like JSB in combination with EPB.

    • @beasheerhan4482
      @beasheerhan4482 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Excellent report, Dear Jim - and I see no reason to not continue, 'blowing yourself to the moon', with this recording!

    • @XY_Dude
      @XY_Dude 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ... and now your most used word is: "huh?"

  • @mattbod
    @mattbod 6 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    P.S anyone else think it is criminal that this majestic instrument is sitting silent in a museum now? (Metropolitan NYC)

  • @XY_Dude
    @XY_Dude 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I have most or all of his organ LP's. Saw him in person in Grace Cathedral at SF. I love the way he plays Bach music.

  • @michaelg9344
    @michaelg9344 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Nice prominent highs and bass tones. Rhythm flowing perfectly smooth and entrancing as J.S. Bach intended.
    Sounds not over produced. Natural.

  • @nanoloopbandit
    @nanoloopbandit 7 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    this is dangerously good if there’s such a thing

  • @M.B.331
    @M.B.331 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A really impressive instrument! 🎹🎵🎼🎶

  • @rineric3214
    @rineric3214 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Can you imagine? Bach had one of these and he could play like this! His wives heard this kind of music making in their HOME every night! It must have been an amazing experience.

    • @egay86292
      @egay86292 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bach: Good meatballs, Honey. Shut the door if I'm too loud.

  • @sssnacksss
    @sssnacksss ปีที่แล้ว +3

    biggs playing pedal harpsichord is the pleasure i didn’t know i needed.

  • @samilmansur
    @samilmansur 9 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    This is very beautiful. The harpsichord gives a very different taste to BWV 582. And this "bad recorded harpsichord" sound gives a very different taste too; like a darker, deeper feeling, which I love.

    • @gamers7800
      @gamers7800 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Can't say I agree with your view on this. One of Bach's organ masterpieces transpire to harpsichord. On organ its mind blowing, with the right organist that is .Wondering how the master would feel about the downgrade...oh well.

    • @phsc7
      @phsc7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ever listened to Stokowski's orchestral version?

    • @paulcaswell2813
      @paulcaswell2813 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Bach would have probably first heard it on such an instrument. Remember that in Bach's day one couldn't just 'switch on' the organ - people had to be employed to pump the bellows. Even as late as St Sulpice, Paris (1862) and probably later, manual blowing was the only way. Pedal harpsichords and clavichords were the standard organists' practice instruments.

    • @christianknuchel
      @christianknuchel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ​@@gamers7800 The master was very interested in various instruments. I sincerely doubt he'd be so narrow minded as to discount this absolutely sublime interpretation just because it's not of the epic organ kind.

    • @austossen
      @austossen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i agree

  • @billy12080
    @billy12080 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I am 60 years so, so I have listened to Biggs's recordings since the late 1960s. What I've always appreciated about his work was the precision of his playing combined with warmth. He wasn't all technique without passion. He was able to combine mechanical brilliance with fire, and the result was recorded music that, while possibly equalled (I'm thinking of Cameron Carpenter), has not yet been surpassed. Additionally, he brought serious keyboard music to the masses.

    • @stevewheaton9837
      @stevewheaton9837 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I felt the same way about Wanda Landowska. The technque was there, but with passion. Some thought too much passion, but I always loved the drama.

  • @PaulHubertSOC
    @PaulHubertSOC ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Plucked instruments like the harpsichord and the koto have a unique sound trajectory that I LOVE. I wish more would be done with them in transcriptions.

  • @jduff59
    @jduff59 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The true master of Baroque music. Always encouraging the traditional while entertaining experimentation and progress. Some have the gall to call this man "too traditionalist". But playing the music as it was written is important.It lets the listener appreciate the composers vision. Biggs was not against the modern vision, in fact he embraced it. But when I want to listen to these great compositions as they were meant to be performed, I go to Biggs first and foremost. His playing was accurate. yet he left his mark on all of his performances, you can tell it's a Biggs performance, the man was a gift to the musical community.

  • @aquaesulensis7332
    @aquaesulensis7332 12 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I thought not possible to hear M. E. Power Biggs again. Thank you so much for posting this incredible and magnificant piece of Bach payed by this great man. We would be grateful to find something on CD from him, sure ! Merci infiniment.

  • @jongross6052
    @jongross6052 10 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    The cadenza (which does not appear in the "original") from 13:24 to 13:39 is pure genius. I don't know if it was improvised during the session or was written out beforehand. Either way, it is some of the greatest keyboard playing that I have ever heard. Bach himself would approve.

