Prelude & Fuge d minor BWV 539

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"Met Bach het nieuwe jaar in"
organ recital Arjen Leistra
Tuesday January 1st 2008
Van Vulpen-organ Hoflaankerk Rotterdam
Programme:
Bach's organ works(and so does mine)
Toccata, Adagio & Fuge in C major
Wer nur den lieben Gott
Pastorella
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
Prelude & Fuge in d minor
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist
Toccata & Fuge in F

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• religious
• Bach
• Prelude
• Fuge
• minor
• BWV
• 539
• Arjen
• Leistra
• organ
• orgel
• Rotterdam

[jobnl]

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[untl01]

mijn favoriete fuga van Bach <3

[OceanderTethyseus]

@reinux

even assuming that they are, i enjoyed reading your comments. interesting stuff.

[reinux]

@OceanderTethyseus actually it turns out that those bows are most likely a modern invention -- so who knows!

[OceanderTethyseus]

@reinux

that is fascinating. thank you for pointing that out.

[reinux]

modern violin bows can't play that particular chord in a single note; it has to be arpeggiated the way it is in this performance.

recently i learned that baroque bows could play chords like that one, but apparently bach was aware of both the modern style bow as well as the old style.

[JupiterIV]

I really don't see where you're going with this. I see nothing violinistic with the instance you've given.

[life4music1982]

This is a very, very beautiful and empathic recital.

[reinux]

a while ago i punched in the violin score on my computer so that i could have it play out all the note values as they're written without the violin's limitations. i wasn't aware that bach had written an organ arrangement.

it's amusing how for bwv 1001 bach was clearly trying to stretch a violin into an organ, and then for bwv 539, he seems to mimic some of the articulations of a violin (eg 5:10).

i don't know if that's really what he intended, but i like it.

[cornopean8]

I also enjoyed this interpretation. The pegs are actually knobs that each control a stop or "voice" on the organ. When one is pulled out or "drawn" you activate or unstop one of many sounds. They are like a spice rack and you must use them in good combination to make a good ensemble or "registration". If they are not used or combined in the right proportions, they make an unsatisfactory recipe of sound. I hope this helps a little.