Bach/Reger - Fantasie und Fuge D-Dur (arr. BWV 912) - Anton Doornhein, Vleugels organ, Pipeloops

Organist: Anton Doornhein
www.antondoornh...
While listening to demo recordings of the Pipeloops sample set of the Vleugels organ of Chemnitz, I stumbled upon a beautiful recording of the Fantasie & Fuge D-Dur by Max Reger, based on J.S. Bach's Toccata D-Dur, BWV 912. It's very interesting to follow how Reger makes this Bach toccata his own and how he gives it his own twists (and there are many).
I'm glad Anton Doornhein gave me permission to share this recording, so more people can listen to it.
More information about this sample set can be found here:
www.pipeloops.c...
The score is on IMSLP:
imslp.org/wiki...

[@ClaraOrgan]

Awesome! Fantastic piece and performance! Thanks for sharing! Ralph😀😀😀

[@marklindseykirkmanorganist5681]

Wow! How very interesting!

[@eunjoolisafierro6124]

I guess I had the same reaction with fellow organists. As soon as I saw your name and Reger, I had to quit what I was doing and come in. It's a great recording. I would love to look at the spec. Thanks for sharing, Ralph!

[@waymakerv1060]

Hey Hey! Revelling site. Entertaining! You i admire! I watch till the end and found the best part

[@siegfriedgmeiner7942]

echt klasse lieber Ralph!

[@RalphLooij]

Sicher, Anton Doornhein ist ein sehr gute Organist

[@siegfriedgmeiner7942]

@@RalphLooij Yes, he can!

[@peternaryd_operasinger]

Absolutely wonderful Ralph!👏👏👏👏

[@eclarakim]

It's a wonderful work by Reger.👍 I enjoy playing Bach's BWV532. I want to try this piece. Thank you for introducing a great piece🎶 Dank je Ralph🌹

[@musicasanpaolo448]

Bellissimo!

[@RalphLooij]

Thanks!

[@clafer52]

Gorgeous sampleset, performer and piece of music! Thank you so much!!!

[@AprilClaytonflute]

A great performance of some very interesting music! 👏

[@nakorganist]

A fantastic organ piece! The sample set is also very nice. Best regards, Roland

[@philippelegargean5120]

It's absolutely wonderful .. and I did not know !!! What a shame !

[@yaroslav_kaiuk]

Beautiful performance of this work! Good and interesting arrangement by Herr Reger (at first I thought that he'll use the beginning from BWV 532) 🎶

[@RalphLooij]

Yes, that was my first thought too. But a few seconds later not anymore ;)

[@RienSchalkwijk]

I just listened and wanted to reply with: stop everything you do and become a fulltime organist. But it wasn’t you playing. However I’m sure, if you had the time, you could learn it. Fantastic played indeed. Wonderful.

[@RalphLooij]

I agree, Rien. This kind of recordings deserve to be shared.

[@digitalpipes]

Ralph, I read Reger in the title of your video and fell off the chair. Then I read the video description and the world was a fine place again! 😂

[@RalphLooij]

Haha, well, I'm just the barocker ;). Luckily there are many more and far better organists than me who deserves a bit more of the KZbin podium (I think).

[@digitalpipes]

@@RalphLooij I don’t remember if I told you already but some of the best romantic and contemporary music performances I ever experienced were by “barocker” organists… I am sure you could deliver a fantastic Reger!

[@Orgelfan62]

Ich bin schwer beeindruckt, von Deinem Spiel und der Registrierung

[@RalphLooij]

Es war nicht mein spiel, aber Anton Doornhein!

[@Orgelfan62]

@@RalphLooij könntest Du es auch spielen?

[@RalphLooij]

@@Orgelfan62 After a lot of practice probably, but I don't need too, since Anton Doornhein was so kind to allow me to share this great recording. After all it's not about the organist, but the music.

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

I enjoyed it Ralph. I have two other versions of this. And of course more than that on Harpsichord, and clavichord. I'm happy that you were not to enslaved by the dynamics markings. That would be quite a feat just moving the swell shades to often. And that really does mess up the tonality. I prefered it the way you performed it. Mark

[@RalphLooij]

Thanks for your appreciation, I did not play this, but Anton Doornhein recently recorded this as mentioned in the video and description. But he did a fine job indeed!

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

@@RalphLooij Serves me right for listening away from my Computer. I didn't read the notes. Thanks Ralph.

[@alcyonecrucis]

I don’t know how they read those scores with all the I II and III all over...

[@RalphLooij]

Fair point ;)