Bach - Passacaglia BWV 582 - Karl Richter - Organ

This is one of the most famous and magnificent pieces of music of all time, it was written by Johann Sebastian Bach.

I am aware of the fact that the pictures used are arranged anachronistically, so please don't comment on it .

Pictures:
1.Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore: Firenze, Italia
2.Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore: Firenze, Itlaia
3.Westminster Bridge: London, England (Canaletto, 1746)
4.Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano: Roma, Italia
5.Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano: Roma, Italia ( Pannini, 1755)
6.Piazza San Marco: Venezia, Italia (Canaletto, 1730)
7.Dutch ships, including the 'Mauritius', set sail for East India (Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, 1600)
8.Parade of the Black Sea Fleet (Ivan Aivazovsky, 1849)
9.Four Days Fight, 1114 June 1666 (Abraham Storck, 1666)
10.Battle of Gibraltar: Explosion of the Spanish Flagship 1607 (Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, 1607)
11.Battle of Preveza 1538 (Ohannes Umed Behzad, 1866)
12.Battle of Navarino 1827 (Ivan Aivazovsky, 1846)
13.Battle of Trafalgar 1805 (William Clarkson Stanfield, 1836)
14.Pietà (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1499)
15.Johann Sebastian Bach (Elias Gottlob Haussmann, 1748)
16.Battle of Mohacs 1526 (Bertalan Székely, 1866)
17.Battle of Tours 732 (Charles de Steuben ca. 1834-37)
18.Battle of Orsha 1514 (Unknown Painter taught by Lucas Cranach the Elder 1524?-1530?)
19.Battle of Hohenfriedberg 1745: March of the Prussian Grenadiers (Carl Röchling 1913?)
20.Battle of Poltava 1709 (Dennis Martens the Younger 1726)

Category:

Music

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• Sebastian
• Bach
• BWV582
• 582
• BWV
• Passacaglia

[maricahn]

THIS VERSION IS BAD, THE VOLUME KEEPS GOING UP AND DOWN. ITS VERY ANNOYING. Reported.

[Osamabinjackson]

@maricahn the volume goes up and down because Richter is using many different sets of pipes on this organ for dramatic effect, the volume changes because the actual volume of the pipes is changing. You should just listen to it played on a smaller organ.

[Egestus18]

Do you know when/where this was recorded?

But first of cause: a BIG thanks for this wonderful recording of Richter playing this masterpiece of THE MASTER

[mike13lowe]

Great video, the artworks are both appropriate and powerful

[jimamia77]

When I watch this video, I may compare the tall sailing ships with the awesome organs! Both were created with such ingenuity using wood, leather, metals, and other raw products of nature but, I bet electric power ran that organ!!

[jimamia77]

I love how Bach transitions his fugues. If it is in the key of minor, you may hear a segment of the piece played in major. Even the dark fugue in D minor sounds briefly delightful when it hits it's major segment. I'm not a classical musician but u know what i'm talking about.

[Vectorcomputer]

@jimamia77 Joshua Humphreys (from the U.S.) came up with some impressive design changes to frigates that even Nelson acknowledged as an important advancement. The English were the leaders in ship design before then, starting with John Hawkings, Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh; in the height of the age of sail, Peter the Great of Russian went to England to study shipbuilding.

[resonantdave]

@JOELALVARADO95 Why? It's a secular dance song in a minor key?

They danced to strange things in Spain...

[JOELALVARADO95]

I fell in my knees.. i cried with myself.. But then I listened to this and it gave me hope!!!

[jimamia77]

Only the Great People of Europe can create such music, erect beautiful buildings, and design such seaworthy vessels in that time. I know that the original Tower of st. Marks collapsed but it was centuries old. It was rebuilt exactly as it was. All of us have been greatly influenced by that continent!

[donnyab]

@Karlemann66

just what kind of a dick are you ?

[sweetnymphetamines]

My all time favourite.