Dupre was 20 Century French, Bach was 17th Century German , Musical Worlds & Organ designs apart, however both are "Great" in their own ("genre") right & appreciation of each is a personal musical emotion!
Cher Olivier Penin Quelle fabuleuse performance. C'est comme si j'entendais à nouveau Jeanne Demmessieux. Les mots me manquent pour cette performance. Je serais ravi de vous entendre à l'orgue. Une génération française nouvellement ressuscitée d'organistes fabuleux. Je dirais de télécharger encore plus de performances sur TH-cam. Avec un accueil chaleureux de Hoorn Nh. , Les Pays-Bas.
Le bonheur d'un organiste et surtout d'un organiste d'aussi grand talent doit assurément être total et entier ! Une maîtrise d'une telle ampleur demeure un grand mystère pour le profane. Fort heureusement qu'un tel bonheur est communicatif .
I love the way he plays it slower than most organists- it brings out the ingenuity of this amazing piece, combined with the wonderful organ that it is performed on and the perfect registration changes at the right times.
I second the comments approving of Mr. Penin's tempo. This sinfonia, played at presto, cannot yield its thrills in full. Allegro, at most, allows a skilled organist to keep his or her tempo constant and precise through the more difficult central passages, which contribute to the "rush" for listeners. Also, at faster tempos, the risk increases that those passages will be muddied by the "noise" of echos with a long bounce in the larger churches that possess the great organs preferred by leading professionals. This can be a factor, even if the organist can sustain note-perfect play at such a fast tempo. As At0mCollision points out, most concert-level organists do play it faster, perhaps simply because they can. Opinions vary, and I respect all informed ones, but for me, even if there were no echo noise, the speed not only adds nothing, it subtracts from this sinfonia's muscular nature, turning the steady gallop of a race horse into the flight of the bumblebees.
It is a very uplifting piece of music. I love this piece! I love the solo violin piece as well. Both are just splendid. Bach out did himself on this one!
I love the metre of this version. It allows the big pipes of the bass to get fully resonating throughout the venue and then the decaying resonance adds a legato like effect absent from many of the version played at a faster pace. To me it adds majesty to this profound composition and emphasises the humble reflection of the magnificent composition of the Grand Master. Just can’t stop playing it.
I must have listened to this a dozen times...and each time, I find it breathtaking. Olivier Penin is utterly magnificent in every way. His musicianship is exhilarating to hear, and to watch. God bless...
I appreciate the speed of execution, perfect to distinguish the separated parts, and the "crescendo" during the composition evolving. Very , very good organ player
Mon Chere Olivier I have played many organs in France and I do not know if you read what us mere mortals write? Suffice to say, your "interpretation" is masterful!, Bach would have been stunned by your organs "intonation" ( French) and he would have seen a new dawn rising.. Br proud of your "tonal vision" of this Cantata as the French voicing of this organ expands horizons and lend this "school" of organ music new grandness, new drama and new interpretational possibilities!. Bach would have envied your socks, they lend "emphasis" to the pedal point! This is not mere "pastiche" ! Thank You. Chris. Australia.
I listen most every day, too, Mr. Parsons. What a joy Bach's prodigious contribution to the baroque era can be when performed with such skill and such intelligent interpretation.
One of the very few I've heard in over 40 years that understands the importance of the pedal throughout. It warms me to hear this rendition. God is great!
Everything about the playing, registrations, instrument, acoustic and camera work could not be better. Best video rendition of the Sinfonia on TH-cam. Hands down! Superbe!
Spot on! Everything in this performance is near perfect. So many organists race through this piece as if they have to finish quickly and catch a plane. I especially love his pedal registration which allows those big reed stops to sound their majesty. Bravo, Olivier!
