🎵 JS Bach - Prelude and Fugue in D Major BWV 532 // Richard McVeigh

[@drdylanman]

I never get sick of hearing this piece! What a great performance on an organ I wish I could play for just an hour. haha

[@beautyinsound]

You could listen to my video on repeat for an hour…? 😉

[@florianduring1189]

One must simply admire the genius of JSB to compose a work as beautiful and complex as this. Your play is stunning and your footwork, especially in this piece, leaves nothing left to be desired. I enjoyed every single sixteenth! Thank you very much for this magnificent presentation.

[@pjclutterbuck230473]

By "sixteenth," you mean "semiquaver," surely?

[@florianduring1189]

@@pjclutterbuck230473 Most certainly. Sadly, English is not my mother language and so it is quite likely to find the one or the other imprecision within my comments.

[@johnh6245]

JSB yes, but I have always liked Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood coming up with “Johann Sebastian ‘Mighty’ Bach”.

[@Gizadeathstar]

Mr McVeigh I absolutely LOVED your interpretation... you reminded me in it so very much of my old teacher.

[@infledermaus]

I love the bells at the end! Fantastic! Thank you for posting! Beautifully performed. Bach is my hero! Who put the little choo-choos up there? Sweet! Everyone needs a little color. I'll bet there were toys all over Bach's house. 😊

[@revjonathan3166]

We love this one too Richard. Great playing and great fun! ❤You are terrific!!The sound and colour of the organ pitch is just lovely! Nice and pure and perfect in voicing.

[@bryceword1768]

Oh, love the zymberstern at the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔

[@attiliodalcavaliere999]

Qui c'è una vera e propria esplosione di note, magistralmente governate dal grande organista quale e lei signore. È lo spirito che si scarica sulle tastiere e pedaliera. Complimenti!!!

[@michaelmontagu3979]

I've never understood why someone will say, 'oh dear, you didn't play it the way that X played this piece. You need to change the way you play. ' A performance isn't a carbon copy of a particular performance. Everyone has their own style and interpretation. How sad and dull life would be. No point in going to concerts or buying recordings as they would all be the same. Long live individuals.

[@Chuck-Pat]

Every university level organ major should be required to play THAT good for graduation.

[@attiliodalcavaliere999]

Sono d'accordo. Qui si sente la padronanza dello strumento, da parte dell'organista

[@HubertTietzel-GrassallPfarrer]

Aus Bach kein Firlevanz machen! Pfarrer Tietzel-Grassall

[@marc49lewis]

Herr Bach applauds you. A perfectly fine rendiiton to say the very least. Wonderful voicing of the instrument as well.

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

Lovely piece, reminds me of a child full of energy! Beautifully played as always!💯 🌻 Great camera work as well! 👍 It's cool to see your fingers and feet dancing together, you're like a very cool organ octopus! 🐙🤩 p.s This length of video was perfect to me!

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you so much 😀

[@reubentumwijukye9878]

I admire you Richard. You inspire me. How I wish I could learn how to play an organ.

[@mervwhitney7229]

Outstanding Richard. Thank you.

[@beautyinsound]

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@snowwhitehair485]

An excellent rendition. - I remember a small section of the prelude featured in the early 70's Monty Python 'fish licence' sketch at the point when the very tall Lord Mayor came into the post office. (Apologies to people not from the Monty Python era). It took me years to find out where the music was taken from. (No internet then). It's been a great favourite of mine ever since.

[@ErikN1]

Wonderful as usual. Thanks for sharing your talent with us all 👍🏻

[@ld66g]

Beautiful and interesting registrations with great technique make listening to Bach a true pleasure. Thank you for the gift of each of your recordings. I particularly appreciate seeing your pedal technique as it helps to see what I can work on in my own practice.

[@beautyinsound]

Thanks for listening 😊

[@roberkonstig]

I have already watched this video many times and it's always most enjoyable.

[@beautyinsound]

Glad you’re enjoying it!

[@martym61]

Beautiful. Lovely performance of this piece.

[@beautyinsound]

Many thanks!

