@TonyWRO Please,you're welcome! Oh,its a pity! You can use a 2' or 1',too. It sounds similar. I could even play on this fascinating organ. The technical and the sound of this organ is almost in original state since 1766! :-)
Io ho provato un'emozione intensa ascoltando questa grandiosa Passacaglia suonata da Richter. Penso di essere fortunata.
Un'emozione che forse potrebbe suscitare solo un meraviglioso paesaggio naturale, la vista dell'oceano in tempesta, o di una foresta immersa nella nebbia, dall'alto di un monte, all'alba...
Sentire brividi in tutto il corpo ascoltando (o suonando) Bach è uno stato di grazia, chissà perchè, concesso ormai a pochi.
This totally needs a dubstep version. But in all seriousness, I'm surprised that, to my knowledge, no one has been making dubstep/electronic/shit remixes of classical songs. It would be a good way to lure them away from that noise and get them to listen to this noise.
How can one posibly think that he then aimed for the thin, half-starving, sneekers hip-hop sound in pieces like the "Kyrie" of the b minor mass, as is fashionable in so many period recordings of our day.
the organ case is actually carved from a large block of milk chocolate. that's why it's called ro"coco". the hershey company donated the material. they must keep the AC humming in the basilica in summer months to prevent meltdown.
People hear a great classical piece of music..& go WOW.! But often the piece of music is inferrior to other classical/performances which are superior...DO NOT TAKE a great classical piece alone...search out other interpretations. There are many. Some are good, some bad & terrible. Use your ears...they will tell the good from the crap.
This is nice. But the best version I have ever heard is on vinyle, "Carl Weinrich" 1967.."Music for pleasure". Recording....(everything is delinatated on the track)
That was a low bubget recording, but I've never heard anything close to it. Those versions I have heard have been so bad (over the top) as to be embarrasing....just "Screaming Organs" making a horrible sound. Not 'Bach' at all, or anything he conceived.
I've "disliked" this, not because of the piece or the performer (others have correctly drawn attention to these), but because it is incomplete and a very distorted recording. So no, it is not perfection at all. And I am the most devout of Bachoholics...
Richter, true master of the registers and also the organ of Bach interpretation. Every body should take a leaf from this Teacher and Mentor ! Real life lessons.. and great humanity ! Mistergiorgio1-----------Foggia(italy)
@chairday Really? You don't really have to keep all notes in piano transcription - some can be moved aside. By making your own transcription, you can configure the difficulty.
I know that Richter recorded this piece several times. Could you tell me which year he recorded this version? I hear it is in the Baroque Pitch as compared to his 1978 version on the Silbermann Organ in Frieberg. Thanks in advance.
@redbrian3655 Which one do you like more? As for me, I'm preferring this one, mostly for the more quiet passages (0:55, 5:44), his registration makes them really sublime.
@weisserriese93 For me, it is not so much which one I prefer, but rather what was it in Richter that created two very different, yet wonderful interpretations. As a musician, I played pieces one way when I was younger, and then began to play them differently as I grew older. I have wondered if Richter, like many of us, still was experimenting with trying to get to that core of emotion in us when we express music. Sometimes, the instrument, itself, inspires us to play one way. Just thots. Brian
@redbrian3655 I would agree on your last point, at the same time I'm wondering how this interpretation might sound without the distortion/overdrive, I am really not sure if that what I hear in this recording is the original sound of the pipes, or, just a distortion. Of course both interpretations aren't better than each other, but for me
he just made everything right in this one (probably just because I listened to this one at first).
@weisserriese93 I re-listened to (0:55,5:44). Doing these registrations really lifts us up and then down and then..... it keeps us surprised and guessing.,, which is great! Some organists, and I am not knocking them, play this piece pretty much at one level. It seems that Stokowski, in his orchestral transcription, uses the same method as Richter in keeping us surprised and almost unsettled. The one who says Bach can only be interpreted one way is incorrect. (I was ready to say something else)
@redbrian3655 Dear friend you have to find an interview of Karl Richter that he's saying exactly the same thing It is is very interesting to listen him!
Russian mountains up and down alike fine artistic composers (Bach-Haendel-Paganini and many others)! I still wonder why when music can be simple and easy going !
Richter dans la passacaille est tellement... comment dirais-je ? luthérien ! Quel dommage qu'il soit desservi par cette prise de son un peu amateur. Enfin même comme ça je m'en lasse pas.
@Cacacos Hahaha. Prove it. You made the positive assertion so the burden of proof is on you. Go ahead - prove the unprovable. I'll sit here and wait.....
Maravillosa música de Bach. Quizás sea la obra más maravillosa del dios Bach. Hay que orila muchas veces y cuanto más la oyes más te gusta, más nuevos matices descubres, más belleza.....
Gracias a Karl Richter por su soberbia interpretación, y no sólo de de esta obra concreta, si no de toda la producción y ejecución de la grandiosa obra de Bach.
Saludos y gracias por brindarnos la oportunidad de escuchar esta música.