In a word, "definitive." I've listened to this great work for 50 years and dear Olivier, it doesn't get any better. The whole post was great, the sound recording, the video and of course the playing. Thanks for sharing... your joy.
no doubt about it....J S Bach was a musical visionary without compare. This Organ piece is but only one of the mind-blowing compositions from Bach that have inspired me in my journey as a musician. My musical path has led me to string band music so I play Mandolin. Banjo. Guitar, Dobro. Ukelele etc...of course a majority of my practise is devoted to folk musics of the world. But to keep me whole as a rounded Musician I spend time dabbling away on Bach thingys......it amazes me that Bachs music falls so effortlessly onto many of my chosen instruments......genius beyond compare
Très belle interprétation de cette oeuvre magistrale de Johann Sebastian Bach 👍. Tout est parfait. Les jeux employés sont clairs. Les combinaisons en adéquation avec ce qu aurait pu imaginer le maestro à son époque. Bravo. Continuez à nous faire rêver 😉👍
Magnífico, sólo puedo decir que Dios bendiga a éstas personas y al hermoso instrumento creado por también extraordinarias personas, gracias . Precioso sonido.
Le ROI des instruments (c'est un nom masculin, un orgue). *ou alors éventuellement leS reineS des instruments (vu que l'on dit des grandes orgues, orgue étant féminin au pluriel).
Jon William I feel it to be among the more tolerable versions, but completely unexciting. Many organists are too caught in trying to “interpret” the work by using their own arrangements. This is no exception. No doubt he’s a decent organist, but he can’t keep time or a beat to save his life, nor does he pay any attention to the time signature. This was written to be a VERY fast piece, not something from the romantic period. This is the most accurate version I’ve ever heard, and is played with the original composition, not a rearrangement. th-cam.com/video/MkzFNqc-rvg/w-d-xo.html
I just listened to Diane Bish's performance of the Sinfonia. Before explaining why I prefer Penin's, I want first to give both organists due credit. Very few human beings ever reach, as both Bish and Penin have, such a lofty pinnacle of sensorimotor skill. I prefer Penin's performance. He chose an allegro tempo that allowed him to play, with no appreciable change in tempo, the more challenging middle passages with the same skill and command of the notes as his opening. To my ear, Bish's presto went through a slight ritardando as she got to those middle passages, and it seemed she imposed another, more compressed slow-down shortly after that, establishing a new tempo, still fast but slower yet, as she headed to the finish line. While both did the typical dramatic slowdown at the end, I found Penin's to be within my acceptable zone and Bish's tipping over into melodrama---the last thing Bach's music needs. I would love, some day, to hear the sinfonia played to the end with NO slow-down, and with the final chord released after no more than an instant of extra hold. Maybe I wouldn't like it, but I'd love to hear it that way, at least once. At the risk of digressing, I'll note that many a performance of Bach's two great masses have been spoiled for me by the use of opera soloists rather than those trained in choraI singing to keep the vibrato in check and never scoop a note. For those who agree, I recommend the cantatas performed by the J.S. Bach Foundation (J.S. Bach-Stiftung), the ensemble's choir and orchestra ably conducted by Rudolf Lutz. Their ambitious aim is to perform all of Bach's hundreds of cantatas. The DVDs are beautifully engineered in both video and audio---high quality and worth the money. Most of the soloists are masters at singing in the clean style that best suits choral music of the Baroque era. Returning to Bish vs Penin, I don't know whether it is the organ Bish played or her choice of stops, but I heard an overlying sound that evoked the calliope organs to be found most readily, these days, in carousels. I can best describe it as a honking resonance---slight, but audible, that comes from differences in the metal of the pipes compared to a pipe organ. For me at least, not the right sound for Bach---from the viewpoint of one who likes most of the Swingle Singer Bach interpretations and most synthesizer renditions and eschews transcriptions for brass quartets, despite playing first chair cornet in my high school band.
Un rythme ..... Une aisance ...... Olivier Penin nous donne une très belle interprétation de cette sinfonia. Qui porte bien son nom tant les voix ont une polyphonie complexe. Quand on s'appelle Jean-Sebastien....... >>> Rien d'étonnant à celà. Il n'y a qu'à mesurer les cantates. Toujours est-il que, dans tout ce ""foutoir" (comme dirait Audiard) la voie divine est toute tracée. Simplement avec deux pieds et deux mains ..... pour interpréter des oeuvres d'une complexité, d'une musicalité jamais égalées. Il n'y a qu'un Bach! Et il composait à tours de bras. D'une belle égalité de performances sublîmes.
