Buxtehude: Passacaglio BuxWV 161

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Demian

[yasujiwakamatsu]

C'est tres bien,excellence!

[kourosh89]

This sounds a lot like Bach's Passacaglia in C minor.

[Blightyish]

Far too fast and no phrasing at all. It seem the perfomer wants to express absoutely nothing by his playing. So superficial and typically non-European.The organist is really not in any contact with his music.

[Blightyish]

Far too fast and no phrasing at all. It seem the perfomer wants to express absoutely nothing by his playing.

[ml3229]

I VERY much enjoyed this performance - BRAVO!!

[TheJackHarkness]

omg this sounds so much like Bach's passa

[LiberateEireIRA]

@TheJackHarkness yeah...like....what???

[TheJackHarkness]

@LiberateEireIRA Bach's Passacaglia?

[LiberateEireIRA]

@TheJackHarkness yeah i was agreeing with you. I said "...like...what?" because the similarity is just so striking (or at least the first few bars). I'm surprised he didn't sue :)

[TheJackHarkness]

@LiberateEireIRA lol I know. I first listened to Bach's passacaglia and then to this one and I can conclude that Bach's sounds better lol :D

[kourosh89]

@LiberateEireIRA Composers used to steal from each other all the time and no one cared. Interestingly, Bach's close friend Telemann was one of the first composers to pursue exclusive publication rights for his own works.

[12345qazx1]

It s a pity that acoustic is somewhat too dry for this compositions.Though organ itself is ok,so is the organist..

[locomotifx]

Cool. Men like Bach are held (justly in his case!) to be the "great" composers of whatever era; his is a household name, yet what would J.S. Bach have done in isolation from this music? (walked there, ha-ha)

[catherinebruno]

Bravo!

[paqman67]

There's no such thing as a "true" performance. Even genuises like Bach changed their performance techniques on same pieces they wrote based on instrument, acoustics, etc. The way the performer played it ws a tic faster than what I'm used to hearing, but it was excellently played!! better slightly fast than mind numbingly slow & boring!!!zzzz...

[bigmandrel]

@paqman67 I agree on all counts! Cheers!

[zeradium]

pas dac avec pangloss

on suit tres bien les progressions harmoniques sans pathos superflu

[pangloss8]

Oh, why, oh, why would one want to gallop through this? It's supposed to be elegant and stately. I want to savor all the lovely notes and chord progressions. Not possible here, unfortunately.

[kram2158]

@pangloss8  I agree with you

[rp1703]

@pangloss8

Sometimes one falls in love with the first rehearsal tempo and then savours every note. Its like a mathematical talk: you wish you could tell people all the technical difficulties you have suffered and finally overcome, but no one wants to hear it!

[Drakopulous]

@rp1703 exactly...

[pipeorganloverNJP]

You can tell that Bach was inspired from this.

[freakjobb]

@pipeorganloverNJP Well that makes sense since Buxtehude was his teacher.

[1banders]

@freakjobb Like Handel, Mattheson, Telemann and other German composers of his day, Bach was influenced by the music of Buxtehude, but Buxtehude was not Bach's teacher. Bach didn't take lessons from him. Bach was already an accomplished, professional organist and composer before he ever even saw Buxtehude.

Bach studied with his eldest brother, organist J. C. Bach, and at the Latin school in Lueneburg.

[edolch]

Lovely!

[29vjGKfg783Gownc]

Is that a tracker?

[edolch]

It would appear so

[mudws]

The organ has a suspended tracker key action (mechanical), but an electric stop action with solid state combinations, controlled by the white buttons below the keys.

[tmwysong]

Awesome

[accousticdecay]

Excellent!