Bach - Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor - 1/2 - Passacaglia

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582

1. Passacaglia


Helmut Walcha


Photo: Giulio Pili

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• organo
• orgel
• fuga
• fuge
• passacaille
• do
• minore
• C-moll
• ut
• mineur

[leoperarm]

great music...the image is simply disgusting and totally out of place :-(

[Kochiha]

It's because of pieces like this that I remark that Bach was the composer that invented heavy metal.

[RevoltesocialHipHop]

MAGNIFIKKKK !!!!

[wwww1966]

Great performance.Probably the best I've ever heard.Image is not good,no relation with that great music. Thanks.

[MusicPredominates]

@leoperarm : A child after death ? But does this not resemble us all ?

[ttwiligh7]

@dlphcoracl

You know, I sometimes feel like I should speak up, because I found Walcha fans were quite modest just like his performance, while Richter and Koopman fans are roaring around in You Tube. I like some of their performances, too, but I always come back to Walcha as I feel like my ears are washed with the purest of water.

[dlphcoracl]

@ttwiligh7

I agree with you entirely. For me, Helmut Walcha's historic recordings of Bach's complete works for organ on the DGG Archive label in the 1960's have always set the standard. They are not the flashiest, not the most dramatic, but played always with an understanding of what Bach had written. Walcha's knowledge of and respect for the music's structure and the clarity of his performances reveals the logic and beauty of Bach's works.

[fuganai]

I love this performances of Helmut Walcha

[azgalorazgalor17]

@ultranom The image is fine...life, death whatever, the fact it sounds sorrowful...

[azgalorazgalor17]

@leoperarm c'mon, it totally fits the theme, it sounds like sorrow or death at first...I don't get why people like your comment lol

[Powmoro]

@leoperarm well music affects everyone in a different way. And this is how it feels to me

[leoperarm]

@Powmoro completely not, this is not funeral music... Bach's complexity actually awakens your senses and mind, it's not for mourning or death,nor gives that sensation of emptyness or sorrow.