🎵 JS Bach - Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 686 (Lent Organ Music)

Here is a performance of Bach's Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (BWV 686) played in a way that I've not played it before.
I was inspired by hearing a gorgeous 'soft' performance by ‪@FretworkViols‬. This inspired me to think differently about registration.
Recorded for Lent 2023 on Ash Wednesday on the Hauptwerk organ of Rotterdam.
I hope you enjoy - please let me know what you think!
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[@myke49]

Magnificent. Quiet and thoughtful growing to a final cry of pain. As a long retired choir boy it brought tears to my eyes. Mike in Oz

[@accousticdecay]

Absolutely ethereal.

[@Iperdorico]

Molto, molto bello.

[@OrganGuyPhil]

Beautiful! What a perfect, somber registration for the Lenten season. 🎶🙏🎶

[@jparolacomposer]

Genius! This registration highlights the intensity of the counterpoint that only organists can feel when playing it on typical registrations.

[@Downthebayou]

Bravo! Truly moving, refined.... beyond words... I'll start learning it tomorrow! God bless.

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

What a lovely piece, and so beautifully played!❤️‍🔥🙏

[@LankyAnglican]

Wonderful! I love the split pedal registration. It makes it sound like you have an extra hand.

[@barbaraives4962]

Astonishing (in a good way). I marvel at your apparent ease and relaxed poise while playing such complex works, and in the exquisite music that you make.

[@matthieubazile3350]

Beautifully played! Great registrations that gradually help build the piece up to the end. Thanks for this great performance!

[@danielkironde]

11 months later and still mesmerized by your athleticism and prowess. Counter points don't just creep out amazingly but with intent. Thank you for this Richard👏👏

[@freddiefries]

Congratulations it’s so beautiful and magnificent

[@freddiefries]

Hello I love organ music and I listen to you again . Thank you

[@carolynclark1724]

Beautiful as well as comforting.

[@pkoden19]

I like this registration. It is more quiet and reserved at the beginning and more appropriate for a prelude during Lent than the louder full organ registrations on many recordings.

[@foxrom7]

Excellent!

[@FDiego-iw5zw]

Wonderful performance, Richard! Bach’s take on the De profundis is mesmerizing. It gently leads one into prayer. I haven’t been able to attend Virtual Church lately, but I do keep up with it during the week. May this time of Lent be fruitful for us all. God bless!

[@fjordweit6170]

Well written…

[@elkebecker1823]

Beautiful registration....

[@EleanorLBest]

Thanks for the Lent offering. My favorite part of the liturgical year

[@michaelmccarren8083]

Richard. this was a delight to listen! It was beautiful and the registration was superb.

[@pauleloidelanoy]

One word : Wonderful ! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@bjoeljones]

Outstanding performance, Richard. Have a blessèd Lent.

[@NealMarple]

Double likes! Excellent registration, with the split pedal and the crescendo perfectly managed. Bravo!

[@jonaskissling8343]

I've never seen this before. What magic is this? Its not just split on a certain set point, its even overlaping, doesn't it?

[@annefrancoisepolonini6982]

I remember my dad was crazy about gold as i didn't know him long enough or see him long enough to know what he thought about it all i know It's that when he left for good up there, he left me only one piece of luggage, the love of the organ.And yet at 4 years old when you find yourself in front of this thing which seems immense to you and of which you understand nothing... I will always remember

[@neilanyon4792]

Gorgeous. Rich and ethereal at the same time. The cantus is just at the right level. Clearly heard with the reed and tremulant but in no way overpowering. Clarity maintained throughout the build up. I really love this organ. Sadly way over my budget.

[@martym61]

Simply beautiful. I liked the split screen with keyboard on top and pedals on bottom.

[@paperpete]

Moving. Wonderful.

[@louise_rose]

Beautiful performance, rhythmic, pregnant and clear. Thank you!

[@jerrymartin79]

This is wonderful! Genius!! I love how the registration builds and draws you in. And the pedal trick is super!! Amazing to see “outside the box” thinking and so musically done!!! Thank you Richard!!