MY MOTHER INTRODUCED ME TO SERIOUS MUSIC, AND PARTICULARLY TO THE PASSACAGLIA, WHICH SHE CONSIDERED THE CREME DE LA CREME OF MUSIC... HOW RIGHT SHE WAS... I HOPE SHE LISTENS TO BACH IN HEAVEN, AND THAT SOME DAY WE MAY LISTEN TO HIM TOGETHER, WITH GOD AS OUR HOST... GOD BLESS ALL LIVING BEINGS, YES, YOU WHO ARE READING THIS ALSO!!!
@Thepoetastro Thank you for your blessing. Some believe there exists a tiny fragment of God inside our Heart of Hearts. If we could only hear what our Heart is trying to tell us, we would be together with God that is Within, then God would be with us.
Music can be an expression of what is beautifull within us.
May we remember what we are aspiring to become in the small daily things that we do.
@Thepoetastro - Yes, God bless all living beings...so long as they're Lutherans, right? I mean I'm not prejudice or anything...Catholics make good soldiers...under white officers of course.
@Mkamalid I WRITE WITH CAPITAL LETTERS, BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY KEYBOARD... AND NOW SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT: THE PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH:
AIR, WATER, SLEEP, SUNSHINE, EXERCISE, AND THEN, ONLY THEN FOOD, IN SMALL AMOUNTS AND AS PRIMITIVE AS POSSIBLE... I TRIED IT, IT WORKS, IT ALLOWS YOUR BODY/MIND/SPIRIT TO BECOME THE BEST DOCTOR, PHARMACIST, HOSPITAL IN THE WORLD... BUT IT DOES REQUIRE PATIENCE AND TENACITY. READ BOOKS BY ARNOLD EHRET (DIED IN 1922)... GOD BLESS
@Thepoetastro My mother died recently, and she was a musician too. I don't think she would have considered the Passacaglia the creme de la creme, but she appreciated Bach for the master that he was, and encouraged me to take his music seriously.
I wish i'd lived in Bach's time so i could meet him and try to express my feelings. Him and Beethoven i deeply love and admire. In my humble opinion, while there have been several great composers and musicians through the whole human history none managed to get even close to them.
KARL RICHTER SPIELT DIE PASSACAGLIA AUSWENDIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: eines der schwehrsten instrumental stücke überhapt...oder sieht wer noten^^???
@Philipp232323 Er spielt fast alles auswendig! Das kann man kaum glauben aber dat ist doch richtig so. Vor allem die Bachstücke, die nach meiner Meinung die schwierigste sind. Ein Supermeister er war.
Although the video sound is terrible one cannot but admire the mastery of Richter as he performs the most majestic piece of organ music ever written IMO.
There was never music where you could feel the passion of love for your spouse, the joy of your children's birth, the pain of losing a loved one, the struggle of living, the adrenaline of a fistfight, the contempt against a mass murderer, the satisfaction of decent steak dinner, and the celebration of graduating college, all in one piece...until Bach came along...
And one other thing, why did the 213,000 people who viewed this not go on to watch the Fugue?! Part 2 of this recording is one of the most powerful pieces of music ever written!
@Softship1 Yes I'm aware that Richter died in 1981. This recording was made in 1969 I think. My point is that the last few minutes of this fugue are on the 'Legacy of Karl Richter' DVD and that doesn't have the distortion of this posting. I was just making the point that a 'cleaner' version would be nice.
I suppose that's the price we have to pay to be able to watch him play - which I think is well worth it. Observing the actual physical act is fascinating.
I would think that there are digitally remastered media with better sound qualify available - but online you probably have to compromise.
@Softship1 Absolutely agree - I was so thrilled to be able to see this after growing up listening to my mother's recordings of Richter in the 60s. Seeing him playing (and his unbelievable pedal work) is a real joy. I'm slightly obsessed with the Passacaglia at the moment, have to listen to it at least once a day.
@kniphofia Yes, the pedal work really is amazing - in 582/2, too. I can understand your obsession - I've got a similar "problem". I'm thinking about going to a good CD store in town today to see what I can find - and then listening on the big stereo system. (My little Bose speakers hooked to the PC aren't bad, but I like the idea of top-quality sound really thundering through my home even better. It's all your fault... :-))
Nothing in this world is perfect or exact, including all of us. Even molecules and atoms have their little imperfections that give them their character. It is interesting how we can sense such imperfection and regard it as beauty - aesthetics 101.
What a load of tripe most of you are writing !! Just enjoy the magnificence of the music and the craftesmanship that built the organ. You dont have to be Christian to like organ music in fact you can still walk into a church whatever your donomination !!
@skellefteaAB I agree. The organ is an instrument just like any other. You don't have to be hindu to enjoy the sitar right? Well, at least the Beatles agree...
Anyway a real full organ can only fit in a church anyway lol.
Not true about the full organ ! Look at the Royal festival hall, london. It has the worlds largest pipe and deepest note. Also look at the Royal Albert hall London which has the most pipes in any organ. Both are on youtube to see as videos.
