Bach: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor - Stokowski in Germany

[@BentleyDrummle1]

Stokowski was a genius. His Bach transcriptions are simply brilliant.

[@jacobfreeland6881]

Well, not all of them. But this one sure is.

[@mazapat]

He is simple the best.

[@ciararespect4296]

@@mazapat bach was the genius. This is just a shadow

[@luiseduardovaldivia3510]

​@@ciararespect4296as a shadow, can you accomplish a transcription on any Bach work?

[@ciararespect4296]

@@luiseduardovaldivia3510 red herring fallacy

[@marlenemeldrum7382]

Leopold Stokowsky was just a visionar, his Bach transcriptions were amazing...he loved sound and color...we are all blessed with his legacy with his recordings...

[@Scensum]

7:45 - 8:52 That build-up and repetition of that 4-note phrase really melted me. It was really intense!

[@caganbatnkurt11]

Stokowski’s transcription is undeniably the most unique one. Both Bach and Stokowski were true geniuses.

[@karldelavigne8134]

Is your thumbnail by Erskine Nicol?

[@traduzindo_shorts]

That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.

[@harryelektron3086]

To me as well! Possibly the best music ever written or played 🙏

[@ghassankanaan1767]

Same for me !

[@anhua33]

Sublime. Stokowski has transported me with this piece since I first heard his earlier version on 78 rpm records in the college library at Trenton State Teachers College about 1952. This music is eternal.

[@ghassankanaan1767]

For me the best classical musical composition and melody of all time.

[@johnpitchlynn9341]

Stokowski has been gone almost 43 years now. To this day I still miss him and his musicianship and conducting. Great conductors don't grow on trees and of all the great conductors of his era very few matched him. Every orchestra he ever touched, whether as a long term conductor or guest conductor was improved and strengthened 10 fold because of his excellence as a conductor. His Bach transcriptions have no peer and quite honestly he was, in my humble opinion the best of the best. So I feel very blessed to have lived in a time where I could say I saw Stokowski stand in front of an orchestra and conduct Bach and Beethoven...and lived in a time and among giants who gave us all... the great gift of love of classical music.

[@phoebelinden9602]

Wow, thank you for your comment. Looks like Stokowski's genius was not lost on you. I agree with how rare is this, the purity of the music, the intimate knowledge that comes from having internalized the music, written the transcriptions. He is immortal.

[@silv3r97]

Divine, Majestic, Colossal. Human words can not describe Bach's greatness. True genius.

[@mrdeathamore]

In my opinion, one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) interpretation of this timeless classic.

[@fouadabiaad1298]

What a great composer and what a Great Maestro! No words can describe Leopold Stokovsky!

[@bplonutube]

He didn’t always encourage free blowing. I listened to an interview where he said that he used that if he was trying to get a more continuous sound. But there were times when he wanted the discipline and clarity and unity of phrasing that standard (i.e. everybody going the same direction at the same time) would give. I had always been under the impression that he always encouraged free Boeing. But he dispelled that motion in that interview. What an amazing musician. It’s hard to agree with some of his interpretive choices sometime but, one can never doubt that he believed, and what he was doing 100% and always drove for perfection.a genius, the likes of which we will not see again, in my opinion.

[@enesmith43]

An absolute masterpiece and proof that Bach was a genius

[@dennisdrud2078]

❤ Bach was quitesimply from another dimension. And what a great daring arrangement from master Stokowski. Amazing.

[@lunagardvonbingen]

Agree! The passacalgia sounds like it's from the 19th century

[@WeeGrahamsaccount]

A monumental orchestration. Stokowski may seem a bit old fashioned in his choices to our ears but he brings an immense sense of feeling, depth and bravura to the Bach. It is a work reborn in a deeply romantic and almost filmic style. I guess a contemporary orchestration would be more baroque in flavour with a harpsichord and period instruments but this orchestration is mesmerising. Thank you for uploading.

[@joedeegan3870]

I think that is the great thing about performance Art, it is a joint project and will always change.

[@zuleyhaay4289]

Masterpiece! Thanks Bach and Stokowski. Sometimes I can’t describe my feelings so I’m grateful for the existence of music.

