Gaston Bélier - Toccata in D mineur - Hauptwerk Dudelange 

love the tempo consistent throughout - super confident playing

Thank you Gert for sharing this beautiful piece by Belier. Always a pleasure to listen to you play for us 😀

This has the energy. mastery, power, and enthusiasm that we have come to associate with Gert

What a process. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of notes on the pages, the eyes read them, brain processes it all. Hands, fingers and feet reproduce it. All I can say Gert is "You have amazing talent"!

Thank You Gert!

What a delightful piece. All seemed to bounce along nicely. Good performance and interesting registration.

❤ Dudelange 32ft. My fave❣️

Brillaint! Thanks

What a beautiful piece of music. I have never heard this piece before. Thank you for your wonderful playing, and for doing what you do so brilliantly - - introducing us to new repertoire, and challenging our perceptions. Great foot work, by the way!

Thank you Gert .An outstanding performance of this wonderful peace of music .

Outstanding!!!

Gert you never fail to astound and bring joy with your work!!! Somehow, I feel when I listen to you that what I am feeling is YOUR EXPRESSION of joy!!! As one who plays very badly the piano at my church, I so much appreciate what you do and your willingness to share it with others... Thank you !!!

Wonderful piece, masterfully performed!!!!! Thank you Gert, such a pleasure to hear you play!

All i could say after hearing this work I dont know is Wow , You inspired me to get back to the organ and slowly I make my way and there is no doubt that Hauptwerk and Content is the way to go .I love the pedal registration and freshness of the piece so professionally played ...Thank you Gert ...

A Wonderful Marriage of Spirited Souls.Thank you for Sharing. God Bless. RichardB

wonderful Gert.

Nicely played at a sensible speed!

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!! That organ has a lot of power when you play it. I LOVE the bass 🤗 and always the footwork. Thank you, Gert, for another wonderful video. I really enjoyed that Toccata. BRAVO, thumbs up!!!

Awesome!!! So this is a great start to new holiday day. Thank you very much.

I like this interpretation very much. Wonderful tempo. Technically perfect. Bravo 👏👏👏

Formidable merci

Excellent!

Very nice Played, a beautiful sound

Magnífico!!! 🇪🇸

He is so brilliant.

Yes, really a great piece of music. And, I think man can hear his inspiration by JSB. You played not only well. I think you hit the spirit of the piece. Thanks and greetings from Thomas

Emocionante trabajo Gert Van Hoef ....♫ muchos saludos y bonito inicio de semana....♫♫♫ encantador tema...♥

Bravo! This is a nice and powerful work. Great performance.

Ein großes Vorbild für jeden Organisten wurde ich sagen Danke an Gert van Hoef hoffentlich kommt er mal nach Berlin grüße viel Grüße von St.H

prachtig,genieten man.

Bravo!

Flowing!congratulations;truly inspired!It will enter into my toccatas museum.

Wow this is amazing.

You have a Wonderfull organ! Congratulation!

You are so amazing !

What a brilliant organ: the beauty of church sound combined with a more direct / immedeate sound production. Especially the base tones sound that way, as the beautiful sound comes directly from the instrument, not needing to build up slowly in a large building. It is the first electronic instrument that sounds better than the original!

Lovely, lively rendition. Belier's Toccata has become part of the standard organ repertoire. I think it's your fourth or fifth YT upload, and you've obviously played it many more times in recital - like putting on a comfortable pair of slippers really. Also nice to hear the organ again in St Martin's Church at Dudelange, Luxembourg, where you cut your Premiere CD.

I love it

Briljant!

Delightful playing. Good tempo and colourful registration! Great camera work.Congratulations and bravo!

Pues no conocía esta obra, pero me parece excepcional, amén de la magnífica interpretación de Gert,cada vez más maduro. Felicidades, Gert y familia.

So magnificant and powerfull😍😍😍😍

Es realmente bello y hermoso como interpreta el órgano, verdaderamente le da vida y sentido a través del alma musical.

.. I have been following your interpretations for some time and I find that it really plays very well. It is obviously not just a question of technique, but of heart and passion that you put into it. Another element in your favor is to be young, which gives the right charge to engage in any initiative. I hope as soon as I can listen to your live concert here in Italy. Moreover, even here from youtube, which is not bad, I hope to listen to some songs by Italian authors like Vivaldi. I recently discovered that one of your English colleagues, Jonhatan Scott, performs wonderful interpretations of the 4 seasons for organ, if you listen to them too you will see that they leave you breathless .... just like you do. Really congratulations for your career, I hope you can go higher and higher. Greetings from Naples.