Nonetheless, the better, deeper, wiser part of me finds it simply impossible to believe that such beautiful, daedal, truly glorious music could have come into being through mere
@polymath7 well like most artists tastes develop and vary from one work to another and are appropriate to those contexts; such as chamber works, sonatas, cantatas. Some are inspired by religious enigma, some are inspired by nature, some are inspired by festivity.
this piece is meant to be a good example of deceptive cadence. I'm really poor in theory. could anyone explain how to find deceptive cadence here? thx
Just listen to the theme at the beginning of the piece.First you hear it plain, then it is repeated again and again throughout the whole piece, hidden in different settings. If you listen carefully you will hear it go on and on till the end. Amazing.
Yes its there alright. You have to pay attention closely. The melody is always there, just in a different "form" and brought out differently. Bach probably put more musical genius, and time in this than most people spend doing their whole musical career. Absolutely spectacular. Probably Bachs best.
Der Klang der Dreifaltigkeitsorgel im Kloster Ottobeuren ist unbeschreiblich. Das habe ich schon selber ausprobieren können... Der singende Klang der Mixturen bei der Steigerung in der Passacaglia am Ende und bei ca. 05:00 führen bei mir zu einem Gänsehauteffekt.
But, seriously, it certainly looks very difficult to play.
I didn't ever really manage to play the piano very well - so - best of luck! Have fun. If you learn to play a musical instrument you will have a pleasure and an interest throughout your life.
i don't know how one could disagree on that point! Organ is, in my sense, the most complete instruments. And I'm not an organist. Part of me wishes though!!
Genial und Wundervoll gespielt! Richter ist einer der besten Organisten die jemals auf unserer Erde gelebt haben;) Besser und schöner hätte es selbst bach nicht spielen können:)
you're right it is only half a tone. I don't think the organ is false, the recording doesn't seem slow to me as well. I do like this lower setting actually.
didnt baroque usually tune sharp? so your saying this one is tuned a full step down from baroque style or standard tuning today? there would be a half step difference - im asking because i think i might write a song in this tuning. its just beautiful.
Dear evhgl87, please compaire this interpretation with the interpretation of Helmut Walcha - you will hear a great difference. Helmut Walcha is well of Bach :-)
how can A415 be beautiful and A440 boring? whatever freq you're tuned to, all your notes are still the same intervals relative to one another.
in fact this could be in Am or Dm and still have the same exact feel as long as the instrument is equal tempered.
i don't understand why people make such a big deal out of something like 25Hz, something nearly negligible when you're in the 400s) it's a quartertone down so what? it's all completely relative
i don't prefer either nor any other, like i said everything is still the same relative to itself so it makes no diff to me. go wild and tune to 490 for all i care, as long as it's in tune! i think the way the piece is interpreted is much more relevant.
Well equal temperament isn't too my liking either when it comes to the Baroque repertoire. When I listen to an equally tempered baroque organ, compared to one in meantone or werckmeister, I personally prefer the "uneven" temperament.
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Hi,i am looking for a fugue speciallist to tell me what is that chromatic fugue:
youtube.com/watch?v=yotypIIavlQ&list=HL1326399726&feature=mh_lolz
I found it as notes and then i made it with a music notation program
Enlightenment82 1 week ago
I can't believable this is a great connect the voice. the Organ were use in 100 %.
THEHugeOrganPlayer 2 weeks ago
this....is...the voice of God
CziffraTheThird 1 month ago
Which stops Richter used at 6:07?
TonyWRO 2 months ago
@TonyWRO I think Bourdon or Flûte 8 and Larigot 1 1/3 on Positif... :-)
glockengambe 2 months ago
@glockengambe Thanks. Unfortunately there is no organ with Larigot 1 1-3 in my town.
TonyWRO 2 months ago
@TonyWRO Please,you're welcome! Oh,its a pity! You can use a 2' or 1',too. It sounds similar. I could even play on this fascinating organ. The technical and the sound of this organ is almost in original state since 1766! :-)
glockengambe 2 months ago
@glockengambe Ok, I'll try. Did you really play on Dreifaltigkeitsorgel? It must be awesome.
TonyWRO 2 months ago
@TonyWRO Yes,that's true... :-) Two or three jears ago. I was even allowed to look inside the organ! Karl Riepp was a true artist...
glockengambe 2 months ago
Is this a church they're playing in ?
fensterchunster 2 months ago
@fensterchunster
no its my toilett ...
ofc this is a church , what a question ^...
Dirkovic80 3 weeks ago
Io ho provato un'emozione intensa ascoltando questa grandiosa Passacaglia suonata da Richter. Penso di essere fortunata.
Un'emozione che forse potrebbe suscitare solo un meraviglioso paesaggio naturale, la vista dell'oceano in tempesta, o di una foresta immersa nella nebbia, dall'alto di un monte, all'alba...
Sentire brividi in tutto il corpo ascoltando (o suonando) Bach è uno stato di grazia, chissà perchè, concesso ormai a pochi.
Lenamarni 3 months ago
this is sooooooooo nice
TheSpeakerseeker 3 months ago
God speaks through Bach
niki171777 3 months ago
This totally needs a dubstep version. But in all seriousness, I'm surprised that, to my knowledge, no one has been making dubstep/electronic/shit remixes of classical songs. It would be a good way to lure them away from that noise and get them to listen to this noise.
fukyous 4 months ago
wait... obviously Richter.... ;)
madamewho 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Karl Richter
that kid is really pulling all the stops there. :( :( :(
I'm so sorry.