[@papsofjura]

Excellent performance, very clean and tidy. Lovely registrations and lots of contrast. I felt a real connection with the music. Well played

[@jakeallinson]

To say nothing of the music, I'm loving the Brio trains on the console. It's so relatable 😂

[@davidhamilton1981]

Loved this, Richard. Glad you didn't hit a low C on the final pedal note in the fugue...heard of someone doing that in a concert years ago. 😂

[@andybrown7325]

Even the shoe lace couldn’t keep up with this fun fugue

[@beautyinsound]

Didn’t notice that! The other shoelace come undone just before I started recording, and the other must’ve come undone due to all the rapid pedal passages!

[@carmenfoster6912]

There goes one of the best toe stopping 😂 effort ever ! Nobody does it better! ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@westernaustralia9442]

Splendid! Tnks Richard

[@johannesbusch8161]

Played beautifully. J.S.Bach would certainly have been delighted with the many sound colours. Thank you very much! Just noticed the two toy locomotives. How nice! I hope they are useful talismans for you 😊

[@corriebendall4521]

Wow! Thank you Richard! Fabulous as usual. ❤

[@beautyinsound]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@JamesMossop1996]

Absolutely awesome as always Richard! Your always make the Organ sing with just so much joy!

[@beautyinsound]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@billraty14]

You're playing is so awesome, Richard! I enjoyed the extra decoration on the pedal scales as well as the accelerating manual scales at the end of the Prelude. The sample set was well chosen, with elements of both the argentine tone of North German school mixtures and the honk of quintatons characteristic of Thuringia, and I thank you for using them in antiphonal dialog. And top the whole thing off with a Zimbelstern. Absolutely brilliant!

[@donnadepalantino8357]

I’ve often wondered if people still learn classical organ today, what with the advent of keyboards and such. It’s refreshing to see younger people playing classical organ!! 😊

[@JohanOstlund187]

What a lovely surprise a Thursday evening, thank you!

[@beautyinsound]

Enjoy!

[@TobyBeckingham]

One of my favourite pieces delivered perfectly, as always, well played Richard!

[@beautyinsound]

Mine too!

[@FordSeniorMaster]

Absolutely AWESOME ‼️👍🏻✝️

[@JMcdon1627]

I really like the Zimbelstern at the end. A novel registration. Thank you.

[@andrearodigari4840]

Amazing execution of a pillar of music. But the best part is your facial expression at the end! Valueless !!!!😊

[@theprofessorslefthand8618]

So beautiful!

[@jonathanclinch]

The ornamentation made my day.

[@beautyinsound]

😃

[@davewri2734]

One of my favorites. I had the opening as my telephone ring sound for a long time. Maybe add a little more quiet time at the beginning. It jumps right out too soon after clicking on it.

[@richietwoshoes9531]

Maestro you are a genius, thank you for gracing out lives with this heavenly music 🎶 Richard New York

[@jameslee2943]

Loved the stop choices, registration changes and manual changes. Thank you so much!

[@beautyinsound]

You're so welcome!

[@peterallison5021]

my favourite Bach P & F, ever since I heard Michael Murray play it on a Telarc CD and watched Benjamin Righetti play it on KZbin. Well done maestro

[@PipeDreamerJacques]

This was superb, Richard. 🎉

[@oscarmusowoya9619]

The foot work is neat. That shoe is it custom made me want one 😅 beautiful interpretation indeed. As always it's a pleasure watching you perform sir.

[@pjaj43]

Another joyful piece - Concerto in A minor BWV 593, particularly the first movement.

[@jerrymartin79]

Absolutely Stunning Richard. So clean! Wow!!! Loved the ornaments, fun manual changes and superb videography! Bravo!!!!

[@beautyinsound]

Told you I’d publish something (even if it was 3 hours later than I’d intended)! Back to noises today… 😉

[@jillhertzog6365]

Love it Richard

[@DavidScheidler-cr4il]

love the arpeggios

[@matthieubazile3350]

Great work, as always. I really enjoyed listening to this performance of one of my favorite works by Bach!

[@beautyinsound]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@roberkonstig]

Wonderful playing, nice filming.