    • @GlamRockCowboy
      @GlamRockCowboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Mr. Biggs himself wrote in his liner notes that the cadenza was based on suggestions by John Challis, who was himself an extremely proficient performer as well as builder. Mr. Biggs also improvised a cadenza for the Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541, also based on John Challis's suggestions. He would later go on to includes these same cadenzas in these same two works when me recorded tham at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig ca. 1973.

    • @kansasthunderman1
      @kansasthunderman1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@GlamRockCowboy The same cadenza is also played on "Biggs Plays Bach In The Thomaskirche":
      th-cam.com/video/F9z0cpkmXlY/w-d-xo.html

    • @tomowenpianochannel
      @tomowenpianochannel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unbelievable moment! And in the spirit of Bach, who surely improvised as much as anyone, including Liszt. What a stroke of genius from the performer or Bach, totally in tune with each other. th-cam.com/video/x5NulTMVQPI/w-d-xo.html

  • @charlesmerritt52
    @charlesmerritt52 12 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Greetings from "Team Virgil Fox" - and a big thank you for posting this album, which was never released on CD.

  • @PMiss-gl8fy
    @PMiss-gl8fy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    too beautiful everything, the music, the performance, the instrument

  • @christianknuchel
    @christianknuchel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    To this day, this has remained my favourite harpsichord interpretation of this piece, if not my favourite of all of them, including the organ ones, and one of my favourite harpsichord interpretations of anything, ever. The playing is perfect, the instrument singular. E. Power Biggs and his pedal harpsichord performances are something else.

  • @adammclarty7495
    @adammclarty7495 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    One of the first classical pieces I ever heard on Organ. 30 years later and it is still one of my favorite pieces. The harpsichord gives it a beautiful new voice. There is also an eloquence in the unique playing style that is in this work of E. Power Biggs. Bravo.

  • @albertpeckham8708
    @albertpeckham8708 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Having been a good friend of Mr. Challis and having the joy of playing this instrument before Mr. Bigg's "refinement", it was and still is Mr.Challiis's masterpiece. I could cry to hear that this world c;lass instrument is incarcerated in a museum at Harvard. What a terrible waste! This instrument has such a great sound with no apologies! If you expect a "quiet" sound from a harpsichord...you will be disappointed. This instrument has command! I own a smaller 7 foot instrument and it can..."rattle the windows"...as it were. John Challis built it for me and 45 years later, it still gets attention whenever it is played.

    • @generalackbar245
      @generalackbar245 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ending up in a museum is the worst punishment for a musical instrument. I can't help but think to Stradivarius masterpieces that have been silenced, when their only purpose is to spend their lives singing.

    • @christianknuchel
      @christianknuchel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and Mr. Challis for facilitating the existence of this instrument. Now, please forgive my ignorance, but whatever alterations Biggs might be responsible for, I find the recordings that he was a part of producing on that very instrument to be a gift to humanity I wouldn't want missing.

  • @nikkeisimmer8795
    @nikkeisimmer8795 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I have two of his organ recordings playing Bach's Organ Works. I am stunned by E Power Biggs' harpsichord playing. Another recording yet to track down.

  • @趙文川-b4z
    @趙文川-b4z 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    BWV 582 is my favorite, and I think it's really a good idea of changing rhythm of some parts, fitting the sounds of harpsichord.

  • @CR33SIVE
    @CR33SIVE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this piece SLAPS

  • @javierbiaggi3072
    @javierbiaggi3072 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    One of my favorites pieces. I bought this record when I was 15 years old. Still have it. I love that pedal Harpsichord an impressive instrument with a marvellous sound. I wish that someone record Father Antonio Soler's "Fandango" on it. Rafael Puyana did recorded on a pedal Harpsichord and it's a incredible performance.

  • @gaborkovacs
    @gaborkovacs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the sound of the harpsichord is like sitting in a time machine - marvelous performance, thanks for sharing

  • @OscarRuiz-gj3mp
    @OscarRuiz-gj3mp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The best sounding and performance of this work on the pedal harp. in all TH-cam...and I have listened to most so far.

    • @EliotKiti
      @EliotKiti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think its the best performance of this piece ever... he did exactly what bach wanted - to manipulate the piece so that it fits your own perception. Biggs interpretation just brings the piece to life in my opinion!

  • @bachdon
    @bachdon 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i had his performance of the trio sonatas on pedal harpsichord. i always felt that was the best way of hearing them.

  • @pelphro
    @pelphro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is absolutely additive with E. Power Biggs and this pedal harpsichord. Only J. S. Bach could ever create such a masterpiece!