ChocloManx 4 months ago
what a gorgeous organ... @thepoetastro, your mother was right saying the passacaglia is the creme de la creme! i love this music.
markovka246 4 months ago
This is the best version out there!
paowens1 5 months ago
Karl Richter is playing this with Bach himself in Heaven
TonyWRO 6 months ago
Nice picture there.... But I also think Gould and Richter are having exiting debates... wonder who Bach agreed with...
madamewho 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Karl Richter
That room is amazing, it seems to all be built around the organ
xNaN3x 6 months ago
Actually there's only one thing I don't get: How could J.S.Bach compose such godlike music.
WakeUpSleepIsDeath 6 months ago
@WakeUpSleepIsDeath this is a good question... i think that some kind of music has to be a gift from above, a lightning dream not an ordinary idea.
blablawehwa 5 months ago
Really really amazing...
Tastenshakespeare 6 months ago
8:05 - so THIS is the sound Bach had in mind.
How can one posibly think that he then aimed for the thin, half-starving, sneekers hip-hop sound in pieces like the "Kyrie" of the b minor mass, as is fashionable in so many period recordings of our day.
herodot2 6 months ago
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Perhaps this is the voice of god...
kypsterx55 7 months ago
the organ case is actually carved from a large block of milk chocolate. that's why it's called ro"coco". the hershey company donated the material. they must keep the AC humming in the basilica in summer months to prevent meltdown.
jimamia77 7 months ago 9
People hear a great classical piece of music..& go WOW.! But often the piece of music is inferrior to other classical/performances which are superior...DO NOT TAKE a great classical piece alone...search out other interpretations. There are many. Some are good, some bad & terrible. Use your ears...they will tell the good from the crap.
Kristopful 8 months ago
This is nice. But the best version I have ever heard is on vinyle, "Carl Weinrich" 1967.."Music for pleasure". Recording....(everything is delinatated on the track)
That was a low bubget recording, but I've never heard anything close to it. Those versions I have heard have been so bad (over the top) as to be embarrasing....just "Screaming Organs" making a horrible sound. Not 'Bach' at all, or anything he conceived.
Kristopful 8 months ago
Este orgão possui o som mais bonito que eu ja ouvi até hoje!!
avalokiteshivara 8 months ago
I've "disliked" this, not because of the piece or the performer (others have correctly drawn attention to these), but because it is incomplete and a very distorted recording. So no, it is not perfection at all. And I am the most devout of Bachoholics...
CellFate 8 months ago
@CellFate I take Bach, even if I can only find a sliver under a heaping mass of white noise and audio clipping.
LogosNigrum 8 months ago
la perfezione! che dire di piu', credo che ne BACH medesimo la suonerebbe meglio , grazie KARL
TheMauthe 8 months ago
Richter, true master of the registers and also the organ of Bach interpretation. Every body should take a leaf from this Teacher and Mentor ! Real life lessons.. and great humanity ! Mistergiorgio1-----------Foggia(italy)
mistergiorgio1 9 months ago
I want to play it, but it's very difficult even without pedal
chairday 9 months ago
@chairday Really? You don't really have to keep all notes in piano transcription - some can be moved aside. By making your own transcription, you can configure the difficulty.
kknots 8 months ago
I know that Richter recorded this piece several times. Could you tell me which year he recorded this version? I hear it is in the Baroque Pitch as compared to his 1978 version on the Silbermann Organ in Frieberg. Thanks in advance.
redbrian3655 9 months ago
@redbrian3655 this version was recorded in 1969.
weisserriese93 9 months ago
@weisserriese93 Thank you. It is amazing to see how the two interpretations changed over the nine years.... really neat. Again, thank you.
redbrian3655 9 months ago
@redbrian3655 Which one do you like more? As for me, I'm preferring this one, mostly for the more quiet passages (0:55, 5:44), his registration makes them really sublime.
weisserriese93 9 months ago
@weisserriese93 For me, it is not so much which one I prefer, but rather what was it in Richter that created two very different, yet wonderful interpretations. As a musician, I played pieces one way when I was younger, and then began to play them differently as I grew older. I have wondered if Richter, like many of us, still was experimenting with trying to get to that core of emotion in us when we express music. Sometimes, the instrument, itself, inspires us to play one way. Just thots. Brian
redbrian3655 9 months ago 2
@redbrian3655 I would agree on your last point, at the same time I'm wondering how this interpretation might sound without the distortion/overdrive, I am really not sure if that what I hear in this recording is the original sound of the pipes, or, just a distortion. Of course both interpretations aren't better than each other, but for me
he just made everything right in this one (probably just because I listened to this one at first).
weisserriese93 9 months ago
@weisserriese93 I re-listened to (0:55,5:44). Doing these registrations really lifts us up and then down and then..... it keeps us surprised and guessing.,, which is great! Some organists, and I am not knocking them, play this piece pretty much at one level. It seems that Stokowski, in his orchestral transcription, uses the same method as Richter in keeping us surprised and almost unsettled. The one who says Bach can only be interpreted one way is incorrect. (I was ready to say something else)
redbrian3655 9 months ago
@redbrian3655 Dear friend you have to find an interview of Karl Richter that he's saying exactly the same thing It is is very interesting to listen him!
andiacal 9 months ago
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weisserriese93 10 months ago
I was lucky enough to see Fernando Germani play this at Bolton Parish Church in 1967...! I was only ten feet away from him!