Very good. Flawless. Perfect stops, articulation, phrasing, expressiveness, accents, speed. Dupré would appreciate.
Dupre was 20 Century French, Bach was 17th Century German , Musical Worlds & Organ designs apart, however both are "Great" in their own ("genre") right & appreciation of each is a personal musical emotion!
Bach would have appreciated it, too.
Cher Olivier Penin Quelle fabuleuse performance. C'est comme si j'entendais à nouveau Jeanne Demmessieux. Les mots me manquent pour cette performance. Je serais ravi de vous entendre à l'orgue. Une génération française nouvellement ressuscitée d'organistes fabuleux. Je dirais de télécharger encore plus de performances sur TH-cam. Avec un accueil chaleureux de Hoorn Nh. , Les Pays-Bas.
Gloire à Dieu le haut du cieux! ❤
Tack!
No words can say how brilliant the artist is❤
ONE MILLION WELL-DESERVED VIEWS!
Toll. J.S.Bach , ich liebe Bach. Alles auswendig gespielt, Respekt
One of the best "Oh Wows..." played on the King of Instruments presented on TH-cam.
Magnificent ! -- and one of the many reasons Bach remans the singularly greatest musical genius of all time (and always will)
Le bonheur d'un organiste et surtout d'un organiste d'aussi grand talent doit assurément être total et entier ! Une maîtrise d'une telle ampleur demeure un grand mystère pour le profane. Fort heureusement qu'un tel bonheur est communicatif .
Quel beau commentaire. Merci
Je n'imaginais pas tant de complexite de jeu..😯!!en effet ..quelle maitrise...un regal ...completement transporte...bravo et merci...
Que magnifique, quel régal, quel maîtrise ❤️❤️❤️👍
I love the way he plays it slower than most organists- it brings out the ingenuity of this amazing piece, combined with the wonderful organ that it is performed on and the perfect registration changes at the right times.
I second the comments approving of Mr. Penin's tempo. This sinfonia, played at presto, cannot yield its thrills in full. Allegro, at most, allows a skilled organist to keep his or her tempo constant and precise through the more difficult central passages, which contribute to the "rush" for listeners. Also, at faster tempos, the risk increases that those passages will be muddied by the "noise" of echos with a long bounce in the larger churches that possess the great organs preferred by leading professionals. This can be a factor, even if the organist can sustain note-perfect play at such a fast tempo. As At0mCollision points out, most concert-level organists do play it faster, perhaps simply because they can. Opinions vary, and I respect all informed ones, but for me, even if there were no echo noise, the speed not only adds nothing, it subtracts from this sinfonia's muscular nature, turning the steady gallop of a race horse into the flight of the bumblebees.
Widor repeatedly warned his students against rushing for the sake of rushing. So did Dupré.
I agree
Most of the performances I've heard of this Sinfonia are, in my opinion, played WAY too fast. This is a perfect tempo!
Nope. Too slow.
Marveleux,Fantastisch
I cannot explain what this beautiful piece played by Olivier does to me. Beyond beautiful and stunning.
It is a very uplifting piece of music. I love this piece! I love the solo violin piece as well. Both are just splendid. Bach out did himself on this one!
I keep returning to this performance, I can't get enough of it. Simply sublime.
There really are no words that can describe our link to this brilliance.
I love the metre of this version. It allows the big pipes of the bass to get fully resonating throughout the venue and then the decaying resonance adds a legato like effect absent from many of the version played at a faster pace. To me it adds majesty to this profound composition and emphasises the humble reflection of the magnificent composition of the Grand Master. Just can’t stop playing it.
I totally agree, the metre of this version is magnificent, I guess I have played it a hundred times since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March!!
Tempo perfectly matched to resonance of the hall. Nicely recorded and produced.love the bright sound!
