I grew up with my Dad's Biggs recording. So nice to rediscover and realize how righteous his playing was. Just rock solid and imminently satisfying..
@alanbash29212 жыл бұрын
Magnificent !…………… Biggs was a Giant.......we lost a Great one when he passed on .
@muzluv3310 күн бұрын
I studied organ for my Bachelor's degree at the Mannes College of Music with one of Biggs' former students, Edgar Hilliar. He told me how much he enjoyed studying with Biggs and passed along the technique which he learned from his famous teacher, He told me of his passing shortly after that sad event. Yes we did indeed lose a great one.
@albertpeckham95159 жыл бұрын
This recording and photo is a true representation of this Challis. It is so sad that this marvelous sound is incarcerated in a museum! I remember playing this instrument in Challis's apartment in New York before Mr. Biggs took command. The thrill of producing these grand sounds are so exciting that I cannot say enough about this "master of the harpsichord". Mr Challis built for me, in 1972, just before he died a smaller instrument with a 16', 8', 4' on the lower manual and a "shared" 8 on the upper manual. Being a school teacher, I didn't have a great deal of wealth to have one of his great harpsichords but...because he was of a like mind with me, my 7 foot Challis will "rattle the windows". I will always be grateful that I had the good fortune to have had this genius as a friend.
@SlyCooperFR8 жыл бұрын
Please tell us how you became friends !
@ronwalker48498 жыл бұрын
I ALSO, CURIOUSLY, HEARD THIS JOHN CHALLIS INSTRUMENT IN HIS WORKSHOP IN LOWER MANHATTAN BEFORE IT WAS SHIPPED OUT. THE SOUND WAS EXTREMELY POWERFUL. BUT TASTES HAVE CHANGED BACK TO 18TH CENTURY SENSAILITIES AND I DON´T THINK ANYONE WOULD WANT TO RETURN TO THE ALL ALUMINUM HARPSICHORD EVEN IF THEY WOULD STAY IN TUNE FOR A WHOLE YEAR.
@mattbod6 жыл бұрын
I bet that still cost you a considerable amount of money. This instrument sounds lovely. I like the historically accurate instruments too but I imagine these are a lot easier to keep in tune.
@robertgift5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Thank you.
@stephenritchings81355 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that account, Mr Peckham---we are in your debt. I discovered this "album" when a student (of art, not music) in the early 'sixties. Like Mr Holz I did not recall this track. In the early 'seventies I had the opportunity to speak to a couple of young men who had recently (?) recorded Miss Landowska; I wish I had picked their brains ! Mr Biggs is another iconoclast of the keyboard, and this is his most interesting foray, for me---I think.
@LarryHovis7 ай бұрын
I never thought I'd hear this again. My parents had this record in the 70's, and while the entire album is one of my favorites, the first Allegro is the finest harpsichord piece I ever heard. Still know it note for note after 50 years.
@jra04244 жыл бұрын
By far the most powerful rendition I've heard of this great piece!
@thethikboy6 жыл бұрын
Glorious Vivaldi in ringing tones of an awesome harpsichord - it doesn't get any better
@Erikkaa74 ай бұрын
Some musicologists used to say it was not the best idea for Bach to transpose a concerto grosso of Vivaldi. The comparison with a Panzer IV is well found. Vivaldi is the refined spirit of Venice. Exquisite delicateness. It's just a joke 😂
@BorisCr7 жыл бұрын
This is not an harpsichord, it's assault tank... but I love it!
@christianknuchel5 жыл бұрын
Musical assault tanks are the best assault tanks. Long live #assaulttankmusic.
@CURSOJOSEMARTI5 жыл бұрын
jajajajajajaja, yes.... but amazing.
@iianneill60135 жыл бұрын
The Nyiregyhazi of harpshicords ...
@vittoriobacchiega91185 жыл бұрын
Microphones too close on strings. It's an innatural sound take. Date of recording?
@floriandevuyst4 жыл бұрын
LOL !
@gordonebanks2 жыл бұрын
This is the best piece I’ve ever heard. I’m so glad to have it again, since I only borrowed the vinyl once.
@michaelg9344 Жыл бұрын
That harpsichord has a deep harmonic spectrum. Superb!
