Can anyone else breath between 8:50 and 9:50? It's as if just too much music in there all happening at once, but it's all so crystal clear. Josquin would be proud. Totally metal.
@lulubook49228 жыл бұрын
5:55 the great fugue begins!
@orgelfan16754 жыл бұрын
To be honest, that is the reason, why we watch this Video.
@zacharybond232 жыл бұрын
@@orgelfan1675 I love the Fantasie, but that fugue is hard to beat.
@albertpeckham951510 жыл бұрын
I sat in Mr. Challis's living room on the 9th floor of his building on 19th street and 5th Ave in NYC and heard Bigg's play this piece on this instrument and I must say that this recording is as accurate as I remember.
@AnnaBohemianBaroque6 жыл бұрын
This. Instrument. Is. Incredible.
@orgelfan16754 жыл бұрын
The music is more incredible.
@jesuisravi8 жыл бұрын
It is thngs like this that make it plain why Biggs' middle name was Power.
@burtward8955 жыл бұрын
I don't think it started out that way. Little Lord Fontleroy's parents probably gave him that name after they planted the bug up his arse and started starching his under drawers where he would never smile again. Its ironic he swore he would never visit my state and it will be the one that saves pipe organs. Because we now have the only university in the US that has a full blown organ construction degree from making pipes to crafting consoles. In your 4-year degree, you either restore a single very large instrument or numerous smaller ones. Of course the Midmer-Losh has fowled up the works but that's a nice thing.
@LyubomirIko5 жыл бұрын
This is out of this world. Can you imagine Bach composing? What was up there in his head?! And where are the people?! Stop by and listen ...and stay. Because this is the apogee of human achievement! :O
@joeyamahoshi870510 жыл бұрын
This piece is so haunting to me. Perhaps my favorite of all JS Bach's compositions. I played it in my thrash-metal days and used it for my selfish pleasure. What a beautiful piece. No one else in my opinion has played it better than Biggs. So expressive. A live performance by Biggs of this piece must have been truly terrific and traumatic at the same time. Let's pray it gets remastered and released soon. Thank You for posting it on KZbin. We are indebted to You!
@topsecret18373 жыл бұрын
Thrash metal, no kidding. It’s stuff like this that would have been written in that genre had a certain bassist not died in a bus accident. Gigantic pieces of many layers. Baroque was the jazz era of classical music, where virtuosos had to be intensely skilled and capable of improvising at any time, so long as they got the chords correct. As soon as people realized that it was better to train many musicians to do fewer things, that’s how the classical era took over. Baroque is much better, and was not taken seriously again until the works of Beethoven and early 19th century composers began taking the ideas on counterpoint and chromaticism.
@Pharca7 ай бұрын
for your selfish pleasure? Who else are you playing it for?
@brtherjohn12 жыл бұрын
I bought this in the late 70's as well - including other Biggs organ recordings. Let's hope that Sony does the respectful thing and remaster his whole catalog...
@alanbash29212 жыл бұрын
Bach actually owned a Pedal Harpsichord...........Fabulous Performance here, as always, by the Great Biggs in this extremely daring piece...especially harmonically. ONLY BACH Schools all of us in the depths of Musical Creation and nobody performs Bach as well as Biggs. G_d rest both of their Souls .
@PointyTailofSatan8 жыл бұрын
The makers did a good job dampening the sound of the pedals. On a lot of organs, the racket made by the pedal action is huge.
@royf.90347 жыл бұрын
I know. I heard a record of Anthony Newman playing the pedal harpsichord and it sounded like he was stomping with hobnail boots.
@VADORT3 жыл бұрын
THE MAESTRO OF MAESTRO
@tcparker1000 Жыл бұрын
Dear Biggsy. I still miss him.
@ivittdickinson75168 жыл бұрын
I wish he was still around to play as he could
@DoctorWho198312 жыл бұрын
If you're listening to this on the headphones, you can actually hear the pounding and stomping from Biggs as he hammers away, it really adds to the intensity of the music which makes it more affective, awesome and overall authentic. Triple A for Amazing music...
@j.marin.81509 жыл бұрын
impresionante, extraordinaria interpretacion...
@jlas03247 жыл бұрын
so complex... so beautiful
@dougholtz12 жыл бұрын
This album, as well as E. Power, were great. I took my vinyl album to a friend's house; he has a record player/CD recorder. I duped the record onto CD, then came home and made MP3 in I-Tunes. Now I can take my album anywhere :)
@Todd135612 жыл бұрын
I have this on vinyl. God am I old! I bought this new in a local record store back in the late 70's. E. Power Biggs was my first Bach organ album (Four Great Toccatas) and he's still my favorite.
@alexdiver200812 жыл бұрын
Biggs Forever my Favorite.
@daveontheskies4 жыл бұрын
Revolucionario 🔥
@Herr_strauss9113 жыл бұрын
@werhandab I agree!!!!! Bach was fucking genius!!!!!
@Murcielag0scuro3 жыл бұрын
5:59 is the start of the fugue
@isezakicho669 жыл бұрын
This is dangerous. i am shaken.
@user-qk7dq7wp6u5 жыл бұрын
Great conposer J.S.Bach
@gemtemtom9 жыл бұрын
とても感動しました。
@lulubook49228 жыл бұрын
+gemtemtom わかる!わかります!