[@beautyinsound]

Managed to work out how to get the pedal divide after a LOT of soul searching (and clicking)

[@joshwilson2763]

What a beautiful piece to start us on our Lenten journey

[@mattleach958]

Thank you Richard for the beautiful deep musical inspiration. Hope you and Caroline are having a happy Lent. Is it okay to feel happy at Lent?

[@andrewloose3419]

Absolutely! If one knows one’s sins forgiven by the once for all time atoning death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday and the power of His resurrection on Easter Sunday then how can one not rejoice? Treat Lent as a time of reflection by all means: “Why, O Lord, such love for me?”

[@johnlandacre767]

Beautifully said, Richard. Hallelujah to our Savior, Jesus Christ, and his finished work on the Cross.

[@annefrancoisepolonini6982]

oh my god how beautiful i remember this song like it was yesterday it reminds me of when i was 17.... how i would like to relive those moments

[@bertranddavis9578]

Absolutely spectacular!!

[@dougalderdice6796]

Sublime. Perfectly captures the mood and essence of Lent. Thanks for the various views that shows the pedal divide in action. I have known about pedal divide but have never "seen" it in use until now.

[@bobbiemcguire724]

Beautifully played Richard. Thank you!!

[@morgenstern4.669]

I love playing Bach and Buxtehude with softer registrations, sometimes with ondulating stops too. It helps bring out more subtle emotions which are unable to shine with a typical rigorous german plenum.

[@davewri2734]

Registration is sublime .... Less is more.

[@mauricecoates1856]

Beautiful blending of the reed sounding the solo melody with powerful but soft flues. You manage to make Rotterdam sound more like Swieta Lipka, well until the main foundation chorus is employed later on and even then the Cantus firmus cuts through the texture. Lovely registration indeed.

[@beautyinsound]

That’s probably from the Swell Viola de Gamba coupled to the Choir 8’ flute with trem. I wanted an ethereal sound for the first section before working it up towards the end 😃

[@annefrancoisepolonini6982]

Richard is among one of the best performers I can know and yet I've never really seen him I don't live in England either....🎹🎹🎹🎹

[@philipmcneill382]

Beautiful as always! I have no musical background at all and quite enjoyed this piece . I have never heard before. Thank you Richard🇨🇦

[@organforheartevarosemarier9773]

Beautiful played ❣❣❣

[@carmenfoster6912]

Well Richard I know a good thing when I see or hear it and boy you hit a home run with this one! Sorry but when I love and appreciate something I say it in plain English! Home run my friend home run!

[@user-sr7eq5nj9s]

класс.

[@cameronchristepherlee]

Do I detect a hint of split pedal how cool

[@tikhonbogomolets2740]

WOW! Lord Richard, You have brought to "Aus Tiefer Not" a new timbre. I absolutely adore the registration you have used. BRAVO!!! In Christ's Love...

[@johnmaslen8339]

I can only echo the positive comments above. Thank you so much. I’m a bit puzzled over how you did it, seems to be a split pedalboard but the split not always in the same place. Beautiful, though JSB at his best.

[@doctorfoster1968]

That definitely works well! Also I am curious to know more about the new organ shoes - I have not seen this design before.

[@beautyinsound]

The shoes are from Supadance, here in the UK. Highly recommended!

[@doctorfoster1968]

@@beautyinsound Thanks... I am going to order a pair right now!

[@scottrowley79]

So...split pedal board? How do you manage to have the chorale/hymn tune soloed out with the right foot while playing the pedal line with your left?

[@andrewloose3419]

A wonderful piece with which I am not at all familiar. Thank you, Richard, for playing it so beautifully - you appear to have split registration on the pedals. How did you do that? A HW7 feature or peculiar to the sample set? Rotterdam? Great music. No wonder Bach would add SDG… Soli Deo Gloria.