Buena interpretación en que revive el espíritu del compositor.

Awesome

Maravilhoso 💕🎶👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Muy bueno. potente como me gusta. felicidades por tus exitos. saludos desde Catalunya

Thank YOU!!! Joe Wenderoth

Très, très jolie👏🏻👏🏻😎

Vos qualités d'organiste sont indéniables mais trop de manières dans l'exécution, cela dessert l'œuvre. Enlevez toute théâtralité, restez sobre, vous y gagnerez et l'art aussi.

Très bon organiste qui joue très bien je vais assister à un concert d'orgue demain mais ne sera pas pareil ce sont des élèves de musique félicitations pour cette magnifique musique. 🎹🎼🎵🤳🎶👍👍🎶🎺👣👏🏿

Hi GVH,i still like your playing style,sound and interpretation of this famous work.Cheers 😃

Bravo

@Gert van Hoef Sehr Gut Doktor ! WOW ! Your organ sounds like a cathedral organ. Wunderbar ! Kanada.

No complaints on this presentation. Enjoyable lively and fun to listen too. I would bet that you could have fun playing some contemporary music along with your wide repertoire.

Prachtige klank!!!

Ich übe das Stück gerade auch. Es macht voll Spaß! Es ist für Organisten auf jeden Fall zu empfehlen.

Parabéns.

I'd really like to see your 2020 concert agenda!

great

Please come to Canada !

I love this performance! I did notice however, during the “synthetic A-Minor” section of the piece when you are playing 16th notes in the right hand (measure 56-63 in my score) that you never hit the c natural. I don’t know if you use a different arrangement or if you learned this piece differently, but I think it adds a nice variation when you play that section like you do.

Excellent! By the way, Gert, have you ever been to Kirkwall (Orkney Islands, Scotland) and the magnificent and mighty St Magnus Cathedral with its Willis organ? The acoustics are ethereal; I can hear a van Hoef CD already :-).

Lindo!

Is that on porpouse to you playing at 1:57 that 16ths downwards not in upwards? ( and whole this kind os phrases) If yes, why? So in the right hand: a"-a'-g'#-a'-b'-a'-g'#-a' instead of the original score? Because in this way it sounds a little 'cripple' and loose its tension, energy, power. By the way it's a good interpretation.

When do we get to see and hear Jan De Rooij?

Yes it is a great piece to play too. Recommend it as a great piece for organ students which sounds more difficult than it is with plenty of repeats and recurring patterns. The pedal part is not difficult. The speed here was just right capturing the beauty of the piece. Too many organists crash through it and it becomes a muddy jumble. Also pianists it can be transcribed as a good piano piece as well

...eigenlijk ongelofelijk hoe goed deze digitale instrumenten tegenwoordig klinken, afhankelijk van de kwaliteit van de sample set. De Toccata kende ik niet maar gaaf gespeeld!

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Un seul mot: SUBLIME

Alleen het applaus ontbreekt. Heb je daar geen knopje voor? ;) Ik heb wel heel hard voor je geklapt!

Bellissimo, complimenti. Attenzione, a battuta 90 e simili, è LA-SOL-LA-SI-DO-SI-LA... non LA-SI-LA-SOL-LA-SI-LA

While the composition is a bit boring, it is very well played, congratulations Gert - what a relaxed technique! For my ear the upper manual does not speak as clearly as the main one. In a way there is an evened out delay (Hauptwerk sample?) which gives it a little unreal sound impression. Having said all that, i am listening from a smartphone, which might contribute to it.

Too many notes!!! JUST KIDDING! Nice rendition, Gert.

Lekker setje he?

Virtuoses Spiel, kompositorisch höchst repititiv

Why have you made some changes? I can see from your score that you are not playing whats written occasionally.

Très belle partition et bel interprétation, Merci Gert.

Er kann es. Danke.

I have little doubt, when the final trumpets blare and Christ himself returns, we will hear glorious organ music too, and the organist will be Gert. Let me correct myself, I have NO doubt. :D

Bien !Mais vous ne m'avez pas répondu a mon invitation!Ce sera la dernière!+1 like!

it wearily trundles along - sadly I think not his finest performance