@Renshen19579 жыл бұрын
@Max Walczak, the record quality is good, I used to own this album. The Challis is has an aluminum soundboard and metal frame, Challis voiced his harpsichord with an overpluck, after all it is a revival instrument. Run through my tube stereo, it sounds very close to the original LP
@Renshen19579 жыл бұрын
***** The Challis has an AGO full pedal keyboard (CC to g1) connected to the pedal harpsichord underneath the manual harpsichord. If I recall correctly, the dispossession was two choirs at 16 Ft, one choir at 8 Ft pitch and one choir at 4 Ft pitch plus swell shutters. Biggs recorded an album of Romantic favourties (Nutcracker's Trepak, Marche Militaire,) another album of Scott Joplin Rags (the movie The Entertainer was popular back in the day), as well as Bach's Organ standards. No original pedal harpsichord survives from the time of Bach. Bach had a practice Clavier with Pedals which was given to his son J C Bach. People have argued if this was a pedal Clavichord and two (or three) clavichords, (especially the clavichord players), a silent set of practice keyboards, or a harpsichord. Although I am a harpsichord player, I believe J S Bach's practice instrument(s) with a pedal keyboard instruments was a clavichord. However, the use of Clavier was generic for the Well Tempered Clavier as the A minor Fugue Bk 1 is impossible to play on a Clavichord or Harpsichord as an pedal board is required, and the G minor Fugue Bk 1 is written in the manner of an organ Fugue with obbligato pedal line. One of the manuscripts copies has an extended pedal point in the Eb major Prelude that continues longer than other copies, consequently makes sense on something other than a one manual instrument without a pedal keyboard. This contradicts the clavichord players who maintain that clavier=clavichord.
@robertgift9 жыл бұрын
+Renshen1957 Thank you for your information and impressions.
@jamesmiller41845 жыл бұрын
What happened to the album? Still-sealed copies can be had through eBay.
@KorenevskyAndrew Жыл бұрын
Superb!
@OfficialWorldChampion6 жыл бұрын
clearly there is a reason why the fugue is called "the great"
@Musicantrix11 жыл бұрын
;) no puedo parar d llorar...
@alhfgsp5 жыл бұрын
I wish I had a harpsichord
@cynic15059 жыл бұрын
I am a pianist, but I think that Baroque music should ideally be played on the instruments of the day, i.e. harpsichord, organ, clavichord, not the pianoforte.
@robertgift9 жыл бұрын
+cynic 150 I owned a harpsichord. Love the modern piano far more.
@jesuisravi8 жыл бұрын
+Robert Gift there are harpsichords and then there are HARPSICHORDS.
@robertgift8 жыл бұрын
jesuisravi I can only take 15 minutes of harpsichord. And that is with ME playing.
@dougalan56147 жыл бұрын
I understand. Somebody described the harpsichord as "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof".
@burtward8957 жыл бұрын
Just remove your piano hammers and reverse the action and add pluckers. Or if you want the Ar-Kansas version, install thumb tacks on all the hammers.
@viniciuslusitanoberaldo57124 жыл бұрын
Tem como dar like um milhão de vezes?
@LuizBHMG8 жыл бұрын
Meine liebste Version dieses Werkes! Es klingt echt stark und klar mit dem Pedal-Gravicembalo!
@Kralperri12 жыл бұрын
amazing!
@gabbleratchet189016 күн бұрын
God, this makes me think of 1973 when Biggs was beefing big time with Diane Bish. They were the Tupac and Biggie of their day.
@OniruPA13 жыл бұрын
Excelente video, muy bueno.
@werhandab13 жыл бұрын
after the 6:20 is fucking apocalyptic
@brtherjohn12 жыл бұрын
@TweetDrivr I'm glad that this upload has filled a void here - especially seeing that Sony has still yet to release this in a digital format. (Sony has reissued Biggs' Trio Sonatas, also on pedal harpsichord, some years ago.)
@DomeArmin7 жыл бұрын
Whoooaaaa! Soo creepy, gothic music!!! LOVE IT!!!!
@Michevangelo039 ай бұрын
5:58 fugue starts
@ramecat12 жыл бұрын
Sontuoso
@viktorz14314 жыл бұрын
Фантазия и фуга соль минор Баха.
@MrKumpumaeki11 жыл бұрын
05:56
@elbomnetanel7 жыл бұрын
starts like old prince of persia
@MrGar114 жыл бұрын
5:58
@MrGar116 жыл бұрын
Komitas take from Bach 00:03-00:09
@aaronperez39373 жыл бұрын
Fuga 5:59
@claudiosagredo97718 жыл бұрын
EXCELENTE VERSIÓN AUNQUE ME QUEDO CON LA DE KARL RICHTER.
@MajorBowes6 жыл бұрын
Biggs fui mas mejor
@robertgift9 жыл бұрын
I would not play the beginning this way. Prefer this much more on organ. But I be a organist. In the fugue, the pedal is heard over the left hand.
@Strato132 жыл бұрын
This is very beautiful, but I tend to like Anthony Newman's better.
@frrixz8 жыл бұрын
Ever since an "error" occurred and I had to reload this sublimity, I now hate Chilis with a passion.