R Stedler church
@@user-qd9rh5yr8mchurch. ok, is that a magic word?
@@1MAGLIAROSA 💖🌟❤️🌟💖👍
Cette interprétation est un joyau, un diamant !!!! Merci 🙏🙏🙏❤️
Best version of this piece on TH-cam!
This famous masterpiece he plays with exquisite skill and incomparable technique is overwhelmingly comfortable to the ears
Wow Thank you
Thank you for not rushing this. I love your use of flue registrations in the left hand.
I must have listened to this a dozen times...and each time, I find it breathtaking. Olivier Penin is utterly magnificent in every way. His musicianship is exhilarating to hear, and to watch. God bless...
You are a JOY incarnate. Wow!!!
simply fantastic....hear and feel the spirit of BACH and DUPRE......
I appreciate the speed of execution, perfect to distinguish the separated parts, and the "crescendo" during the composition evolving. Very , very good organ player
Merveilleux comme tout le répertoire de Bach ou de vivaldi,on est proche du divin.
no❤️
Splendiide prises de son et de vue ! Merci et Bravo !
Merci maître ! Vous nous faites là un bien grand cadeau. Quel moment exceptionnel !
Magistrale interprétation! Olivier Penin fait partie des tout meilleurs organistes de ce monde!
Magnifique organiste titulaire de Paris Sainte Clotilde .
Magnificent. Not too fast, not too slow just wonderful and great registrations on a brilliant organ. I love the sound of French organs. Mike in Oz
Kudos Maestre Penin, for not hurrying this magnificent iconic short piece of organ music and done with no bowing, scraping and gurning.
This reflects years of endless practice and devotion. True mastery of the organ. Well done and thank you.
The organists of Paris....how I miss you all.
Mon Chere Olivier
I have played many organs in France and I do not know if you read what us mere mortals write?
Suffice to say, your "interpretation" is masterful!,
Bach would have been stunned by your organs "intonation" ( French) and he would have seen a new dawn rising..
Br proud of your "tonal vision" of this Cantata as the French voicing of this organ expands horizons and lend this "school" of organ music new grandness, new drama and new interpretational possibilities!.
Bach would have envied your socks, they lend "emphasis" to the pedal point!
This is not mere "pastiche" !
Thank You. Chris. Australia.
Einfach brilliant gespielt, danke!
..wunderbare Seelennahrung, geistreich! Hineinversetzen und du tust was für dich!! Herrlich und schön!
Excellente prestation , brillante et des orgues "aériennes ". Bon tempo . Partition du pédalier extra. Quel régal général . Prise de son géniale .
I never get enough of Olivier and his performances. This is beautiful.
Wonderful. This piece is well appropriate to be played on organ.
This is so perfect and magnificent that I listen it several times every day. Olivier's pedal technique is amazing.
I listen most every day, too, Mr. Parsons. What a joy Bach's prodigious contribution to the baroque era can be when performed with such skill and such intelligent interpretation.
I love his pink socks!
Je ne m .en lasse pas ..........
Very well played. This cantata is no rat race. Bravo ! Best wishes from Hamburg/Germany PS: I want these pink socks !
Божественная музыка и великолепный исполнитель.Спасибо.
On ne s en lasse jamais.éblouissant.
Impressionnant, j'adore je l'écoute souvent, c'est jouer avec tellement de coeur
One of the very few I've heard in over 40 years that understands the importance of the pedal throughout. It warms me to hear this rendition.
God is great!
You have to be the most perfect organist I have ever heard. Merci Olivier.Rodney Hall South Africa
Brilliant. Thanks Olivier
Everything about the playing, registrations, instrument, acoustic and camera work could not be better. Best video rendition of the Sinfonia on TH-cam. Hands down! Superbe!
Robert Walsh Robert, I agree with you completely! ❤️❤️🙏🏻👍🏻🇨🇦
Love this piece.
Robert Walsh Very well said. I could not agree more!!