@wojtas25243 ай бұрын
the sound is very dark and deep compared to most harpsichords, I think it's the closest one to a piano in terms of the richness of the sound that I've ever heard
@haydnschlinger6740Ай бұрын
@@wojtas2524 Have you heard Rafael Puyana's recording of the Soler Fandango? It achieves this low spectrum as well all without pedals, also just an amazing recording, check it out
@Highinsight79 жыл бұрын
I MISS this man... and his BEAUTIFUL playing....
@bachdon5 жыл бұрын
I have been a full time organist church music director for 30 years due to this man....hours spent listening to him on organ and pedal harpsichord and for me his performances are the litmus test for playing bach...
@Highinsight73 жыл бұрын
@@bachdon He was my inspiration as an organist as well... even to this day!
@Highinsight73 жыл бұрын
@@bachdon you are simply AMAZING.... just WOW!!!!
@muzluv3310 күн бұрын
Great recording but I must mention that the album in the picture is a different recording. The concerto in this upload originally appeared in a two-LP set with Bach's six trio sonatas. The album shown on the picture had the (In)famous D-Minor Toccata and Fugue, the Pastorale, the Great G-Minor Fantasy and Fugue, The Passacaglia and Fugue and the D-Minor Prelude.
@Kneenibble6 жыл бұрын
I never expected to hear this -- one of my favourite organ pieces -- arranged for the harpsichord, one of my favourite instruments. How utterly delightful.
@DangerRussDayZ65334 жыл бұрын
Most organists practiced on harpsichords. A pedal harpsichord was much more practical than paying people to work the bellows for hours while you practice and compose at all hours of the day and night. It doesn't need any arrangement. It can be played on either the pedal harpsichord or organ as is.
@岩倉玲音-z4g Жыл бұрын
True, Bach also probably had a Pedal clavichord as well.
@shadowjuan2 Жыл бұрын
@@岩倉玲音-z4g Not a probability, Pedal Harpsichord has been registered as one of many Harpsichords in Bach possession after his death.
@minicirco5 ай бұрын
This is the essence of music. Thank you 🙏
@zimonslot10 жыл бұрын
I listen to this everyday
@ClaudeFelixBlanchard10 жыл бұрын
Merci infiniment M Power Biggs pour l'infini pureté de votre jeu qui donne naissance à l'envol de mon Ange.
@dougholtz12 жыл бұрын
I bought this album new. Glad to see someone sharing it. Didn't remember this track; have to listen to it in it's entirety again.
@anibalconcha66129 жыл бұрын
QUE INTERPRETE TAN FENOMENAL!! Este hombre fue simplemente grandioso; Vivaldi se hubiera emocionado con esta interpretación.
@Emperatriz_Valentina4 жыл бұрын
I love pedal Harpsichords their so powerful!
@5kyfall20178 ай бұрын
This recording is actually from the album "Bach Organ Favorites, Volume 6" released by Columbia in '74. The album cover in the video is different, and applies to the other recordings on pedal harpsichord (like the Fantasy and Fugue, Toccata and Fugue, etc.)
@muzluv3310 күн бұрын
Youare right re the pedal harpsichord accounts. However the Bach Organ Favorites Volume 6 is performed on the Flentrop organ at Harvard and also contains the Bach/Ernst transcription of the G-Major Concerto and Bach's Trio Sonatas 1 and 5.
@mariamozart58969 жыл бұрын
Great piece!
@sebastermantilla3 жыл бұрын
To the person who set an ad at 7:55 just finishing the stresso of the descending scales at the beginning of the 3rd movement: please, do not do it, specially if the ad is about Whatsapp.
@dougholtz12 жыл бұрын
I bought the vinyl 33 rpm in 1966 or so. Didn't know there were other sets with this cover.
@gonzalotobellamatas73886 жыл бұрын
Màs que un concierto para órgano,es un concierto para clave: Y ¡QUÊ CLAVE! Impresionante.Excelente.
@cembaloish9 жыл бұрын
The Challis Harpsichord is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art instrument collection.
@RockStarOscarStern6343 жыл бұрын
I love this Harpsichord
@GlamRockCowboy5 жыл бұрын
It is not as well known as it should be that John Challis used an anodized, honeycombed aluminum soundboard in his harpsichords. This is the reason that his instruments had such a powerful sound. Consult Wikipedia for further information.
