Franz Liszt, Prélude et Fugue sur B.A.C.H. - Jean-Baptiste Dupont, orgue

[@PointyTailofSatan]

A shout out to the engineers that recorded this. OMG they did an INCREDIBLE job. Large romantic organs like this are a nightmare to record. The huge amplitude swings. Blower and other mech sounds. Divisions spread out all over the place. Amazing job.

[@danielmartin7422]

Rien à dire que du bonheur,jouer admirablement par Mr Dupont ! C'EST GRANDIOSE ! ❤

[@organbuilder272]

How nice to see an organist who had the notes in his head and playes the music on the organ. Note that he does his own registration. Very dexterous. Excellent performance of this piece. It is colossal.

[@matthieuwallut5058]

Je rends grâce de vous avoir déniché grâce à KZbin : voilà un orgue qui respire sans se moucher, des mains bien en place qui laissent à l'œuvre toute son expressivité. Merci à vous !

[@jacquesclement1228]

La plus fidèle interprétation de cette oeuvre remarquable que je connaisse sans assistant ni partition, bravo Mr Dupont!

[@jacquesbruno2436]

Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous. Malgré tout, il faut, aussi, absolument écouter ce Prélude et Fugue de Liszt interprété par Jean Guillou en 1977 à Notre-Dame. La version syncrétique qu'il nous offre est tout à fait remarquable. Jean Guillou était un mutant de l'orgue !

[@patrickessel3317]

@@jacquesbruno2436 Notre Dame de quelle ville / pays ? 🤔

[@GhtPTR]

@@patrickessel3317 Paris, France. Ou alors Notre-Dame de Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA, juste derrière la supérette des frères Brody, mais c'est un secret bien gardé, chut !

[@jacquesbruno6046]

Notre-Dame de Paris !@@patrickessel3317

[@geminian7846]

​@@patrickessel3317 St Sernin, Toulouse, I suspect, since he is organist there. A magnificent Cavaillé-Coll from 1888 - one to rival St Sulpice in Paris.

[@albafaireness7114]

Mr Dupont workin' this mammoth machine all by himself, melting your face off with this extraordinary piece on this behemoth Cavaillé-Coll! What's not to love!? 👍

[@bowlerrollercoaster]

Franz Liszt did not make his organ music any easier than his hardest piano works, that's for sure. This piece is 12 minutes of... I can't put it into words! Incredible performance too!

[@GhtPTR]

On ne fera jamais rien de mieux qu'un accord parfait pleins jeux à l'orgue romantique. Bravo, je ne connaissais pas cette pièce, interprétation magique !

[@jameslapham4326]

Wow! This recording makes me wish I still had my old McIntosh amp and Klipsch speakers - and no neighbors. I love the performance and the sound of this organ. Hats off to Mr. DuPont!

[@howdenminster1651]

This is a remarkable performance of this dramatic piece. The skill of the performer shines through the music throughout. Thank you for sharing.

[@redabdab]

One of the greatest works ever written for the organ and I think this is probably my favourite performance of it. Not least as it is played on the magnificent 1888 Cavaillé-Coll - one of the master's greatest instruments and one of the best organs in the world.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Indeed. Other composers that were organists and wrote way more works for Organ struggled to write a single piece as great as this. And Liszt just casually drops the "Ad Nos Fantasia" and this as his first original organ compositions as if it is nothing.

[@buyadonkey1]

Not my favourite organ composition, but your performance has left me speachless and changed my mind, it was like listeing to something magiical. Not the Liszt that I’’ve been used to but a composer and virtiouso that respected Bach in his own private way and wrote music to respect him, honour him and recognise is brilliant tallent. Bravo to FRANZ LISZT.

[@buyadonkey1]

And bravo to the performer!

[@michealmorrow1481]

I was crying at the end. Your voicing was top shelf. Thank you for this wonderful rendition of one of my favorites.

