BWV 546 - Prelude & Fugue in C Minor (Scrolling)

[@justinlapierre1998]

This was played at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales as her coffin was leaving the abbey, as well as today at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at the end of the committal service at Windsor. Truly a timeless, majestic piece to put to rest two of the most venerated royals of our time.

[@Eliza-yd7fi]

Only the latter is a murderer

[@skandhaps8097]

Why is Bach cursing Jesus Christ through this music? What difficulties has Jesus bought on Bach's life?why is he cursing his God?

[@andrewmureiko2120]

​@skandhaps8097 I have no idea what that means but bach was very religious and I don't think he was doing that

[@АлексейЛатышев-п3м]

​@@skandhaps8097Поясните, пожалуйста, как он проклинает?

[@dariopinto1284]

These preludes and fugues for organ are so good...

[@johanbrand8601]

And so difficult ;)

[@ich-nuta]

Amazing. Bach ends the prelude with a 6-note C major, then ends the fugue in an 8-note C major. He must have considered it heavy, serious, majestic, which it is. The prelude here is so magnificent that it completely overshadows the following fugue!

[@АндрейЕзнаев-з2н]

О мой Бах, о мой Бог! Ты трогаешь миллионы сердец во всем мире и во все времена! Эта прелюдия просто феноменальна и красива, что затмевает последующую фугу. Хотя как оказалось на самом деле вначале была написана фуга , а лишь потом прелюдия через несколько лет. Это грандиозное произведение настолько полюбилось мне, что я его готов выучить его наизусть и играть каждый день. Спасибо всевышнему я уже 30 лет играю на баяне.

[@TITOMARTINOJAZZETC.]

korosho!

[@legendbach]

This Prelude is magnificient! Not only for its musical richness but for the great use of thematic and rhythmic motifs totally advanced to its time. Superb!

[@achenarmyst2156]

Those diminished full chords and the majestic organ points in the prelude fundamentally stir my soul. And the final Picardy Third is a triumphant resolution. 🙌

[@burraldo]

I totally agree with you! I love the pedal basses with the 16-feet trombone register. It sounds majestic. Bach "rocked" here! 👌👌👌

[@cienciandre]

The fugue has such an intense subject, amazing

[@PointyTailofSatan]

The Prelude is simply amazing.

[@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven]

So is the Fugue.

[@TheGentleUncle]

@@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven I agree Herr Ludwig.

[@achenarmyst2156]

The prelude is 100% Bach. There is less certainty with the fugue. See Ton Koopman‘s YT recording and comment.

[@authenticmusic4815]

So is the fugue, indeed.

[@Kralperri]

Bach's music is food for the soul. Always genious! This fugue is moreover pretty unique since it has 5 voices!

[@geiryvindeskeland7208]

Not unique, the fugue in F minor and E flat Major also has 5 voices. And there are two 5 voice-fugues in WTK, book I, C sharp minor and B minor.

[@christiphergedge5078]

We can also add a second fugue in c minor that's a fragment that is also at 5 voices (there is a stretto involving all 5 voices when the piece suddenly cuts off in 562/2)

[@authenticmusic4815]

Ikrrr!!

[@authenticmusic4815]

@@geiryvindeskeland7208 shut the fuck up. There are hundreds of fugues by him and only 4 or 5 have 5 voices.

[@geiryvindeskeland7208]

Teddy 6451, quote: "geir øyvind eskeland shut the fuck up." I wondering, why me? You should tell Kralperri to chut the fuck up, because he got it wrong, I just corrected him.

[@barbellerch1612]

Ich höre es gerne und staune, wie man so etwas spielen, noch mehr, wie einer so etwas komponieren kann.

[@sapphirelewis1389]

Bärbel Lerch Genau, gut gesagt! Na ja, daß J S Bach Genius war ist ja die Wahrheit, ne? Schönes video und Kanal auch. 🎼💕

[@barbellerch1612]

Klar, was Bach ein Genius. Trotzdem staune ich immer wieder. Es ist Musik aus einer anderen Welt.

[@sapphirelewis1389]

Bärbel Lerch Sie haben recht. Na ja, finde ich ihm auch außergewöhnlich. 🎼

[@rudigerk]