@edruaneinkerry9 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@gregcrabling26865 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@jalapablocrypto2 жыл бұрын
I wish Biggs had recorded ALL of Bach's keyboard music on this instrument
@asrose79796 жыл бұрын
Brother John, I just found this and subscribed. Thanks for such a clean job digitizing. 🎹 🌹
@minicirco4 жыл бұрын
the best I've ever heard. thank you
@marian44413 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!!
@zimnaya6 жыл бұрын
So who cares if this is not on an authentic harpsichord, a harpsichord that the great Bach would have recognised? It's thunderingly good and, as one commentator put it, "...like driving a tank..." Great fun and entirely convincing!
@lukatchumburidze30985 жыл бұрын
Speaking of thunder, on 2:15 one can clearly hear AC/DC's Thunderstruck, subconscious runs deep...
@sabin6154 жыл бұрын
"Bach wrote his Six Trio Sonatas to improve the pedal technique of his son Wilhelm Friedemann. The manuscript of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue, which according to Albert Schweizer vanished in the mid-1800's, was apparently headed Cembalo e pedale, clearly indicating performance on the pedal-harpsichord. Jakob Adlung, in Musica Mechanica Organoedi (1768), describes clavichords and harpsichords with separate pedals like an organ pedal-board. Bach possessed three of these, and according to Forkel, Bach "liked to improvise on a two-manual clavier with pedal"." www.baroquemusic.org/pedalharpsichord.html
@DangerRussDayZ65334 жыл бұрын
It was absolutely a real instrument Bach would have recognized. This was largely how organists could practice. Hiring people to work the bellows for hours while your practiced would be expensive and impractical.
@polkusin12 жыл бұрын
Brutal! And I mean that in a good way :)
@anotherhumanbeingblyat89354 жыл бұрын
The 3rd movement is some true head-banging music. who else agrees?
@jalapablocrypto2 жыл бұрын
agree, it's totally awesome CRANKED
@rusticagenerica3 жыл бұрын
God bless your LP RIP.
@VADORT2 жыл бұрын
PERFECTION
@minicirco Жыл бұрын
Bravo bravo bravo .. bravo
@togeka62954 ай бұрын
2:54 such simple parts give me goose bump.
@togeka62954 ай бұрын
8:35
@Ultimatebeag4 жыл бұрын
Both allegros should be played at ×1.25 speed. It captures the aggressive nature of Vivaldi's concertos.
@wojtas25243 ай бұрын
it would hardly be possible to play on a keyboard instrument at that speed
@erixoliver2 жыл бұрын
09:38 this sounds like a folia variation 🤔
@erixoliver2 жыл бұрын
10:47 here too
@monsieurgrigny Жыл бұрын
Sounds fantastic on the pedal harpsichord
@Musicantrix12 жыл бұрын
Ya se q quiero para navidad... Esto! Me voy a regalar esta belleza :)
@alejandrom.46806 жыл бұрын
Ojalá y un luthier actualmente hiciera este tipo de obras maestras.
@G0NZAL06668 жыл бұрын
this is heavy metal..
@maxreign90718 жыл бұрын
I agree completely.
@marsvltor211 жыл бұрын
Just a pity that the final key-releases have been edited out - they're very much a part of the instrument's character, which also makes it the only one where one can hear the end of the performer 'holding the picture' after the musical sound has died away. Other than that, a magnificent performance.
@lukeluke7082 Жыл бұрын
Have you a version of what you speak of?
@mojostyles12 ай бұрын
"Impressive!" 😎🤘👍🌟 'Preservation all music cultures.';)
@alteisenfahrer4 жыл бұрын
there is a need of very fast feet to play it like that (3rd movement)...I like E.P-B. because he was very openminded for musical experiments like playing ragtimes on pedal harpsicord or his very old vinyl record playing on the four organs of the Freiburg cathedral creating quadrofonic effects today we would name it surround sound
@Tottonian13 жыл бұрын
Excellant
@lesgoe89084 жыл бұрын
Biggs also recorded a version of this piece on organ which, to my knowledge, has never been released on CD. It's a shame because, of all the recordings I have heard, Biggs's conception and execution is the best.
