Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major BWV 564 played by organist Hans-André Stamm on the Trost-Organ in Waltershausen, Germany.
That may be true at times, but why are people THANKING the person who made the comment. I would like to say that not everyone who plays organ is an ingenious organist like Hans Stamm. There are varying degrees. MANY organists with degrees in organ could not perform any of these major Bach virtuoso pieces anywhere NEAR the level seen here, if at all. Many organists never even play recitals. They play church organist jobs, which is fine of course. Believe me, most people who play organ are not from another planet. They're just from New Jersey, Staten Island, Detroit, etc...
⭐The adagio is indeed the best. It keeps popping out of the memory for decades. Maybe because it starts similar to BWV 565 In D Minor which cant be forgotten either. It's actually useful as a replacement to get rid of the D minor 🙂 ⭐
@@present3348 I didnt listen or piano, I think its lack of power and specific tone of organ, also you cant play long notes on piano who need to be loud and to make them sound clear. Listen just this version of Hans Andre Stamm and you cant go wrong.
I'd like for us to take a minute to marvel at the amount of air that passes through the instrument just in a single performance. The entire idea of the pipe organ is overwhelmingly beautiful.
Thank You for NOT taking the toccata at some insanely fast tempo as is the custom nowdays. I love hearing the articulation in each note. Incidentely, nice pedal work and the 32'/16' stops that speak so quickly! Love those decorated manual keys! What a piece of art!
A wonderful performance of a fabulous piece of music. This is my favorite work of Bach and I fell in love with it when I was nine years old (48 years ago) when I borrowed a record of it from the library. I always enjoy hearing a new (to me) organist play it because this allows me to hear it again for the first time.
Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Their music is just sublime. They were true musical geniuses. Bach's keyboard writing is astonishing. I sang in the St John Passion and that was a wonderful experience. My conductor said that the opening movement was like a great mountain emerging.
This is my favorite rendition of all I could find. Good tempo, great orgel . Great recording! Playing is superb! Would like the chance to play this organ!!!!! Just Great!
There are just four places in this large world we could see so perfect organ, Austria, French, England and Germany. Design, 'beautiful monster', white painted with gold ornaments clean as the pure sound, the reverb is not amounted, all calibrated, the organist Hans André Stamm is absolutely perfect, I didn´t know him, it was a pleasure listening to him, his way of particular toccata is pure perfect, especially the second movement Adagio, the flutes he used are crystal for the ears. Perfection.
Excellent phrasing, and for my taste the perfect tempo. This is a cheerful piece, and should not be played at any tempo lower than this. Very much appreciate this piece and for uploading, and has become one of my favourites.
My favorite of the J.S. Bach organ pieces. As I recall, Virgil Fox did this piece at the Fillmore East in 1970 or thereabouts. The pedal run is great. Thanks to the person who edited it to get all 3 parts in one compilation...superb job!
Wundervolle Darbietung eines Meisterwerks von JSB, excellente Kamera, meisterhaft interpretiert von Hans-André Stamm, diese Aufnahme fängt den ganzen Genius J.S.BACH wunderbar ein! Große Verneigung vor allen Beteiligten!!
I remember one day as I wandered onto the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, somebody was playing this in the lady chapel, I was totally spell bound and amazed at my good fortune. To one that can't step into his slippers whilst putting his dressing gown on, this piece never ceases to amaze me!
Maestro!!!! escuche esta obra en La Paz - Bolivia interpretada por Francis Chapelet, en el órgano de tubos de la Iglesia de la Exaltación (Obrajes) una maravillosa obra, INCREÍBLE Bach!!! es una mis piezas favoritas
Really enjoyed your playing of the Adagio. Registration was delightful and you kept the pulse moving in the melody and the accompaniment. Very pleasant indeed. Thanks.
I am not a big believer, but when it comes to J.S. Bach and its music - I do really believe in god because he really sent us a genius who could create this.
1715 J.S. Bach est à Weimar et a été engagé par le duc de Saxe-Weimar. J.S Bach a trente ans. Il a déjà une excellente réputation de musicien. Quelle joie intime, pour moi, d'écouter cette Toccata BWV 564 (sans parler de la Dorienne BWV 538 et la Pasacaille BWV 582), merveilleusement interprétée sur un orgue d'une si belle sonorité. La musique ne commence pas avec J.S Bach, mais elle peut difficilement s'en passer.
Superbe interprétation de cette oeuvre si belle, une interprétation "habitée" et entraînée par un souffle irrésistible. Et quel orgue magnifique, typiquement allemand, avec ses admirables touches des claviers en ivoire et son pédalier tel qu'on le faisait à l'époque baroque... On écouterait cette version en boucle... A noter une autre superbe interprétation sur Internet, presque inconnue (1000 vues), donnée par Diego Cera (il n'y a que la toccata, c'est dommage, mais elle vaut vraiment le détour, et même plus !).