Spot on! Everything in this performance is near perfect. So many organists race through this piece as if they have to finish quickly and catch a plane. I especially love his pedal registration which allows those big reed stops to sound their majesty. Bravo, Olivier!
Deze organist speelt Dupré zeer klaar en afgelijnd! Zeer mooi om naar te luisteren!
Que magnifique, quel régal ❤️❤️❤️
Superbe.
In a word, "definitive." I've listened to this great work for 50 years and dear Olivier, it doesn't get any better. The whole post was great, the sound recording, the video and of course the playing. Thanks for sharing... your joy.
I agree with you. I've heard several versions. He is a superb organist and musician.
Herrlich...ich habe noch nie die29 so kraftvoll und strukturiert spielen hören...ein voller Genuss
Wonderful to watch that whole body performance, truly amazing! Dig those beautiful pink socks ;)
Fuga di note ...inseguite da misteriosi echi, tutto in un crescendo di forza e di passione. Stupendo . Bravissimo l'organista!.
The Joy of the Organ!
A perfect performance by a very gifted organist!
Wow! C'est un autel cinq étoiles par ici. Merci Monsieur +Vincent Hildebrandt
When played by a master musician, Bach will stir your soul like no other!
Hell, I don't know if I have a soul... but it stirs me. I love this kid. Titian already.
Great shoes and sox. The music is pretty good too!!
no doubt about it....J S Bach was a musical visionary without compare. This Organ piece is but only one of the mind-blowing compositions from Bach that have inspired me in my journey as a musician. My musical path has led me to string band music so I play Mandolin. Banjo. Guitar, Dobro. Ukelele etc...of course a majority of my practise is devoted to folk musics of the world. But to keep me whole as a rounded Musician I spend time dabbling away on Bach thingys......it amazes me that Bachs music falls so effortlessly onto many of my chosen instruments......genius beyond compare
Bravo Olive, t'assures !
Merci.
Supérieur. Vraiment.
Penin is so very good. A truly magnificent performance on a most wonderful instrument.
Bravo BRAVO BRAVO BACH👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
J'adore...gamin j'ai été bercé par cette musique et on ne l'oublie jamais!
Perfektes Tempo, detailreiche Registrierung, danke!
Très belle interprétation de cette oeuvre magistrale de Johann Sebastian Bach 👍. Tout est parfait. Les jeux employés sont clairs. Les combinaisons en adéquation avec ce qu aurait pu imaginer le maestro à son époque. Bravo. Continuez à nous faire rêver 😉👍
Fabuleux !
MAGNIFICA
Magnífico, sólo puedo decir que Dios bendiga a éstas personas y al hermoso instrumento creado por también extraordinarias personas, gracias . Precioso sonido.
Too magnificent to describe in mere words.
Yes!! A pleasure to listen to over and over sgain. Five stars! Bravo.
Magnifique interprétation de cette pièce de JS Bach mise aux clavier par Maître Dupré, chapeau bas Mr Penin
très belle interprétation et registration parfaite. Merci Maître Penin
lol
Wow!! I must have listened to this performance a thousand times by now and never tire of it. It is really uplifting, inspiring musical artistry.
Magnificent! Who on earth could give this a thumbs down?!
I was astounded by the number of thumbs down. This was magnificent, Must be jerks who can't play & wished they could.
@@markkgourley1984 must be the Bach Police
@@williamklimas7515 Not really, but know if Bach is played correctly!
Someone who knows nothing about music or playing the organ
Someone was annoyed by the red socks. (petty behavior) :-)
In my opinion, this is the perfect tempo for this piece. Bravo!
Merveilleux
La REINE DES INSTRUMENTS
le bonheur a l'État pur
Le ROI des instruments (c'est un nom masculin, un orgue).
*ou alors éventuellement leS reineS des instruments (vu que l'on dit des grandes orgues, orgue étant féminin au pluriel).
Оливьер, браво! Вы такой молодец!
FABULEUX
merci
Great with headphones , Olivier I was right there in the church for a moment. Magic performance
This has to be my favorite combination of voices on the organ
Just excellent
Fantastično. Neverovatno, fantastično
It's Wonderfull!!!!
