The Toccata is a serious contender to the title "The most sweeping music ever written"
@Herr_strauss91
15 жыл бұрын
This is truly the king of all instruments!
@stephendohnalek462
3 жыл бұрын
An amazing display of keyboard and pedal playing; a bit breathtaking, really. Who knew organ playing could be a cardio-aerobic exercise experience? Bravo to Bach and bravo to the organist.
@828uko
3 ай бұрын
Pedal playing is not a cardio-aerobic exercise. :D If it is, then you play the pedal parts wrong
@KhagarBalugrak
12 жыл бұрын
I love this rendition because it's not rushed and all the voices are clear.
@stephenvanwoert2447
4 жыл бұрын
Bach was a great composer of joyful dance music. This is one example. I think this is my favorite.
@youfilin
Жыл бұрын
Every time I hear Bach's works I can't imagine how he actually could have done so many beautiful pieces!! Unbelievable!
@NikkkitoNippongo
9 жыл бұрын
This is, by far, my favorite performance of BWV 540, Bach used this toccata to test the "lungs" of the organs.
@evanprest6224
7 жыл бұрын
this is the one where he pulled all stops? I forget, it's been centuries.
@lordauriel8724
7 жыл бұрын
yeah that performance is just perfect isn't it
@karlrovey
5 жыл бұрын
He couldn't have played it as written on any organ in Germany. The pedal line goes higher than the pedal compass of any German organ in Bach's lifetime.
@thekathal
4 жыл бұрын
@Karl Rovey what about the 2nd part of the piece d’orgue? That’s got a bottom B
@sameash3153
3 жыл бұрын
@@karlrovey so why did he write it like this? Hard to imagine Bach writing something he could not physically play, at least on a keyboard instrument.
@tigerguy1013
5 жыл бұрын
The pipe organ is by far the most beautiful most magnificent instrument to ever exist. Its size and sound is astonishing especially this one’s size, breathtaking
@lkrupp215
5 жыл бұрын
One year ago I stood there in the St. Thomas kirche looking up at that amazing instrument. There was a master class going on at the time and the organ was playing. Heaven on earth. The church also has another large organ in the back, a 19th century Romantic instrument of 88 ranks. This is the “Bach” organ installed on the north choir loft. It has 61 stops and 4 manuals. And by the way, Bach was organist and choirmaster at this church for 27 years. Martin Luther preached there.
@ollenaktergal902
4 жыл бұрын
Outstandingly skilled. Never heard a better version of this very difficult piece.
@janetbristol5422
3 жыл бұрын
After a 20 year no Germany trip, i love to get on KZitem and listening to church bells in Berlin, St Thomas boys choir which i became acquainted on my first trip in 1990. I love it all. It is thrilling to see new places and see places i have been. I was grateful to have been at St Thomaskirchke in 2000 for the tuning of this wonderful instrument. It is just as thrilling for me today as when I took my first Germany trip.
@lwnf360
16 жыл бұрын
My absolute favorite Bach piece.
@IcelanderLight
10 жыл бұрын
I like to think of this as the Resurrection Toccata of Bach's. On an organ as if created for Bach works by an organist who is most worthy to play it. Just thrilling.
@telephilia
7 жыл бұрын
Unusually for Bach works of this type, the prelude (or toccata) here is often performed without the fugue. It is claimed by some that after this toccata the fugue is somewhat anticlimactic. But really, in my opinion, the fugue has its own different sort of grandeur.
@sfopera
5 жыл бұрын
One of the most brilliant performances of this incredible demanding work I've heard
@ryanwfrederick
15 жыл бұрын
I was there several years ago, and heard the P&F in D played at Friday vespers. Simply magnificent to sit there, close your eyes, and imagine the old Thuringian cantor doing his thing...*sigh*
@b3boneman
9 жыл бұрын
My all time favorite! Praise God! FANTASTISCH!!!
@KhagarBalugrak
12 жыл бұрын
What really makes this the best recording is the clarity and integrity. Nothing is done for its own sake, or to try and be unique, or to show off.
@Biff947
14 жыл бұрын
This is amongst the greatest works ever written.
@voltaire1377
5 жыл бұрын
O MY GOD! THE BEST TEMPO EVER FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
@stephenhunt8756
3 жыл бұрын
Full of the energy that is essential for all of Bach...and with a joi de vivre that is instantly appealing. The pedalling is superb. Thanks to Zhang Ziruo
@telephilia
15 жыл бұрын
A really majestic piece. A vision of some sort of divine ecstasy!
@yiftb
15 жыл бұрын
I love it too! Since the first time I heard it years ago I've been looking for it and now that I bumped into it I'm sitting here sleepless and happily listening to it again and again.
