Bach (Stokowski transcription)Toccata and Fugue in D minor

JS Bach transcribed by Leopold Stokowski Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565. Conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch(1923-) the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Minato-Mirai Hall, Yokohama, Japan, in May, 1999.

Original video and description obtained from youtube user "sound78rpm"

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• Fugue

[b00gyman]

9:49 to end: The totality of all failed human endeavor.

[selerenithil]

@b00gyman Why is that dear fellow?

[b00gyman]

@selerenithil The immense weight of this particular segment seems to evoke a depth that can only be likened to something greater than the abandonment of a single, individual heart. It speaks to a melancholy wisdom fluent in the hopelessness of our collective condition. That despite our every action, and the light of our innumerable successes, the shadow of our fate as human beings is final and inescapable. In the end, we are defined not by our greatest achievement, but our greatest failure.

[selerenithil]

@b00gyman You are an amazing human being! A bit of a pessimist but amazing..

[violindave2]

nothing is out of sync....as a professional violinist I can tell you every conductor is a bit different. Many of them have the the orchestra play the downbeat just a 'hair or 2' after the beat is conducted. 'It's an anticipation' so the musicians can prepare for the sound together. That's why there are rehearsals, especially with a new or guest conductor. It's something you inherently understand and learn with time. Watch the fingers of the musicians as you listen, everything is in sync.

[selerenithil]

@violindave2 That's what I thought! Thank you!! I really envy you, being a professional musician!!

[selerenithil]

@babsouille You are most welcome!

[eatmyplanet]

@b00gyman

Yet without mortality, there would be much slower progression, and motivation to succeed. Mortality is "the quick and the dead" life means evolution and progression. Mortality ensures "out dated models" are recycled into new, evolved structures. So in a way mortality "our single greatest failure" is our greatest asset and even more so a universal constant to ensure "existence" or change. This leads to progression and "existence" (ie. potential to kinetic energy or change)

[oldebutgoode2]

Great performance indeed! You must also watch Stokowski's masterful conduction of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (a1954 TV version also on You Tube)

[mich91909]

this is my favorite recording of this song by far

[Arquiduke]

@selerenithil dear crazy, just deep echoes of the glory of life to spread

[tyson2172]

this is my new ringtone on my phone :)

[nicolesax17]

I love this piece so much. Its beautiful. Amazing sound from the orchestra. Love the bottom sound

[HufflepuffTonks1]

I'm playing this with my high school orchestra and I can't wait! I'm not very good yet though....

[Flyingedition]

I love this piece and I really want to learn it on piano and I love the timpani :D much more interesting than what i play now

[CHELL9001]

@b00gyman I don't know Bach intended to make such an expression there.

If not, it's funny to say so

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But..., I believe that the composer is only an intermediate. What, if the universal spirit wanted to exclaim 'dear man, you were always unsuccessful at your own end, and thus unsuccessful throughout your whole lifetime, what have you REALLY achieved???'...

I hear the man kind's unceasing struggle of life, and hopeless end of it in this interpretation. These are only my personal thoughts..

[juresaiyan]

I just LOVE the harp at 2:05. Stokowski did an amazing arrangement!