[@TheApostleofRock]

absolutely stunning. The tension and build at around 8min and the wall of brass at 13:45ish sent chills through my spine

[@Koru-Health]

At 87 years old conducting an orchestra is pretty impressive.

[@johnries5593]

With a lifetime of musical knowledge and many decades of conducting experience at his disposal, I'm pretty sure he was doing the best conducting of his life at that point.

[@alexweisberg9885]

Compared to other areas of human pursuits, like mathematics, science, or athletics, where peak intellectual or physical performance is from 25-30, the best music of bach, beethoven, mozart, schubert etc. all had the best music at very old age right before death.

[@orb3796]

@@alexweisberg9885 Interesting observation.

[@gphiliplarson2990]

I have listened to hundreds of recordings of this stunning piece of music both organ and orchestra. Stokowski was my first and will remain the best for me. The simplicity is extraordinary, the blend is perfect, his conducting is unparalleled.

[@peterdavisoncomposer]

Magnificent!

[@johnrickert5572]

It occurs to me only now that we must be very grateful to great orchestrators such as Respighi and Stokowski, inter alios, even if we may not regard them as great composers as such. Dame Myra Hess made an extraordinary arrangement of BWV 147.10, while not being, to my knowledge, a composer. We are ever their beneficiaries. May God reward them.

[@stereoplayers]

I think there were a few times that he overdid things. I don't care for his ending of the Russian Easter Overture. I did like his using a male voice for the trombone in the 1940 recording with the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

[@CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy]

The soaring high violin melody and bass (and just *everything*) at about 8:00 to 8:15 is the most epic 4 bars of music I've ever heard.

[@Julian_Wang-pai]

This beautifully sad colossus tears me apart each and every time I hear it.

[@silv3r97]

Yes, it's the same for me. It's so emotional and majestic.

[@f1f1s]

Not only playing in an orchestra directed by Stokowski is a great honour... but an equally great honour is to watch this performance. I am absolutely mesmerised by the total control he has over every aspect of the sound. I cannot withdraw my eyes from the video. What a legend... We are so unlucky to live without Stokowski’s live magic today...

[@johnrickert5572]

I very much appreciate the way this builds, gradually. It does not begin overpowering and bombastic, but gradually ascends.

[@belled2645]

It is breathtaking. Had Stokowski ever taught and passed his amazing skill to the next generation?

[@edgarallanlovecraft5485]

Love him or hate him, there is NO ONE like him. Bravo Maestro! Bravo!

[@ntnstern]

With the same orchestra Stanislaw Skrowaczewski recorded not long ago all Bruckner and Schumann symphonies-it´s worth to hear these famous and superb renditions!

[@lizlesar2433]

Anything done by Stokowski, is incredibly done.

[@oucutie1]

Liz Lesar Amen 🙏 Amen 🙏 and Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!

[@oucutie1]

Liz Lesar Spot on!

[@oucutie1]

The most heavenly transcription of this piece ever offered but then of course it is. It's Stowkowski/Bach. I could listen to this arrangement for ever!!

[@oucutie1]

Incapable of totally absorbing this piece. My heart ❤️ just pounds. Stokowski/Bach simply too much for this mere mortal.

[@superleandean]

This is truly inspirational and one of a kind

[@enesmith43]

Amazing to find this after the org version

[@Valentin_Kostadinov]

Amazing work as all create d by Bach's genus! And also wonderful performance!

[@isberberoglu]

Divine music, beautifully performed.

[@Bronzebk]

Stokowski, the man with the Golden Touch.

[@BCSchmerker]

Originally composed at Arnstadt, Thuringen, circa 1705 for a concert at the second Bonifatiuskirche, BWV 582 translates well to a variety of instruments from the reconstructed organ score, such as the orchestration hereof.

[@dennisdrud2078]

Fantastic!! Love this arrangement from the great maestro Stokowski' s hand. Nicely played. Bach was just a unique genius in this World. So amazing what he wrote, out of this World. Hats of. 🙏

[@stereoplayers]

Too bad his transcription (sheet music) of Mussorgsky's Night On Bald Mountain is not available. I much prefer his version to Rimsky-Korsakov's.

