This and the performance by Leo van Doeselaar are by far the best renderings of this Bach masterpieces.

@andrewashdown3541

3 ай бұрын

Hurford for me, or Johannssen

@stuartmclaren2402

2 ай бұрын

I admit I like the late 5:19 Ivan Sokol’s version the most as it is the tone of the organ but this is very good.

I play drums, guitar, and some piano. Following two melody lines, near impossible, but three? And they just go on and on. The practice and discipline is commendable. Amazing.

@ustarizreynaldoiii

Жыл бұрын

And don't forget, also, the fourth line, which are the pedals. The organ is, without a doubt, a very complex instrument.

Isn't the brain a remarkable organ? Both eyes, both ears, both hands, both feet, all going at the same time...incredible.

@ayaancallan2716

2 жыл бұрын

you all probably dont give a shit but does any of you know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the login password. I would appreciate any help you can give me

@garrettkairo1582

2 жыл бұрын

@Ayaan Callan instablaster ;)

@ayaancallan2716

2 жыл бұрын

@Garrett Kairo thanks for your reply. I got to the site through google and im trying it out now. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@ayaancallan2716

2 жыл бұрын

@Garrett Kairo it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. Im so happy:D Thank you so much you really help me out!

@garrettkairo1582

2 жыл бұрын

@Ayaan Callan no problem =)

I played the opening Fantasia my senior year of college in 1981 as the Recessional after a Sunday service. One of the College administrators said “ It was loud”. And I thought “ I HOPE so!”

@robertvarner9519

4 жыл бұрын

Its suposed to be LOUD. I remember reading that the church elders told Bach that it was too radical.

@johntiggleman4686

2 жыл бұрын

That reminds me of the late Virgil Fox, playing at The Filmore East, telling the audience "...if you're not prepared to have a happening, MOVE BACK!" He played a Rodgers touring organ with, he said, 144 speakers.

This was a truly memorable performance of BWV 542 on a fantastic - only 10 years old - organ by (the late) Kenneth Tickell !

My goodness, this piece sure did stir up the comments. As someone fortunate to have attended the performance let me say it was wonderful. The organ & acoustics complimented Jonathan's orchestral transcriptions as well as both German & French pieces. I was surprised myself that I selected this Bach as my favorite of the evening. On reflection I think the aforementioned acoustics as well as the registrations took it to new heights. Plus I'm quite fond of the chord progressions. Sometimes one just needs to hear the Master, played by a master, on a masterful instrument. Thank you for posting so I can relive the experience.

omG so magnificent, so beautiful. behold. who was it who invented the pipe organ with its resonant pipes controlled from a piano-like keyboard and pedals? what a gifted person indeed.

The only absolute response to the Scott brothers is humble gratitude to God for the providential opportunity to experience such genius wedded to such beauty.

This is probably my fourth comment! I watched Mass from The National Shrine, Washington DC this evening and this G Minor Fugue was played as the postlude. I immediately felt that I needed to re-visit Jonathan's performance at St Mary's Cathedral - which is absolutely tiny compared to The National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC. Jonathan's performance (credit to Tom's audio/visual/recording skills) is my all time favourite recording of this majestic work. Of course, none of this would have been possible were it not for the great the organ-builder, himself - the late, Kenneth Tickell, RIP!

music: excellent (of course!). Instrument: excellent. Performer: excellent (let us say : brilliant).

This is my favorite Bach organ work. Brilliantly performed as always.

@orgelfan1675

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, i think it's his best fugue

@iankemp1131

3 жыл бұрын

@@orgelfan1675 It's a fine fugue, but to me it is the Fantasia that is truly unique.

@andrewashdown3541

2 ай бұрын

@@orgelfan1675 I prefer 543 Fugue

One of my favourite Bach's compositions; most often I like only first interpretation i heard and every next one is "not so good", but this one is so good :D

Bravo. The fugue is amazing. Probably the best rendition I’ve ever heard. The organ has an amazing tone. Not like so many English cathedral organs. They deserve a prize for building that.

How wonderful it was to come from a doctor's appointment and listen to this work of art of composer and performer playing on an instrument with which Bach would have been thrilled to hear Jonathan S play! To the Glory of God to Whom Bach dedicated all his compositions.

unfotunatley many of ken's instruments are being revoiced nowerdays. Its lucky to think this organ has that beautiful sharp edge to it and hasn't yet been revoiced.

What a magical piece Jonathan. I went there with my late father, and best friend, and videoed my friends impro. A marvelous British organ, played my the best organist I know of

Once again, one of Bach’s finest creations.

You are talanted, sir! Masterful playing!

This organ handles Bach like few others I’ve heard. And the reeds? To die for! Great work Jonathan, and great choice for the instrument. I’d love to hear more from this instrument!

Wonderful performance and interpretation! The relatively dry acoustics of the space help to keep the crystal clear lines so skillfully delineated by Mr. Scott from being muddied. Magnificent! And keeping the final chord of the Fantasia in the minor, unlike many other performances, felt exactly right. Beautiful instrument as well.

