J.S. Bach Fuga BWV 537, Aare-Paul Lattik Organ, Orgue

[Erikk91]

i think that Bach is romantic, because also with a rigid structure ( a fugue ) and a rigid instrument ( the organ ) he is the only one who can make me feel emotions. ( words of a pianist)

[hautyboy]

Really well played. This piece has a great tempo, a kind of roller coaster momentum?

[User846]

Jätte vackert!

[thegoddescomposer]

J.S. Bach is the last person who was sended by God to Earth

[robmcw]

Excellent tempo!

[peteacher52]

Everything about this video is good. Excellent organist, smallish organ with a big heart, reasonable acoustics (understood that this is not a cathedral!) and commendable recording quality. I'd just love to hear you playing at, say, Roskillde Dom or any of the big Dutch or German organs.  I know! Come to New Zealand and play the newly restored and magnificent Klais organ in the Auckland Town Hall for us. You've obviously got the skills - you'd love it. And so would we. Cheers.

[aceofdatabase]

aarepaul: would you consider uploading a higher fidelity video of this? This is a very special fugue.

[ilorts]

Marvellous. Bach is father of fugue! Setiap musik dari Bach rangkaian melodinya selalu tepat di hati.

[JulianJohnannes]

Superb, I love it. Played convincingly apparently with great ease. Tempo coherent throughout.

[JulianJohnannes]

Superb, played convincingly with apparently great ease. I love it.

[BeyondxDescription]

Why all the Atheism talk? Little man can play his fingers and toes off! That's all that matters.

[Cygnusiii]

Great performance! Please post more.

[MusicPredominates]

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[leonboelmann]

Bravissimo,

ho qualche idea diversa circa il fraseggio,

ma sono opinioni personali che non tolgono nulla alla bravura dell'organista.

Bravo!

[leonboelmann]

....scusate,

ma sono composizioni che richiedono ad alta voce strumenti mastodontici....

...non avremmo avuto Picasso senza i suoi colori, ne' Michelangelo senza i suoi marmi....

perche' avere Bach senza i suoi srumenti?

esecuzione splendida!

[Karnal07]

A true artist ! Great Man !

[Binladinek]

5 Stars * * * * *

Bravo ! * * * * *

[gurdyflowers]

Very good!!

[fugeman18]

I must say that the spirit of Bach will not cease....

[ToccataInF]

Everyone plays staccato these days which lets you cheat on the pedal technique (You don't go toe slides on 2 white keys wihout turning the ankle to keep a legato)(as well as the manual slides) but not a bad performance.

[advisorC101]

I agree. For perfection one must play legato.

Good points on the pedal techniques as well.

[aceofdatabase]

Anthony Newman performs it better on the harpsichord but this is a respectable organ performance. I wish he would incorporate more dynamics considering he has helper lady to pull the stops for him.

[organman52]

I have never heard this piece sound so perfectly beautiful. Perfect tempo. Slight rhythmic nuances are just right. The manual dexterity is phenomenal.

[anaaliciam15]

¡Espéndido!

[tomchem567]

To jest po prostu świetne!!! Robi na prawdę duże wrażenie, zresztą wszystkie fugi Bacha robią ogromne wrażenie.

[2video]

Where was this video recorded? A good performance with nice tempo.

[aarepaul]

thanks, in Tallinn St. Michael's Swedish church

[ChristianSojourner]

Most people don't understand the miracle of Bach's music. But for those who do, it's an amazing and awe inspiring thing.

Thank God for Bach!

[aceofdatabase]

I am an atheist but would agree that "miraculous" describes some of Bach's pieces.

[ginnytwt]

That was amazing

[whomakemefeel]

Here we listen to different things in the understanding and meaning we listen to reason and emotion, both are sailing very deep here and see the genius of Bach in the introduction comes the meaning of the concepts of human mystery that we have heard born in confusion and often people called Bach of blackout in the decoration in he's music but Bach is reflected in A sense of deep sense of meaning inherent to all humanity.. hear Bach music and after that say your judge about him but no so fast

[Vaksel]

aleluja!

[wcbroccoli]

Paul, you are HOT, in every sense of the word!

[PeteWagstaff]

a fiendish piece played technically superbly. though perhaps a tad devoid of spirit...

[Kmicic503]

Organ music gives improbable experiences, but how it sees one another how organist plays, then it seems, that he has three hands and two legs.

[Dragonbratt88]

Wow that was excellent!!! Encore! Love the facial expression of concentration.

[MarkHarmer]

As always, superb musicianship. Wonderful playing!

[muzical15]

nice. Its played very well. :)

[soley158]

Bravo !

[mmmmeli]

He is great both to the ear and the eye! ;-)

[PiedPuyper]

Paul, excellent Bach playing!

For a smaller instrument, it has guts.

I think the pedal articulation is just right.

A detached pedal can be very annoying.

[assistantorganist]

Just out of interest... and i'm sure we've had this debate already but i thought we decided that you get much better pedal articulation using toes only!?

[smh2o]

In Bach's time pedals were so short, you could only play them with your toes. So it would be the authentic way to play like that, I guess.

[assistantorganist]

This is very true but you have much better control of the attack and release of the pedal itself when playing with toes only. (I should add that it's not just that pedals are short, it's that the sharps were so high that you wouldn't have been able to shift from sharp to natural without exceptionally high heels!)

[ZoeEGrace]

The poor girl turning the pages looks frightened to death! I hope he doesn't shout at her if she turns over two pages at once or something! I once played this in public and accidentally played an A natural instead of an A flat so it became a fugue in C Major. OOPS! Anyway, he plays it very well.

