Ton Koopman - Dietrich Buxtehude/ Fuga

Ton Koopman was born in Zwolle in 1944. After a classical education he studied organ, harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam and was awarded the Prix d'Excellence for both instruments. Almost from the beginning of his musical studies he was fascinated with authentic instruments and a performance style based on sound scholarship.

Even before completing his studies he laid the foundations for a career as a conductor of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music and this fascination with the Baroque era led him in 1969, at age 25, to establish his first Baroque orchestra and, in 1979, to found The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra followed in 1993 by the Amsterdam Baroque Choir.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• VPRO
• Vrije Geluiden
• Ton Koopman
• Dietricht Buxtehude
• Fuga

[koric64]

I loled so hard at 2:05 XD

[Totma11]

A charming performance- a light buoyant, effervescent, and heady bouquet with hints of raspberry and blackberry on the palette. Lingering aftertastes of chocolate, leather, and Dutch tulips. Aged in portugese oak for 50 producing a wine much like a capricious concertina chianti.

[Spudboy41]

too fast

[GJmusique]

with all due respect, he plays it as if its a typewriter :')

[marcoboer1234]

heerlijk!

[thecritiquevirtuoso]

I like listening to him speak Dutch.

[Malloyism]

@koos1981 No mate. I think its simply my ear for music probably not quite as fine tuned as yours I admit. Maybe it what I detect to be a massive difference in how such a simple intrument as a Positive can be so varied in sound from orchestra to orchestra. Cheers

[koos1981]

@Malloyism Stupid comment. It is not a historic instrument in the first place. Further I have heard this organ in performances of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and its sound very robust indeed. I wonder why you state that 'better and more robust sound is required for orchestral positives these days'. Do you mean to disqualify the positive organs of Bach's age by that? That would be even more rediculous.

[TheNautiluss]

The Great Ton...

[cazzie511]

Just watch that fingerwork!!!!!!! cazzie511

[Malloyism]

quite an old positive hes playing. Nowhere near the beautifull sound the modern one produce today. Better and more robust sound is required for the orchestral positives these days.

[EricHaverpowell]

Interesting - I've never heard one of these organs before