J.S. Bach: Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Alexander Sevastian playes in Wheaton College in 2012
and more of him
Bach’s most famous organ piece, with a bar-graph score.

… Q: Who wrote Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor?
Q: Isn’t that like asking who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?
A: Heh-heh. A theory has recently (1981) been put forth that J. S. Bach did not write this piece. A brief summary of the supporting evidence for this theory can be read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_…
Xaver Varnus plays Toccata and Fugue in D minor (edited by Mendelssohn) on the great Sauer Organ of the Berliner Dom. Recorded live on the Opening Night of the “Berliner Internationaler Orgelsommer 2013”. At the time of its dedication in 1905, the great Sauer Organ of the Berliner Dom was the largest in Germany, with its 7269 pipes and 113 registers, distributed across four manuals and pedals. The court organ builder Wilhelm Sauer, from Frankfurt on the Oder, created an instrument that embodied the newest technical and musical developments of German organ building at the time. In that way, the organ met the high expectations of both the organ builder and his client: in the Protestant Cathedral of the capital city, there was to be a monumental, modern, and in every way extraordinary instrument of the highest quality. The organ of the Cathedral of Berlin represents the highpoint of Sauer’s career. At the same time, it marks the end of the long development of Romantic orchestral organs, whose sound corresponds to the characteristic sound of a symphonic orchestra of that period. Today, the organ in the Cathedral of Berlin is the largest late-Romantic pneumatic action organ in the world that has survived in its original condition.
Played by organist Hans-André Stamm on the Trost-Organ of the Stadtkirche in Waltershausen, Germany.
Bach’s tour de force is being played by Jürgen Wolf on the church organ of Leipzig’s Nikolaikirche.
Felix Hell at Age 8 – Saratov Conservatory…
Live recorded in Segovia ( Spain ) , Aug 2014 .Video produced by NURILANDS FILMS, directed by Núria García.
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