[@andresfcastanoescritor]

Eine Grosse Musik, eine Meisterwerke fur alle Zeites

[@andresfcastanoescritor]

Danke.

[@iwasglad122]

A number of years ago I heard his interpretation of Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations. I heard things I'd never heard before, in countless listenings to the piece. Knowing Stowkowski as an incredible orchestrator, I was convinced he'd fiddled with Elgar's original. I got the score off the shelf and listened again, following minutely. He'd not changed a single note. Such was his skill as a conductor, he brought out aspects of Elgar's orchestration that were completely new to me. Extraordinary!!

[@esjel9804]

thanks for sharing. I love Enigma variation. I had it played when my wife walked down the Isle. I'll have to look up his version. I'm excited to find out the treasures therein. Much like His stupendous transcription of Bach's magnificant -- Chaconne -- Itzach Perlman's solo violin performance is the best. please listen to it if you have not yet.

[@bplonutube]

Seldom was the time when Stokowski DID NOT fiddle with the orchestrations.

[@johnrickert5572]

The fugue is magnificent.

[@LeonidChutkin]

Wow! After listening lots of organ, or piano versions found this one!

[@adam28xx]

Glad you like it!

[@osamamalluhi8922]

Respighi's and Stokowski's orchestration of this great piece of Bach are the best

[@philippdines]

Fantastic and Profound

[@adam28xx]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@chuckbosio2924]

Thank you for uploading. I am always impressed with the regional symphony orchestras in Germany.

[@adam28xx]

Thanks for listening

[@tanyaleef5138]

Am listening to this magnificent work orchestration on Yom Kippur in Israel , a triumph to human kind Loved the tempi,the intensity,clarity it's magestic ending

[@timurkaan1625]

😥 Yesterday i have birthday i hear Just this. 2020 is not my year. Thank u stokowski for this and all Orchestra amazing

[@mauricebendrix]

I wish you a happy belated birthday. May God bless you.

[@rudyrudyism]

Dogum gunuk kutlu olsun timur kaan

[@KhalidTemawi]

One of the very best conductors in the 20th century. His orchestral transcriptions of Bach are my favorite of all time.

[@Apfelstrudl]

They can't beat Resphighi's or especially Schönberg's transcriptions but are still good

[@good-hj7wm]

Самый лучший кондуктор в мире это тетя Лена из 34 автобуса

[@KhalidTemawi]

@@good-hj7wm toyta Lina? Do you a video of her conducting?

[@good-hj7wm]

@@KhalidTemawi вы не поняли юмор, издержки перевода. А если серьезно, очень быстрый темп, эталоном исполнения для меня является Гедике (орган) и Сидоров (баян). Все остальные, даже Рихтер выбирают быстрый темп.

[@KhalidTemawi]

@@good-hj7wm Yeah, translation kills humor. But I still find the temo just perfect. Though the piece still be great at any tempo.

[@kayelyward8714]

I adore Puccini for his melodious operas and Mozart's Requiem as well as Verdi's Requiem but i could listen to this version of the Passacaglia all day and never tire of it. The work by Bach is divine and Stokowski's interpretation is marvelous and beyond words. Absolutely fantastic!❤

[@박서현-g6p4r]

beautiful

[@dblegende1]

Les transcriptions de Jean Sébastien Bach par Léopold Stokowski sont le plus bel exemple de la rencontre de deux génies. C'est incroyablement beau. Merci de nous montrer le Maître en action, les vidéos sont plutôt rares.

[@oddnerdrum7036]

kulturmarxismen

[@oddnerdrum7036]

kulturmarxismen

[@giovannitestore1845]

I componenti di questa formidabile orchestra, maestro in testa, sono ormai, tutti morti. Sci transit gloria mundi. Complimenti,una splendida esecuzione 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@serenait]

This made me think that probably this man knew exactly what a real ecstasy is, and what is the real drama of a life. I don't know if I made myself clear.

[@oucutie1]

My reaction after listening? A pounding heart!

[@karennoble1168]

Yes, Bach' s music goes straight to the heart, soul. It is a also Like a physical feeling, of wellbeing, or soul thriving? Thank you!

