Sietze de Vries, improvisation Herzlich tut mich verlangen

Sietze de Vries, improvisation Herzlich tut mich verlangen
Helsingor, 17-08-2022

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

3:36 is very good !

[@corzwart2710]

Onvoorstelbaar knap geïmproviseerd!

[@jantimmerman4099]

Fabulous way of improvising and also very impressive was the fugue!!

[@nathanbanks2354]

I had a high school music teacher say that no one except maybe Bach could improvise a fugue. She had never heard Sietze de Vries play (21:30).

[@gambe96]

Or Michel Chapuis ! Many people have been known to improvise fugues and many have been recorded. I heard a 20 year old organist improvise a basic fugue on the spot ! Not impossible when you practice.

[@JoshuaSobel]

Honestly it's not that hard to improvise a basic fugue, once you've played enough, and once you have a good understanding of figured bass/continuo. Going from 3 to 4 voices is a bit harder, and making sure your countersubjects are consistent can also be a little bit of a challenge, depending on how complicated they are. I think that any keyboard can be trained to improvise fugue, and honestly at the college level, they probably should be.

[@rafalrzeszut8772]

​@@JoshuaSobel😮😮😮

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

The brother in law of my neighbour can also improvise fugues in the style of Bach, so it happens

[@Luca-organist]

The variation at 9:58 is totally mind blowing...

[@oelizardini]

Wieviele Hände mit wie vielen Fingern hat der Mann eigentlich?😅

[@lionelhill41]

It's sort of embarrassing for all concerned, but if Bach and de Vries had both gone for the same cantorship in 18th C Germany, it's pretty hard to say who'd have landed the job.

[@sietzedevries6159]

😅

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

Can De Vries teach Latin then ? ;-) Can he write cantata's ? Bach was not the organist of the Thomas church ... But De vries is a fantastic organist and hard working and very gifted improviser.

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

5:56 reminds of the chromatic fantasia of JP Sweelinck ;-)

[@ginadutschke7102]

I am a great fan of your improvisations Sietze. Is there any chance that they will be transcribed for purchase? Especially this one!

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

He won't do that, that goes directly against the very nature of improvisation

[@ginadutschke7102]

@@MrGiorgioFederico Actually I have many of his improvisations as transcriptions.

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

@ you wrote them down ?

[@MrGiorgioFederico]

@@ginadutschke7102 Or did you buy them from De Vries ?

[@ginadutschke7102]

@@MrGiorgioFederico No, they are available online