Hallo, wenn sie die Orgelwerke von Bach mögen, hören sie sich doch auchmal Orgelmusik von Max Reger an. Max Reger war ein Komponist an der Schwelle von der Spätromantik zur Moderne und griff die Satztechnik und Polyphonie von Bach wieder auf und verband diese mit der Harmonik und Virtuosität der Spätromantik wie zB. von Franz Liszt. Einige Stücke gibt es auf KZbin auch mit Notenbild zum "Mitlesen". Würde mich sehr freuen, Reger war ein glühender Bach-Verehrer .. ich denke sie könnten auch Gefallen an seiner Musik finden. Hier mal zwei der zentralen großen Orgelwerke Regers, leider ohne Notenbild, dennoch absolut hörenswert! Fantasie & Fuge in d-moll op.135b Dieses Werk hat mich vor vielen Jahren zu Max Reger gebracht, gut gespielt bekomme ich heute noch Gänsehaut! Der Anfang und der Schlußteil der Fantasie lassen mir immer wieder die Haare zu Berge stehen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5nEip-vmLB-oZI Hier die Noten separat zum Mitlesen: hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/dd/IMSLP06549-Fant_Fuge_op135b.pdf Introduktion, Pasacaglia & Fuge e-moll op.127 Einfach Monumental ! Kaum zu überbieten. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXjOe5iMrrllrK8 Noten zum Mitlesen: hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/4/44/IMSLP05749-Reger-op127.pdf Hier noch ein paar Beispiele: Introduktion und Passacaglia in d-moll (mit Notenbild) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWfXZKCXhNOHgKc Wirkt wie ein Frühwerk auf mich, für Regersche Verhältnisse eher "einfach" rhythmisch und satztechnisch strukturiert und geradezu leichtfüßig im Vergleich zu seinen kolossalen Klangkathedralen aus anderen großen Werken. Dennoch ein sehr schönes und inniges Werk, hier kommt der barocke, Bachische Einfluß ganz besonders durch. Die monumentale Fantasie und Fuge über B-A-C-H op.46 (mit Notenbild) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHnaZpSilsSInpo Gäbe noch viele weitere Werke zu nennen, die großen Choralfantasien, op.73, die Sinfonische Fantasie und Fuge uvm. Aber das sollte erstmal genügen denke ich! Hier gibt es übrigens noch eine sehr schöne und sehenswerte Dokumentation über Max Regers Leben, entstanden zum 100sten Todestag Max Regers 2016. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp2uY3WlhLBpedE Bitte sehen Sie es sich doch einmal an, vielen Dank! Ich hoffe ich überfalle sie mit meinem Beitrag nicht :) Viel Freude beim Ansehen und ein frohes neues Jahr! Über eine Rückmeldung würde ich mich sehr freuen.

[@sapphirelewis1389]

Hans Meiser Doch daß geht! Vielen Dank für alle die informationen an J S Bach. Ich hab ein 'playlist' auf meinem Kanal schon gemacht und höre mich gern seine Musik. Frohes Neues Jahr und einen Guten Rutsch! Vielen Dank.

[@BarneyBJohnson]

I came here to listen to the prelude, and said I wouldn't stay for the fugue. But then the fugue was so good, I had to stay. 😂 At 7:59 I love the change of timbre to the flute-like organ stop quality, gave it a nice, soft, dreamy feel. Thank you for posting!

[@xrenegade87xchannel88]

literally gave me goosebumps over my entire my body it was so epic

[@MrAzureJames]

thank you, your channel really helps me understand how to sight read better and understand the mechanisms by which it works!

[@francescononino8896]

Thank you Gerubach. Best wishes for a great 2018!

[@hmorg123]

I am simply blown away at how good this is.

[@communismwithgiggles2515]

The prelude is the piece played at the end of the Queen's funeral, many sites misattribute it to Bach's Fantasia in C Minor or Prelude in C Minor BWV 562

[@DBoudewijnAussems]

Wonderful. Thanks, Geru & Bach

[@CinemaoftheMind]

The prelude was just played as the recessional for Prince Philip’s funeral.

[@orb3796]

#ripbozo

[@markne4854]

Music before the service is given as: Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Adagio espressivo (Sonata in A minor) - Sir William Harris (1883-1973) Salix (The Plymouth Suite) - Percy Whitlock (1903-1946) Berceuse (Op 31 No. 19) - Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Rhosymedre (Three Preludes founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes) - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) @@Andras_Schiff

[@simonkawasaki4229]

Probably my favorite of the preludes and fugues.

[@smb123211]

Loved the registration and tempo though in a concert the organist "coupled" right before the rise at about 3:02 producing a massive swell of sound. Fugue is good but that Prelude is majestic!

[@АлександрЯрков-ш2з]

Bravo bravo bravo brilliance grandiose genial music

[@studentofcounterpoint]

7:58 - 8:47 I love those free counterpoint episodes so much !

[@jogomez1988a]

Siempre le encuentro algo nuevo al maestro. Excelente fuga.

[@leo_vccr7270]

WHO the HELL can dislike this !!

[@GhostRider5555555]

Nobody

[@harryandruschak2843]

You Tube is jammed with spiteful trolls who will "dislike" for the shear meanness of it. Just think of them as the You Tube version of graffiti spray painters.