[@RihardsBuks]

Adam, appreciated share! Mr.Stokowsky is very famous of his J.S. Bach music arrangements for symphony orchestra. One day I wish that my hands will lie on some of those genius arrangements and I will be able to present them for general public. Thanks again and all the best, Rihards Buks

[@antiv]

Shoutout to the flutists, the unsung heros of this performance.

[@ThomasLI-e5g]

What a great work and a great master. Thanks to Bach and Stokowski give me power to overcome those melancholy time.

[@adam28xx]

Thanks for listening

[@ThomasLI-e5g]

​@@adam28xxIn fact,I shall thank you for your upload.

[@andresfcastanoescritor]

"If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is God": Emile Cioran

[@hucbald37]

A wonderful version, after all!! - I wonder why people say "This isn't Bach" or "Should be played on organ only"... Don't they know that Bach, like his collegues too, made arrangements in every direction? This was so common in baroque era.

[@shovel3843]

I think this arrangement is very beautiful. Gives it an other feel.

[@evangelischneudorf-west809]

That's what I think, too, when people refer to the "pure versions": Is there such kind of purity? Is there an arrangement police searching for wrong-arrangers?

[@zyxw2000]

They complain because Stokowski R(capital R)omanticized Bach and transcribed them for modern instruments. I think they're beautiful. The originals are available for anyone who wants them.

[@janetsmith2600]

Stokowski always got what he wanted from his players. There is no sound like the Stokowski sound! Am a blindingly loyal disciple. Love this maestro above all others!!!

[@r.j.wheels6755]

Not blindingly loyal. Just accurate.

[@stevenlysen5377]

My teacher, who played under Stokowski in Philadelphia from 1925-39, said the "free-bowing" gave the string section a more seam-less sound. And they were the best string section on the Planet. Every member of the 2 violin sections could have been the concert master of any U.S. orchestra.

[@donaldelfreth553]

This is a very good point.

[@alexandrakomninou5401]

Τhat was a revelation. I am speachless...

[@gbt722]

Alexandra Komninou, I bet you're speechless as well

[@ManyManyPandas]

Such a beautiful sound! Bach would have definitely approved of this...

[@karennoble1168]

Wonderful soulfull Bach. Great performance. Thank you!

[@KingcoleIIV]

So moving...watching everyone in unison making that beautiful sound.

[@Andrew-cz1ln]

Immortal performace

[@heldersufiano2816]

THE BEST VERSION OF THEM ALL

[@giovannitestore1845]

Magistrale🎉 👏👏👏

[@accaliamurraymusic]

Wow, 1969?? God damn what kind of microphones were they using? That's super impressive.

[@DiamondLifer]

They probably brought out all the big guns for this. Fairchild’s and Neve equipment everywhere. Mics on the ceilings.

[@CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy]

I've found that classical (baroque) recordings going back as far as the 50s can still sound incredibly clear. Also, this is in Germany. Germans get it done right with engineering and tech.

[@Donster1952]

Many thank for sharing this...I heard this on my way home from work and went right to the internet...awesome!!

[@jerryj1411]

Absolutely my favourite piece of music and my favourite way of hearing it, played by orchestra rather than organ in Stokie's transcription. Heresy, I know. : Has my eyes tearing up at the end climax. :) Just amazing.

[@bachluthology2]

listen to Mr. Murray play it!

[@jerryj1411]

@@bachluthology2 I have, yes, it's wonderful. But I prefer Stokowski.

[@stereoplayers]

I like his 1972 recording of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. About the 10:00 mark or so, the way the violins are playing sends chills down my spine.

[@BeauJames59]

Can't touch dis........A teacher once said great music sounds like it's discovered, not written. This fits the bill.

[@celioaparecidosimionatto4531]

GREAT legend, AMAZING Stokowski!!!!

[@florafortuna8794]

Qualsiasi musica dirigeva Stokowsky, ti introduceva in una magica interpretazione di ineguagliabile bellezza. La genialità, la personalità di Stokowsky non l'ho più ritrovata ..... la grandezza è di pochi...👏👏👏

[@r.j.wheels6755]

I agree. Well said.

