BBC Proms 2010 - Bach Day 1 - Toccata and fugue in d minor bwv 565

[WaySide66]

I keep thinking of that looney tunes episode. with bugs as the conductor

[dream431ca]

I'm a HUGE metal fan and I grew up on this music and have extreme respect for it. I truly believe that this is one of the best songs ever created by a human. Amazing structure, amazing flow and incredible sound. I believe it was Leopold (I think) who took the original organ version and arranged it for orchestra. Metal and classical are very closely related in terms of structure. If Bach were alive today I could easily see him in a black metal band such as Moonsorrow. Best song ever!!

[TheDirection69]

there is nothing to compare this nights music. It was sublime and the organ was so powerful the hall trembled. We thought the walls were going to crumble.

[gdelamater]

3:30 awesome!

[cesarmalak]

That's so goddamn absolutely face-melting f******g awesome.

I won't be surprised if that performance gets to win a world war by itself.

[ebutuoymp3]

Blasphemy

[charly6569]

2 WTF ,, on my sound system 7.1 channels, amazing :D

[Iwantamansonguitar]

You win in life if you have so much skill in violin or double bass, and can play this masterpiece. Hats off...

[Ariavariata95]

I like Stokowski's version of the Passacaglia and fugue in C minor, but this is a bit too cheesy for my liking. And not loud enough in places! Could have had brass, but strings instead.

[al1936ful]

Some of those sudden timpani crescendos are not in the original Stokowski version.

[ClankerKiller]

This gives me goosebumps. This is what humanity is capable of... If only  we direct our energy towards things like this more often!

[tyronemark95]

It's not a fucking song, there's no singing!!

[cesarmalak]

@tyronemark95 Master trolling.

[Dodeca12]

Aside from an overzealous timpani player this was one of the best versions i've heard of the composition.

[pianoguy05]

The interpretation isn't exactly what I agree with - mostly some of the drastic tempo changes. Still, overall, a nice performance with a lovely ending.

[JonathanTheAlchemist]

5 people will suffer Bach's wrath in the afterlife.

[SPLAZERlazer]

Gotta love the sudden contrasts of strings and winds Stokowski put in, and the much clearer sound thanks to modern recording techniques. This is possibly one of the best orchestrations of one of the greatest songs of all time.

[DemonLlama25]

I think this song sounds incomplete if it is played buy one instrument unless it's a pipe organ. or a instrument with lots of range

[agm5293]

the timpanist is so intense, maybe a bit overzealous at times, but I love it all the same.

That last chord progression is so epic, it's sublime.

[reekpeekseek]

where was this recorded?

it looks so uneurope^^

[cheesehoven]

@reekpeekseek At The Albert Hall in London.

[LikaLaruku]

2:29 Anyone else thinks the drummer looks like Pee Wee Herman?

3:01 The conductor is cracking me up. One moment he looks like he just thought of a joke, the next he looks like he's going to cry.

7:58 I am a robot, I am a robot.

[MsMsrockstar]

@LikaLaruku thats exactly what i was thinking about the guy on timpony :P

[LikaLaruku]

I always said 10.5 minutes was the ideal amount of time to play this song. I haaate it when people play it too fast, especially at the very end.

[gu2009]

The part in 5:00 (bass solo) makes me enter in a extracorporal experience!! i love play double bass and want to play this music one day!

[wikisonatas]

stupendous

[ManIhTwoLinJay]

@wikisonatas gtfo

[hbiggs96]

THIS ISN'T MEANT FOR AN ORCHESTRA!!!!!!! ITS MEANT FOR ONE ORGAN... THATS IT!!

[muulka]

@hbiggs96 But this is a transcription, and in my opinion it sounds better than many of the performances of this I've heard on organ- a full orchestra has a much better range of sounds and timbres, but no, it doesn't have the earth-shattering power of the massive organ bass notes. That is all I muss tho tbh.

[ManIhTwoLinJay]

@hbiggs96 Not to mention organs can NOT play Cresc or Decresc so the whole time it is the same volume and for them to change the volume they will need time to pull out certain buttons or push in certain buttons which usualy happenes between movements which this has none so It would not sound better on an organ. It would actually sound much worse!

[ManIhTwoLinJay]

Not to mention how bad at the girls looked while they played something so strong!

[angey3120]

the violin 1's are high pitched and have like a shrill trill....lol i call it vibrato if i want

[Stateoftention]

i love this piece

[TheColbertois]

Impressive !

[mister3antar]

That last chord is so powerful it can shatter the Earth if it wanted to.

Also, check out the conductor's face at 8:15!

[MrEriesal]

Simply awesome

[MrEriesal]

Simply awesome

[ztubbz]

Jesus fucking christ.

Pure beauty.

[85DuracellBunny]

The Vanessa Mae version of this is my old gymnastics floor music! 1 1/2 minutes cut but still a beautifully energetic piece of music.

[Smiilez03]

so haunting! i love it

[NABphoto]

4 people don't have ears

[guidepost42]

A Great performance. Wonderful flexiblity in tempi as Bach himself was said to do. This is is about the most compelling performance of 565 Ive ever heard. The orchestration is infinantly better than Skokowski's My opinion only, which along with $24.95, will get you a cup of coffee a starbucks

[guidepost42]

A Great performance. Wonderful flexaiblity in tempi as Bach himself was said to do. This is is about the most compelling performance of 565 Ive ever heard. My opinion only, which along with $24.95, will get you a cup of coffee a starbucks

[starbreez3]

Pipe organ, please!

[SnaggaSheeYoung]

How the hell people of the past can composit music with so perfection ?

[elopez4024]

@SnaggaSheeYoung If they didn't compose, they didn't eat. Bach was also a scholar of musical theory, one of the great minds in mankind, who worked hard as hell at his craft. Couple that with the genetics of being a 7th generation musician, an unshakeable humility founded on his belief in God and more human suffering that we can comprehend, and you start getting an idea as to how this music is possible.

[SnaggaSheeYoung]

@elopez4024 You are right, but the most amazing is guy like Ludwig Van Beethoven he was deaf, and he made great musics, I think we are not able today to composite like those genius, if ou look music today it's hard to find great talent, really hard, but who know may be a day we'll regain confidence in humanity and we'll do reborn great artists, I hope we need some Da Vinci, Mozart, Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, ... A new renaissance :)

[SnaggaSheeYoung]

@elopez4024 May be today it's because all turn around the money, money is "god" i think that ruining that society, may be we need to do only one child by family to reduce Population on earth, to preserve nature and stabilty, or we all know that will make new wars (less space, less ressources), i dont know why politics dont have courage to say that, It's my opinion "less we are, better quality of life" but today we are so much we need find other source operating :)

[SnaggaSheeYoung]

@elopez4024 I will say too, today all kids are formatted ( with toys, school, TV ) they are not able to think by them self, It's the society and this system are corrupted, but what can we do... That's why we denatured the human been .

[Zootallure]

For me, it's not really toccata and fugue without an organ but this is still pretty good. Especially liked the part the harps had to play.

[abarker55]

crap

[miniroll32]

The conductor looks as though an uncomfortable object has been shoved up his anus.

[goldieken]

I remember this orchestration from 'Fantasia', although this is much, much better; thank you for bringing it to us.