Buxtehude Preludium d minor

[gidimeir]

Truly beautiful and inspiring performance! Thank you Maestro!

[peteacher52]

Nice comment by bigmandrel, above. Each great organist interprets this piece differently. I have Piet Kee, Peter Hurford, Walter Kraft and Harald Vogel playing it on CD's and LP's, and each is excellent. Bear in mind also that on this video, Arjen Leistra did not have the luxury of multiple "takes" or the professional sound gear that go into the making of a commercial recording. This was a very fine performance and I enjoyed it.

[austiefernoth]

Hats off to you, sir! A most enticing performance, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you.

[bigmandrel]

Listening again to this work. Wow! It is a grand experience. The triple counterpoint is epic.

[bigmandrel]

Perhaps those of you who are less than happy with this performance can offer their videos of themselves playing this great organ work. Surely we could all benefit from hearing how it is truly supposed to be played.

[bigmandrel]

Thank you for the wonderful performance. This is one of my favorite works for organ. I especially liked your particular phrasing (to use a modern term) of the 1st fugue subject, and your choices of tempo for the various sections. Everyone does it differently, or rather, should. What I heard here was beautifully individual and invigorating in spirit. Bravo!

[1401JSC]

NB I am not advocating a metronomic interpretation, but, like Robin Hood, whatever is robbed (from the rich) is given back (to the poor).

[AlexanderZographos]

you guys are mistinterpreting the manner of the piece- he is playing this piece as closely to the method of the times as well as in buxtehude's style, not to mention that this piece is most likely an improvisation- so withing these respects he is masterfully balancing all these together while making the music have emotion and character

[1401JSC]

Ah?

Empfindsamkeit came with Bach's sons.

What Baroque composer or theorist has written about rubato?

What Baroque composer or theorist defends the point opf view that we should not be able to distinguise a regular pulse in music?

Should we not make a difference between Fantasias (sort of freely improvised), Preludes (formally structured introductions to... another piece) and Toccatas (brilliane of touch)?

But this has nothing to do with robbing the time and never paying back.

[AlexanderZographos]

"robbing time" is one aspect-the baroque era as we all know represents the highest plateau of musical achievement- just as they mastered the art of time so too they did in harmony- this is what modern"theorists" dubbed as counterpoint- another word for theorist is "speculator"-ideas change-sadly we are still in an age of musical forensics-where there are more dogmas in fantasias than there is fantasy, and it is fantasies that ration the pulse.a more objective word for fantasy is "impulse"

[1401JSC]

"As we all know" is a teachers trick to fool his students into thinking they are idiots.

On what research are you basing this?

Early theoreticians (Rossi, Tosi, Mersenne,, CPE Bach Mozart) say of rubato

- "stringendocalando"

- melodic, the accompaniment resting regular; the time is bent elastically around a basic pulse which does not vary.

When Mersenne speaks of changing the tactus in accord with passions and feelings, he means use a faster or slower tempo, not vary the tempo in a piece.

[debartzen]

De una belleza que impresiona,¡Vaya gran interpretación!Mi mayor admiración.

[davbear221]

Interesting tempi! Whats with the constant ritards and "over" phrasing. I know this piece very well and have used it in several programs but it really lacked forward momentum from all the long overdone ritards. Difficult to listen to!

[gooseholla1]

Sounds like the recording not the organ.

[pinorg]

Dear God, I don't know if it was the Van Vulpen organ, Mr Leistra's registration or the sound technician but this was some of the most incoherent racket I have ever heard.