It is unfortunate that the organ has often been associated with death, but to me, this instrument can in essence speak those things that can never be put to words such as music only can express, A soul,spirit, a longing, yearning, that is as eternal as the Universe itself. I only see life, beauty, and all the glory.
I requsted that the organist at my my mother funeral would play this today, unfortunately his rendition was too fast for my taste. This one is perfect.
I don’t have tears or goosebumps hearing this, just a calm, peaceful. feeling. It’s like sitting by the fire in a comfy rocking chair with a mug of hot chocolate and a donut. I used to play the organ. Playing like he does was my goal.😊
I have a DVD audio of him playing in 5.1 surround, and this piece is my favorite of the disc. Enveloping sound, the quiet purr of the subwoofer getting those pedal notes, the slow build to the plaintive melody; you can just sit in awed silence at the mastery of the music, and the performance. You can close your eyes and be transported to a sacred space where you truly await the Savior's coming. Thanks J.S.!
Love his technique, articulation, trills, everything. I had the opportunity to hear a concert of this gentleman, other worldly. A recording can not translate his live performances.
@@andreainzaghi7373 You do what the sheet music says, and it's littered with accents, trills and appoggiaturas. The back half of most songs of Bach and contemporaries were where the performer got to halfway improvise on the theme. The front half was even pretty loose. SL Weiss is a good metric for the actual variation because I'm a guitarist who's played with baroque lute and most of us can't count to four. Time is relative and so are the notes.
There is a CD recording with Stefan Frank at the Sandtner organ in St. Ulrich & Afra, Augsburg, where he plays it yet a bit slower, and the recording is less direct which makes it sound more celestial. I find the composition incredible and enjoy to play it in advent time. Koopman's ornaments are beautiful, as always.
Wonderfully played and perfectly suited to the instrument and the acoustics. For some merely personal observations, this version (BWV 659) of Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland was the Prelude at my first wedding. The second version (BWV 660) will be the Prelude when my beloved partner and I marry this summer. Both of us know there is also another (BWV 661) just in case(!) Be with us, dear Lord, and bless our union.
Gabor Banay Fully agree on tempo. Lotsa organists want to prove their ability by ‘running’ over the keys, forgetting that an organ has nothing to do with Formula 1 😉
@@ben-6670 Yes, agree! And this about tempos I can say not only organ playing. For many musicians for example Andante is like Allegretto for example, I don`t know why musicians are so nervous today! I am so sorry, but say about such nervous Formula 1 runnings that they are really stupid, they can not play slowly any more!
@@rayancharafeddine4982 why did you write that? are you trying to correct this other poster? if so, you are not very smart... tempo is the correct word to use... tempi, is the plural form, and that's unnecessary here...
I would expect the tempo of the eighth notes in the pedal to be the same throughout the piece. Bach used it to express the 'weary trudging' of the Savior bearing his cross. Koopman's performance is unsteady to say the least. This chorale setting will be part of my prelude music tomorrow morning for Advent II service at Bethel Lutheran.
Since what time are nuns like the Lord in deciding, if persons come into heaven. Nuns should not be arrogant! Only the Lord decides in his Goodness!!! Dirk Jan
ten organista to wielki artysta, który tchnął drugą duszę w ten (i inne) utwór. Pierwszą duszę nadał kompozytor za natchnieniem Bożym. Choć Bach był protestantem, w jego utworach nie słychać podziału religii, czuć natomiast wielką duchowość.
It is scarcely conceivable that the arrival of Christ was made with footsteps as funereal as these. Koopman does not usually spare the horses in his tempi. Odd.