[@Bailey2006a]

Masterful interpretation. One of the best I’ve ever heard…

[@gunnarbjorck929]

I am a big organ-listener...im known as "orgaholicman" in my county... And i say that you are one of the absolultley best organist in the world!! I love to listen to your playing!!🙏🙏🤗🥰

[@normgustafson4525]

Wonderful execution and sound. You give a tribute to Liszt and Bach!

[@jacquesbruno2908]

Exceptionnelle interprétation de Jean-Baptiste de cette œuvre géniale du Grand Maître Franz ! Merci.

[@papymuzo]

purée, ce dernier accord, il pourrait le garder pendant 1h. Sublime, déroutant, magnifique, puissant.

[@raphaelmeyer9940]

It's incredible to be in such a harmony with both piece and instrument... It's not only about playing, it's more about understanding and piloting the instrument. Really perfect job.

[@TurtleFL]

It's something just watching him register the organ... playing the piece from memory and getting the voices right on an instrument that uses pistons that work completely the opposite way from modern American and British organs.

[@TurtleFL]

On AGO standard organs, including theater organs, pistons turn things on, they turn on preset registrations. On the French Romantic organs, they turn things OFF in preset groups. The stops have to be out (registered) for them to work.

[@MrRLawn]

Amazing performance - thank you!

[@gerardbegni2806]

You can hear this wonderful work in may ways. You may consider that the B-A-C-H cell is most of time used as a typically romantic "object" calling for diminished sevenths chromatic progression (which Liszt enjoyed so much). But you may also consider that the handling of that cell sometimes work in a much modern way, as a ' 4 tones mini-series'', which is also true. Rememeber that in 1939 Anton Webern wrote his 'string quartet' op. 28, which uses a series made up of the aggregation of three aspects of that cell, which makes this BACH cell someimes quite obvious, sometimes blurred by other serial derivatives.

[@dynamicallyuniversal3735]

That Finale is the Finale of all Finales

[@salvatoremessina3074]

BRAVO, BRAVISSIMO, GRAZIE PER LA SPLENDIDA CONDIVISIONE!

[@MegaCirse]

Le pouvoir expressif de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers explosif. Les couleurs et le rythme de cette composition sont un langage qui donne vie à l'exaltation de l'auditeur !

[@oscaralbertotocco7089]

Un magnífico monumento musical a un gran compositor hecho por otro gran compositor, interpretado en un órgano de un gran maestro y mantenido en sonido por otros grandes maestros, ejecutada por un virtuoso intérprete... No podemos pedir más. ¡Bravo Maestro, y muchas gracias por hacer oír esta maravilla al mundo!

[@nicolecoeytaux5679]

magistrale interprétation. Tout par cœur de surcroit. Bravo l'artiste. Félicitations

[@OldPannonian]

It looks soooooo easy, but...........This organist must have multiple brains to play this monstrously complex work.

[@llserdr1]

I´m organist. And I can´t say that it looks easy! Follow the fingers and the feet which have two tasks: Playing, making the dynamics and the connectings for manuals and pedals. I have already tried to rehearse the work several times and have always stopped (the same with Regers "BACH". I´m medical doctor and am frustrated to realize that my abilities have reached their limits. Unfortunately!

[@paulo3564]

Que domínio! Técnica brilhante, execução soberba e segurança inquestionáveis. Do Brasil envio minha total admiração!

[@tom7601]

Jean-Baptiste Dupont and Cavaillé-Coll. Truly a match made in Heaven!

[@jacquesbruno2436]

OK, but don't miss Franz Liszt !!

[@Eleuthero5]

One of my very favorite Liszt pieces very well played. I also appreciate the homage Liszt paid to the great Joh. Seb. Bach by writing the piece.

[@Nordikgoth77]

La meilleure interpretation de Liszt que j ai entendue ! Bravo mille fois !

[@lucasgust7720]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful performance. It was wonderful not only to hear it but also to see it.

[@StotzDanielPhilipp]

Bravo, bravissimo! Fantastic music and interpretation and marvelous sound! Thank you very much and all best wishes!