Owdfolkie 11 months ago
MAAŞALLAH
ReaIly 11 months ago
Russian mountains up and down alike fine artistic composers (Bach-Haendel-Paganini and many others)! I still wonder why when music can be simple and easy going !
Sylvain894 11 months ago
Richter dans la passacaille est tellement... comment dirais-je ? luthérien ! Quel dommage qu'il soit desservi par cette prise de son un peu amateur. Enfin même comme ça je m'en lasse pas.
JeanFonsse 1 year ago
If there were a god, he'd envy Bach
suirammae 1 year ago
@suirammae There is a God and he was served by Bach.
knicklas48 10 months ago 2
@knicklas48 no, there's not.
Cacacos 10 months ago
@Cacacos Hahaha. Prove it. You made the positive assertion so the burden of proof is on you. Go ahead - prove the unprovable. I'll sit here and wait.....
knicklas48 10 months ago
Maravillosa música de Bach. Quizás sea la obra más maravillosa del dios Bach. Hay que orila muchas veces y cuanto más la oyes más te gusta, más nuevos matices descubres, más belleza.....
Gracias a Karl Richter por su soberbia interpretación, y no sólo de de esta obra concreta, si no de toda la producción y ejecución de la grandiosa obra de Bach.
Saludos y gracias por brindarnos la oportunidad de escuchar esta música.
Feliz año 2011
aluisfp 1 year ago
je n'imagine même pas les mélodies célestes qui nous attendent ...
sherpah 1 year ago
Is this organ tuned differently??
TheJackHarkness 1 year ago
@TheJackHarkness I'm inclined to think so. Old pitch, as it is.
wkzh 1 year ago
@TheJackHarkness Yes, to 415 Hz. Meaning that it sounds half a step lower.
manuFUNKture 11 months ago
Peter Hurford's one is my favorite, i've uploaded a HQ version of it.
PimpinBassie2 1 year ago
Does anyone know from whence this clip came? Is it on DVD? Thanks.
borjon23 1 year ago
@borjon23
I think it is only available on the DECCA CD, number 29 find when typing "Karl Richter" in amazon . com - music.
HimmelsscheibeNebra 1 year ago
@HimmelsscheibeNebra
Thank you for that. Still, I'm curious as to the source of the video, even if it isn't available anywhere.
borjon23 1 year ago
The last ~32 measures or so are profound. The low register shakes one's soul.
HrothgarOfHeorot 1 year ago 3
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Sola Deo Gloria! Glory to God! Alleen God de Eer!
trompetgek 1 year ago
MY MOTHER INTRODUCED ME TO SERIOUS MUSIC, AND PARTICULARLY TO THE PASSACAGLIA, WHICH SHE CONSIDERED THE CREME DE LA CREME OF MUSIC... HOW RIGHT SHE WAS... I HOPE SHE LISTENS TO BACH IN HEAVEN, AND THAT SOME DAY WE MAY LISTEN TO HIM TOGETHER, WITH GOD AS OUR HOST... GOD BLESS ALL LIVING BEINGS, YES, YOU WHO ARE READING THIS ALSO!!!
Thepoetastro 1 year ago 53
@Thepoetastro Thank you for your blessing. Some believe there exists a tiny fragment of God inside our Heart of Hearts. If we could only hear what our Heart is trying to tell us, we would be together with God that is Within, then God would be with us.
Music can be an expression of what is beautifull within us.
May we remember what we are aspiring to become in the small daily things that we do.
trespire 1 year ago
@Thepoetastro - Yes, God bless all living beings...so long as they're Lutherans, right? I mean I'm not prejudice or anything...Catholics make good soldiers...under white officers of course.
AbsoluteMonarchist 11 months ago
@Thepoetastro ALL HAIL ALL CAPS
rdogwoof 10 months ago 4
@Thepoetastro why all capital letters?
Mkamalid 9 months ago
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@Mkamalid I WRITE WITH CAPITAL LETTERS, BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY KEYBOARD... AND NOW SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT: THE PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH:
AIR, WATER, SLEEP, SUNSHINE, EXERCISE, AND THEN, ONLY THEN FOOD, IN SMALL AMOUNTS AND AS PRIMITIVE AS POSSIBLE... I TRIED IT, IT WORKS, IT ALLOWS YOUR BODY/MIND/SPIRIT TO BECOME THE BEST DOCTOR, PHARMACIST, HOSPITAL IN THE WORLD... BUT IT DOES REQUIRE PATIENCE AND TENACITY. READ BOOKS BY ARNOLD EHRET (DIED IN 1922)... GOD BLESS
Thepoetastro 8 months ago
@Thepoetastro thanks, god bless you too.
