Bach, Organ Triosonata I, E-flat Major, First Movement, Allegro, BWV 525

[narutomen18]

Hey ! smalin you can make the graphical score for danse macabre of camille saint -saens ! plz!

[BigBiff88]

Smalin are you planning on uploading the rest of the Art of the Fugue?

[smalin]

@BigBiff88 Not exactly planning, but I expect to do more of it.

[BigBiff88]

wicked counterpoint D:

[bachaddict]

This one of my favourite pieces ever. I always get a little excited at 0:38, like I'm getting high (not that I have ever done that)

[vielendankegrandmoon]

So harmonious.....

[Ariavariata95]

Listening to this, but all I can think about is her. God, I'm pathetic.

[mmmont100]

Às composições eternizadas dos autores clássicos e barrocos, é acrescido o grafismo cinético das notas, seus volumes, instrumentos e cores, de um modo que só é possível com o emprego do computador. Simplesmente GENIAL!!!

[CantorNikolaos]

I want an Ahlborn Galanti Archive! How many stops can you pull in a single division? How high is the polyphony? They should have never stopped making these things!

BWV 525 appears in the Allen Quantum Demo CD and this one sounds better!

[smalin]

@CantorNikolaos There are three divisions, pedal, great and swell, and I think there are 4 or 5 stops in the pedal, and something like twice that in the other two. The polyphony is enough to handle ten fingers and two feet; I've never tried more, but I'd be surprised if there was a low limit. Yeah, it's a great unit.

[CantorNikolaos]

@smalin

Yeah, it's a great unit! If it can do that it could be a stand-alone organ and it was only made as an ad-on! I'm assuming it could tract the tuning of a pipe organ so you can add a few stops in each division.

I want one of these things!

[jruizdemena]

estoy harto del anuncio del tio cachas de youtube!!!

[vinkjehorn]

EXCELLENT!!!!

[THOWRIAK]

Pleasantly Bachish. Thanks.

[pedantologist]

To me, the triosonatas sound very unlike Bach's other work.

[smalin]

@pedantologist You probably haven't listened to a lot of his other work. For example, the cantatas have many movements with obbligato solo instruments that are very similar. He used the slow movement of one of his organ triosonatas as the slow movement in a violin concerto, and it is quite similar, stylistically, to the other slow movements of his concerti.

[swedentracknfield]

What does BWV 525 mean?

[md95065]

@swedentracknfield BWV 525 is the "catalog" number of this work in the "Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis" compiled by Wolfgang Schmieder.

[jonnsmusich]

Very Nice. I do prefer the bars and I do prefer your good self playing. Appreciated.

[evaengineer]

Thanks for the bar lines again! :D

[SFChristo]

This is my favorite of the trio sonatas.

[KarateKidX]

beautiful

[vdmerwe]

loving the return to static-blocks, at least for baroque works. pulsating circles are too romantic for this precision-genius.

[kinsmed]

Bars, Steve.  Yeah.

But video split in is okay too.

[RectumPilum]

It's a very nice piece, but I think it get's a little but too much.

[newpepsipopup]

love that when i watch this I hear all the instruments apart and when i close my eyes I hear it as a whole

[smalin]

@newpepsipopup How about if you have one eye open?

[MatchbookD70]

@smalin I don't know about the one eye open thing, but sometimes it's interesting to watch part of it on the visualizer, and then to close the eyes and try to visualize the bar graph continuing in the black background of the eyes, and see if a decently accurate bar graph can be conjured up by imagination and intuition. It's a tough exercise, but good for the mind. I always like to watch these before I pick up the guitar or play the piano to get my mind in gear.

[smalin]

@MatchbookD70 Yes, I've occasionally suggested that exercise to viewers. It also has the effect of helping you hear what's going on in music that you've never seen the graphics for.

[newpepsipopup]

@smalin when right eye is closed I hear it as a whole and when left eye is closed i hear it separately :p

[billegeto]

i too vote for bars! great performance though, Mr. Malinowski; i missed your uploads for a few weeks. Dorottya

[BirdValiant]

Yay for bars!

[bachaddict]

wheee! *jumps up and down* i love the part starting at 0:38 :) :)

[wenaolong]

It lacked the usual interest of a Bach piece. I wasn't moved. This has to be as close to "elevator Bach" I've ever heard.... And I'm a maniac for Bach!! It just seemed to lack the uniqueness of sound that marks each of his pieces, making each of them a life of its own with its own soul. It wasn't BAD, but, it doesn't keep me coming back for more, that's for sure. Not that I would have done better...

[Enix5548]

@wenaolong Do not blame the piece. Blame the performance and the technology involved....

[wenaolong]

@Enix5548 Right, I should check the original just in case, but for the most part, my interest in Bach is mathematical, so that the aesthetics of the piece for me partly derive from the mathematical structure of the overall piece. It feels lacking here. I don't see how this version could be so very different from any other in this respect, as none of the other pieces subjected to this sort of rendering by smalin have seemed to be distorted in the way that counts here, though changed in sound.

[wenaolong]

@Enix5548 Checked out a rather good organ version of this music, as it was meant to be heard. It made a big difference, but I still had the same overall feeling about the piece. Too flat for my taste. I don't like this side of Bach's work. I don't "blame" anything. It's simply the case that my appeal for Bach has finally shown a limit, and I'd say this work is an example of where I start lose interest. When I heard Passacaglia and Fugue, THAT blew me away and does every time.

[franielee38]

Great work! Bubbles or squares, you do great work!

[pedantologist]

yay!

[nerfherders123]

No love for the bubbles? Sure, it was kind of hard to see how long a specific note lasted, but they looked really nice :(

...I actually prefer the bars too though, lol.

[cottonginchild]

I don't think the bars are better than the bubbles or vice versa, but I DO think that the bars are THE BEST way to represent Bach. Check out the other Bach animations for a comparison between the two.

[Nykytyne2]

I love this trio sonata by the way. Great performance.

[smalin]

@Nykytyne2  The Bach organ trio sonatas were the reason I started playing the organ; they're the greatest.

[Nykytyne2]

Even though the bars are plainer than the bubble things, I think I prefer them. They seem to represent the music more clearly.

[nomainreason]

baroque annoys me. this was nice though

[smalin]

@nomainreason That's odd --- I like baroque, but this one annoys me ... the more I listen to it, the more the krummhorn stop grates on my nerves ...

[ScribbleMouse]

first one!

yeah the bars are BACK!

i'm just more use to this