[@christophepascal8650]

AMAZING !!! Wonderful interpretation !!! no assistant, and moreover no help from any electronic devices bringing twice this performance. I'm speechless... Congratulations

[@birdandthe]

Roth CBS

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

Your performance was great, no doubt about that, but even better is the organ. Sounds absolutely mighty. I can see how someone back in the day could hear the voice of God.

[@texmustangbullitt]

Absolutely incredible! I am left speechless and in awe!

[@vinyalonde]

Great work - extremely good performance and a wonderful command of this instrument.

3:25 This is B A C H and you will bow down before him!

[@DRayL_]

What an amazing organist [and the way he played this piece]....and organ! So awe inspiring.....which is saying a lot from someone who isn't religious!

[@marianocarpanese9956]

in my opinion only Karl Richter played this famous masterpeice with similar tecnique and passion. A great organ performer and a very beutiful Cavaillè-Coll Instrument perfect for the Liszt music

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Although I am a dedicated Casavant Freres devotee, I still find it so very sad that Cavaillé-Coll is no more. All that incredible skill and knowledge lost forever.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

@@SatNav37564 No. Cavaillé-Coll was a famous builder of French style Romantic organs, such as the one in this video. They went out of business in WWII.

[@charlesdavis7087]

Again, beautiful phrasing. You really know how to capture the spirit of intent of a work. Thank you for sharing and well recorded. Blessings on your work. CVD

[@ErickFerrer_ing081190]

magnifique! très belle interprétation de cette pièce. Félicitations.

[@charlesdavis7087]

I think I may have listened to all the posts of this great work on You Tube and I can say yours is my favorite. Thank you again. CVD

[@X2O8MZV9]

great performance! great regitration! great instrument, great piece!!!!!

[@tom7601]

Simply outstanding!

[@helvet666]

I love how you can hear the actual pipe organ mechanisms working. Especially once the fugue starts. What a god damn cool instrument!

[@francescobenedicti354]

well, it's a Cavaille Coll, so it must be a very good instrument ;)

[@JramLisztfan]

7:02 is so good

[@spiritussanctusband]

My favorite version. Great instrument, great organist.

[@CF-fx9eo]

Bravo! Magnificently ambient performance!

[@apiaristicone9585]

Fantastic piece, excellent playing and a beautiful organ; one of my favourite 'listens' Meci Jean

[@bobareebop]

I love watching a tracker instrument being played with the couplers drawn!

[@florianhuber1685]

Seeeeehr schön gespielt ! Beste Interpretation von diesem Orgelstück.

[@alancorley3675]

Splendid performance. Glorious sounds

[@wurlitzer3]

magnificently played AND VIDEOED!

[@wout1805]

What a stunning performance!!!

[@sjrepp1]

Wow, that was awesome!!! Thank you so much for sharing this!!

[@pipesandwings]

A wonderful performance! Brought the music to life.

[@A44B357C]

Phenomenal! ❤

[@guapo86100]

magnifique très belle interprétation, sans partitions ni assistants, j'aimerais en faire autant, mais ça sera dans une autre vie, car faut beaucoup de travail, merci Jean Baptiste !

[@1stecha1]

Very fine playing. Great Drama.

[@nickwarden8916]

Real talent on display here...wonderfully played.

[@digitalpipes]

Wow! Just WOW!!!

[@derbernd7]

wirklich sehr sehr schön! Danke dafür

[@elrioviolino3549]

Fine job, young man, fine job....

[@agodbee3847]

Fine camera work, the performance also.

[@graphicconception]

That was quite brilliant! Thank you.

[@laurentdevrillac3301]

Une version magistrale de ce chef-d'oeuvre.Monsieur Dupont (que j'ai vu en concert à Saint-Eustache) est un as des claviers.Son confrère M.Marle-Ouvrard interprète également cette partition avec brio et grand talent, en utilisant des registrations qui donnent toute son expressivité à l'oeuvre.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

The PERFECT piece for a French Romantic organ.