@brtherjohn4 жыл бұрын
I have Bigg's organ recording of this. It's on Sony Essentials. But this version, here, is still not available in any digital format....
@muzluv3310 күн бұрын
It was, It is Bach Organ Favorites Volume 6.
@GlamRockCowboy5 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, the pedal harpsichord in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum IS NOT the one owned and used by E, Power Biggs! The link to the web page to verify this is as follows: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/503668. The fate and location of Mr. Biggs's instrument are currently unknown.
@RockStarOscarStern6343 жыл бұрын
Mr Bigg used a copy of that instrument
@3NUNS9 жыл бұрын
This is authentic Vivaldi !
@MajorBowes6 жыл бұрын
Bach knew how to compose in any style
@minicircoАй бұрын
Then, when music gets orbital, painless and supersonic - what a trip.
@douglasdickerson51842 жыл бұрын
👏🏻
@ImJustSaying011 жыл бұрын
I always wondered if such thing existed...and what bwv593 would sound like on it.
@Wolfganger2 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@verticalmatt2 жыл бұрын
apex of human civilization and the human spirit
@CarloBellioni2 жыл бұрын
Is there any place in Italy you can dance this?
@zimonslot10 жыл бұрын
What kind of Harpsichord is this? Modern harpsichords sound like harps. This one Rocks, it's loud.
@zimonslot10 жыл бұрын
cool info, thnx..
@claudewiwiamjertes21229 жыл бұрын
***** yes, you are right...but this sounds wonderful...
@TobySpiller3 жыл бұрын
the beast is possibly blasting the heck out of the mics and tube preamps tasked with capturing it too
@sanjosemike31374 жыл бұрын
Biggs wanted to make damn sure you HEARD this machine. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
@Dirkovic8011 жыл бұрын
doppio does not make cembali with pedal only fortepianos, its a huge difference
@GoldinDr4 жыл бұрын
Unique instrument and wonderful playing, but this is not one of Bach's more successful transcriptions. Vivaldi's original (RV 522) is gorgeous and so much more intimate, especially in the adagio.
@kernel97715 жыл бұрын
10:46 → 10:56 I think I have heard that somewhere else before?
@abdul-hadidadkhah1459 Жыл бұрын
Pet shop boys its a sin lol
@stachusw71739 күн бұрын
@kernel9771 Yup, it's Vivaldi's "signature", you can hear it in many of his compositions
@joekolecki80013 жыл бұрын
Ahhhhhhhh...Biggs....
@tituswilliams806310 жыл бұрын
this sound is too barock to be true
@zimonslot10 жыл бұрын
Barok ´n Roll baby!
@bonobo2go9 жыл бұрын
+Sammy Ramdani What did you expect...heavy metal, pop, drum and bass? ;-)
@Anonymous-je7qc3 жыл бұрын
@Silenus you just don't get it, eh?
@famvandentop75355 жыл бұрын
wauw
@manoelfernandez34614 жыл бұрын
It isn't surprsing that in his name is the word power.
@Dirkovic8011 жыл бұрын
well there is a huge difference between cembalo and piano the only similarity is that they are both keyboard-instruments no need for caps lock , i know what doppio builds
@viktorz14314 жыл бұрын
Концерт ля минор Баха по Вивальди на клавесине.
@robertgift67622 жыл бұрын
I prefer this Vivaldi-Bach transcription on organ.
@gabrielkinzel33892 жыл бұрын
ah yes, a stringed organ
@marsvltor211 жыл бұрын
Pity...
@michaelg93442 жыл бұрын
It makes a Chinese harp jealous.
@michaelg9344 Жыл бұрын
Marvelous
@michaelg9344 Жыл бұрын
Forge with fire so rich undertones and deep.
@pecopeco59075 жыл бұрын
this harpsichord is loud
@giannisepe22235 ай бұрын
Ancora una trascrizione da Vivaldi, per 4 clavicembali di Bach...
@Blutroth3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else getting monkey island vibes here?
@robertgift8 жыл бұрын
I owned a harpsichord. Can't stand more the 10 minutes of it. This is far better on organ.