@janetbristol6047
7 жыл бұрын
I was in this church in 2000. They we're tuning this organ. It is so beautiful!!!
@ssinssg
10 жыл бұрын
An absolutely stunning performance.
@fossosejore
12 жыл бұрын
la migliore interpretazione del 540 che abbia mai ascoltato. Bellissima
@alexisboileau2088
7 жыл бұрын
Wow ! I didn't know David Letterman was such a good organ player !
@drollere
11 жыл бұрын
this is some of the best bach organ playing on youtube. astonishing clarity and lyrical momentum, beautiful use of the registers and scintillating pedal. really a vibrant and commanding performance. it's a shame this organist and instrument are not recorded more often.
@laurenceeburn4969
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely superb performance!
@KhagarBalugrak
13 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant performance. One of the best I've ever heard.
@alhfgsp
7 жыл бұрын
Those who can understand this, are rewarded for it!
@KV4671
8 жыл бұрын
Wat een heerlijk Lied om op te wekken. Hier krijg ik kracht van Ik prijs de Heer !
@MrTransalpin
9 жыл бұрын
Beautiful acoustical sound quality ! Gute digital Ton Qualität !
@missionaryorganist
15 жыл бұрын
I just love it...I keep coming back to this recording and listening over and over again.
@observerman
13 жыл бұрын
This brilliant piece really lifts your soul. It's like waking up into a Near Death Experience and finding yourself at the threshold to heaven. Bliss! Seric54
@DonnyDonnMendoza
15 жыл бұрын
One also has to remember that many of the Baroque instruments used different tuning temperaments (other than modern equal temperament) such as 1/4 comma meantone, Kellner, Kirnberger or Barnes. Certain chords sound "out of tune" in these temperaments but it's exactly this "out-of-tuneness" that creates tension and colour. When the "right chords" are played, they sound more "in-tune" than they ever played on an equally tempered instrument.
@nganir
14 жыл бұрын
wonderful performance of an unqualified masterpiece. 7:00+ : pure bliss........
@mobyhunr
4 жыл бұрын
And that's how it's done. Love f major
@ericbelify
14 жыл бұрын
Magical. Divine. Nothing more and nothiing less.
@andrezkamotu
11 жыл бұрын
AWESOME... This is one of my favorite J.S.Bach's organ pieces...
@albertpeckham9515
11 жыл бұрын
Wow! This performance is just how I would play it! Exciting and precise!
@speaks3703
14 жыл бұрын
absolutely superb interpretation of a fantastic piece!
@zpasjidomuzyki9390
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful playing :) Bravo :)
@Kralperri
10 жыл бұрын
This really was a good recording of this piece! This toccata is for sure one of the best organ pieces ever written!
@ozjiaak
16 жыл бұрын
Thank You! It's wonderful. I hear several times and more and more like it. Jozsef from Hungary (amateur organist)
@cousin8100
9 жыл бұрын
Great registration on a great organ!
@GerardRatigan
15 жыл бұрын
Quelle virtuosité ! Magnifique
@Herr_strauss91
15 жыл бұрын
So much power behind this instrument, what a magnificent performance!!!!!! Bravo to Bohme!
@andhersoncastro6069
4 жыл бұрын
Simplesmente o melhor. ..quanto sentimento expressivo por suas maravilhosas mãos...
@Rotka13
15 жыл бұрын
I think so too! It's amazing ^^ I love it!
@tigerguy1013
5 жыл бұрын
The pipe organ is by far the world’s greatest, most angelic, most beautiful instrument to ever exist. Its sound and its size is astonishing
@williambrightman5980
3 жыл бұрын
And by far the most difficult instrument to learn and master.
@charlottewhyte9804
6 жыл бұрын
lovely clear playing
@ropeyarn
14 жыл бұрын
absolutely awesome!!!!!
@arkeo2001
15 жыл бұрын
WOWOWOWW, wonderful! Five stars!
@burraldo
8 жыл бұрын
Brilhante!
@andre26071955
15 жыл бұрын
It is indeed quite a fast tempo, but the Gerald Woehl-organ and the acoustics of St. Thomas can have it.Excellent performance!
@3NUNS
9 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for posting !
@saintsaens888
15 жыл бұрын
i like Bohme's speed. I even have a faster version but i don't know who the organist is. The registrations are magnificent and the pedal work is perfect.
@davidcallahan2832
6 жыл бұрын
Transcendent clarity within complexity.
@johnferguson8993
7 жыл бұрын
Magnificent!