[@andrewloose3419]

A great performance and sound - that is a wonderful organ suited to the music perfectly. Registration inspiring. Playing exquisite. …… Camera work? To have a dynamic image rather than just stills very good!

[@caroline.balfour]

Camera work was by Charlotte McVeigh, age 4 weeks 😂

[@j.s.1716]

J.S. Bach geniusz, Organista Arcymistrz🌷🌹

[@aureliobacigalupo4104]

3:29 the best part

[@giovannitestore1845]

Ottima esecuzione👍 👏👏👏

[@alancorley3675]

Great performance that sounds more like you just tossed this off. My favorite Bach prelude & fugue

[@elainefry2673]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@romanbotero8734]

Wonderful...

[@volleswerkfullorganpower249]

Nice!😊

[@beautyinsound]

Thanks! 😄

[@agatazdebska4590]

Oh, my God 🎉❣️🎹

[@MikeK2100]

My favorite rendition of this is E. Power Biggs as Zwolle. But I love your special touches to this. More proof that Bach lets people have fun and pass on the special touches they add to things. You have to match the music to the instrument, then present Back's intent to it all and think you mastered it.

[@margotbryan1554]

Beautifully played! Thank you.

[@beautyinsound]

Many thanks!

[@devenestes3234]

Really wonderful rendition of this amazing(ly complex) prelude and fugue! I really love your channel!

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you kindly!

[@JMcdon1627]

Great performance, Richard. Sebastian Bach would be well pleased. I like your shirt too. {grin}

[@beautyinsound]

Many thanks!

[@valmcox]

The best.

[@anglicanman1]

Jolly good! Have a great day/evening

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you Gregory!

[@dalahide]

Amazing

[@ryanfrederick3376]

The train engines on the key cheeks are a nice touch

[@paveldvorak4076]

A really wonderful rendition of this greatest fugue. Allows the fullness of the instrument to come through beautifully. The pedal work is just fantastic. The recording fidelity doesn't quite compare to the remastered editions of the likes of H Walcha but I would actually buy a CD with it.

[@roberttapken1139]

Besides being a great organist, you show that you're also a dad. The toy loco's on the organ were a nice touch! Bob From Santa Barbara, California.

[@beautyinsound]

The house is literally full of toy trains, cars and tractors!

[@monaandersen2123]

Very good Bravissimo solei deo gloria

[@OldPannonian]

I think that if David Briggs hears this performanc of yours, he will be greatly inspired by it. That is just my opinion, admittedly without ever having heard any of his performances. Please take it as a compliment. ❤

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you

[@jordanm2984]

Such lovely playing. I love exciting organ pieces like these. BWV 560 next, perhaps? :) I know it's questionably Bach, but it's beautiful and exuberant regardless of the author.

[@infledermaus]

Hmmm. Questionably Bach? Who then? Ludwig Krebs?

[@timeodaneosetdona]

@@infledermausPerhaps they were thinking of BWV 565?

[@AndrewLuckett22]

Wonderful piece

[@kompetop]

❤

[@RobertJohnson-je6tx]

Wonderful tempo on the alla breve

[@davidcraggs3770]

Perfectly played and showing your splendid virtuoso performance skills. I am a big fan of yours Richard and am in awe of you but I do believe in being honest and to the point whilst always wishing to maintain due respect, especially to someone of such prestigious ability, I would like to comment as follows; This is one of my favourite JSB compositions which I play from the Novello edition and I have always adhered to the majority of the notation and ornamentation which works very well for me and having listened to a lot of UK and European recordings of the piece, I am accustomed to hearing and playing it that way, together with a reduced tempo and unwritten ornamentation also with a much more uniformed choice of registration and manual changes. I am a big fan of authentic performances of JSB organ works and prefer such performances rather than virtuoso performances which include unwritten cadenzas and elaborate ornamentation which are a pet hate of mine. For some reason the Fugue is always played too fast so that in very cavernous acoustics such as a Cathedral it can sometimes sound like a complete blur. Not what JSB had in mind, together with numerous other Toccatas, Preludes and Fugues which can be spoiled by hurried tempo, mainly by virtuoso performers. The late Kingston Upon Hull City Organist , Peter Goodman, who was one of my mentors, once said at one of his Organ Recitals on the famous Forster and Andrews Organ in the City Hall, that Classical Organ music should be treated largely as inspirational rather than entertaining and I have completely bourn that in mind when learning, practicing and performing a recital. He and my main organ teacher were very much “Old School” and I make no apologies for continuing to strictly adhering to the way I was taught. I certainly wouldn’t be where I am or perform as I do without that grounding which I would add was hard work with no shortcuts or room for complacency. David Craggs ALCM.

