Very meditative and beautiful! I feel like I'm at the lakeside with swans playing! thanks! Phil😍😀😀
@OrganGuyPhil
3 ай бұрын
I’m glad you like it! You write the best musical descriptions! 😊🎶😊
@RienSchalkwijk
3 ай бұрын
Beautiful Phil. This book is filled with very usable pieces!
@OrganGuyPhil
3 ай бұрын
Agreed!!! I use so many of these older editions very often! 😊
@philippelegargean5120
3 ай бұрын
Always a pleasure to hear again.
@OrganGuyPhil
3 ай бұрын
It’s even better if I didn’t make so many mistakes. Lol.
@grahamtwist
3 ай бұрын
Beautiful, Phil! If it was very hot in the church . . . your performance was wonderfully cool! Of course, this famous Bach 'Air' has a most interesting ‘sobriquet’ - a nickname that really has nothing at all to do with Bach or the original score. The story of why this piece is known as ‘Air on a G String’ may interest you, if you do not already know! Bach was a coffee fanatic and one of his favorite places was Zimmermann’s Coffee Shop in Leipzig. When he wasn’t directly engaged with music in church, he was there quite often, enjoying his favorite drink (apparently up to 20 cups a day!). But he also made music at Zimmermann’s. Bach ran a student music society called ‘Collegium Musicum’ and they rehearsed and performed in the coffee shop. It’s believed that his beautiful orchestral suites were written for ‘Collegium Musicum’, and therefore would have had their premieres at rehearsal at Zimmermann’s. The suites consist mainly of courtly dances, but in the middle of Suite No.3 comes this breathtaking ‘Air’: a steadfast, resolute, gentle bass line with a sublime melody winding its way around the accompaniment. But this is not how the music got its nickname. For that we have to move forward 150 years or so after Bach’s death with a focus on August Wilhelmj, a German violinist and band leader (he'd have welcomed having you play in his band!). August loved Bach’s ‘Air’ and so he created a version of it for strings and organ that sounds altogether more ‘romantic’ than Bach’s original. And here’s the crucial part - he transposed it down from the original key of D (which your arrangement by Lorenz is in) to C. That meant that Wilhemmj’s violinists could play the whole tune on just one of the violin’s strings - the ‘G String’ . . . and so the title was coined. (I found a simplified version in C courtesy of IMSLP, and so I play that version as it does not matter how hot or cold it is in church as the score is relatively easy to manage!)
@OrganGuyPhil
3 ай бұрын
How did I not know that story? It’s a great one! Thank you for the education on a Monday! 🎶😊🎶
@MarkusDrejaOrganist
3 ай бұрын
Very interesting arrangement from Bach's famous piece
@OrganGuyPhil
3 ай бұрын
To me the change of key adds more of a somber tone to the piece. I use it often for funeral preservice music. 🎶🙏🎶
@SecretsofOrganPlaying
3 ай бұрын
It's very interesting to hear this aria's solo part being played in the lower octave range.
@OrganGuyPhil
3 ай бұрын
I agree. It definitely has a different mood in the key of D. 🎶😊🎶
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