[@cromorno8749]

Absolutely disagree, it sounds way better for the organ it was written for: Ladegast

[@profilecanada2320]

This is wonderful. I hear a lot of Franck in this piece

[@charlesdavis7087]

Beautifully done. Worthy of your teachers and their teachers' teachers. As you mature into this work you will learn (more and more) to take advantage of the rests (the silences). They speak volumes. Thank you for sharing... and your whole crew. The video recording was great, the sound recording of that organ was great. Blessings. CVD

[@mrstevebournias]

best performance i can hear all the inner notes

[@marioribeirodeazevedoneto311]

Uma sumidade no órgão, excelente!

[@levacquerosalie972]

Mes compliments Jean-Baptiste Dupont.

[@ricktomlinson8824]

OMG you make it look effortless & so easy, but I know better, that piece is a real job ! And what a sound ! Wonderful ! Thank you so much for sharing with us ! You should come to work your magic on the Dupont organ at Longwood Gardens in Pa. USA

[@DRayL_]

Well played! One of my favorite organ pieces.

[@tom7601]

Wasn't there a competition to compose BACH-based pieces? They had to be based on B A C Bd, memories fade. :-)

[@DRayL_]

@@tom7601 I'm not sure. Perhaps you should ask this as your own OP comment. You may get your answer. :-)

[@ntraha]

magnifique

[@MrTransalpin]

Quelles belles orgues que celles de la basilique St Sernin de Toulouse réalisée par le maître de la facture d' Orgue Française; ARISTIDE CAVAILLE COLL. Riche en timbre,il mérite une réstitution stéréophonique, et de grand qualité numérique, avec la belle acoustique de la basilique.

[@petermoomaw3400]

I believe most pipe organs have a wide dynamic range, in fact much more than a piano. The dynamics are not controlled by the keys, buy but but using stops and swell pedals. I think that around 6:40, during the quiet section, you can see him varying the dynamics subtly via a swell pedal. In other places you can see him changing it by manipulating stops (look at around 6:44).

[@petermoomaw3400]

Sorry I made a typo. It is around 5:40 where you can see him using a swell pedal.

[@keplergso8369]

Really perfect !

[@jmeister321684]

Tout simplement magnifique merci, l'organiste et l'orgue !

[@tevja-Cembalobau]

Fantastic. Gratulation

[@alainmeyet699]

Magnifique et impressionnante interprétation de cette oeuvre majeure pour orgue de Franz Liszt. Jean-Baptiste Dupont, pour ainsi dire, la construit comme on fait d'un monument, à la mesure de son jeu, d'une rigueur absolue. N'est-ce pas là LA version idéale, que trop peu d'organistes sont vraiment capables de restituer ? Et avouons que jouer sans partition donne une proximité immédiate (au sens littéral du terme) avec la musique...

[@GeorgiosZaimis]

Awesome performance!

[@FabioBadalamentiComposer]

magnifico

[@IwanOchs5]

Eine absolut perfekte Interpretation!

[@nickwarden6355]

A brilliant performance indeed.

[@j8u2]

AWESOME!

[@bobareebop]

The Poulenc organ concerto would sound amazing on this organ.

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

i love it

[@burtward895]

Imagine a piece like that with no presets or knob jockies. And on an organ that can change timbre within the tine it takes to play the piece.

[@thomascoughran1374]

Well done! Thank you for sharing your talent.

[@paoloangeri5146]

grandissima interpretazione organo stupendo bravissimo

[@binpacker]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!!!

[@LoekJehee]

Incredible! Thank you. It is very nice to see you in action with the registration. Very well played.

[@jeanpaullegrand6751]

magnifique interprétation

[@voixdelabime]

Hats-off! Très impressionnant!!

[@dominiquefoerter7133]

Bravo. Quelle maitrise!!!

[@juansintesjover415]

gran obra para organo y excelente interpretacion

[@tofumanize]

une véritable plaisir!