It is unfortunate that the organ has often been associated with death, but to me, this instrument can in essence speak those things that can never be put to words such as music only can express, A soul,spirit, a longing, yearning, that is as eternal as the Universe itself. I only see life, beauty, and all the glory.
I requsted that the organist at my my mother funeral would play this today, unfortunately his rendition was too fast for my taste. This one is perfect.
I have a DVD audio of him playing in 5.1 surround, and this piece is my favorite of the disc. Enveloping sound, the quiet purr of the subwoofer getting those pedal notes, the slow build to the plaintive melody; you can just sit in awed silence at the mastery of the music, and the performance. You can close your eyes and be transported to a sacred space where you truly await the Savior's coming. Thanks J.S.!
I don’t have tears or goosebumps hearing this, just a calm, peaceful. feeling. It’s like sitting by the fire in a comfy rocking chair with a mug of hot chocolate and a donut. I used to play the organ. Playing like he does was my goal.😊
May I recommend Karl Richter's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor. Someone made the apt comment: "Genius allows us to see into the universe". Perfect tempo, perfect registration. Often played way too fast!
Love his technique, articulation, trills, everything. I had the opportunity to hear a concert of this gentleman, other worldly. A recording can not translate his live performances.
@@andreainzaghi7373 You do what the sheet music says, and it's littered with accents, trills and appoggiaturas. The back half of most songs of Bach and contemporaries were where the performer got to halfway improvise on the theme. The front half was even pretty loose. SL Weiss is a good metric for the actual variation because I'm a guitarist who's played with baroque lute and most of us can't count to four. Time is relative and so are the notes.
There is a CD recording with Stefan Frank at the Sandtner organ in St. Ulrich & Afra, Augsburg, where he plays it yet a bit slower, and the recording is less direct which makes it sound more celestial. I find the composition incredible and enjoy to play it in advent time. Koopman's ornaments are beautiful, as always.
Wonderfully played and perfectly suited to the instrument and the acoustics. For some merely personal observations, this version (BWV 659) of Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland was the Prelude at my first wedding. The second version (BWV 660) will be the Prelude when my beloved partner and I marry this summer. Both of us know there is also another (BWV 661) just in case(!) Be with us, dear Lord, and bless our union.
Gabor Banay Fully agree on tempo. Lotsa organists want to prove their ability by ‘running’ over the keys, forgetting that an organ has nothing to do with Formula 1 😉
@@ben-6670 Yes, agree! And this about tempos I can say not only organ playing. For many musicians for example Andante is like Allegretto for example, I don`t know why musicians are so nervous today! I am so sorry, but say about such nervous Formula 1 runnings that they are really stupid, they can not play slowly any more!
@@rayancharafeddine4982 why did you write that? are you trying to correct this other poster? if so, you are not very smart... tempo is the correct word to use... tempi, is the plural form, and that's unnecessary here...
I would expect the tempo of the eighth notes in the pedal to be the same throughout the piece. Bach used it to express the 'weary trudging' of the Savior bearing his cross. Koopman's performance is unsteady to say the least. This chorale setting will be part of my prelude music tomorrow morning for Advent II service at Bethel Lutheran.
Since what time are nuns like the Lord in deciding, if persons come into heaven. Nuns should not be arrogant! Only the Lord decides in his Goodness!!! Dirk Jan
ten organista to wielki artysta, który tchnął drugą duszę w ten (i inne) utwór. Pierwszą duszę nadał kompozytor za natchnieniem Bożym. Choć Bach był protestantem, w jego utworach nie słychać podziału religii, czuć natomiast wielką duchowość.
It is scarcely conceivable that the arrival of Christ was made with footsteps as funereal as these. Koopman does not usually spare the horses in his tempi. Odd.
J'ai découvert Bach à l'âge de 13 ans grâce à ce choral, plus de cinquante ans après, ma joie reste intacte en entendant cette musique si profonde.
It is unfortunate that the organ has often been associated with death, but to me, this instrument can in essence speak those things that can never be put to words such as music only can express, A soul,spirit, a longing, yearning, that is as eternal as the Universe itself. I only see life, beauty, and all the glory.
Immediately fascinates me; what a performance, what an instrument, what an organist!
I requsted that the organist at my my mother funeral would play this today, unfortunately his rendition was too fast for my taste. This one is perfect.
meine liebelings lieder fur preise waeherend diese coronazeit hilfts mir so viel!
Würden alle Menschen dieser Welt diese himmlische Musik hören. Es gäbe keine Kriege mehr...
