Bach BWV 543 - Koopman 1988 version

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• Koopman
• BWV
• 543
• great
• prelude
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• fugue
• in
• minor

[PointyTailofSatan]

This is one of Bach's fugues that really sounds better on an electronic from of baroque organ. The relatively long attacks of most pipe ranks makes the precise timing this fugue requires almost impossible.

[advisorC101]

@PointyTailofSatan, Only if you're a totally mediocre organist who lacks the technical ability to achieve this on a true baroque organ. Also one must remember these organs that Koopman play are very ancient, so the action is not as they were when they were first built, but even so, there's nothing wrong with this performance.

[SnarkAttack12]

I love this interpretation! Feels really passionate and fast-paced. Bach was something else. Something about his minor key pieces really get me. It's all amazing, but the minor ones have this other-worldly, transcendent sort of quality to them, you know? I am confused, though. I listened to another person play this piece on a different video and I swear they ended the piece with a major chord. Anyone know which Bach intended it as?

[advisorC101]

@SnarkAttack12, It's hopeless trying to establish a "final" intention by Bach. He always played things differently. This is the true art of playing baroque music; "Stylus Phantasticus". Playing with both refined intelligence and complete freedom.

[TheLurker101]

people are tasteless and stupid: 190 views and this is one of the hardest things to do on an instrument

[advisorC101]

@TheLurker101, I'm sure to the current generation, Lady Gaga is the only "good taste". But I suppose its better to have 190 cultivated listeners than perhaps 30 million that would never understand.

[storm8962]

гениальная и восхитительная прелюдия ля минор

[poopingeneral]

@PointyTailofSatan I have one simple question: Would you choose a beautifully ornate baroque pipe organ, perfectly tuned, with proper pitch, and thousands of pipes hand crafted. Or would you choose an Allen, or Rodger's electric organ?

In my original comment, I may have come off a little hasty, for that I apologize. I do like "some" electric organs, but I've also played a few real pipe organs in my lifetime. The difference in sound, quality, and feel is definite, and undeniable.

[PointyTailofSatan]

@poopingeneral @poopingeneral Believe me. I was a console assistant (no pistons!) for one of the finest Baroque voiced tracker Casavant organs in Canada, and a favorite organ of Peter Hurford. That would be superb for this. But those kinds of small specialized organs are not that common now. A quality Rodgers or Allen organ is not a terrible substitute

[StephanePleyel]

Can somebody explain me what the picture at 6:00 is?

Thanks,

S.P.

[poopingeneral]

@PointyTailofSatan Your kidding right? Electronic organs are trash, they don't even sound right. You cannot recreate through speakers the feel, charm, and atmosphere a Pipe Organ can create in a space. There's a reason why the Pipe Organ has remained the King of Instruments for over 1000+ years. There's a reason why they are built in the greatest halls, and largest Cathedrals. They cannot be matched in quality, and tone. It's impossible. Speakers are trash, go listen to a Cathedral organ.

[elbiagioni]

Ah, Johan Sebastian Bach... No more.