J.S. Bach - Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552 

Absolutely agree!

It flows with rolling waves without a break.

PURE AND BEAUTIFUL ENERGY!

Totally agree

I agree. His playing seems almost effortless--and this is a very difficult piece! Cudos!

yes He has a wonderful style of playing,very nice registrations too

100% agree. And (excuse my tears) - he looks so much like my Father who was an excellent organ virtuoso and an orchestra conductor. He played in Shrine Of The Little Flower in Royal Oak, MI back in the 60's.

Yes, he is not pretentious and pompous like Virgil Fox was. I agree.

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Bach was not one of compromise and here is what talent and reverence is all about - to excel with rank of genius is what this masterful organist has achieved thank you for this piece 😢🎉

Play well, rest well, improve your touch, have a good & happy life, all will be well !

Good!

with you yeah

Doug has the dege on Walcha and Biggs

@@charlottewhyte9804 I'm guessing you mean 'edge'. It's strange, but no matter what major Bach work you listen to you will always find at least one comment saying that the person playing it is the best organist ever and certainly better than all other highly acclaimed organists!

As I observed, a bright registration, free of the 16-foot reed's snarl.

Majestic and divine

In addition to the previous posters point, I'd also note that I love Bach, but I also love all sorts of modern popular culture that people who write things like this consider 'obscene' or 'trash', i.e. swear-y rap music etc. In fact, my experience is that, at least in my generation (I'm 33), this is the norm for the (minority) of people interested in old style "high culture". Once I had a long conversation with other grad students in the Oxford philosophy department about 'why do so many philosophers love Kanye West'. (Kanye isn't close to being on Bach's level obviously, but I'd probably rather listen to him than Mahler.)

David Mathers GOOD point, I feel the same way.

@@davidmathers3565 what's so good abt kanye

theholomorphicfunction, free quotes: "childish, stupid, dreadful, midlife crisis..." theholo - we will never get any HIP-supporters from the laymen as long as we use words like this. Why couldn't you give the readers some useful information, some facts? Instead you leave it all to me with my inadequate English. "Thank you!" :-) There are two mainstreams when we are talking about old music. 1. People who don't care for the historical context, and 2. People like me who think it is important to make attempts to bring this old music closer to the original style. Sorry guys, but Doug Marshall, like many others are far from the original style, and Bach proove it! Unlike many of the organ compositions by Bach, BWV 552 was printed already in Bach's own lifetime. So we know that the information is from the composer himself. The Fugue: 9:03, where is the "organo pleno?" The registration is too thin, and we can hardly catch the pedal. The same at 10:55, I can't hear the pedal! The pedal is the base o f every chord, every harmony, but how to enjoy the harmonies without the base!? 11:19, as almost everyone else, he jump to an another manual, and start playing the second Fugue subject in a piano pianissimo? In this Preludium, BWV 552, Bach wrote forte and piano, forte and piano. There is not a single tiny hint from the composer of any manual changes at all in the Fugue. It's wrong jumping to an another manual at 11:19, because it is impossible to go back again to the major manual. By going to an another manual it is impossible to finish the second Fugue in a proper way. 15:13, oh no!! My genious Bach! You composed a brilliant way to make a crescendo without write any mark, but the organist didn't understood! Instead he added more stops at exactly the same spot! Oh no! Ok, theholo......finally I feel I need to follow your kind of expressions a little bit - the final bars is a terrible mess, it's absolutely awful, and totally out of historical context.

My guess: four-five hours of practice every single day. It's why I'll never be a great musician...

I am stuck in a wheel chair for the rest of my life, this is my escape into heaven, Oh God our help in ages past the lovely Hymn is buried in this music, due to the genius of Bach I listen to Bach most days now. Gives me the will to live

Technique, discipline and practice.

@@mikematthews5872 I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm glad you find uplift in Bach.

Check Hans Andre Stamm playing it dude!

I haven't heard anyone this expressive since E. Power Biggs.

think it beats Walcha ,who still is very good

@@charlottewhyte9804 yes

@@charlottewhyte9804 Beginning at 8:58 is probably to sweetest music on earth...that when the music reaches it height and brings tears. Start listening at 8:58, absolutely wonderful.

I do the same, and when the windows rattle my wife walks out...to go shopping or something. Great music. Thanks Doug.

No need apologizing!

Bach was such an incredible composer. So if a piece like this is played so well I am always reminded of that.

Probier mal Christian Barthen, besonders die BWV564. Niemand spielt 564 wie Christian. Niemand.

Er ist gut aber zu gut nicht, dein Christian. Laß in älter werden und wir werden hören (wenn ich dann noch hier bin).

Playing music on an organ is much much more difficult than typewriting. It’s like pressing all the letters of a word in at once, every quarter second another word, 3 different pieces of music at once perfectly in sync.