Mesmo depois de muitos anos ouvindo Bach eu ainda me deparo com obras tão singelas e tão perfeitas que conseguem me emocionar.
I have a DVD audio of him playing in 5.1 surround, and this piece is my favorite of the disc. Enveloping sound, the quiet purr of the subwoofer getting those pedal notes, the slow build to the plaintive melody; you can just sit in awed silence at the mastery of the music, and the performance. You can close your eyes and be transported to a sacred space where you truly await the Savior's coming. Thanks J.S.!
Could you tell the tell the title of the DVD audio?
@@detlefeilers5531 Organ Spectacular: Famous Organ Works By Bach
@@garofaldo Thank you!
Excellently played, the timing is perfect ... love this very much 🥰 🙏 Quite dark, but beautiful ... such a nice piece of night music
He performs very beautifully ,and spiritually.
Incredibile !
Beste Ton,dank je voor gevoelige snaren te raken,prachtig!!!
This is the song that purifies the mind.
Man, that ending is stupendous...
I really love this, and very specially Master Ton Koopman.
de hemel op aarde: hoe troostend!
Dank Bach, dank Ton Koopman, dank Silbermann!
I don’t have tears or goosebumps hearing this, just a calm, peaceful. feeling. It’s like sitting by the fire in a comfy rocking chair with a mug of hot chocolate and a donut. I used to play the organ. Playing like he does was my goal.😊
May I recommend Karl Richter's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor. Someone made the apt comment: "Genius allows us to see into the universe". Perfect tempo, perfect registration. Often played way too fast!
Love his technique, articulation, trills, everything.
I had the opportunity to hear a concert of this gentleman, other worldly.
A recording can not translate his live performances.
but why he is adding so many trills???
@@andreainzaghi7373 You do what the sheet music says, and it's littered with accents, trills and appoggiaturas. The back half of most songs of Bach and contemporaries were where the performer got to halfway improvise on the theme. The front half was even pretty loose. SL Weiss is a good metric for the actual variation because I'm a guitarist who's played with baroque lute and most of us can't count to four. Time is relative and so are the notes.
Beginning to appreciate his style more
Just the best interpretation!!!
Love it, and the stately pace.
There is a CD recording with Stefan Frank at the Sandtner organ in St. Ulrich & Afra, Augsburg, where he plays it yet a bit slower, and the recording is less direct which makes it sound more celestial. I find the composition incredible and enjoy to play it in advent time. Koopman's ornaments are beautiful, as always.
"Saviour of the Nations come." An affirmation that both Jews and Gentiles of goodwill will be saved. A very old beautiful and profound Lutheran hymn.
Actually it’s the translation of a beautiful catholic hymn: “Veni Redemptor gentium” By Saint Ambrose bishop of Milan
Savior of the Nations Come. The traditional hymn of the day for the First Sunday of Advent, Ad te Levavi…
Beautiful.
best of best, what more needs to be said
My all time favourite
Wonderfully played and perfectly suited to the instrument and the acoustics.
For some merely personal observations, this version (BWV 659) of Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland was the Prelude at my first wedding. The second version (BWV 660) will be the Prelude when my beloved partner and I marry this summer. Both of us know there is also another (BWV 661) just in case(!)
Be with us, dear Lord, and bless our union.
he has the ultimate bach skills, just an extraordinary ornamentation which is not played by any other musician at 3:21
exactly, not played by any other musician for a reason: it is not written.
because in baroque music ornamentation is not often written, as Quantz explains.
@@andreainzaghi7373 because in baroque music composers didn't write ornamentation!
Lieber Herr Koopman sie sind in mein Augen ein sehr guter Bachinterpret,wobei ich viel lernen kann schön gr aus Berlin
i have try to listen to it ,but this is real music ....this is feelin'
thnx for sharing
Ahh so nice to listen to~
danke für die Aufnahme
it's not to slow or to fast or to romantic; it's Ton Koopman and Bach, nothing more nothing less.
When my soul gets serious about speaking, this is what it sounds like on some of its holy days.
beautiful!!
it's the perfect tempo!! NOT FAST.
Not to compare, but have a listen to this... th-cam.com/video/YUfI0qwhC74/w-d-xo.html
Gabor Banay Fully agree on tempo. Lotsa organists want to prove their ability by ‘running’ over the keys, forgetting that an organ has nothing to do with Formula 1 😉
@@ben-6670 Yes, agree! And this about tempos I can say not only organ playing. For many musicians for example Andante is like Allegretto for example, I don`t know why musicians are so nervous today! I am so sorry, but say about such nervous Formula 1 runnings that they are really stupid, they can not play slowly any more!
