Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor BWV 582 (Passacaglia)

[troikagirl]

How on earth is it possible to play the organ using both hands and feet...what incredible coordination.

I struggle to play my Yamaha digital piano with one finger!

I take my hat off to you SIR!.

[svaneholmsfilm]

Excellent played...BRAVO!!

[JohnWBenson]

Stunning performance! A master of his art!

[pedrojimmyfeio]

Can you tell me how was the audio recorded? I have to record a pipe organ and I don't know which setup I should use...

[kourosh89]

Did I hear a mistake at 1:35?

Thumbed down.

[TheLastMyztery]

@kourosh89 There was no mistake at 1:35.

People like you are the trolls of youtube that everyone hates. Thanks for thumbing down something that you will never be.

[pantyflash]

Like, this video is hosed because it cuts off at the end. Despite the video itself being hosed, it depicts a truly outstanding performance. Way to go, babe!

[TheLastMyztery]

@pantyflash It only cuts off because the fugue is continued immediately afterwards; hence watch the full video in the description.

[927Adam]

The pipe organ is truly a work of art. beautiful.

[johetus]

I would like to play this too with real organs! I have only my electric piano and a video of this bach extremely good piece of work too.

[frantumamaroni]

wonderful.....more than more

[chidlers99]

I wish I had his Hans...and his feet. All jocularity aside, this guy is an amazing organist playing an amazing piece on an amazing instrument.

[1990EAM]

God, how old is that organ?

By the way, what is he playing with his feet?

[Xavier22792]

@1990EAM organ .. ? what do you mean

[tokyofruit123]

@1990EAM Yea, to play an organ you have to play with your feet as well.

[woofstocklamp]

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooove the WHOLE THING

[canei1]

Cool - my neck hair is still standing - I now realize it was J.S.Bach who introduced heavy metal :-)

[HarritoLlufrio]

Goose-pimples galore! If extra-terrestial beings, should there be any, were to hear this amazing J. S. work, as played by organ genious Hans-Andre Stamm, they would think they've arrived at Paradise!

[Zeppolino100]

@HarritoLlufrio In the ET film with Keannu Rives, the only thing that transfixes him is hearing Bach's Goldberg Variations being played on the mathematician's stereo. I couldn't agree with you more.

[relrecs]

Would you know where can I buy this song, or the full cd of the performance?

I only came across a dvd for sale, and was wondering if this is available for purchase as a cd. thank you

[Dd4V]

Bach ba-rockt!



[TheKingJacob1]

Just beautiful. Just learned of this piece today. I am just amazed at how darn Good Johann Sebastian Bach was at organ.

[jimamia77]

I paid little attention to "classical" music until this piece hit my ears.

[foottothenuts]

@jimamia77 This isn't classical it's baroque.

[Pretendkid]

Chills down my back when the opening bass line drops to C#..

[Dirkovic80]

@Pretendkid

there is no c sharp pulled in the entire bass line ^

i think you mean the "h" or in english "b" (c_g; e flat_f; g_a flat; f_g; d_e flat;b (eliminated flat should be b flat what is h in english "nomenclature" i guess, thats also why it sounds so out of order)_c;f_g; c is the complete order) he pulls in 0:17 or 0:18 (which sounds really haunting)

[astrojopie]

Listening with tears in my eyes. For years my Bach organ favorite. Masterpiece!

Very well performed!

[Schubert958]

Wow - absolutely amazing

[StoryNClark]

Phenomenal video and sound quality. Possibly my all-time favorite piece of "classical" music.

[crush6600]

that would suck if you dropped something between those pedals, you would never get it back

[glockengambe]

@crush6600 ...but with a very,very long gripper!  =)

[irinayugiohfan]

This music is soooo beautiful... I can't stop listening it...

