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'Concertato' Prelude from Prelude and Fugue in D BWV 532

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Uploaded by on Oct 22, 2006

John Scott Whiteley of York Minster plays the Arp Schnitger organ at the Jakobikirche Hamburg. Restored by Jurgen Ahrend.

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  • I think the sunglasses are so they could film directly at his face without him looking into the camera because looking into the camera is very unsuited to the program

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  • I have a funny story about this organ.

    There are tours about the organ every thursday and when i was 5 i went on one. At that time, I could only play Chopsticks on the piano. So when the organist was not looking, i started to play it on this organ in front of everyone. The organist immediately stopped me and told me off!

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  • Wonderful to see this stupendous music on TV. Hate the gimmicky camera work though. I just want to see his hands & feet. Save the organ shots for before or after he's finished playing please Mr Arty farty camera man !

  • Mechanical organs are awesome! I got a back of case tour of the instrument in the Old St. Patrick's Cathedral. They use old headstones from the churchyard as weights for the regulators.

  • @Ntalikeris666 If you did a simple search you can always find the specifications of an organ, especially one as famous as this one. There are only 2 couplers, Oberwerk to Hauptwerk and Brustwerk to Oberwerk.

  • Not exactly my favourite rendition of this piece (it's not a "song", as some refer to it, since no singing is involved). It strikes me as rather lacking in flair and drama. I'd rather listen to Simon Preston's rendition of the Prelude & Fugue (on CD; not seen on YouTube so far). He plays a smallish-sounding organ (Klais, Kreuzberg Monastery, Bonn) with an effective variety of registration and appealing bravura that bring this music to life in a way I haven't heard from any other organist.

  • excelent performance

  • Beautiful organ. One can definitely see the influence of the Schnitger organs in some of the modern masters (Taylor and Boody, Fritts, et al).

  • @organisten It's funny for me looking back at it. The fact that at that time I didn't really realise why everyone was staring at me after I did that.

  • @organist12345 why is this "funny"?

  • I liked that. I heard that song 4 years ago.

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