@@rayancharafeddine4982 why did you write that? are you trying to correct this other poster? if so, you are not very smart... tempo is the correct word to use... tempi, is the plural form, and that's unnecessary here...
@@debs4mysweetbaby it was a joke haha
I would expect the tempo of the eighth notes in the pedal to be the same throughout the piece. Bach used it to express the 'weary trudging' of the Savior bearing his cross. Koopman's performance is unsteady to say the least. This chorale setting will be part of my prelude music tomorrow morning for Advent II service at Bethel Lutheran.
Do you think you'd have a steady foot pattern if you were carrying a cross? There's your answer!
Oh God take me now!
O Mary.,I like your comment .It made me smile all day, everytime I listened to Ton & Johann ;-( .
ああ…癒されます✨
(*´ω｀*)
ありがとうございます。m(_ _)m
涙が出てきます…
Amazing.
Very nice!
These recordings are absolute treasures. If TH-cam have a 'listed' status for uploads, these have to be in the 'Grade 1' list
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Excellent performance! This white-bearded maestro really looks like an organ player :)
Intransigeant luthérianisme de l’émerveillement.
Awesome!
Nice recording, the start is a little slow comparede with the follow up or in the middle of the choral prelude. None the less a perfect recording. .
Great!
For the tempo, I would say: "they are the perfect tempi"!
His tempo speeds up significantly from 2:35, and there are some tempo fluctuations earlier. Strange for such a renown organist.
It happens quite often with this organ chorale, I've found.
Si usava, nel barocco, la accelerazione di tempo come artificio retorico...era consueto...😊
@@giannigolinelli9101 Hm, that's the opposite of what I learned.
Heiland è tra gli interpreti più convinti di J. S. Bach; per averne la prova esaminate attentamente come dirige il Magnificat di Bach!
Wieso beschleunigt er sich auf 2:42 ohne jeden Grund mitten in der 3.Zeile des cf??
Heel liefdevol geregistreerd en wie nu nog zeikt over de zogenaamde te snelle tempi moet al zijn cd-s op de mestvaal gooien
Zo is het .Een prachtige uitvoering :-) .Liefdevol.......mooi gezegd .
Where to find high resolution recording of these performances?
👌👌👌
Wonderful Freiberg's Silbermann.
Which organ is played here?
is this the music that is plaid in heaven?
Which organ is this and where? Thanks
Organ by Gottfried Silbermann at Dom St. Marien in Freiberg/Germany
Thanks!
Since what time are nuns like the Lord in deciding, if persons come into heaven. Nuns should not
be arrogant! Only the Lord decides in his Goodness!!!
Dirk Jan
Wich Lord: the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Mayor or Lord Byron?
ten organista to wielki artysta, który tchnął drugą duszę w ten (i inne) utwór. Pierwszą duszę nadał kompozytor za natchnieniem Bożym. Choć Bach był protestantem, w jego utworach nie słychać podziału religii, czuć natomiast wielką duchowość.
Mon écoute est peut-être faussée , mais l'instrument n'est il pas un peu faux?
Tempérament ancien......
wirklich ein Werk theologetisch
Istennek legyen hála!
La registración del tema tiene demasiada quinta!
Not his best. The timing is all over the place. Nice ornamentation, though.
1;07
It is scarcely conceivable that the arrival of Christ was made with footsteps as funereal as these.
Koopman does not usually spare the horses in his tempi.
Odd.
I couldn't disagree more.
@@phwbooth Nice to know.
Finely argued.
I hate it when the melody sounds like it's a fifth higher because of overtones
If you like this, you might also like this: th-cam.com/video/AWgOK6OUQwA/w-d-xo.html
Die Begleitstimme mit Prinzipal ist zu dick und dumpf!!!
As much as I love Bach's organ works, but "Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland" sounds much better played by a chamber orchestra.
Piet Kee plays this better
Ton Koopman kann nicht Orgel spielen.
...und kann nicht dirigieren und sollte Bach-Verbot erhalten und...
Martin Möller please. What is it that makes him play the organ mad?
He never lerned to play the organ. He just learned pianoforte and failed. He is no director, too. His book on Bach is ridiculous.
Martin Möller Are you a die hard fan of Bach?
@Oldmusic 99: Yes, sure I am ...
Too fast.
no, absolutely not.
Mon écoute est peut-être faussée , mais l'instrument n'est il pas un peu faux?