Jonathan Scott sei il miglior organista. Da quando ti sento faccio fatica a ascoltare gli altri

WOW! everything's sooo first class... the organ, the playing... the video photographer... the audio... WONDERFUL!

Fantastic! Bravo! Wish you would tour the US.

A magnificent performance of this masterpiece on a lovely instrument. Just perfect. 💜

Listening to this with a glass of wine as I used to do with Led Zeppelin. This is on a different level. Fantastic bravo and thanks .

This is one of the best expositions of this piece Ive heard or found anywhere!! I love it. -- you get the “rhetoric” of the piece and the drama JSB most certainly intended. I have learned and played it but the “edgy” somewhat aggressive even nature of the fantasy you absolutely nailed it! Ii wish more organists would play with “flair” like you - so impressed and kindred spirit musically!

@bernardcromarty485

Жыл бұрын

Jonathan's only equal, in my humble opinion, is the Russian organist Daria Burlak. I dream of having these two give us a recital at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall!

@gmnotyet

9 ай бұрын

Michael Murray's Fantasy is INCREDIBLE.

Fantastic Jonathan! Now my favorite plating of this piece! Reason: you chose to resolve the coda in the fantasia in G Mol. L. van Doeselaar resolves in G Dur, then goes back into G Mol for the opening statement in the fugue. I don't believe Bach would have written this, although it has been recorded as such in the original literature. But Bach's students were taking dictation as he was loosing his eyesight (me also) at this period in his life. Thanks so much and God Bless, Jonathan!

This may very well be THE definitive present-day performance of this monumental work. Bravo!

I could fry sausages on those mixtures they sizzle so much!! Tickell - you did it again - and beautiful playing by Jonathan Scott too!

Prodigious!! This is very difficult!! Masterly!!

By far the best interpretation of this magnificent Fantasia and fugue. Every single theme in fuge was beautifully exposed so everyone could hear it. Chapeau bas!!!

@12jahrigesgtakiddie42

4 жыл бұрын

In baroque music you don't expose the fugue theme.

@iankemp1131

3 жыл бұрын

Very good indeed ... but also see Hurford, van Doeselaar and Alain who to me capture the absolute uninhibited essence of this marvellous piece (the Fantasia in particular).

Verry nice registration on the organ which make life in the music piece and instrument. Well done.

Wunderbar gespielt,eine herrlich kräftig klingende Orgel mit viel Power.Super!!!

@tcharles2466

10 ай бұрын

Ich stimme vollkommen zu!

The northwest's best young organist by far 👊👍👌🧘‍♂️ SOME TIGHT PEDAL WORK! and beautiful stop choice as per usual. Nothing short of Amazing.

@bengunn99

4 жыл бұрын

I'd say one if the world's best.

Splendid performance. This is a marvelous JSB fugue

I just love this performance - hence a second comment! I find the sound of this 'new' (2012) organ in relation to BWV 542 quite captivating - and keep coming back to it!

Just wonderful

Magical, magestic, masterfully played!!!! Wow.

Fabulous and Sublime performance of this timeless work. Thank you, Jonathan!

My favourite piece by Bach to play! Beautiful - and I'm SO pleased the fantasia didn't end in the major as some organists like to do!

A grand performance and lovely to see the organ in all its glory too Many thanks for adding this to the You Tube mix so people can hear this organs' sounds and see how it fits into the building, Scott brothers. Dear Old Ebeneezer Prout, love the speed. Ken would have been delighted to hear this performance: crisp and clear.

Beautiful piece, and great playing as usual!

Meraviglioso

I think old Sebastian Bach would be smiling.

A superb interpretation on a lovely instrument. Please, could we have more from St. Mary's ?!

Jonathan Scott is the Greatest Organist of our time.

@bengunn99

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and he's not flashy.

@Rosecrus

3 жыл бұрын

@@bengunn99 How Right you are! When you have talent like Jonathan, you don't need to have flashiness to cover up defects. It's all in the brilliant playing and he can afford to be perfectly likable --- Excellent and delightful in every way.

@bengunn99

3 жыл бұрын

He's certainly up there with the best. I would love to hear him live. Maybe I'll get up north someday.

Spectacular! What a work-out!

I’m full of admiration for your arrangements of orchestral works (in the Best tradition, one might say), but it was a great pleasure to hear you play one of my favourites from the organ repertoire. And the more so to hear it on one of the late, lamented Ken Tickell’s creations.

I finally have found the most loved version!! 😍 Simply wonderful!

Beautiful imagery; this is breathtaking!

Jonathan Sebastian B....Bravissimo.

Jonathan, this is truly one of my favourite performances of the G minor Fantasia & Fugue ever! Thanks, as always, to Tom's brilliant audio/visual skills (and obviously his own musical talent), the sound and design of this relatively new organ by the late Kenneth Tickell can be heard and seen by so many people throughout the world. Will we see another performance from St Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle in the future? (I do hope so!)

This music brings us into communion with the Spirit of the one true God of all creation!

@organbuilder272

4 жыл бұрын

You are referring to Allah, of course. Praise allah and all the murder and wars he has caused along with that young Jewish boy, what's his name...???