[Dirkovic80]

...Sie dürfen nicht glauben, daß ich ausschweife, wenn ich von der hiesigen Musique so rede. Wenden Sie sich an wen Sie wollen, nur an keinen geborenen Franzosen, so wird man Ihnen (wenns jemand ist an den man sich wenden kann) das Nämliche sagen."

quote W.A.M.

[Dirkovic80]

"Wenn hier ein Ort wäre, wo die Leute Ohren hätten, Herz zum Empfinden, und nur ein wenig etwas von der Musique verstünden, und gusto hätten, so würde ich von Herzen zu allen diesen Sachen lachen, aber so bin ich unter lauter Vieher und bestien (was die Musique anbelangt). Wie kann es aber anderst seyn, sie sind ja in allen ihren Handlungen, Leidenschaften und Passionen auch nichts anders – es gibt ja kein Ort in der Welt wie Paris. ...

[Dirkovic80]

"Will Germany, my beloved fatherland, which I am proud of, as you know, not record/hire me, then once more, in the name of god, FRANCE or britain shall profit from a skillfull german man and this to the shame of the german nation."

quote W.A.M.

[leonsmello]

this is the best composition ever made! Bach is the greatest genius of all-time! thank God you send him!

[MrAlonBach]

Likee 6:43 - 7:04 Triolet !!!

[TololBau]

real dracula

[angietihi]

Look at those grinning gargoyles on each side of the keyboard! Amazing organ and amazing organist.

[frenchiecocorico1]

French musicologists deduced that JS Bach could had borrowed the theme to the "Messe du deuzième ton: n°3 Christe - Trio en passacaille" extracted from the "Premier livre d'Orgue (1688)" by André Raison. But JS Bach developped it in a genius way. Everyone could compare both of the pieces. In my opinion, despite the fact André Stamm played a perfect rendition, I didn't be affected by any feeling or affects in it. Though, the historical Trost organ of Waltershausen is very impressive.

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

if bach did borrow something he did borrow the basstheme (of buxtehude) but it aint even exactly the same basstheme

and what he made out of it is beyond raisons and buxtehudes work added together and squared afterwards

i see , as a frenchguy u want ofc a frenchguy get the props for this to france

but its nothung but vague assumptions (there aint even a source for bach knowing this ferenchguy) they didnt have internet at their time (händel didnt know a piece of bach e.g.)

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 III- This hypothesis is not mine but very ancient because of the evident theme similarity that didn't existed in any Buxtehude theme.

As a germanguy it's surprising your knowledge about JS Bach is so poor and tendencious.

Fortunately, you don't represent alone german Bach's connoisseur opinion or culture

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 II- Worst, It seems that you ignore JS Bach liked very much french music and composers. He knew very well the french scores and possessed many of them. So It is proved that he borrowed many pieces of french composers in his own compositions (Couperin, Grigny, ...) but he borrowed too italian music (Vivaldi, Albinoni, ...) or even other german composers music

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

not because the simalrity you can prove that he studied tht frenchguys works

its verified that bach studied buxtehude but not raison and especially he didnt copy that guy

thats your assumption loser i dont even waste my time to read any further

bach wrote this with 24 he didnt know raison at that time

end out bb

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 Bach copied Grigny's organ book, Couperin organ and harpsichord books ....and he had at his dispositionnal many french scores from his friends, churches or collegium libraries. J.S Bach never left Germany for all his life but he knew music of all Europe.

At your turn, always you didn't prove anything from the connexion between Buxtehude and Bach but you invent a tale just trying to be right.

Effectively I waste my time with you when all the planet knows this hypothesis but you.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 At least because you're a perfect goon, have a look on Wikipedia article about "J.S Bach / Passacaglia and Fugue C minor BWV582" (in deutch, in english or in french). Here you could read the whole information about this composition including the confirmation of André Raison "Christe - Trio en Passacaille (1688)" original theme authorship as Bach inspiration source . I can assert you're absolutely wrong, you ignore Bach inspiration but give lesson to people more educated than you.

