Saint Eustache - Bach Preludium & Fugue in C Major

Recital played by Etienne Walhain in June 2006

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[daithom14]

Love it. I'm sure the master would have liked to hear his music played so enthusiastically. I can imagine sitting through it played "correctly" by a person who irons his underpants and if given a ferrari for the day would drive at 28mph max.

I guess tolerance for all diversity - could do with a miltary trumpet as well!

[virginiaorganbuilder]

I doubt that Bach would have used a 32' reed for this piece, or played it so quickly. It's not exactly light and clear...

[virginiaorganbuilder]

@ludwig123456789 OK, I believe you. I love 32' stops too (I'm currently voicing an organ which will have four of them...NOT electronic!)

[orgelvriend]

@virginiaorganbuilder It is perfect!

[twtilla2011]

he's so handsome!!!!!

[ludwig123456789]

Viriginia Organbuilder--obviously you have never been to Paris and even if you have you have never gone into St. Eustache. What you are complaining about are the great acoustics of this church which are great! Adjust your playback system! Perhaps the recording engineering of its sounds is wrong +  playback system which playback clearly 16 hz sounds which most speakers cannot do which is one thing Organs can over a piece of glass posing as a million dollar diamond (i.e.electronic fake 'organ').

[ludwig123456789]

Ok Folks!!! Obviously most of you know absolutely nothing about the Organs that Bach played. Bach greatly admired 32' stops on the Organs that he played. The stops available were a Posaune 32, which is a reed and a Principal 32'. These sound the lowest bass most humans can hear. If the 32' Bombarde reeds (subbing for the Posaune 32) sound bad on your system ---that is not the Organs fault but your system because you do not have speakers that can generate16 hz sound! Bach use 32" in perform'g

[OrganPianoMusic]

@OrganPianoMusic Before people are saying something about my comment: No, I can't play the Fugue better because I can't play it at all. The Organist here is pretty good at playing Bach. It is hard to play such Fugues so I accept this and I honor it very much. The only thing is that I don't like the Registration. I might have used hard words there but it does not sound good.

So dont take that comment above that serious! :-)

:-D I love organ music as much as him :-D

[1floss1]

yeah you definitely want to have the organ in a wide,sound reflective,open area for the maximum affect.

[joeyboi87]

absolutely horrendous, twice the tempo it should be and using that bombare in the bass is awful, I would use half that registration too and at the most an 8ft trumpet in the pedal perhaps...or even a horn or clarinet coupled to the pedal from the swell, this is awful