It's a chorale tune, and there's nothing awkward about it. It only seems awkward because of the slow tempo and the dissonant harmonies. Listen to Bach's choral harmonization of the same tune, BWV 305. There are many examples on RU-vid. Here's one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wuu84j7trk4.html
The longer one takes to perform this piece, the more meaning, depth and sorrow it conveys. Great job, I really like the stops, specially the ones in the pedal :)
I listened the first time with Pierre Cochereau together with the trumpetist Roger Delmote. A simple and admirable work. I recommend to study it annotating the bass numbering, this provided by the left hand part.
I remember that during a hospitalization, my mother brought me to the hospital a recording of this work ..... I really liked this listening ... and, ignoring the title of the work, I have long searched for it ...... and it troubles me enormously ..
Deeply moving music. Out of this world. An atheist could turn to a beliver instantly if he possed a minimum of sensibility to feel God's presence in these notes.
What is amazing is that Bach was known to hate composing at the keyboard. He would literally work out an entire piece in his head, and/or on paper, and write it down almost complete. If this piece was done in this way, it means Bach heard these harmonies in his head. Incredible.
Perhaps you're not aware that the typical university undergraduate music major curriculum requires the student to pass ear training in harmony and identify chords upon hearing them. I don't know why you find it so remarkable that a composer worth his salt would not need a keyboard to compose on. Generations of composers before Bach were writing complex contrapuntal vocal compositions in 5, 6 or more parts without a keyboard crutch. As for whether Bach hated composing at the keyboard, many of his keyboard compositions sound improvisational and may have resulted from reworkings of pieces he had improvised. A famous example comes to mind: the 3-part ricercar from the Musical Offering is very likely a worked out version of the 3-part fugue the composer had famously improvised at the Prussian king's Potsdam residence on a theme provided by the king. Question: How does _literally_ alter the meaning of your sentence?
@@bzeliotis To me the op sounds more like someone that is hunting for free upvotes on youtube... ...i know nothing about music but i can imagine that with music theory and after some year of struggling everyone can compose simple stuff without the need of playing all the notes but by simply picturing accords in his brain. The stuff that Herrick Inman is saying is easy to understand, he is not being an elitist he is just bored by the youtube comments from people without any knowledge which are putting their face into technical stuff indirectly insulting all the ones that truly studied musical the theory, composition, etc. I can appreciate a piece even without filling my mouth with words i don't understand the meaning...
@@herrickinman9303It may well be said that any reasonably proficient music scholar may write down a harmonized melody directly onto paper. It is, on the other hand, not an easy task to write out such a beautiful, balanced and (comparatively) complex piece of music from just conceptualizing it out of thin air. It is easy to suppose that due to his busy schedule Bach probably was UNABLE to painstakingly edit his compositions, so he MUST have prepared them in relatively complete form IN HIS HEAD before he wrote them down. Maybe you can write music, but can you compose and edit polyphony in your head for half an hour without getting lost? Can you improvise a three-voice fugue on a random theme and make it sound beautiful? If you can, you are a consummate musician who should know better than to so jadely criticise an imprecise but reasonable and respectful comment on a RU-vid video of a masterpiece.
In one word : perfect ! You made me cry with happiness (a frequent side effect for me with Bach's music !). They should give you the real organ for such a nice interpretation.
Matthew Fisher formerly of Procol Harum(also known for A Whiter Shade of Pale) on his album "A Salty Dog Returns" performs this song using what sounds like a Hammond organ of some sort,synthesizers that sounds like an entire orchestra and drums. He changes one chord that makes it sound a little more menacing. I love it. I wished he would he would have explored this type of music on the rest of that album.
I am surprised I haven't said anything about this. It is absolutely beautiful and I want more of it. I want to learn organ, but probably will never be able to
@@user-hv7cj3yb7u unless I regularly visit a church, too big and expensive for basically a fancy piano. Unfortunately it is easier to get a organ plug in for piano or a PC soundfont
@@TheStickCollector You said you'd use the organ sound on a digital piano. But there are actually digital organs with pedal and everything. Check this guy's channel out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TYicxVIfQnc.html
Beautiful ... superb performance.... I am studying it too .... but my sample is a small "pure" Baroque Organ so I cannot have so deep and full-bodied sound...
@@pierrebourrelly2953 sounds really interesting, even if it's a midi file. Although the singers would run out of breath singing those chords XD Maybe i'd suggest a soloist singing the melody with the organ or a piano doing the rest. Or a string quarter perhaps?
@@marcellovacca3155 BWV 725 (almost like speech in music); BWV 700; BWV 611; BWV 758; BWV 686 and the Passacaglia and Fugue. The depth and intensity in these works - some modest and some grand - is very moving to me, I hope you like them and thanks for asking.
@@marcellovacca3155 Yes, it's one of the most beautifully melancholic of his organ works. It seems to be closer to something human than something sacred.
I'm in love with this version. It is literally one of the best, simplest renditions of this prelude I have heard so far. I would love to use it in a short film I'm about to shoot in the coming year. And I was wondering if it would it be possible to have your permission to do so? Thank you!
beautiful rendition of this prelude! can anyone out there point me towards pieces with a similar structure: i.e. cantus firmus over a steadily moving harmonic accompaniment? would be curious to discover more! thanks! :)
_TeamCobra_ Hauptwerk, with a w. But the GUI is part of a sampleset. Maybe the name of the sampleset is in the description (too lazy to scroll up to check while writing this comment lol)
Hauptwerk simply replaces pipes with recordings of pipes. It does not have any bearing on the musical performance, which is being recorded live by the organist.
Really pleasant is sound of this virtual organs and choral prelude is so nicely played ... and I am proud that my countryman is performer :) Bach wrote this so beautifully that I just had to find musical score... if you care, result is on my channel where I played this choral prelude on digital piano using organ sound. Of course on digital piano you can not play with feet like on organ so this complicates thinks ... I was really happy when found that this choral prelude can be played on piano. Maybe Bach used harpsicord when composing and that might be reason ...
+mrSymphonic Greetings! Where can I find a stoplist of this organ that you are electronically playing? I'm going to play this selection in a few days at a musicale in which the theme is Jubilee of Mercy... Best wishes, and thanks for posting this video. This selection is one of my favorite J. S. Bach organ selections.
+mortonbelcher BWV 721 On my Roland C 330 Classic organ I used on pedal : Principal 16, Subbass 16 and bourdon 8. GO Gemshorn 8 and flûte harmonique 8. Man 2 (solo) Stopped diapason 8,Dulcet cornet ,
+André M Merci, Merci, for your kind reply. Would it be possible for you to tell me the stop names and tirasses of the Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre-Dame de Metz in the picture on this web page? The stop names on the stop knobs are too small for me to read. Best wishes!