[@terryss95]

Thanks for ruining it. Someone who doesn' t like/agree with the performer' s choices. Rather... WHO GIVES A DAMN ABOUT LIKES AND DISLIKES OR SUCH TRIVIALITIES?!?!! BE QUIET AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC!!!!

[@severledelreves881]

Frederick II the Great, king of Prussia.

[@jaikee9477]

Probably one of those self-proclaimed YT Bach-"scholars"

[@erickdanielperez9463]

Thank you Gerubach!

[@עידןפוזיילוב]

so good i so liked it

[@Lucaolv]

9:44 ❤❤❤

[@tepmich]

WUNDER !!! Tepper Michael.

[@victorheredia7185]

Bach de que planeta eres? Eres grandioso

[@felipemp93]

Superb.

[@alhbass]

Who is the organist? Love this tempo!

[@jefersonalexandervasques5569]

please gerubach the cantata BWV 208 de bach. like please

[@John-kd4ef]

Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven are entertaining God in Heaven with their celestial and grand music. Geniuses all!!

[@thefugue1298]

Don’t know if this is intentional, but a motif similar to the subject from his Prelude/Fugue in F minor appears at 1:16 and 1:50

[@baadajohnson3771]

C minor and f minor have very similar tonalities, so a motif on f minor likely works for c minor

[@authenticmusic4815]

@@baadajohnson3771 lmaooo.. Are you serious? Every motif works IDENTICALLY in every key lmaoooo

[@jakubg.8024]

Will there be a BWV 30 cantata here? please

[@EuphoniaPooch]

00:20 start

[@kelvinchan2286]

The beginning of prelude has 7 voices lol

[@alexanderweisman3040]

Who has donated to this channel. What is the donation money used for.

[@JordanCooper-z7z]

How to transpose to C♯ minor?

[@nicholasduran4064]

A song that needs to be done that had not been done is the Stars and Stripes Forever March by John Philip Sousa. There are rare amounts of the sheet music for it, and it would be nice in the format that us used on this channel. Thanks for reading this, I'm a big fan of this channel, as I use it to practice snare drum lines in marches. Thanks again, and please make Stars and Stripes forever by John Philip Sousa a possibility on this channel. Thank you.

[@KKIcons]

have you seen it on Smalin's channel as an animated, color-coded score? I can sing off many of his scores, and it has helped my sight reading a lot, even though it took some getting used to at first. They are great to have on to improvise to, as well.

[@KKIcons]

Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHy1e5hoaL-nntU

[@ETPWDJUYT87]

who is the performer??

[@dawidwoznica4638]

Michel Chapuis, you have performer info at 11:00.

[@nyxxang]

7:21

[@mang6879]

First part was like god save the king/queen but in minor.. lol

[@davebarclay4429]

A shade too fast for my personal taste. Check out Leo Van Doeselaar's Alkmaar performance to hear a slower tempo and decide for yourself.

[@ericw5389]

What makes me lol sometimes is how people in the middle ages believed that discordant/minor key tones were inherently demonic and major key sounds were holy. That the Jewish peoples believed/believe that minor keys were more important because they were more passionate and possibly serious. I guess these issues were abandoned by the time Bach was writing music or else this piece and so many of his others would have gotten him a visit from the spanish inquisition... which he wouldn't have expected of course. ;-)

[@lorenzocrotti7591]

In the Middle Ages they didn’t have our modern tonal system that became more or less what we know around 1700 circa, if what you said can be applied to dissonance (look at Bach’s passions or Early Italian baroque composers such as Monteverdi that used dissonance to depict anger and pain) But minor mode was never actually described as “demonic” instead Matthenson who was one of the most admired theorists of Bach’s generation described g minor as “perfect” and d minor “Pious”

[@orb3796]

Look up Adam Neelys video on the tritone myth. Dissonances were never considered demonic, just unpleasant.

[@michaellessel5532]

That’s a myth

[@fenteflushkinfentefhluhovi7178]

Is not prelude and fugue in c minor

[@RaduPantea-z6o]

SERIOUSLY??? NO ONE noticed that this is a crappy software "playing" this score on a crappy synthesised audio software organ imitation??? No organist, no human whatsoever involved!!! It is just a synthetic organ being played by a synthetic organist!!! And no one noticed??? WHAT'S WRONG WOTH ALL OF YOU???

[@eliastaglang]

Chill💀

[@renematei708]

B.S. This is Chapuis...

[@liorfox]

The only reason why you say that is because you can't read the music. With just showing a human organist, it's harder to hear all the voices clearly at once. I swear you're the type of person who thinks that 12-TET tuning is terrible.

[@skandhaps8097]

Why is Bach cursing Jesus Christ through this music? What difficulties has Jesus bought on Bach's life? Why is Bach cursing his own God?

[@gabrielgonsioroski9247]

?????