J.S. Bach - BWV 540 - Toccata F-dur / F Major

Toccata & Fuga F-dur / F Major BWV 540

This is the toccata only BWV 540,1

composed by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
performed by Bine Katrine Bryndorf, organ

click here for the BWV 540,2 fugue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrKPwfUE08

click here for complete playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=81F6CFF5713616B9

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[KhagarBalugrak]

Honestly, this performance is too dull for my liking. It's very clear and technically perfect, but it lacks expressivity and variety. Worse yet, the place this was recorded at has no echo effect, which makes the organ sound very dull indeed. I'd be interested to hear this women play in a good place for organ playing...then I could really decide if she can play this well.

[toxiconegro]

@KhagarBalugrak

The way you did say it, it's a bit too harsh, isn't it? It's no live recording and therefore supposed to sound "clear and technically" after all. The organ is located at the Garrison church in Copenhagen (Denmark) build in 1724. Although I don't know this instrument personally, I don't think it's too bad. I definitely appreciate your opinion, critisism is always helpful but still, I don't really understand it. Cheers

[hymnistic]

Incredibly expressive and gorgeous performance and wonderfully resonant organ!

I like to play this for my prelude on CK Sunday. You can ever hear the words if you listen closely: "put on his head a, put on his head a, put on his head a Crown!

Christ the, Christ the, Christ the King!"

[megamorphg]

i'm surprised it is pretty dull, too. -_-'

it's supposed to be representative of the chakras opening apparently.

philosopherswheel (dot) com (slash) toccata.htm

[originaltommy]

why is the second pedal bit not true? I really hope I can play this well when I'm drunk some night. Not like there's much else to do in Canada. I just hope you don't tell me this is actually a Casavant. Wow, go Canada!

[KhagarBalugrak]

@tombaker1222, I will say that Handel's music is often without any real expression, but I would not classify most Baroque music like this. Italian Baroque music is often full of joy and sorrow and drama. Just listen to Albinoni's oboe concerto in d minor. The second movement is as romantic and expressive as anything written in the Romantic era.

[KhagarBalugrak]

@tombaker1222, well, I have to say that you're wrong about Baroque music being about expressionlessness. While your comment is in some sense true in that Baroque music abstained from personal emotions and personalized emotional communication, Baroque music is full of religious feelings and devotion toward virtue. Just look at Bach's B Minor Mass; there are moments of excruciating pain (particularly when Jesus is nailed to the cross) and moments of divine joy.

[KhagarBalugrak]

@tombaker1222, well, I have to say that you're wrong about Baroque music being about expressionlessness. While your comment is in some sense true in that Baroque music abstained from personal emotions and personalized emotional communication, Baroque music is full of religious feelings and devotion toward virtue. Just look at Bach's B Minor Mass; there are moments of excruciating pain (particularly when Jesus is nailed to the cross) and moments of divine joy.

[tombaker1222]

@KhagarBalugrak In your first sentence you give her the greatest compliment - "Clear and technically perfect [...] no expressivity or variety" - That is the essence of Baroque music, for the greater part. Unlike the later Romantic composers who used dynamics etc to create emotions and other sensations from the audience, Baroque is much more about technical skill - there is very little room for, say, Rubato in Bach (unless at the end of phrases) yet Chopin's music is full of it.

[ebach1]

what hapened with the second pedal solo ?

i never heard this version before :)

did you notice something different ?

[BeowulfVids]

by hard I mean harsh

[BeowulfVids]

@KhagarBalugrak, if you claim this is hard try listening to it on a Hammond Organ :p