[@chjxb]

Bach is amazingly modern. How did he know my mind?

[@nicolascaste7928]

Mind-blowing 😍😍😍

[@simontaylor2319]

I think Bach' s music was the most moving & flexible of all the Classical composers

[@trijezdci4588]

Bach wasn't a classical composer. He was a baroque composer.

[@aloisbreu6063]

Bach was a universal composer.

[@oucutie1]

Alois Breu Yes. A composer for the ages, for all times and for all peoples! Bach. The universal composer!!!!!

[@alm9368]

Absolutely impressive.

[@Jsg77K]

素晴らしい指揮！ 絶妙な緩急！ オーケストラの醍醐味、まさにここにあり。

[@adam28xx]

Google translate: "Great command! Exquisite slowness! The real thrill of the orchestra is right here."

Grandiose, fascinant.

[@ralfmeiers7114]

Yes, overwhelming and poignant. Stokowski was a genius! Thank you so much

[@samshearman5251]

Brilliant!

[@MarianJones-eo1sn]

Just about my Fave Bach work. Conductor’s hand gestures are so fluid, could almost be a shape shifter 🎶 😮❤

[@classicalperformances8777]

They are not but I am happy you still enjoy the music

[@karpabla]

Those are the hand gestures that Walt Disney captured in his magnificent "Fantasia".

[@Bronzebk]

Thanks for posting. Exceptionally brilliant interpretation.

[@RihardsBuks]

Yeah! They are very rare performed in this part of the world. I don't know what is cousing this. Ether it is very difficult to interpret, ether there is a problems to get the scores. Anyway - I really value Mr. Stokowsky's work and effort that he putted in in to those arrangements. They are really something that makes me think about universe and eternity. It is really so powerful!

[@rsandoval4203]

Fantástica conbinación Bach-Stokowski. Excelsa,brillante genial

[@MarcioDeSouzagoldensax]

Bravo!!! estupenda orquestração de Stokowski e interpretação impecável, muito bom, obrigado por postar esse vídeo.

[@TheEternalWayfarer]

Always a pleasure to see and hear Chancellor Palpatine conduct his orchestra. A true Master- oh, wait.

[@gr3y_eminence]

Careful about calling that guy master, on the other hand he had really wonderful ideas on the skillful use of hatred released as pure anger in the form of electricity, not that it's a bad ability to have. It may encourage the musicians to be very careful when encountering difficult passages.

[@gambe96]

Though his apprentice could never reach the rank of master.

[@karpabla]

Stokowsky is a Master himself. His versions and transcriptions are already part of the Classical Music body, like, for example, Liszt or Busoni's transcriptions.

[@zyxw2000]

Yes, it's 70 years too late to debate about his transcriptions. They're part of the repertoire now.

[@panzmudek]

Thank you.I'd been listen organ performance,but it's amazing.I can feel glorius worshiping of the God as Bach feels.

[@hifilo5105]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[@khue1989]

I love this piece play slowly, it's very powerful.

[@karlberlin5422]

Wunderbar,die Seele kommt zur Ruhe. Dynamik, Harmonie und Energie, lässt uns erahnen,welche Kraft daraus geschöpft werden kann.

[@discernthetimes]

What a masterpiece!!!!!!!!

[@droxyy]

I consume classical music but I always look for Stokowski. Very few can meet the "Stokowski Sound"- full rich, subtle, amazing, WITH FEELING. Stokowski was a treasure. I'm sure he was a hard ass to work with but it's like he sucked out the talent of each musician for the combined whole. I wish I could find him on other recordings, but that may be the scrounging of vintage records.

[@oucutie1]

Droxy Snape Yes. Beautifully stated.

[@oucutie1]

Mr. Bach would have listened with tears........................of happiness and joy spilling down his face.

[@jakegevorgian]

I'm in the universe

[@dusitaschwartz-dinu2153]

O splendoare, o seninătate, un sfârșit fără de sfârșit. Negindit...

[@priscillachaves4921]

Very interesting explanation. Thank you very much.

[@CraigRodmellMusic]

Wow! I really enjoyed that!!

[@Tommybean7]

Pure excellence! 👍