An astounding feat of human brain power: The memory of all notes The dexterity in 10 fingers The coordination of 2 hands and 2 feet All together, amazing human talent.
@@ildanny80 Mate, this is an EXTREMELY UNCOMMON display of conglomerate neurological prowess -- memory, timing, auditory feedback, hand to eye coordination, finger manipulation. It os like whole-body chess!. Most people have trouble driving well -- two hands on the wheel, one or two feet on the peddles, watching the road in front. Then add texting ... and they crash.
@@thedolphin5428 I didn't want to belittle his skills. Mine was a semi-serious comment. But we shouldn't be surprised that we can achieve these abilities. A little bit is talent, of curse, but mostly is training, training and training. I think I could play the hand part of this piece decently, with a lot of work, there are much more challenging piano pieces. I think about Chopin Op. 10 N.4 or List's "La Campanella" and similar. I never played with feet though. If you wonder about how good he is, think about the guy who wrote the piece ;o)
@@ildanny80 Well, I also look at people like jazz drummers. Two arns, two legs, the best of them playing 4 cross rhythms, maybe in different time sigs! Such brain dislocation I find extraordinary. So a multi register organ, at speed, no music, 10 fingers, 2 feet is all such a biological mind feat. And yes, composers are mind blowing too. Although, I also find great improv (on any instrument) a pretty amazing thing too.
What's more amazing then he or anyone of us being able to play this is a man so talented that he could compose it and play it. JS Bach along with so many others will surely gifts God.
I return every time to Maestro Zecca's performance of the Dorian which is unparalleled for majesty, for crispness, clarity and absolute conviction. Bach himself would have been in admiration of this man. Mille ringraziamenti
Additionally, I would venture to say that every single note of this Dorian Toccata is fingered as well as the pedal. Nothing was left to chance. It's the German way. Nothing is left to chance...How refreshing to see and hear.
Don't take me wrong. I studied in the German method at Oberlin. Just a comment as to the fact that Bach probably did most of his composing on Pedal harpsichord in the warmth of his home rather than freezing his gonads in a cold church, and paying a young person to pump the organ...interesting ? contemplate it.
I have heard of it, saw some of the sheet music a while ago, but never heard the work itself. I think I supposed it to be lesser than Bach's famous Tocatta and Fugue in Dm, but this is hardly so, just different. I am so happy to have stumbled across this amazing performance. Another work that I have come to love which has become one of my favorites after finding it here on YT is J.S. Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 {Peter Hurford}, if you aren't familiar with it, you should have a listen. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o32X0ZPXMbY.html
I will never forget this demonstration when I was a young agent of John Hancock Insurance Company at their Home Office On Berkley St. In Boston. We were in the Auditorium and a demonstration of what the new Crag Super Computer that The Hancock had on board at the home office and what this computer could accomplish. Remember we are talking 1973 and computers were relatively new. They used this very piece to show the mathematical formulas that Bach Music produced in his compositions of his music. All of this was flashed upon a giant screen as the music played. As the music played the computer computed the formulas in math to produce this music. It was amazing.
@Mookie Spindlehurst Were you to have read my comment carefully you might have seen that it began "If"; surely that's about as non-committal as one can be?
@Mookie Spindlehurst It is not semantics it is simple grammar, 'were' is the correct form form here as it is used in the subjunctive mood, you are confusing it with the indicative past tense 'were'. Grammar, particularly English grammar, is a tricky field in which to beard someone if you do not have a very solid foundation on which to stand, please forgive the mixed metaphors. Incidentally that should strictly be "...as my being...".
There is a heaven and a hell...I've visited both.....heaven is big beautiful and full of joyous sound...hell is .smelly and sad,sort of evocative of NYC
Organo e organista fantastici, la qualità del suono e la pulizia delle note è incredibile. La toccata dorica è veramente una delle massime espressioni organistiche di Bach, semplicemente divina.
This is just wonderful and so revealing about what an organist really must do. The video is, again, so revealing. And what many feel is the greatest composer in the world: J.S. Bach
Sublime performance. For those who may not read German, this was recorded at St. Mary of the Assumption. Fitting! Music like this makes me at least yearn for the eternal beatific vision. In any case, grazie, grazie tante!
Absolutely glorious rendering. No false, blurring, sentimental "mellifluousnes." A brilliantly beautifully stark performance that trusts the great master to redeem it all and does.