Absolutely beautiful

*BRAVISIMO, THANKS A LOT!!!*

What a phenomenal performance! What a magnificent instrument! (It, from the key actions, would appear to be a very enhanced tracker - hopefully someone here will know for sure.)

Magnificent. Thanks

One of my favorite writings of JSB. As always, great playing and phrasing. Bravo, maestro!

Хорошая!! И Бах и органист- молодци мальчики!! Александр Одессит

A truly masterful performance of an enormous piece

Wunderschön gespielt. Grüsse aus der Schweiz.🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

Already being quite sure that no rendition of this masterwork is bearable, other than the Herbert Tachezi in Dresden, I stumbled upon you in here... and what a great joy discovering it! Truly genius in all aspects, I say - standing equal to greatest masters! Thank you wholeheartedly for sharing here! Love from Romania!

thanx God given Bach

thanks for this Performance!

Kein einfaches Werk, und der Organist muss bei der Fuga athletisch arbeiten! Jonathan aber macht es so perfekt und zwar, als wäre es doch ein Kinderspiel! Bravo!

@tcharles2466

10 ай бұрын

Sehr gut gesagt, mein Freund - ich stimme voll und ganz zu! Obwohl Jonathan einer der besten britischen Organisten ist, erhält er hier im Vereinigten Königreich leider nicht die volle Anerkennung, die er verdient!

Fantastically done, as always.

Absolutely stupendous performances by Jonathan - one of our greatest organists and musicians (although I'm told that Sir Thomas Beecham could never understand how the two skills could ever be combined!). Clearly, Sir Thomas was very much mistaken. And what a perfect choice of instrument. The Tickell organ has everything in terms of clarity of speech, dynamic range and a superb full organ, which balances all voices with equal impact. The sound of the final few bars, effectively brought home on the pedal bombarde (plus I imagine a coupled en chamade Reed), was enough to blow one's socks off!! Glorious Bach.

@johntiggleman4686

2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the best fugues, and yes, I just played it cranked up with my desktop computer speaker system. Now to play it through my 75 watt system. When I listen to Bach, so do the neighbors.

I always loved the E Power Biggs version of this composition and this is very similar. Nice job 👍

Wow one of my favorite and had a hard time finding a good version, finally! Brillant.

Stunning! Thank you.

Absolutely fabulous! Thank you!

Just amazing. Thank you.

PURE POWER!! THE DIVINE SPARK GLOWING!!

Just superb!

Just amazing to listen to!!!!!

Magnificent, as always. Lovd the transparency of the voices....no muddling. Must be great acoustics in a live performance. Again, congrats.

Sublime!! Infinite grazie, per la perfetta interpretazione. A mio modesto giudizio, può considerarsi, l'erede del genio di Karl Richter.

@davidemarcello4272

4 жыл бұрын

Puoi dirlo forte amico È divinamente fantastico nelle battute finali del preludio. Che meraviglia.

Brilliant rendition of the Fantasia and Fugue Jonathon, loved it! And on a Northampton built organ as well! Great filming by Tom as usual. Brian Laywood

Wonderful - Bravo!

BRAVO!!!!!

This is one of my favorite pieces composed by Bach. Excellent performance!

beautiful performance in a magnificent cathedral

A wonderful piece of music by that great organ composer JS Bach played by a great organist . This organ is a magnificent instrument and shocked me as it is in a smallish provincial Roman Catholic Cathedral in the North East of England .

Fine instrument, fine playing, fine Bach!

Buena interpretación, estupendo vídeo.

1:40 Enharmonic modulations. This causes unusual chord sequences, extremely fresh and may be even a bit "crazy". This piece is way ahead of its time

@danielgroza4982

3 жыл бұрын

Probably because Bach is timeless; they should have even included this one on the Voyager Golden Record! But wait, they should have included all of Bach`s creations then. Yet pity they missed shipping back into the Eternity what (in my opinion) is the most representative for human kind: the introduction of Matthäus Passion.

Lovely.

Excellent interpretation ;)

Thank you, Jonathan and Tom! You're a perfect team. 👍❤️ Both movements played with fine registrations - but the tempo of the Fugue seemed a bit frantic to me; I prefer a more relaxed approach... Mais c'est une question de préférence. A beautiful-sounding instrument with a generous and well-appointed/balanced stoplist. Please do present other works on this grand instrument. I'd love to hear what the Flutes & Célestes, etc. sound like. Merci bien!

Excelente!!

Talent

Oh wow I didn't expect you to be playing here, I live here

Voted: many thanks!

Truly splendid playing and such a responsive instrument. It is so good instruments like this are still being made. Ideally suited for Bach but I suspect too quite fine for later repertoire.

Hebat.. bagus sekali, Salam dari Indonesia.

Thanks a lot for this master piece Listen to you in France would be fantastic

I take it the 15 who have given this the 'thumbs down' include such names as Olivier Latry or others in the pantheon of World-Class Organists?

Чудесная музыка

If a fugue is not for you, have the good manners to leave the post but putting a thumbs down says so much about you.

Woof! Thats something to wake you up. Not a before bedtime piece. The visual design of the organ is impressive, especially how the window is framed. Wonder who did the color scheme.