BACH - PRELUDE & FUGUE IN A MINOR BWV 543 - ORGANIST JONATHAN SCOTT - CHESTERFIELD PARISH CHURCH 

To you who are listening to this inspiring music, may you have a wonderful day today!!!

It's not just the organ, the natural reverb from the old church and it's high stone walls is an essential part of the experience to give the parishioners the feeling of being in heaven. Nowadays we have digital reverb, but in the old days the only way to get this beautiful sound was to build these huge cathedrals.

Wonderful, this is why Bach is my favorite composer

i want us to take a second and appreciate the shear amount of mental aptitude sharpness and accuracy this has to take his brain is operating at full efficiency and the duration of this one piece yet alone this among others in an entire concert, not to mention the scope of what this man can play , and to each piece he gives 100 percent accuracy and expression is flawless. this is simply amazing and i do not say this lightly but Johnathan Scott is the absolute finest that this world has to offer he is the greatest organist of our time.

Bravo 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I have listened to many of your sessions... I cant play my self.. But i want to..... I love organ,, and Bach! And all your performance... I do listen to... Thank you! 🙏👍

I will never get tired of listening to this perfect rendition. Perfect dialogue among all the sounds and voices of the organ. Thanks Jonathan and Tom

Hi friend, I have been your subscriber more than 1year and I played this. You have wonderful days.

A wonderful way to start my Saturday morning. Thank you, Jonathan!

Brilliant.

Can i make a wish?... Bww 542.🙏love organ and Bach! 🙏😊

Bravo again!! Thank you so much Jonathan perfect.

Magnificent!

OK. This is perhaps the best performance of this piece I've ever had the privilege to hear. The sensitive rubato in the prelude is simply amazing, and turns what so many organists would render as sewing-machine notes into rare music. But, please, do have someone check the voicing of what seems to be the 1' principal on the great at G5. It shrieks.

Thank you Jonathan! You played that exactley the way i want to! Thank you❤

Bravo Jonathan

U da man Mr. Scott.

Bravo! 👏👏. Watching from Wilmington, Delaware USA

Beautiful and lovely as always Jonathan! 😁👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤

superb

A masterclass in organ playing, excellent.😁👍

It plays a lot. Too good!

Loving it from Sydney Australia Jonathon :)

I love the drama you establish at 7:00!!! Really a tremendous performance!

Watching from USA - Winston-Salem, NC. Enjoying this so much!

The most powerful and best iv'e ever heard!!!! And I'm an expert at listening!!! ❤❤🤗🙏🎹

I like the sound of pedals at 7:06

The section at 7:55 is sublime, not just in the Bach piece, but the slight rubato added to heighten the sense of enjoyment of these few bars in this version which seem to hang in space and suspend time, despite the fugue pushing forward to its inevitable conclusion. Bach did not hang about in these later mature fugues. Great stuff, great version, wonderful English organ which is registered so well for a baroque masterpiece.

Svetlana N. Give Thanks for the music soul. Bravo!

One of my favorite top 5 bach pieces of all time.. 👍

Wonderful moment of bliss listening to a Bach Prelude & Fugue brilliantly played by a master organist on a fantastic concert organ (formerly Glasgow City Hall organ) in an 800 yr old parish church.

Enjoying your wonderful Bach in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, a western suburb of Philadelphia. Bravo! I hope when the pandemic clears you will visit Philly and play its magnificent organs, the Wanamaker organ at Macy's in Center City, The Curtis organ at Irvine Auditorium on the Penn campus, and the organ at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, the smallest of the three at 10,010 pipes.

👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️absolutely beautiful. Thank you.

I have a great wish.... That i could listen to you in private... To heare that beautiful organ in elche.. And that fantastic acoustic... Playing wivaldi.. Winter... Fantastic🙏🙏🙏❤❤😢

Great music and fantastic playing !

Such a wonderful interpretation. Thanks for sharing!

Bravo! Köszönöm :)

Good lord, the feet my dude. Great work! I love these videos. And I turn the volume all the way up. It’s a difference listing to the organ vs seeing it!

Brilliant!

Absolutely fantastic! It moved me to tears. It must take hours and hours and hours of practice to play it so perfectly. Of course you must have the raw talent to begin with. Bravo! Bravo!