Didn't know there were so many critics out there with an autographed copy of Bach's "My greatest hits" album. Bach was the best and he knew it. He played his way, fast if necessary to prove his point. Probably got it from Buxtehude on his visit to the master.. A Bach purist will also play it his or her way.
What a wonderful piece of music. I recommend the Busoni arrangement of this, on the piano. Kissen played it wonderfully. How Bach wrote this music must always remain a wonder and a mystery.
I agree with you Eleonora 100 %, J S Bach music here express something that can not done in any other way, a sense of sadness, hope and how lucky we are to exist in this version of the Universe.
@kombinikiri True. I like the part that begins at 8:39, and not the rest, which is why I have not put it in my timestamp. It is good, however, that you have commented. Anyone looking for the actual start of the adagio can use your timestamp.
Sublimissime ! Je ne me lasse pas d'écouter ce merveilleux organiste, selon moi, le meilleur au monde avec le Professeur Michael Schneider pour jouer J.S. Bach.
Well, Mr. Stamm, after enjoying your version of Langlais' "Fete" I decided to look up other pieces you've played. This piece just happens to be one of my very favorite organ pieces and you do a magnificent job. I disagree vehemently with your critics below who claim that you rush through the piece. Your clarity of phrasing has impressed me elsewhere and here as well. I believe Bach intended this to be a jovial, upbeat piece and I believe your tempo captures this intention. I believe that a slowing of the tempo would make this Italianate piece too severe. Thank you for your interpretation!!
Couldn't agree with you more. How I wish I had been blessed with sufficient talent to play the organ to this standard. As it is I have just sufficient ability to know how poor a player I am, and that's given me a lifetime of frustration and regret! LOL!
That's a very kind comment to make, and I do appreciate it. Don't get me wrong; I rejoice in talent - just sometimes though, I wish I had some myself!! Now, it's back to my stern practice regimen!! LOL!
I actually think this piece wasn’t rushed. The toccata’s tempo here was very appropriate. The only thing I notice about the fugue is that he couples the hauptwerk & brustwerk, whereas in all other recordings, the fugue is the only movement where there is no manual coupling.
This is a fine spritzig performance, hard to fault. There are so many ways to attack this piece, and this certainly one of them. Mfavourite Bach organ work. Back in vinyl days I had 4 versions including one by Albert Schweitzer. Bravo!
An eighteen year old organ scholar, who is our Welsh male voice accompanist is performing this wonderful piece, at my request, in an organ recital in Resolven, South Wales. He can read anything from sight and is very gifted. He is also a classical pianist. I am in awe at his virtuosity. He reminds me of a young John Ogden, and is equally very modest
Keep in mind, Baroque tempo markings weren’t always explicit in terms of beats per minute. Having said this, I think Stamm plays most of Bach’s music at an appropriate speed. The only time which he really played anything fast was his recording of “Christ Unser Herr zum Jordan Kam”. Even then, I actually liked this interpretation too. Lastly, kind of irrelevant, Stamm is the one organist whom I have never heard mess up. He plays the notes well enough that you can hardly hear him mess up. If anything, he’s very underrated as an organist!
JSB is one of my favorite composers. i am truly impressed with the way this is played. A negative comments, are you music critics? can you do better? i do not see any of your compositions here or your playing. if you don't like it don't listen. this man, Hans Andre Stamm, has done very well with piece. i am giving it a thumbs up.
An eighteen year old prodigy is playing this for me as part of an extensive organ recital. He has won virtually every award going and has secured an organ scholarship at Chichester Cathedral. I absolutely love this wonderful work. He has given piano recitals, is a wonderful accompanist, can read anything from sight and is also a choral conductor. He has all the gifts at a very young age.
Thank you so much! That is wonderful news! I hope some funds can be identified and committed to help with the restoration work for this magnificent instrument.
First of all I shall thank for publishing this masterwork. Three short considerations: I believe in Bach willing to express the stupor of human intelligently glimpsing at a superior, divine, peace and imperturbability, still surviving the pathos and humanity. I have appreciated very much the balanced, sensible interpretation offered here, it's precision in every single point still does non prejudge the completeness and overview of the complete piece. Finally I confess a lot of this success to my ears my be due to the enviable and rare richness and greatness of this magnificent organ's sound. P.S: I can't help recalling Horowitz's mistake in the first bar in Busoni's piano transcription of this, in Carnegie hall 1963 I think...😂 I liked that aswell in its interpretative difference though..
Wonderful rendition. Excellent tempos for a work that too many others treat as romantically funereal. (These are very close to the tempos used by E Power Biggs.)
Es ist sehr schön! Eine Orgel, mit einer schönen Klangwelt. Eins bemangele ich. Eine Nachhallzeit ist kaum hier bei dieser Vorstellung zu hören, welche das Thema des Werkes so zauberhaft macht.... Die Trostorgel ist sehr beliebt bei mir, neben den Silbermannischen Werken... Csurdi Dániel Officinator Primitivus.
Good news, they hired an organist and he is going to start playing the Atlantic City organ regularly starting in the Fall this year. 30% of it is working and more planned for the future.
