Johann Sebastian Bach, Ich ruf zu Dir [BWV 639]
Willem van Twillert plays the Garrels-organ in the Sint Nicolaaschurch at Purmerend [NL]
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Willem van Twillert (1952) studied organ at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Piet Kee as his Organ professor, with whom he also studied improvisation and composition. In 1975 he began 3 years of orchestral conducting studies with Anton Kersjes. In 1976 he obtained the diploma for Church Music and in 1978 the diploma of Performing Musician cum laude, with a teaching-endorsement for improvisation. A scholarship afforded him the opportunity to specialise in old music between 1978 and 1981, including studies with Gustav Leonhardt.
In 1976, van Twillert was the first Dutch organist to reach the final of the Grand Prix de Chartres in France.
As an organist he has become a well-known performing musician both at home and abroad, thanks mainly to his concerts in the Netherlands, as well as in the U.S.A., Italy, Germany and England
See for more addresses and details: www.willemvantwillert.nl
"To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time."
- Pablo Casals
"And if we look at the works of JS Bach - a benevolent god to which all musicians should offer a prayer to defend themselves against mediocrity - on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered. And in his works we will search in vain for anything the least lacking in good taste."
- Claude Debussy
"Bach is the beginning and end of all music."
- Max Reger
"...the greatest Christian music in the world...if life had taken hope and faith from me, this single chorus would restore all."
- Felix Mendelssohn (On the "Gloria in excelsis Deo" from Mass in B minor)
"I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach."
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
"Not Brook but Ocean should be His name."
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Now there is music from which a man can learn something."
- W. A. Mozart (on hearing Bach motets in Leipzig)
"Study Bach: there you will find everything."
- Johannes Brahms
"Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure."
- Karl Barth
"Bach is Bach, as God is God."
- Hector Berlioz
"O you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you."
- Giuseppi Verdi
"...the most stupendous miracle in all music!."
- Richard Wagner
"Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say. If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid."
- Charles Gounod
"The poetry, the atmosphere, the intensity of expression, the beauty of the preludes and fugues grip, overwhelm, and stimulate us. Let us not be afraid of the supreme contrapuntal science of the fugues, nor be overawed by the stern appearance and heavy wig of Father Bach. Let us gather around him, feel the love, the noble goodness that flow from each one of his phrases and that invigorate and bind us by ties strong and warm."
- Carl Friedrich Zelter (letter to Goethe, 9 June 1827)
"Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way."
- Pablo Casals
"Any musician, even the most gifted, takes a place second to Bach's at the very start."
- Paul Hindemith
"If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach..."
- Aaron Copland
"In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God."
- Gustav Mahler
"If Bach is not in Heaven.....I am not going!"
- William F. Buckley
"I have this to say about Bachs works; listen, play, love, revere - and keep your trap shut"
- Albert Einstein
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Willem van Twillert plays his Ps.124, Canonic Prel.by Improvisata1,073 views
thanks for uploading, perhaps my favorite bach piece, and it's been left out to dry with rather poor quality videos on youtube until now!
ChiZ712 8 months ago