HectorLex 8 months ago
@Thepoetastro My mother died recently, and she was a musician too. I don't think she would have considered the Passacaglia the creme de la creme, but she appreciated Bach for the master that he was, and encouraged me to take his music seriously.
GoldinDr 2 months ago
@Thepoetastro Please don't shout. We can hear you quite well.
eddie11011 1 month ago
Karl Richter can do anything with a keyboard instrument.
Tenifus 1 year ago
Now THIS is music!!!! I give it a 10 on the Richter scale......
HolyMotherofGrid 1 year ago 92
@HolyMotherofGrid best pun ever :D
Epim3theus 1 year ago
@HolyMotherofGrid
hehe richter scale ,sowas kann nur ein deutscher geschrieben haben (^^,)
aber ja ,ich geb dir recht
YaariVanVaari 10 months ago
@HolyMotherofGrid the Svjatoslav Richter scale of course.
vonMohl 6 months ago
If there is a God, why doesn't he play organs? Only whines about what us should do or not to do, but never is around... :)
NesteHukka2 1 year ago
@NesteHukka2 Bach = God
beastinblack 1 year ago
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AvandeWerken 1 year ago
Sola Deo Gloria! Glory to God! Alleen God de Eer!
AvandeWerken 1 year ago 3
I wish i'd lived in Bach's time so i could meet him and try to express my feelings. Him and Beethoven i deeply love and admire. In my humble opinion, while there have been several great composers and musicians through the whole human history none managed to get even close to them.
wnxg4nd4lf 1 year ago 3
the finale is epic.
minasgekos 1 year ago 4
Bach was a genuis. God doesn't exist.
minasgekos 1 year ago
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@minasgekos "God doesn't exist"---- Of course He doesn't, He is.
"Bach was a genius"---- Amen.
BesACB 1 year ago
@minasgekos Prove it.
Jippieheihe 1 year ago
@Jippieheihe Prove to me that Zeus doesn't exist. It's a meaningless question. You cannot prove a universal negative.
lapo3399 1 year ago
Goes to eleven.
taigkyo 1 year ago
Karl Richter: Triosonate Nr.2 C-moll, BWV 526 (Bach) - 1965 Recording, DG
watch?v=JIbdoBF3tww
thanks and regards
classicvinylbiz 1 year ago
Karl Richter came bring any piece to life. Try his Handel's Messiah.
CreoleQ 1 year ago
One of the most beautiful songs Bach ever wrote
spindlegrinder 1 year ago
unique document !
12345qazx1 1 year ago
For your information: This is not sacred music
ribesnet 1 year ago
this is a dance movement and what a dance it is
MusicPredominates 1 year ago
@MusicPredominates As I recall, a passacaglia is a Spanish dance which originated in the mid-late renaissance.
Tajoumaru 1 year ago
@Tajoumaru : Yes. We are both right ... indeed the dance might have originally come from the African continent.
MusicPredominates 1 year ago
KARL RICHTER SPIELT DIE PASSACAGLIA AUSWENDIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: eines der schwehrsten instrumental stücke überhapt...oder sieht wer noten^^???
Philipp232323 1 year ago
@Philipp232323 Er spielt fast alles auswendig! Das kann man kaum glauben aber dat ist doch richtig so. Vor allem die Bachstücke, die nach meiner Meinung die schwierigste sind. Ein Supermeister er war.
feetje2008 1 year ago
Bach the Creator of the holy spirit of the music
God the Creator of the Whole Universe
thegoddescomposer 1 year ago
@thegoddescomposer : What tripe !
MusicPredominates 1 year ago
Although the video sound is terrible one cannot but admire the mastery of Richter as he performs the most majestic piece of organ music ever written IMO.
anturi86 1 year ago 3
скажу честно: слышал это произведение в лучшем исполнении!
usertyfoon 1 year ago
There was never music where you could feel the passion of love for your spouse, the joy of your children's birth, the pain of losing a loved one, the struggle of living, the adrenaline of a fistfight, the contempt against a mass murderer, the satisfaction of decent steak dinner, and the celebration of graduating college, all in one piece...until Bach came along...
iselldummysmacks 1 year ago 3
plezse never remove this video...
greenguana 1 year ago
it's wonderful!
sonzo2008 1 year ago
The fugue is beautifull...I love it
fabiopalma 1 year ago
And one other thing, why did the 213,000 people who viewed this not go on to watch the Fugue?! Part 2 of this recording is one of the most powerful pieces of music ever written!
kniphofia 1 year ago
Absolutely sublime. Richter is magnificent. Pity the recording isn't better quality - and why isn't this on a DVD?!
kniphofia 1 year ago
@kniphofia The organist, Karl Richter, died in 1981. That means that this recording is at least 29 years old. That's why it isn't of better quality.
Softship1 1 year ago
@Softship1 Yes I'm aware that Richter died in 1981. This recording was made in 1969 I think. My point is that the last few minutes of this fugue are on the 'Legacy of Karl Richter' DVD and that doesn't have the distortion of this posting. I was just making the point that a 'cleaner' version would be nice.
kniphofia 1 year ago
@kniphofia 1969 makes sense.