[@ejmaki55]

This reminds me so much of the first time I saw and heard Virgil Fox perform this piece. Your performance of this piece was Great!

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you very much!

[@rsilman73]

First heard this played by Karl Richter on a tracker action organ. Listen carefully and you can make out some of the 'clatter' of the action. Adds to the piece somehow. Great.

[@TimvanElderen]

Sounds great on this organ! Though this sounds fabioulous, I must say I like your ‘Classic’ interpretation on Ermelo (or Haarlem) just a little bit more, but that is probably just my own opinion opting for a majestic tempo! (And may have to do with the fact that playing this interpretation as good as you do here is very difficult on a tracker organ IMO). Anyway: great work, wonderful music: true beauty in sound!

[@user-xc9pd4sq4x]

Thank you for the wonderful, energetic and powerful interpretation of the Bach piece on the organ in Regensburg. I'm not sure whether a slightly slower interpretation with fewer overtones would make the structure of the piece clearer and come closer to the original interpretation. Please forgive these little hints.

[@HowardDeLaHaye]

Love the brio trains

[@Highinsight7]

LOVE your ornamentation.... FABULOUS playing... you make me want to get it out again and drive it around a bit... (the "alla breve" could have moved a little faster for my taste... just a personal thing... all that being said... I LOVED IT! A plus plus plus!)

[@mattleach958]

Awesome. Did Carolyne do the nifty moving camera? Great work.

[@beautyinsound]

She did indeed, and she is rather nifty isn’t she?!

[@charlesdavis7087]

OUTSTANDING !!! Thanks Richard. Bells, too?

[@beautyinsound]

Yes, cymbelstern and carillon which are both on the original organ

[@Rickroll1-s7x]

My favorite part of this song is the ending part. It looks hard

[@paulspikes5529]

Echo all the great comments on your superb playing. Question on the tablet with your music. Can you provide info on it. I saw the page turn and it looked automatic.

[@chrisstaylor8377]

I now wished I’d listened to my music teacher way back

[@MattyCrayon]

Amazing performance and the foot work, wow! way above what I could dream of getting to 👍. What are the make of shoes you wore?

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you. They’re Supadance - an English company based in London.

[@MattyCrayon]

@@beautyinsound Thanks. I'll check them out. 👍

[@lelandallen]

I like your tempo

[@donnagum]

This was played for my wedding.

[@beautyinsound]

Great choice!

[@horacerumpole7629]

I just know that Virgil is nodding his head and smiling!!

[@agatazdebska4590]

6:59 till the end 🙏 - 💪💪

[@margotbryan1554]

p.s. I love the trains!

[@monaandersen2123]

Kontrapunkt elegant like very very much solie deo gloria

[@OldPannonian]

Most enjoyable. Please let me know, if this is via Hauptwerk, then what console are you playing on?

[@beautyinsound]

It’s my own console at home. It’s known as the BIS Organ 😊

[@OldPannonian]

@@beautyinsound Fantastic! You have a cathedral in your home. Bach would be floored to see something like this. I like the two little locomotives on the side. Will you teach your children to play music?

[@adolfopalaciosgonzalez9398]

Yoo quiero unos zapatos como esos. Y un órgano como ese. Y tocar así, también.

[@kompetop]

ivii

[@_freitasc_6800]

4:47 fugue

[@winfriedhupel9110]

summa cum laude! nothing else left to say. just gorgeous and awesome. 🎉

[@kompetop]

ромолос

[@ivancarlson953]

I can see why he's single

[@beautyinsound]

Waiting for you 😘

[@ivancarlson953]

@@beautyinsound.…spending all that time practicing to play so well.

[@jonnyaddles]

Bit silly