[wcbroccoli]

Wouldn't "C, D, E-flat, F, G, A, B-flat" be Dorian (on C) rather C major? LOL

[ZoeEGrace]

You would be right, technically - had I played the whole fugue with A natural instead of A flat (and no B naturals of course.) But in fact I just played the first few notes - C.G.G.G.G.A...F.D.F.B natural and followed on with A-flat.G.F.E flat etc. So what I played was not a dorian but the Second Mode of Limited Transposition and the fugue was now by Messiaen rather than Bach. ;) Haha.

[TheTrumpetologist]

what a lovely shiny head he has.

Check out the gloss.

nice touch.

[istanbulmerkez]

ÇOK GÜZEL BABA YA

[joeyboi87]

too fast seems as if hes in a hurry to get finished

[robotech3]

afferin lan zibidi :)

[sailingforde04]

Bach played in his most original form. This is how it wou;d of sounded on the organs of the baroque era not the mighty younger ones. Both ways sound as beautiful though. All I can say is Bravo Bach

[diesiraestudios]

AMAZING IMMORTAL BACH

[eggory]

i'm impressed enough that you at least seemed to hit all the notes.

[vici7]

I love the organ!!! but this is so difficult! I can't undersand how sb can learn to play that!I mean, how know they what they have to do with their feet!?

[Tazeruk]

Me too, I love the organ !! I'm learning it for 2 years (and piano for 8 years) and I can tell you that when you're sitting and when you must play with your feet, it needs a lot of concentration but after a few months, it seems not so difficult !!

[kate10662]

Those aren't female shoes. They are just male shoes with a flat top. It's hard to tell because of the lighting. Female organ shoes have less of a top, and a strap to hold them on.

Nice playing. Wish I could play this.

[albysansan]

Very good.

P.S.:Female shoes? Where??? 0.o

[Schalmey8]

where is that interesting organ?

[alwa3dalsadek]

thats very excellent

[alwa3dalsadek]

why does he wear female shoes???

[T3RM1N83R]

because you play the pedals (normally) with a high heel shoe (a bit higher than male shoes)

this doesn't mean its a female shoe, you should expand your vision.

[aceofdatabase]

I am so sick of reading about his shoes aimlessly as I listen to this on my favorites list again and again.

[wheidelberg]

Wonderful performance! Where is this expressive organ located? It too, add much to the preformance.

[codomannus]

it is so well, you play bach in a very nice mode, compliments...only you should play it on a bigger organ!

[robertgift]

Not that easy finding a bigger organ.

What matters more is finding a bigger, more live, room. Helmut Walcha plays this best.

[Funkypotat0]

I simply love your choice of stops. It has a great tone to it. I daresay that those opening few notes have the best overall sound I have ever heard from any introduction.

[contrafagott77]

Great performance! I do agree, you play Bach as you feel him inside you...good work guy!

[laclef2002]

Speed or legato is not a problem. Ther's no rules to play Bach : only the good taste and the pleasure of playing.

[Joern234]

Excellent!!!

[robertgift]

Excellent spirited performance of a difficult work.

Great video especially showing pedals.

Annoyed at U-tube that sound and video are not in perfect sync. Middle section pedal is too robust.

Save that for later. Slightly slow when concluding one section before starting next.  Listen to Helmut Walcha.

[Bachlives2]

What does it matter as long as it sounds fantastic?

[robertgift]

For the middle section I remove the pedal reed

and go to the Oberwerke. Makes a nice contrast, relief to the ears, and allows build up of next section. Are you, Bach2, referring to the video not matching audio? I like to study others' manual and pedal technique and want video/audio accurate. Don't stop recording until echo dies away!!!! NEXT: Record in STEREO! Many camcorders are now stereo. Makes such glorius difference in organ. Wonderful, Aare-Paul. Thank you!

[reivajthepianist]

you are great men!!!!!! congratulations!!

[LughGlas85]

Hey now, one must give credit where it is due. The fact that he can play it, AND (hopefully) add his own interpretation to the music is impressive. He probably was born a composer and just stuck with the organ.... lol...... only.

[3NUNS]

Simply awaful 'cos taken at speed.

The central part is to be played faster and thus the outer sections cannot but be played andantino.

[Funkypotat0]

Hehe, I wasn't expecting a guy with long hair playing and a girl standing next to him.

[joeyboi87]

I dont like this playing at all....he is actually changing speed throughout the piece and it does actually sound very legato

[spacecadet2016]

Some nice things about his performance, but still too legato. The sound doesn't come across all that well—so hard to record organo plenum. Is the organ naturally jangly? Just a little more reverb would have been good, either through mike placement or electronically added.

[ForestChav]

That pedal board looks, well, English...

[geheimnisvolle]

Great sound, excellent work and player...

[ProfMoose]

I enjoyed that. We could do with more like this on Youtube.

[yaerbb]

excellent, thanks

[cdwheel]

aarepaul please upload more videos from this concert, and from bach! (interpreted by this great organist)

[Jm4steam]

very nice

[ZawiahSaki]

A very fine performance. I would like to hear you play the Fantasia that goes with it too. More more!

[alwa3dalsadek]

your fuckin talentuous

[russbaker]

what a tapestry of sound, lovely tone, excellent performance. i only wish i was there.

[nathanfornash]

Excellent stuff

[Rockyrog]

Fantastic job on this Bach Fugue! Loved it.

This young man IS talented!! How great he played!!!

Many thanks!!

[firebreathone]

Good stuff dude

[ZachariasHildebrandt]

That organ doesn't look like much but sure packs some punch and character. Great performance.

[ki2134]

Brillant!

[patti89]

Akzentuiertes Spiel, der Organist ist sehr einfühlig in die Bachschen Orgelwerke, eine wirklich gelungene Aufnahme!

[Claus12]

Sehr gut gelungene Aufnahme an dieser Orgel.