J.S. Bach, Come Sweet Death www.thejoyofmusic.org

Organist Diane Bish plays this stirring piece on the 117 Rank Ruffatti Organ of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft Lauderdale, FL.

(Sorry, the sound is a bit out of sync with the video. I tried to digitally enhance the sound quality, but it caused the video and audio to be mismatched)

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[dacatholicbandorgan]

Diane was featured on EWTN?

[bishfan]

She still is weekly. Check her website for the television schedule.

[dredloxx1980]

the title is disturbing

[bishfan]

Upon death, he knows he will be going to a better place...

[Egestus18]

WAY tooo fast...

i like virgils tempo much more...

[silverstartrucker]

After hearing Virgil Fox's version, sorry I cannot enthuse.

[wainscottbl]

@mikedc2020 Regardless of her errors or not, and I am not expert, are you saying that because we have one great preformer that should stop all future performers? So no one can see Nessun dorma because Pavarotti was so good. Well, Paul Potts should have just kept selling phones...I understand your might might have criticisms, but one of them cannot be, "Well this great musician played it. Therefore no one else should."

[AAFDirectors]

Come Sweet death, MY all tive Fox favorite!

[mikedc2020]

Given Virgil's definitive playing of this hymn, why on earth would DB even bother. And of course, like everything she plays, she played it too fast, and ruined it.

[MANTLEBERG]

She who rides, and tames the mighty dragon, ride on..and excite our souls, ride on forever, you sweet angel of the earth, we give our thanks unto thee, for eternity.

[ThatMinidotCom]

@giovannilaroche @giovannilaroche Hi - they are part of a hymn I wrote , and lost a long time ago. The preface to the Welsh translation of the Bible starts with the words, 'Enaid Gwerthfawr' (meaning, Precious Soul) and after hearing this quoted by our pastor, W Vernon Higham - wvhigham.org- , I wrote the words. Some day I might find them again, but for now, its just that much I can recall

[AllTheStopsJB]

No pipe organ better to do this song then the Ruffatti. Diane Bish + Ruffatti Organ = Absolute awe. Breath-taking.

[polgarfan]

@Egestus18 I can agree with you; however, I think she's playing it for her show, not as a concerted performance. And when you're on tv, your time is very limited to what you can do. When we see Virgil Fox perform this, he's usually doing it before a listening audience, so he had more "freedom of expression" compared to a televised performance.

[bremick]

@Egestus18 .. I like Bish's tempo. Although a great Fox fan, sometimes he plays this piece too slowly

[TomTRDEV]

She's a great organist, but everything is played at warp speed. Much too fast.