Toccata in F Major BWV 540 J. S. Bach

Truly outstanding playing. Wonderful sense of line, and nice shaping of phrases. It takes months and months and months of practice to pull this off at this standard of playing. Kudos to you! --virginia--

For your listening type in, the only way tarkus and there it is .Emerson Lake and Palmer in the 1970's

I just checked this out. The prelude if F is the intro to Greg Lake's beatiful Hymn titled, "The Only Way " from the Takus album. The "conclusion" is a very different animal and Bach it most certainly is not. A Time And A Place is not Bach either, its a very hard core rock piece. Sorry for the confusion but hey who cares? It sounds great.

Phew! What a rendition. The intro to this was used by Keith Emerson on Emerson Lake and Palmer's album Tarkus in a piece called Time and space. I have adapted a section for my rock band and I have to say its stunning. The brilliant Bach lives on even in a 6/8 jazz timing....I'm sure Ronnie Scott would have booked him to perform this with the likes of Pete Townsend, Cosy Powell etc...the possibilities are mindblowing....after all its Jazz man, pure jazz.

I wish someone could post it on you tube. That would be neat to hear. According to wikipedia there are 2 tracks on side two called "Infinite Space" and "A Time and a Place" (you must mean the latter?). Of course the original is also in "6/8 (but not "jazz") timing". Bach indeed has infinite possibilities...

Bravo!!

This work does not have the drama (in terms of contrasts) of the famous D Minor Toccata but it is more majestic. A mighty stream starting at its tributaries and building to a broad river of sound.

lacking drama? are you kidding? listen to those modulations and deceptive cadences 3:45, 5:59, 7:37, 8:00 just to name a few. Must have brought an 18th century crowd to it's feet.

please read more carefully - I said in terms of contrasts. I did not say it lacked drama. I was comparing it to the D Minor. In fact, over all I usually prefer the F Major over the the more well-known D Minor.

This is superb.

What great independence of hands and pedals after 5:00.
Love the articulations. Don't particularly care for the "commas" where we wait around for the next theme to arrive, but this approach is defendable.