  • @maryblaylock6545
    @maryblaylock6545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had that album and it vanished. So wonderful to hear a selection from it tonight during a thunderstorm.

  • @mv.d.k.prepperoma6310
    @mv.d.k.prepperoma6310 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bach ist der Grösste und mit diesem Instrument unschlagbar !
    Liebe Grüsse aus Norddeutschland !

  • @ThePrime125
    @ThePrime125 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This guy is a genius, this is really amazing...

    • @Canardeur
      @Canardeur 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who? The harpsichordist or the composer?
      Because in front of such a beautiful masterpiece that is been being beautifully interpreted, your statement is ambiguous and thus my question legitimate.

    • @EliotKiti
      @EliotKiti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Canardeur both are

    • @canardeur8390
      @canardeur8390 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@EliotKiti Agree.

  • @carlosclavisimbalum
    @carlosclavisimbalum 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Couldn't agree more. The clarity and articulation is a joy.

  • @danshorb7719
    @danshorb7719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As I recall, this is the first time I have heard a pedal harpsichord. Brilliant! When I was young, I planned to play the Bach Passacaglia on a reproducing organ, so it could be played at my memorial service. However, I just cannot perform this heavenly music up to the standard that Bach deserves. Surely one of the greatest compositions ever!

  • @williamstead160
    @williamstead160 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I always enjoy Biggs. I agree with many that, his interpretations stand the test of time. I am strictly a layman, so I lack the ability to be a critic. However, the fact that these recordings are still on TH-cam, tells it all. It is most unfortunate that Biggs did not have any visual recordings. This recording is in my collection.
    William Stead

  • @michaelredmond7237
    @michaelredmond7237 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm speechless. Never knew Biggs recorded this. Simply magnificent. Thank you for posting!

  • @hugoalvarez5477
    @hugoalvarez5477 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow. Brilliant. Stunning.

  • @gregoryjannone8280
    @gregoryjannone8280 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My father worked for Columbia. Mr. Biggs invited us to his home where he had a harpsichord and he played it too! I was a youngster but I will never forget it. Columbia was recording Mr. Biggs on organ in a church near Harvard at the time?? I have never been able to find that recording. I believe it was around 1970. Does Harvard Square, Cambridge church sound familiar to anyone?

    • @tenney1119
      @tenney1119 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably the Flentrop organ-Fabulously colorful organ!

    • @GlamRockCowboy
      @GlamRockCowboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He might have been recording his album for the Bicentennial, which included a performance of the Ives Variations on "America." That work was recorded in the Harvard Memorial Church, and was one of the last recordings he made prior to his tragic death in 1977, just a few weeks before what would have been his 71st birthday.

    • @egay86292
      @egay86292 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was born across the street.

  • @gmnotyet
    @gmnotyet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bach was such a genius that this sounds great on all instruments. I heard a guitar version that was fantastic.

    • @egay86292
      @egay86292 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      simply fabulous on an accordion.

  • @Mjollnir50
    @Mjollnir50 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow, what a ride THAT was.

  • @literaine6550
    @literaine6550 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I usually don't care for harpsichord that much but this is mind blowing, love the sound of this one and the player is fantastic!!

  • @malibuclassic77
    @malibuclassic77 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that you can hear the action of the footpedals. This is performed on a machine and it has such life.

  • @RINCO65
    @RINCO65 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Capolavoro assoluto con qualunque strumento venga suonato. Questa pregevole esecuzione.

  • @emtube9298
    @emtube9298 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Many thanks for this. One of my favorite albums as a youth, it was one of the few albums I took with me when I moved from the US to Japan. Unfortunately, my record player broke long ago, and so it is like a homecoming to hear Biggs' pedal harpsichord once again! Love the intimate crispness with which the counterpoint is emphasized, the fact that the tones die out instead of prolonging indefinitely as on the organ (Stravinsky famously disfavored the "monster that never breathes").

  • @albertpeckham8708
    @albertpeckham8708 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    What a fabulous instrument. Challis considered this his masterpiece. I have to agree. So sad it is no incarcerated in the museum at Harvard University. Challis would have hated the idea.

  • @edwardgrabczewski
    @edwardgrabczewski 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for posting my favourite version of this piece on the pedal harpsichord. I've been trying to get the BBC to play this on Radio 3 for ages but they've ignored me. I was about to write to CBS and ask then for permission to post it onto TH-cam but you beat me to it!