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

you are funny

you talk about beeing educated and quote wikipedia ^

every academic will tell you they dont believe into wikipedia its just unverified crap

you need to have real sources for your assumption

plus:

its cant be an ancient assumption (as u said) because bach was almost unknown during a long time

i know that bach was influenced by vivaldi and buxtehude (he did visit him in his early ages. so if bach used some1 as inspiration it was buxtehude )

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 VIII- It is an evidence that you deny so much that you refuse to listen and compare, but it strikes everyone mind.. May I suggest you to read Tom Parson and Tim Smith analysis about JS Bach Passacaglia BWV582 (two english authors).

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

i said just because of similarity in 3 bars of bachs basstheme you can never ever assume that bach did need this for his idea

it will always be an assumption

maybe he heared it before and use it or maybe he never heard it before who knows

plus the basstheme alone aint that spectecular or unique that it can only be invented once

its a very simple theme (especially that short on by raisson)

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 X- Here he met Louis Marchand for a keyboard tornament organised by the music steward of the Saxony Prince who was a fan of french music and possessed a wide collection of french music in his private library.

You are alone to devellop such an obsession on this borrowing when Bach borrowed many times other themes to other composers (Grigny, Couperin, Albinoni, Corelli, ... ) Would you go on trial for each borrowing?

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

merchand fled before the tournament started cause he was scared of bachs skill

you are proud of that frenchguy two ?

i dont know why you talk about how good the french were when you are listening to german music ? ^

jaelous ?

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 VII- Unfortunately, nobody told about any thematic relationship between this Passacaglia and Fugue BWV582 and the two Buxtehude works BuxWV159 & 161 but only through the compositional process. But you are so subborn by the sole Buxtehude influence. The similarity between Raison's Trio en Passacaille basstheme and Passacaille BWV582 basstheme is not a vague assumption. It has been musically demonstrated by numerous "academic" analysts (french or non french and even german's ones).

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

there is a difference between just similarity in the basstheme or if bach copied

just because of similarites it doenst prove that bach used this theme ^

if you dont here the similarity of the bass (by bux) by just listening look

on the imslp website for 159 it is available as pdf

well actually i did study the raison piece and the bux piece compared to bachs one year ago

so you cant say i deny that i also never denied that there is a similarity

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

besides i didnt insult you thefirst

you started and i dont know why (mb i provoked with prpos to france thing but it wasnt my intention)

i just dont believe that much in newer musicologists

becuase sometimes they go too far as i think (with there intrepretations of everything , and every single bar needs to be explained) i ask myself how it comes they can tell us so much but what they thought and did when they worte their masterpieces but no1 was able to come close ...

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

... with their own compositions (for example gould or bernstein . there are many more examples )

i just dont like the spirit of today which is about doing messed up analyzings

in school we had to do poem analyzings of goethe or schiller and sometimes they go so far with their interpretations that you need to ask yourself (was this the real intention of the writer/composer ?)

i dont believe in every assumption only because it is from "musicologists"

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 VI- Bach was subject to many influences including by composers he never knew or met personnaly (Couperin, Grigny, Albinoni, Zelenka, ....). Surely, Buxtehude was of a great influential on Bach's works but not exclusive

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

i never denied the influeances on bach

but you cant say that bach potentially knew all composers of and before his time

it aint like today that you go to an library and find all works of all composers

so the overall possibility that bach saw raisons score ( untill his mid twenties and not during his whole lifetime !) is close to 0

the possibility that bach saw the score of buxwv 159 is close to 100 because he did visit him !

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 V- I tell about Wikipedia because it's an universal usefull encyclopedic media which is not full of errors only when it contradicts your opinion or such academics but may sometimes contain few mistake as any medium. You could find the references you look for.

You need too to have real sources previously to assert something. You ignore absolutely whether JS Bach could known André Raison's works or scores. So you tell lies of your invention without any proof.