I suppose that's the price we have to pay to be able to watch him play - which I think is well worth it. Observing the actual physical act is fascinating.
I would think that there are digitally remastered media with better sound qualify available - but online you probably have to compromise.
Softship1 1 year ago
@Softship1 Absolutely agree - I was so thrilled to be able to see this after growing up listening to my mother's recordings of Richter in the 60s. Seeing him playing (and his unbelievable pedal work) is a real joy. I'm slightly obsessed with the Passacaglia at the moment, have to listen to it at least once a day.
kniphofia 1 year ago
@kniphofia Yes, the pedal work really is amazing - in 582/2, too. I can understand your obsession - I've got a similar "problem". I'm thinking about going to a good CD store in town today to see what I can find - and then listening on the big stereo system. (My little Bose speakers hooked to the PC aren't bad, but I like the idea of top-quality sound really thundering through my home even better. It's all your fault... :-))
Softship1 1 year ago
Can sbd. stand up for playing close to this? Then guys listen and try to memorize every mesure of this performance as the best to these days!
stickom 1 year ago
holy instrument
googlekopfkind 1 year ago
Pity Richter couldn't have studied with Anthony Newman.
deanfarwood 1 year ago
For this one, I prefer more the versions by Helmut Walcha, Daniel Chorzempa, and Hans Fagius.
gtash001 1 year ago
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the sound is not good here but in any case i'm prefer surely daniel chorzempa...
ruiuz 1 year ago
Nothing in this world is perfect or exact, including all of us. Even molecules and atoms have their little imperfections that give them their character. It is interesting how we can sense such imperfection and regard it as beauty - aesthetics 101.
accousticdecay 1 year ago
Richter is totaly awesome - where is the magnifcent organ anyway?
lhspaiser 1 year ago 4
This is the Basilica of Ottobeuren (about 120 km away from Munich) in the Bavarian Region of Allgaeu.
Closest airports would be MEMMINGEN / MUNICH WEST and MUNICH - FRANZ JOSEPH STRAUSS.
MrRybalkin 1 year ago
Cool. I'll keep that in mind when I visit Ottobeuren someday, and I WILL. :)
pipeorganloverNJP 1 year ago
at 6 minutes theres some cool arppegios
DJtheband 1 year ago
Bach had a special talent , a gift from God.
Broodjebrood 2 years ago 3
What a genius Bach was! This piece is so spiritual and moving- almost addicting!!!
scorpyonn 2 years ago 3
The fugue, specifically.
terez27 2 years ago
I love how the autograph shown at the beginning is the g minor violin sonata.
terez27 2 years ago
Fantastic performance of incredible music! BTW - the stop assistant looks scary...
jonahansen 2 years ago
What a load of tripe most of you are writing !! Just enjoy the magnificence of the music and the craftesmanship that built the organ. You dont have to be Christian to like organ music in fact you can still walk into a church whatever your donomination !!
skellefteaAB 2 years ago 5
@skellefteaAB I agree. The organ is an instrument just like any other. You don't have to be hindu to enjoy the sitar right? Well, at least the Beatles agree...
Anyway a real full organ can only fit in a church anyway lol.
stepminestepminestep 2 years ago
Not true about the full organ ! Look at the Royal festival hall, london. It has the worlds largest pipe and deepest note. Also look at the Royal Albert hall London which has the most pipes in any organ. Both are on youtube to see as videos.
skellefteaAB 2 years ago
memento : Anton Heiller,
memento!
leonboelmann 2 years ago
That organ is a monster!
acteon00 2 years ago 5
If I ever can believe that a person can feel god, Bach is the one to teach me.
Brikkwall 2 years ago 39
I'm an atheist, but if I were ever to come close to believing...
polymath7 2 years ago 47
god man, i would be a christian today if they played this music when I used to be. I would be christian only based on that!
thejugglenaut91 2 years ago 2
Lord knows there's no other reason.
polymath7 2 years ago 3
@polymath7 to be sure... this is not a religious work...
keckvan66 1 year ago
@polymath7 : Well. have you considered the thermodynamics of Hell ?
MusicPredominates 1 year ago
@polymath7 the usual response to Bach :P
WarriorOfWriters 1 year ago
@WarriorOfWriters Yes, of course.
Nonetheless, the better, deeper, wiser part of me finds it simply impossible to believe that such beautiful, daedal, truly glorious music could have come into being through mere
religious inspiration.
Surely there's much more to than *that*.
polymath7 1 year ago
@polymath7 well like most artists tastes develop and vary from one work to another and are appropriate to those contexts; such as chamber works, sonatas, cantatas. Some are inspired by religious enigma, some are inspired by nature, some are inspired by festivity.
WarriorOfWriters 1 year ago
@Brikkwall : What arrogant nonsense !