    • @markne4854
      @markne4854 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I despair of Radio 3, just about every time they play any Bach work for harpsichord, it's a piano performance, so yes I fear your chances of getting them to play something as 'exotic' as this are not too good. Are Radio 3 trying to emulate 'Classic FM' perhaps?

  • @Ketzeph
    @Ketzeph 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Incredible way to hear the piece.
    It manages to be both absolutely delicate (given it is missing much of the resonating tones that an organ can achieve) and yet still has a feeling of grandeur to it.
    Strange way to approach the piece, but it gives some real flexibility to play with the passacaglia. Absolutely fantastic.

  • @burtward895
    @burtward895 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I always wind up rolling back at 13:23 and listening to the Sforzando over and over.

    • @EliotKiti
      @EliotKiti 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I do the same! Brilliant making it, Bach would be impressed.

  • @PelisDreamHD
    @PelisDreamHD 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    pedal Harpsichord its amazing instrument!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!

  • @sssnacksss
    @sssnacksss 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i’m back listening to this again and again.
    i don’t often “covet” the things of this world….but this…..i must have this LP in VG condition and hold the jacket in my arms while listening and watching it spin on my turntable…..
    this is possibly the best music.

  • @dfcroy1480
    @dfcroy1480 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I had this on record album a thousand years ago. Yes, those plastic disks with grooves in them for those of you old enough to know what I'm talking about. T&F in D minor was on it too. Personally I like Toccata and Fugue D minor better on the harpsichord.

  • @VarjuanV
    @VarjuanV 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a masterpiece

  • @ruexcited2WholeHearted
    @ruexcited2WholeHearted 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you, Brtherjohn I bought the record over 50 years ago. so amazing. wonderful that you've preserved this masterpiece all to enjoy!

    • @brtherjohn
      @brtherjohn  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for listening

  • @xylopiano3
    @xylopiano3 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love the sound of the harpsichord!

  • @orsonwellington
    @orsonwellington 13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bach had daily access to full-size organs during most of his career. A guy with his caliber of mind could probably envision and notate quite a bit without the aid of an instrument anyway. Score another one for youtube! This gives another very nice glimpse into Biggs's hard to find material.

    • @jmb4969
      @jmb4969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One reason for this instrument is to allow the organist to practice at home on cold nights when the church is as cold as ice. But of course the sound is out of this world.

    • @youtuuba
      @youtuuba 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nick du Plessis, certainly Bach had access to organs, but normally just to the organ in the church where he was currently employed, and only when needed for rehearsal with the choirs, etc; and/or during church services. In Bach's own lifetime, he did not have the level of fame and respect he has these days. Peruse the many letters and other historical documents that illustrate the kinds of problems he had with his church employers, and you can start to imagine how much cooperation he would have had from the church fathers if he had requested unlimited access to the organ, which would entail the church (or probably Bach himself, out of his own meager salary) paying a couple men to pump the organ bellows every time he wanted to sit down to practice organ or do some composing from the keyboard.
      And pipe organs work badly when subjected to wide temperature swings. There is a whole conundrum about how churches and their organs dealt with church temperature and organ operation and intonation. None of that would have made it any easier to just pop in to practice organ playing at any old time, especially in the winter.

  • @philipberry3641
    @philipberry3641 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I first heard this for a class at O.U. called "Understanding Music." This song has haunted me ever since. It is easily my favorite piece of classical music. Just struck me tonight to search for it on TH-cam. I believe this is the same recording (from an old vinyl album) that I still have on cassette from that course (1990-91 freshman year).

  • @Maximalpartida
    @Maximalpartida ปีที่แล้ว

    Un instrumento sin filtros digitales ni retoque de postproducción , sonido excepcional. Una joya de youtube. Para melomanos que escuchamos estas rarezas de internet. Gracias por compartir, para que podamos disfrutarlo.

  • @johnruggeri843
    @johnruggeri843 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Magnificent music and performance.

  • @DieMasterMonkey
    @DieMasterMonkey 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This rendition "stomps" all other versions.

  • @alanbash2921
    @alanbash2921 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Magic .

  • @brtherjohn
    @brtherjohn  12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You're welcome! I'm glad the vinyl was still in fairly good shape - as I have yet to see this on CD!

  • @barristanselmy2758
    @barristanselmy2758 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This sounds so dark. I was told by a friend to check this out. It appears it was well worth it.

    • @Christopher-h4z
      @Christopher-h4z 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Christopher Hitchens It's necessary to categorize. There's the darkness of evil, darkness of non-light, and the darkness of sorrow and of thus wanting to be alone and contemplate.