Absolutely superb. The only version I prefer is that from Aarnoud Degroen. (might be a bit biaised cause I attended one or Aarnoud's concerts and this piece was somptuous in his "Bethlehemkerk" in The Hague ;) )
That's what intrigued me as well, namely, is was so "perfect." I called it "definitive." Sets the standard... and here comes Cameron C.... with light, color and video. Deo de Maximus.
What one likes is subjective, but if we are talking about the "most perfect" version... I would say Karl Richter wins, easily. Especially regarding accuracy at 1:44. Looking at the sheet, that high trill part is supposed to last longer, exactly how Karl Richter plays it ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B6J7c2ObAo4.html ). Of course it's much harder like this, having to play 2 different things with the right hand for a long time. (that's how it looks like to me, a simple organ-lover, at least) Since I've heard the version I linked, I can't not notice the little "cheating" many other organists do at the part I mentioned.
@@andrewrichesson9457 exactly what has happened with my first organ piece BWV553... if I don´t play it for few weeks/month or two I still can just blast it our with closed eyes, because I´ve played it so many times :D
È SEMPRE MAGNIFICA ASCOLTARLA,TI DA QUESTA GRANDE FORZA E CORAGGIO GIOIA.LA NOSTRA PIÙ ALTA AMMIRAZIONE AL MAESTRO.GLI RENDIAMO LA GLORIA DELLA MUSICA.
This really is a wonderful performance of Bach's great masterpiece: perfect in every detail and a joy to listen to. Does music get any better than this?
It's bliss itself to fall asleep while listening to this spectacular performance in my comfortable bed This is a lullaby of mankind and a cradle gently cradled by God
Another great version of another of my favourites. Luciano 'smashes it'. This organ sounds great, the pedal pipes not only give great tone, but the sound is taught with good note definition. the pedal point section at the end sounds wonderful and is the icing on the cake. It is like the way the prelude of BWV 540 resolves towards the end with pedal point and the start of the glorious end section.
I miss my organist-choir director, William Schutt of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va. He loved Buxtehude. But he would have loved this too.
Astounding. I’ve heard so many versions and this is up there with the very best. I still think the Dorian particularly the toccata is one of the pinnacles of all music.
This is the best performance I have heard of the "Dorian" Toccata since the classic performance by E. Power Biggs done on the Freiburg Cathedral's magnificent quartet of organs. Most versions are too restrained; Zecca does a fine job of showing how this piece can shine when a more staccato approach is used.
A tremendous performance. Such energy and rhythm and what a superb organ: almost perfect voicing and in an acoustic that relishes rather than smothers the sound.
Complimenti per la tecnica, la profondità dell'espressione, la precisione nel mantenere il ritmo costante. Sei un Grande, riesci a commuovere il mondo intero.
its realy music. I played the organ. And you grow in to the instrument with hands and feet. It is just naturaly to do it when you can do it and you learn it for many years and it is fabulous when you can do it,,,, When you play you feel it and you don't know that you do it so play it. Its a feeling people will not understand when they don't know how to play the organ. This performance was excelent! Just showing that music is not just music b
anche tra i più famosi organisti difficilmente ho ascoltato un'esecuzione (ma anche tutte le altre che sono su RU-vid del M° Zecca) di una chiarezza adamantina applicata ad ogni nota suonata. E' stato veramente un gran piacere vederla e ascoltarla quando suona Bach, per me, malato dell'organo che non vuol guarire. Grazie dal mio cuore (è dire poco) Maestro Luciano Zecca!!!
There are so many excellent organists out there. It is a shame our inferior technology in reproducing organ sound limits us in reproducing their wonderful talent.
Excellent playing, and on a beautiful organ, perfect for Bach! Some shots of the lovely case would have been nice. Really, 175 people didn’t like this? What a sad bunch of trolls.
God Help Me. The saddest thing in my life is that all the digital distracted Young'ins haven't had this organist, and this piece blow mein geist, mein herts, mi corazin, moi coer away. Oh just see Frank's Chorale in B Minor....scrape me off the floor.. The most utterly excuisite ever composed.
Finally a sensible playing of this piece, Good tempo, and watch the beautiful hand position, articulation. Guess I'm just old fashioned but it was the way I was taught. And the organ wasn't blasting away... thank heavens for good playing among all the others.