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

you just cant quote wiki

just face it , if you quote wiki in academic works it simply wont count ...

my inention ? ^ hehe you are funny

you are the guy who gave assumption so you have to show sources for them ( you just said 2 french guys said once that ,,, ) and i dont accept wiki

btw even your wiki article says its all assumptions and not verified if you read further you will also find a hint to buxwv 159 ^

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

and he even developed the basstheme of buxtehude and wrote then his varations and fugue about it

there is no source that proves that bach met raison or was confronted with his works

so this will stay a vague assumption by whoever made it (i dont care if they were french historians or whatever)

as i allready said there was no internet and bach was only 24 when he wrote this

its even not verified that bach rlly took buxtehudes theme

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 IX- Of course, il is sure that Bach copied Raison's basstheme and it 's evident for everyone. The probability for two composers to invent the same theme by accident is one for milion of billion. This occurence never occured fortuitously in 15 centuries of european musical history. That's why it's clear Bach knew Raison works and borrowed him this theme. May I remenber you Bach composed this Passacaglia in 1717 when he was in Dresden.

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

well actually it aint the same theme

look now you say its the "same" theme

yesterday you only said its similar

you are kindof funny always changing you statements ^

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

where is the source for bach composing this in 1717 ?

i think its another vague assumption by you

well this occured many times as it proves that you dont have any idea of music history

you just heard this crap and overtook it

[Dirkovic80]

@frenchiecocorico1

/watch?v=YoyBqa_t_G8

BuxWV 159

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 I- It's clear you asserted anti- french opinions without any valid reasoning or proof. You didn't indicate what would be the Buxtehude Bass theme Bach had borrowed for this Passacaille und Fuga BWV582 while I gave a precise information on the Raison source material. It's evident so that you didn't heard either Raison piece to estimate the comparison truth.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@Dirkovic80 IV- I add to your stupid comment that if you decide to listen Raison's piece (Christe - Trio en Passacaille) on You Tube, you'll find two videos on it. Both of them tell about the comparison between Raison and Bach Passacaille theme. One is from a hungarian You Tuber and the other by a Russian. Curiously, frenchguy didn't overspread propaganda about this hypothesis but foreign connoisseur. In fact, this is the proof that you are incultured, narrowminded and insecere.

[ADH2711]

A very nice performance.

[Maxbay89]

Wow that last 2 minutes or so is just out of this world!!!

[MusicPredominates]

@Maxbay89 : That is an extraordinary thing to say !

[TheLastMyztery]

This is far beyond Stunning!

[themates46]

He have perfect fingering and playing style is AWESOME 5/5 star ..

[bachinblack94]

@JaimeSouviens Sorry, maybe i wasn't precise. When i sayed apocalypse i intended the Apocalypse of Saint John, the last of the biblic books, because the majestic sound of this piece reminded me the visionary greatness of Saint John's Apocalypse. This isn't a so awful thing, or not?

[SphinxFriend]

Sounds great, keep up the good work.

[bachinblack94]

Is the perfect soundtrack for the apocalypse. Frightening.

Genious.

[JaimeSouviens]

@bachinblack94 What an awful person you are.

[jaaguor1]

@JaimeSouviens You dont know "spocalypse" word meaning.

[2dlanor2]

Is there any other composer for organ who has the range and depth of Bach? I don't think so.

[Arjunai]

Amazing...

[velya666]

ES LA VOZ DEL CRREADOR, ES LA MAJESTAD DEL PENSAMIENTO HUMANO, ES LA ABSTRACCION DE TODA IDEA CREATIVA, ES LA MARAVILLA DEL ARTE....ES BACH

[pholzer5]

Bravo!

[Maurizio9016]

Great performance!

Technically perfect.

[Cyberbob182]

@Maurizio9016 Of course : Hans Andre Stamm was already a virtuoso at the age of 13 !!! Amazing !

[danielorganist]

Wonderful performance - when the manual part comes it sends a shiver down the spine!

[xyugi0007]

Beautiful