Bach Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV. 542

[zimnaya]

Glorious playing....bravo! You brought shivers to my spine and tears of excitement and exhilaration to my eyes!

[zimnaya]

Do you know what makes this phenomenal piece especially extraordinary? It was originally IMPROVISED by Johann Sebastian in 1720 at Hamburg's Katharinenkirche to honour his great contemporary, the organist at the church, Johan Adam Reinken who was almost a hundred years old at the time! He had walked to Hamburg. On returning home he found that his beloved first wife, Maria Barbara, the daughter of the court trumpeter at Anhalt-Kothen had died...in my youth I made a pilgrimage to these places!

[mierdadeyouculo]

this music IS like an architecture, not bound to the lilmits of the phisical world and witch raises the soul to impossible heights and at the same time dives down to vertiginous depths!!!!!

[xytor500]

This is a very nice performance, but the photographs and paintings really make this video a great experience!

[jcfs123]

Wow. What an amazing--yet natural-- notion to combine the glory of Gothic architecture with the grandiosity of Bach's piece.

[Magnetsinmyback]

thank you for a beautiful organ piece. i was thnking about clocodile bag and shoes but i wont buy them.