J.S. Bach. BWV 538. Dorian. Toccata. Ton Koopman

[pfewell]

This is far too complex to play just using chords. It is not as simple as just being a melody and accompanying chords. The interaction between melodic lines and the specific voicing of the chords should not be altered. But being in d minor, you will see a lot of d minor and A7 chords along with some others that are related by a circle of fifths progression. Knowing chords is essential for an organist, but since these notes should not be altered, they might not be that useful except in class.

[merrick9991]

does every one knows what are the chord in the begging ?

[pfewell]

Mr Koopman is nice, but without this organ, it just would not sound the same.  It is an amazing instrument. How I wish I had that organ and chapel sitting in my backyard.

[IamAlessandro1]

great play mr Koopman and thanks for loading up lllmorzartilll :p

[BAxitorCH]

Usually I don't like at all Koopman's perfomances of Bach's works...but I admit this one is pretty nice (beautiful organ too), I think it's because,in my opinion, he plays it in a different way compared to his usual style. Anyway I think it's a bit too much fast for my taste..but it's ok..

[KKarkaz]

Ton Koopman is the master...

[raywilliamfan2]

@KKarkaz Ton koopman is dutch

[KKarkaz]

@raywilliamfan2 thanks for the info but I don't care about his nationality he plays it good and does the job... at least the way I like.. he performs this composition much more the way my taste likes..

[capitanoachab]

Please consider that Bach has also developed an organ with reeds 32 'in Naumburg, built in 1746 by its favorite organbuilder Zacharias Hildebrandt.

It's true that Bach never indicated no preference except that the sound of the pedal had to have the right "gravitat", and in fact the beautiful Naumburg contreposaune 32' sounds like a violonbass

[61mrmusicman]

Bach certainly knew about 32' reeds, even as a young man. While they weren't as common in Saxony/Thuringia, Bach had played the four manual Schnitger at the Jacobi Kirche, which certainly had one. Also, he included a 32' Subbass for his organ at Muhlhausen, so 32' stops were a part of his experience. However, Bach was well traveled enough to realize that organs differed from place to place, especially in Germany. Indeed, we are blessed that there was no "standard" German organ of that time.

[Scorpiusgrl]

Where do I find a place in Florida, where I can learn to play Pipe Organ?? I believe there isn't, or maybe they have the newer version ones, but not the original. I want original =( I absolutely love Johann Sebastian Bach's music! Personally, no other music reaches the complexity and beauty of this.

[IamAlessandro1]

very nice interpretation, koopman is a great perfomer :p, have the chance to hear him often in zurich-switzerland life. Tnx mr.Koopman!!

[forgottenbooks]

WOW

[flying365989]

just when I thought I've known Bach well enough, his works always amaze me....

[bachbest27]

ole ole ole

[robertgift]

@sists43 I play the trill with right hand and the sixteenths with left.

Much practice to perfecthe left hand, but it is worth it.

Not sterile math. I go by what my ears want to hear.

When one stops the trill prematurely, it sounds as though one has been defeated by the difficulty.

That was the way I first heard it. Disappointing.

My stereo cassette tapes are loaned out and never returned.

Buthe sound quality would have deteriorated by now.

[3NUNS]

ladies and gentlemen I think Ton does well here

I cannot find anything majorily wrong here : Davfid (aka Three Nuns and a Protestant at that！)

[robertgift]

Great! Perfectempo. Nice photos.

Trill at 1:31 should be continued the duration of the note.

Pedal reed does not belong. No manual reed = no pedal reed.

Pedal notes should be connected for the descending scale passages.

Makes a nice contrast to the separated manual notes.

Thank you, III, for posting this.

[jv04jm]

@robertgift I'm no expert in baroque registration, but from where does the no manual reed = no pedal reed come from? I hear it done by many of the great organists of the world like Koopman, van der Kooy. I'd love to read more about this if you have a link

[robertgift]

@jv04jm My statement.

Why should the pedal bexaggerated with a reed while lacking balance with a reed in the manuals?

Another statement: There is no organwork of Bach in which a 32' reed is appropriate.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@robertgift Effectively, it would be difficult to use a 32' reed on the pedal to perform a Bach work when himself cannot play such an organ but only occasionally. However, this was not forbiden by the period rule of registration. In this recording, Koopman used no more than the Basuin 16' and not the Basuin 32' which was added only in 1975.

[robertgift]

@frenchiecocorico1 MY EARS forbid use of 32' reed in any Bach other than Contrapunctus XI of Die Kunst der Fuge. That is the only place I could use it and only where I brought it inear thend of that fugue where the subject entered. I have it memorized and do not know measure.

Sony SUCKS! They deleted the E.Power Biggs recordings. Any other source of Biggs' "Jig" fugue, BWV577?

[frenchiecocorico1]

@robertgift That's absolutely untrue. Pedal must have reeds when they balanced with Plenum to contrast the lines. Bach knew this rule as well as the great masters of german barock period (Buxtehude, Lubeck, Reinke, Bruhns,...). It is dishonest to ascribe any Bach assertment about registration when he indicated it rarely. He conformed registration to the uses of the period without any need of explanation.

[saudadedefados]

Merveilleux Bach,il ne cesse de me surprendre;l'interpretation est Remarcable!

[saudadedefados]

Il y a une telle joie,une telle élévation ;cela touche au sublime .Quand la musique finit on l'entend encore en nous!

[krzysztofmusiolik711]

Vivat Ton Koopman!!!

[KoopmansFanGranada]

I had never heard this recording... The Garrels organ... Can it be one of those recording that Ton Koopman made for Archiv? It's excellent anyway!