MusicPredominates 1 year ago
I really don't know what draws me to the organ so much, and I don't think I'll ever will, but what I do know is that I love it this way. : ]
pipeorganloverNJP 2 years ago
this piece is meant to be a good example of deceptive cadence. I'm really poor in theory. could anyone explain how to find deceptive cadence here? thx
charmingemily 2 years ago
Just listen to the theme at the beginning of the piece.First you hear it plain, then it is repeated again and again throughout the whole piece, hidden in different settings. If you listen carefully you will hear it go on and on till the end. Amazing.
feetje2008 2 years ago
Yes its there alright. You have to pay attention closely. The melody is always there, just in a different "form" and brought out differently. Bach probably put more musical genius, and time in this than most people spend doing their whole musical career. Absolutely spectacular. Probably Bachs best.
kirbyheritage2 2 years ago
i just realized he played that entire song from memory.
jesus thats insane.
evhgl87 2 years ago 2
he plays and directs almost everything out of memory...
feetje2008 2 years ago
Der Klang der Dreifaltigkeitsorgel im Kloster Ottobeuren ist unbeschreiblich. Das habe ich schon selber ausprobieren können... Der singende Klang der Mixturen bei der Steigerung in der Passacaglia am Ende und bei ca. 05:00 führen bei mir zu einem Gänsehauteffekt.
Noch schöner klingts natürlich live.
opusdrei 2 years ago
Playing that organ looks like flying an aeroplane or driving a steam train!
quagapp 2 years ago
My teacher says if you can play an organ you can drive a car.
advisorC101 2 years ago
Well buy an organ and then you don't need a car!
But, seriously, it certainly looks very difficult to play.
I didn't ever really manage to play the piano very well - so - best of luck! Have fun. If you learn to play a musical instrument you will have a pleasure and an interest throughout your life.
quagapp 2 years ago 5
Indeed. The organ, (at least in my book) is the hardest instrument around, even more so when it comes to Baroque organs like this.
I know there are Cellists and Violinists that would disagree with me but that's their opinion.
In a sense a Pianist or a Harpsichordist is already an organist. All that's needed is for them to study organ techniques.
Thank you very much. :-)
advisorC101 2 years ago
Thanks, I don't know much about music, but I read that Beethoven called the organ the King of Instruments. All the best!
quagapp 2 years ago
It was Mozart that said that. ;-)
Thanks again.
advisorC101 2 years ago
i don't know how one could disagree on that point! Organ is, in my sense, the most complete instruments. And I'm not an organist. Part of me wishes though!!
thejugglenaut91 2 years ago
"blasphemy" is such a quaint term! Some people actually believe in things! Amazing. Courageous perhaps if rather dubious...
quagapp 2 years ago
Ach Mein Richter - danke dir, Diene Meisterschaft ist wunderbar - Divine Mastery at the Orgel jsb
Mrababab121212 2 years ago 4
Awesome. Richter is one of the best!
passacaglia28 2 years ago 5
6:07 oh my god. so beautiful. best organ ive ever heard.. so woody and alive and fantastic sounding.
evhgl87 2 years ago 2
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If it is or was so beautiful then why paraphrase blasphemy into your statement.
3NUNS 2 years ago
that church is amazing!!
divine604 2 years ago 2
Genial und Wundervoll gespielt! Richter ist einer der besten Organisten die jemals auf unserer Erde gelebt haben;) Besser und schöner hätte es selbst bach nicht spielen können:)
Telemaker 2 years ago
you're right it is only half a tone. I don't think the organ is false, the recording doesn't seem slow to me as well. I do like this lower setting actually.
feetje2008 2 years ago
Its just the Baroque temperaments. Karl was playing a different organ in his other recording.
This is the A415.
advisorC101 2 years ago
didnt baroque usually tune sharp? so your saying this one is tuned a full step down from baroque style or standard tuning today? there would be a half step difference - im asking because i think i might write a song in this tuning. its just beautiful.
evhgl87 2 years ago
Dear evhgl87, please compaire this interpretation with the interpretation of Helmut Walcha - you will hear a great difference. Helmut Walcha is well of Bach :-)
XI30 2 years ago
It is like AdvisorC101 wrote: 415 Hz instead of 440Hz used today in modern instruments. Half a tone lower. I prefer 415.
feetje2008 2 years ago
Yes, A415 is so beautiful. I do like A440 but sometimes its a little bit boring when playing Bach or Buxtehude.
Still... it does make things easier for composers.
advisorC101 2 years ago
how can A415 be beautiful and A440 boring? whatever freq you're tuned to, all your notes are still the same intervals relative to one another.
in fact this could be in Am or Dm and still have the same exact feel as long as the instrument is equal tempered.
i don't understand why people make such a big deal out of something like 25Hz, something nearly negligible when you're in the 400s) it's a quartertone down so what? it's all completely relative
Jack59Derringer 2 years ago
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advisorC101 2 years ago
i don't prefer either nor any other, like i said everything is still the same relative to itself so it makes no diff to me. go wild and tune to 490 for all i care, as long as it's in tune! i think the way the piece is interpreted is much more relevant.
btw nice speedy response!
Jack59Derringer 2 years ago 2
Well equal temperament isn't too my liking either when it comes to the Baroque repertoire. When I listen to an equally tempered baroque organ, compared to one in meantone or werckmeister, I personally prefer the "uneven" temperament.
advisorC101 2 years ago
Sorry, I forgot to finish my sentence, "When Bach was exposed to all sorts of pitches and temperaments".
advisorC101 2 years ago