@dorianmodify
13 жыл бұрын
I like to play this slower so the descending pedal figure is more lyrical, and I sing with it. The complex cords are not so quickly passed over, if you savor them a bit longer. But either THIS fast or slow, NOT the unmusical chop, chop chop, where there is no singing phrase. The phrasing here is somewhat musical, but I still like slower. Guess it means I am getting OLD, hahaha. But I agree, you can hear the bells 'atolling ! It's one of my FAVORITE pieces of music.
@DOBORBEN
15 жыл бұрын
this music is amazing.........
@speaks3703
14 жыл бұрын
@carvetop Basically, what you're used to hearing is Equal Temperament. This organ is not tuned in that way. For this instrument, the tuning is A=465, the choir pitch used at the time of Bach, whose music this instrument was specifically designed to play.
@ctcoet
10 жыл бұрын
A bloody mazing!
@rvrdog
13 жыл бұрын
Bravissimo!
@ruggerocioffi74
3 жыл бұрын
Stupendo
@aXmo20
12 жыл бұрын
erstaunlich, ich spiele die toccata in ähnlichem tempo, und spiele das pedal etwas mehr gebunden, aber auf aufnahmen hab ich diese akzentuierte leggiero- leichtigkeit erst einmal von einem franzosen gehört. Best of youtube -exzellent interpretiert !
@pyrotarkus6491
7 жыл бұрын
Emerson, Lake and Palmer brought me here :P
@robertcurrie8510
4 жыл бұрын
PyroTarkus . Me too!
@grables1965
6 жыл бұрын
It is without doubt Bach was sent by God to glorify him with his music where else could it have come from?
@jokinezenarro6699
6 жыл бұрын
From a genius' brain.
@joha750
12 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@DOBORBEN
13 жыл бұрын
ejemplo de lo más grande que puede hacer el hombre...
@willowthebored
15 жыл бұрын
Absolute epiphany! Thank you, sir, for opening my eyes! My path is clear now. I shall go to the desert for forty days before having myself baptized by C'Thulhu in the heavy water of an active nuclear reactor pit.
@googygok
16 жыл бұрын
It is the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where Bach was Thomascantor. He is buried there. By thr way the ornament on the organ is some kind of remaniscence of his famyly coat of arms which he designed himself. You can see a pisture of it at the german wikipedia.
@danielsilvanormal30
5 жыл бұрын
Bravo!!!
@pepkie
4 жыл бұрын
This is very good c:
@KhagarBalugrak
12 жыл бұрын
Yes, absolutely.
@44Woman
16 жыл бұрын
Diese Kirche wird irgendwie magisch, wenn du da stehst und die Orgel beginnt Bachs Fuggen zu spielen .. danke!
@Joshparnell
15 жыл бұрын
that's a great video.
@wannacu100
12 жыл бұрын
superb
@nolany6353
8 жыл бұрын
@KhagarBalugark I disagree. Even if other composers created pieces that matched the complexity of some of Bach's, they did not have as large of an impact on their time period. Even those who have come after Bach are at least in some way influenced by him. And unfortunately some are not skilled enough to comprehend the immense complexity of his greatest works. Not only was Bach an extremely prolific composer but he is influential and virtuosic as well.
@caillousdad5786
6 жыл бұрын
Bach ,actually remained obscured for almost 100 years, he had little impact as a composer during his life. In fact he was mainly known as an organist ,not a composer..Finally Mendelssohn revived his work bringing to public attention!
@jaysonbryant8352
6 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@rrickarr
6 жыл бұрын
Max Reger!
@jaysonbryant8352
6 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@timm7400
5 жыл бұрын
I believe that Johann was about 24 years of age when he wrote this. Very early in his career. Not even close to the height of his later compositional apex.
@pvmuskosming
6 жыл бұрын
*THANKS A LOT, LIKE BACH HIMSELF, MORE THAT EXCELLENT INTERPRETATION, GREETINGS FROM MÉXICO!!!*
@aidanmcsharry3320
8 жыл бұрын
the crest on the organ is Bach's personal seal.....interesting
@JoshuaSobel
7 жыл бұрын
this organ is named after him.