A fantastic performance of a masterpiece. The organ sounds amazing! 💜

bravo!

As always, a flawless performance. The photography throughout the church was exquisite. Many praises and thanks to Jonathan and Thomas for wonderful treats to our ears and eyes. What would we do without you during these difficult times keeping our spirits high and giving us always something great to look forward to.

Yet another absolutely wonderful rendition of this difficult piece. Bravo!!

Unbelievable talent When are you going to tour Australia Love to see you play the big tracker instrument in Sydney Regards from OZ

Splendid

素晴らしい演奏、曲をありがとうございます。励ましを受けます。厳粛な中に力を感じます。

Amazing! :O

Супер божественная музыка органа для души от супер органиста мира ❤ ! ! !🙂😋😎😀

Great and wonderful J.S.Bach and the same can be said for Jonathan. A masterful interpretation of this baroque music of incredible difficulty. Once again I am amazed at such precision and perfection. My most sincere congratulations.👏👏👏💖

A brilliant and inspired performance, Jonathan - I can't believe that I didn't post a comment when I first heard this, over a year ago! Wonderful intrument, too! Stay safe, both of you! Best wishes, as always!

As always a fantastic performance!

Bravo!

Wonderful, Hope you are going to do all of the prelude & fuges.

Nothing less than amazing again! I love your registrations - you always manage to capture the best of each organ you play. Looking forward to many, many more posts from you both!

이것도 좋구나..

A beautiful performance, Jonathan. Thanks Jonathan and Tom.

Bach organ compositions are inspiring. Even more so when performed so well! Justice done to the work, the instrument and the atmospheric surroundings!

It's amazing how many times the bass line can be reinterpreted.

The mighty genius of Bach.

An astounding rendition of an astounding piece.

Bravo! Excelente 👏👏 performance! Parabéns 👏🎆

Isn't this beautiful!

Greetings from Eastern Michigan. I don't know how you do it. It took me about twenty years to learn BWV 543 and I never did quite master the fugue!

this makes me all so much closer to god, thank you

Oh my God! The glory of Bach!

Great performance! Well done!

Prelude 0:00 Fugue 3:30

Marvelous, as always

This is an extraordinary arrangement and performance. Wonderful!!! Thank you. don

My question for today is: with complex scoring, fancy fingering, add in the foot work, with your educated eye how much practice does it take to feel comfortable playing the piece? (This is for Jonathan, and Tom too.)

How did you guys get such an amazing sound quality

The cameraman showed great restraint in not showing the remarkable twisted spire until the end credits; could be distracting! I would be interested to see what Jonathan Scott does with the Fantasia and Fugue BWV542, an almost "headbanging" piece which seems to me to have parallels to the orchestral transcriptions where Jonathan excels.

me encanta

I Love organ and Bach!!! Is there anyway i can get contact with you? I want to listen to you playing live! Please!🙏🎹🎹🎹

I need to say as a self taught organist who has ways to go before I get to where you are at ( I’ve been plying for 9 months now) you make it look so easy !!! I have a request!! Mozart symphony No. 25

Is there an NPOR listing for this magnificent instrument?

Bravo, bravíssimo! Um grande abraço de Curitiba Paraná Brasil.

Best Registrierung

Fugue 3:29

I like the way you add some rubato as means of expression, my teacher at school wouldn't allow it. I'm not so sure about the change of manuals with the abrupt change of dynamics, and the early use of pedal reeds in the last section. This piece always sounds like a violin piece and I prefer a more intimate and less grand approach. I played this in my recital at school and reeds were only added in the final bars.

3:30 - fugue

My old manual typewriter doesn’t sound nearly this good.

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Excellente interpretation! Bravo! Un petit bémol en ce qui concerne la fin à partit de 7:00, la voix faite avec les pieds est un peu trop forte par rapport au reste, malgré la beauté de l’écriture!

So...we all know that Jonathan Scott is the greatest, but who is the second greatest. Do a search for "Marcus Waugh BWV540" on RU-vid is my offering, Any other suggestions?

Nice but the majesty is lost because it' s played way too fast.

Bioutifull BUT check Albert Schweitzer playing the fugue >more romantic and sentimental

Mir zu Basslastig ansonsten auch etwas zu schnell gespielt