[@annefrancoisepolonini6982]

That's right, we want to do all the same things at the same time, I'm going to say to play at the same time.... My father, whom I never knew or practically, left me only one thing madness of the organ it's a pity that I could not speak with all that about him he also composed

[@Ruscombephotos]

I loved the registration, but I am intrigued as to how you achieved the split pedal board, which seemed to overlap in places.

[@JoseZgheib]

Really magnificent performance and beautiful beautiful l registration!! Am I missing something obvious though? How do you get it to split pedals like that? Without having a set split note.

[@m789cox]

I also would love to know how you got the pedal reed to sound only for the right foot?

[@davidpb-j9307]

Fabulous registration, especially how it builds. But I don't understand how you had two registrations in the pedals. The higher note was the reed solo, but the lower the bass counterpoint. Did I get that right? Is that a Hauptwerk trick or is it possible on the actual organ?

[@iangarden1898]

I know that in some Lenten traditions organ music is not encouraged or allowed. But ... if ever there was an illustration of the argument against such foolishness this has to be it: great music, wonderfully played and, most importantly, expressing something ineffable .. something that just words cannot describe. Here we have pain and suffering and then hope and joy. Lent is pointless without both. Bach knew how to express the ineffable. Richard knows how to interpret it!

[@billraty14]

The registration and treatment are *musical* and the effect is profound. What sample set was used?

[@pauleloidelanoy]

the genius of Richard is that he chose the wonderful organ of Rotterdam ! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@Matthew-he3jw]

Okay I give up😲 how did you get the pedal divide?! I wasn't aware that baroque organs could do that. Yes the registration over the whole piece was great thanks.

[@bluefunkybassman]

I think it sounds sublime, Richard! Also, I’ve not been around as much so missed your new shoe reveal - what brand are they?

[@markkuhnlein3081]

Beautiful! ❤ Which organ is this?

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you! Rotterdam

[@markkuhnlein3081]

One of my favs!

[@jardozouille1677]

I don't understand something: the pedal is divided in two halves ? I didn't know this was possible.

[@pauleloidelanoy]

You know, this feature is available on several french organs for example, such as in Notre Dame de Paris, where you can SPLIT the pedalboard in "two parts" so that you play an soprano solovoice in the right part, and a heavy 32' in the left part, which is an astonishing advance ! However, I think that there, it is above all because of the GENIUS of Richard ! 😎😎💪 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Did Bach compose this as a cantata for Sunday Service

[@padraicfanning7055]

No… this is part of _Clavier-Übung III_ (often referred to as the German Organ Mass). However, Bach also composed a cantata based on "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir" (BWV 38).

[@Egestus18]

How did you manage the solovoice in the pedal? Does Hauptwerk have a Melodiekoppel?

[@billraty14]

I was wondering that too! I was thinking the upper voice only went down to tenor F, but generally that is only done on a harmonic voice where the resonators would be physically to large for the space where the pipes were installed.

[@PaulL66]

Glad I’m not the only one with this question. 😂

[@deew6625]

Pedal divide

[@taubenpost5898]

Sounds probable, Egestus. At 1:19 Richard plays e as a lower note (pedal stop sounds) and at 1:23 the same e as an upper note (reed sounds, I suspect a choir reed). A pedal divide can't achieve that. Curious what Richard will reveal!

[@PaulL66]

@@taubenpost5898 exactly what I noticed (and you put into words much more clearly).

[@ferryorganmusic]

I thought this piece is in organo pleno? I am a bit confused.

[@beautyinsound]

It is ‘supposed’ to be played with that registration, yes. But I as mentioned in the description I wanted to try something different.

[@donaldjacobson4184]

Beautiful registration Richard. Timely given the circumstances in our world now.

[@rsns311257]

It's marked 'Pro organo pleno', Also, how did you achieve the reed in the cantus? It works, but that is being too unfaithful to the original.

[@ellajoanthinly]

Are you trying to tell us it's not Bach at all but a missing Brahms chorale prelude? ;-) Didn't dislike it though, and didn't miss the usual noisy plenum or the curious effect usually arising from bass line and C.F. having the same registration!