@evanprest6224
7 жыл бұрын
you know your stuff buddy
@stevewallschlaeger1379
4 жыл бұрын
Justly so as he is the one who built it. Originally and that Thomaskirche is where he wrote 5 solid years worth of Cantatas for every solitary Sunday of the year. 5 complete cycles. They don't all exist because CPE Bach used his music for butcher paper. Oldest son and idiot! Interesting but, karma got him we really don't know much of CPE Bachs music. It is probably there but the stuff I've heard bores me. Classical style which came after Baroque period Bach was the last of the notable great Baroque period composers. Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach was eldest in line and son from his first cousin Maria Barbara Bach who died very very young. She bore seven children 13 were born of his second wife Anna Magdalena von Wolcken Bach of whom he dedicated the Anna Magdalena Notebooks to so that she could learn the harpsichord and are yet used today to learn piano. Of Bachs Twenty children only thirteen survived and of the thirteen not all were employed as musicians. Of his musical children are Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach Johann Christoph Bach whom was named for JS Bachs uncle whom he lives with in Ohrdorf when his Mother and father Johann Ambrosius Bach died at the age of 12. Then came Wilhelm Friedemann Bach of whom is known for his own fathers ability to improvise upon the organ and unfortunately did not write most of it down. Then there is the youngest Bach Johann Christian Bach. Who is termed the English Bach because along with Charles John Stanley of whom were similar if not the same age moved to England, and was employed there as a church Organist. Generally considered John Christian Bach as well. His music is extremely delightful to hear and is similar definitely close to his father in certain ways but also very definitely within the Classical style of music literature writing. There is always one I keep thinking I forget. I wish I had my Bach Reader to refer about however what I need is all within the annals of my memory of study
@guillaumelafarge3857
7 жыл бұрын
Best version ever heard
@MrShooteX
7 жыл бұрын
Aren't you that guy on video? lol
@guillaumelafarge3857
7 жыл бұрын
MrShooteX No I'm not, but I wish I could play like him !
@bruesselsjonny
11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely perfect played you can hear each line very clearly very good job , i knew it played it by myself and its a kind of bitch this peace but also one of bachs best works sorry for my words
@charlottewhyte9804
5 ай бұрын
clear lovely ped solo
@Nazardrecit
14 жыл бұрын
The organ is indeed 'tuned sharp' which is to say that the a is tuned higher than the ca. 440 c.p.s. that is the most common tuning today. Anything played on this organ will therefore sound 'higher' than it would if played on an organ at a=440. This most certainly does not mean that 'the pitch is F#' ! It is also common for new organs today to be tuned to equal temperament.
@goeuldi
4 жыл бұрын
Great
@robertgift
15 жыл бұрын
There could be several tuning influences. If old pipes are sagging, they are more vulnerable to more sag which can change pitch. If the old buildings have more temperature variation than newer better insulated and temperature-controlled buildings, that can put the organ out of tune more.
@gulmartin
15 жыл бұрын
Super coll
@lebnenh1
14 жыл бұрын
j.s bach is the greatist
@kyotokid4
13 жыл бұрын
...this is Bach's carillon piece. The imitative carillon style was popular in France at the time. M. Bach just took it to a new level as he did with other forms of the day. At this tempo it sways and peals. Just listen to the phrasing after the second pedal solo, can you not hear the bells ringing? I used to play this piece at a faster tempo myself because that is what I could feel. M. Bohme;'s interpretation and clean articulation makes this piece ring and not sound "hurried".
@eskatee
13 жыл бұрын
A new olympic record
@Contrappunto
14 жыл бұрын
Fine performance and at least comparable to the Alain version uploaded as a 'video response'. Interested in the organ itself, certainly a monument to the great JSB. Herr Bohme is a sure-footed interpreter even if his pedal technique is less authenticated than e.g. Gleeson or Germani. Fugue also fine.
@karlrovey
5 жыл бұрын
Gleeson manual and pedal technique for Bach is considered outdated.
@stevewallschlaeger1379
4 жыл бұрын
No doubt about the beauty. Or the talent of this fine Organist. I think there is more. More conversation to be heard. I think he needs more Dynamics to be envisioning. Like I said before it was wonderful I love it and Bachs instrument at Thomaskirche. I hope he refines it even more.
@robertgift
15 жыл бұрын
Yes, moving mechanical parts will wear out. Pipes do not wear, except for reed pipes whose tuning wire holes and reed fastening holes may enlarge from decades of tuning. Tuning a pipe organ will eventually total more than the cost of the instrument. Many restoration funds are started. But restoration is so expensive it takes a long time to raise enough money. I have heard recordings where I wonder why they did not first tune the instruments.
@CannibalSoggoth
11 жыл бұрын
he must grab his seat on the pedal solo because is FUCKING AWESOME!
@lorenbooker9486
6 жыл бұрын
So It Begins....
@clashtitans2
11 жыл бұрын
The organist, Prof. Bohme, is currently the organist of the Thomaskirche. You might be able to catch him playing on this organ in the church!
@robertgift
15 жыл бұрын
Pipes need to be tuned periodically. The higher the pipe's pitch, the more it can change pitch from dirt settling in the pipe and on pipe walls and from pipe metal movement from cycles of heating and cooling. Low pitched pedal pipes rarely need retuning. It takes quite a lot of change to move their pitch. Reed pipes are more sensitive to heat and changes and need tuning more often.
@Janysek007
10 жыл бұрын
My ears and soul are full of joy. Bach has been fifth evangelist.
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