Wunderschön....
Bravo Olivier c’est une belle réussite avec un bon tempo
Un grande virtuoso.
This is the best performance of this I have heard. I think Bach would be overjoyed! The registration and articulation are perfect! Thank You!
Jon William I feel it to be among the more tolerable versions, but completely unexciting. Many organists are too caught in trying to “interpret” the work by using their own arrangements. This is no exception. No doubt he’s a decent organist, but he can’t keep time or a beat to save his life, nor does he pay any attention to the time signature. This was written to be a VERY fast piece, not something from the romantic period. This is the most accurate version I’ve ever heard, and is played with the original composition, not a rearrangement. th-cam.com/video/MkzFNqc-rvg/w-d-xo.html
@@johnreynolds9477 I'm sure we all look forward to your superior personal interpretation, played by yourself..I await!
John Reynolds - Yes ... I see what you mean!
Bob Bobberson - She is awesome!
I just listened to Diane Bish's performance of the Sinfonia. Before explaining why I prefer Penin's, I want first to give both organists due credit. Very few human beings ever reach, as both Bish and Penin have, such a lofty pinnacle of sensorimotor skill.
I prefer Penin's performance. He chose an allegro tempo that allowed him to play, with no appreciable change in tempo, the more challenging middle passages with the same skill and command of the notes as his opening. To my ear, Bish's presto went through a slight ritardando as she got to those middle passages, and it seemed she imposed another, more compressed slow-down shortly after that, establishing a new tempo, still fast but slower yet, as she headed to the finish line.
While both did the typical dramatic slowdown at the end, I found Penin's to be within my acceptable zone and Bish's tipping over into melodrama---the last thing Bach's music needs. I would love, some day, to hear the sinfonia played to the end with NO slow-down, and with the final chord released after no more than an instant of extra hold. Maybe I wouldn't like it, but I'd love to hear it that way, at least once.
At the risk of digressing, I'll note that many a performance of Bach's two great masses have been spoiled for me by the use of opera soloists rather than those trained in choraI singing to keep the vibrato in check and never scoop a note. For those who agree, I recommend the cantatas performed by the J.S. Bach Foundation (J.S. Bach-Stiftung), the ensemble's choir and orchestra ably conducted by Rudolf Lutz. Their ambitious aim is to perform all of Bach's hundreds of cantatas. The DVDs are beautifully engineered in both video and audio---high quality and worth the money. Most of the soloists are masters at singing in the clean style that best suits choral music of the Baroque era.
Returning to Bish vs Penin, I don't know whether it is the organ Bish played or her choice of stops, but I heard an overlying sound that evoked the calliope organs to be found most readily, these days, in carousels. I can best describe it as a honking resonance---slight, but audible, that comes from differences in the metal of the pipes compared to a pipe organ. For me at least, not the right sound for Bach---from the viewpoint of one who likes most of the Swingle Singer Bach interpretations and most synthesizer renditions and eschews transcriptions for brass quartets, despite playing first chair cornet in my high school band.
*VERY, VERY GOOD.*
Thank you - that was magnificent. energetic and just all-around cool. Loved the organ shoes and red socks.
bravo, Maestro!
Bravo maestro!👍
Un rythme ..... Une aisance ...... Olivier Penin nous donne une très belle interprétation de cette sinfonia. Qui porte bien son nom tant les voix ont une polyphonie complexe. Quand on s'appelle Jean-Sebastien....... >>> Rien d'étonnant à celà. Il n'y a qu'à mesurer les cantates. Toujours est-il que, dans tout ce ""foutoir" (comme dirait Audiard) la voie divine est toute tracée. Simplement avec deux pieds et deux mains ..... pour interpréter des oeuvres d'une complexité, d'une musicalité jamais égalées. Il n'y a qu'un Bach! Et il composait à tours de bras. D'une belle égalité de performances sublîmes.
Beautifully done. Thank you for not playing it at breakneck speed as most tend to do.
Excellent ainsi que la vidéo.