    • @manuelkatarino
      @manuelkatarino 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please check Anthony Newman's interpretation, the other side of the darkest side! Full of light and emotion!

    • @mattbod
      @mattbod 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The sombre darkness of the Passacaglia flourished into a bright ,brilliant fugue: it doesn't get any better than this.

    • @tomowenpianochannel
      @tomowenpianochannel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The first half (Passacaglia) is dark for sure; but in the Fugue the music escapes its bounds, staircases to heaven etc, and the massive climax at the end (a true battle) resolves in triumph! th-cam.com/video/x5NulTMVQPI/w-d-xo.html

  • @GaryGP40
    @GaryGP40 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE BIGGS. I have this LP. Thank you for sharing!

  • @Ren-zn7en
    @Ren-zn7en ปีที่แล้ว

    No way for me to hear this great performance on a harpsichord. Thank you!

  • @konstantinmuller6725
    @konstantinmuller6725 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tears. Fire. Fulliness. Great. Small. Whole. Thank you.

  • @mohammedcohen
    @mohammedcohen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ...I bought that album ca 1969 or '70 and still have it despite many moves (NJ to FL in '79 and about a dozen since that)

    • @brtherjohn
      @brtherjohn  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And still not available digitally that I am aware of...

    • @davidedmunds9345
      @davidedmunds9345 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brtherjohn

  • @CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy
    @CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I believe the pedal harpsichord is how Bach himself would play and compose when he wasn't on the organ. So this recording is probably very close to how it would have sounded when Bach was practicing and writing at home.

  • @Kralperri
    @Kralperri 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is amazing. There are no words that really can describe this music!

  • @attiliodalcavaliere999
    @attiliodalcavaliere999 ปีที่แล้ว

    🇮🇹👏👍♥️🌟 Molto interessante questa toccata eseguita al clavicembalo, non l'avevo mai ascoltata. È molto OK!!

  • @szilvavirag
    @szilvavirag 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A big thank you for uploading this!

  • @caesarsneezer6992
    @caesarsneezer6992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a beautiful fugue

  • @javierdiazsantana
    @javierdiazsantana 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My respects. Actual baroque ornamentation. Thank you Mr. biggs

  • @rosamundmorgan1966
    @rosamundmorgan1966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Stunning

  • @nigelmarshallkenyonabbott8684
    @nigelmarshallkenyonabbott8684 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:48 you did it again Herr Bach. All that, and you still had to take out your own garbage!!

  • @albertosemeraro7520
    @albertosemeraro7520 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    …meraviglioso e commovente…
    Splendido

  • @Musicantrix
    @Musicantrix 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Este hombre tiene tan buen gusto, esas cadencias son exquisitas... De lo mejor q h escuchado en este año, un descubrimiento hermoso :) gracias x el post... Thanx for sharing this beautiful masterpiece in hands and feet of a goodtaste man.

  • @albertpeckham9515
    @albertpeckham9515 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is the instrument that I played before Biggs took command. John Challis was a dear and valued friend. Some of the previous photos show a much truncated instrument.

    • @contactarlo
      @contactarlo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Could you please illustrate us with the history of the instrument? I heard it has an aluminium soundboard!

  • @brtherjohn
    @brtherjohn  12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Holy cow! Thanks for the Anthony Newman recommendation. It's a fabulous performance - fast and furious!

  • @gerardoaoki
    @gerardoaoki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bro, advertising in the middle of the pasacaglia, it's the last time I see your channel

  • @seejaybee
    @seejaybee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This rendition of BWV 582 is my next favorite, a very close second only to his rendition of the Flentrop organ in the Busch Museum at Harvard, I never tire of counting the variations. What amazing recoding quality from the age of vinyl.

  • @professorshermanpeabody1237
    @professorshermanpeabody1237 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I had it on vinyl and sold it. Big mistake. Heard through sizeable speakers on a wretched cloudy and rainy afternoon, cold as ice outdoors; sets the mood.

    • @julianabrown8283
      @julianabrown8283 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same, right now.

    • @alexanderweibel-valls9379
      @alexanderweibel-valls9379 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I used to do the same with the Biggs- Scott Joplin Ragtime LP played on the same instrument!

    • @krazikofiman
      @krazikofiman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      AR 3a's from an AR amp and turntable and B&O cartridge. All gone now, but headphones and digital gets me in that sweet spot.

