toccata and fugue in d minor

The ubiquitous, the cosmic, the labarithine, the elemental TOCCATA and FUGUE in D Minor. I wish I had a larger organ to play it on. Practicing for four upcoming recitals.

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• toccata
• and
• fugue
• in
• minor
• bach
• pipe
• organ
• malcolm kogut

[malcolmpk88]

Three ways: 1) my teacher told me; 2) I heard someone else do it that way and I liked it; 3) you have to play the piece and experiment at what you and the organ can do. The T&F in Dm is pretty straight forward. Have you ever heard someone in the hospital yell for the nurse? Each repetition gets louder. Playing is the same way. If the composer repeats a phrase, it must be important. Do something different with it.

[malcolmpk88]

Thanks, Cody. This was one of the first Bach pieces I learned (on a Hammond). This organ does have an nice ensemble sound. The great has only three dedicated stops and the choir only two. There is a lot of unification.

I checked out your improvs. Cool stuff. I enjoyed your Widor, too. That sounds like a nice organ. I really loved (and miss) those big pedals. I did the Widor several months ago. I may post it or wait until I play it again and get a better recording.

-Malcolm.

[twflightservicemgr78]

very nice and well played...loved it! :)

[dcomdien]

how do you know when to switch keyboards and sounds?

[dcomdien]

Wonderful. I love this piece. How do you play it without getting tired. My fingers cramp up half way thorugh.

[codeman2008]

Wonderful performance and I love the sound of this organ, some great voicing there! So far I've got this piece down up to the part at 5:57, and then I have from 7:14 until the end pretty well, I still need to do allot of work on everything between that though...

Again, Nice performance!

- - - Cody.