    • @Kates-dead-goon
      @Kates-dead-goon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Klipsch Fortes, a pair of Heathkit AA121s( a total of 8 EL34 power tubes) in monoblock mode, linn Kairn preamp, revolver turntable with a Linn tone arm and grado gold cartridge is what this gets played through.

    • @OHAApple
      @OHAApple 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, it absolutley does. i am listening to it right now. It's a full moon, cold january Dutch friday evening, girlfriend 's away. Just me and a bottle of wine. Good evening Mr. Bach!

  • @jesuisravi
    @jesuisravi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    in a word: WOW!

    • @dsCheibli
      @dsCheibli 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      exactly ;)

  • @orsonwellington
    @orsonwellington 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @ObscureAuteur -- good point. Getting students or whoever to run the air pumps for practice situations at may have been just another chore for the heavily booked Bach of Leipzig.

  • @Musicantrix
    @Musicantrix 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh mi dios... Se me caen las lagrimas... La passacaglia a su exponente timbrico mas excelso.

  • @projectcyclooctatetraene7703
    @projectcyclooctatetraene7703 ปีที่แล้ว

    that 15 second fioritura near the end felt more powerful than 15 years of daily therapy and antidepressants

  • @faerieringwildlifeandmore
    @faerieringwildlifeandmore 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    amazing

  • @hilariogalguera3291
    @hilariogalguera3291 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes. I do.
    Every respected concerthall must have one.

  • @vayasaberlo8
    @vayasaberlo8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just glorious, words fail me

  • @josephglass6054
    @josephglass6054 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can someone explain to me how he creates the timbre at 5:59? It almost sounded like he was plucking the strings with his own fingers the first time I heard this!

    • @giuliopft
      @giuliopft หลายเดือนก่อน

      Some harpsichords have a register called Lautenwerk. The Lautenwerk, which was quite rare as an instrument, is very similar to a lute with a keyboard.

  • @hyoseonl11
    @hyoseonl11 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Apparently, the manuscript of BWV 582 was headed 'Cembalo e pedale' indicating it was to be played on a pedal harpsichord.

    • @nixboaski
      @nixboaski 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Really? I think the beginning works so much better on organ, it's more strong, the pedals of the organ give so much energy and it doesn't happen in the same way in this version. But it is also great in the harpsichord, specially the fugue. So beautiful.

    • @syourke3
      @syourke3 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s very interesting! I’ve only heard it played on the organ. Does it work on piano?

    • @HBSuccess
      @HBSuccess 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hyoseon Lee that is absolutely true! It was written for this instrument and all the pipe organ versions are the adaptations!

    • @jimbo2629
      @jimbo2629 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was written for a harpsichord with a pedal, but the tone would have been different from this modern instrument

  • @usfghost
    @usfghost 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very very nice interpretation! beautiful recording

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Passaglagia ,no las apreciaba antes ,pero es bella 🌟🙏🌹

  • @egay86292
    @egay86292 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what perfect background music for the 2020s.

  • @jimbo2629
    @jimbo2629 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Back in the 1970s I bought the DG Archive recording of this on the organ. Das Alte Werke. The opening bars are so atmospheric. This is a bit lost with the harpsichord and the harpsichord does not sustain, but this recording is still wonderful with a resonant base. Bach sounds good on all sorts of instruments. I can play the first few bars nearly as well. After that it goes pear shaped!

  • @revtonynewnham
    @revtonynewnham 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm pretty sure I've got this disc - it would have been one of the first LP's I bought back in the late '60's.

  • @antiv
    @antiv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How awesome! Again, our old and wise friend Teh Algorithm does not disappoint!

  • @ARoyalLyon
    @ARoyalLyon 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Very nice arrangement of the song; I've never heard it with so much variation in tempo. These epic Bach works can get ponderous when played straight through at the same speed. E Power Biggs rocks the harpsichord as well as the organ!
    7:18-7:50 either he's having a bit of trouble, or the grace notes just don't sound that grateful at that slow tempo.

    • @RockStarOscarStern634
      @RockStarOscarStern634 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is that Harpsichord sound & actually that's the Original Organ arrangement played on the Pedal Harpsichord. Pedal Harpsichords are designed to cover both Harpsichord Music, & Organ Music, as well as be used as a Continuo instrument (even Solo) so it's quite a useful instrument.

    • @dominicfield8022
      @dominicfield8022 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's not a song.

  • @albertosemeraro7520
    @albertosemeraro7520 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    … meraviglioso e commovente…

  • @paradoxicus
    @paradoxicus 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Una bella rareza!

  • @allenspencer6434
    @allenspencer6434 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks