Reitze Smits – J.S. Bach’s Passacaglia in C minor
An evening pause: Performed live November 29th 2013 at the Lutheran Church, The Hague. There is something hypnotic about this. Watch and try to distinguish the different melodic lines produced by his feet vs his fingers.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
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An evening pause: Performed live November 29th 2013 at the Lutheran Church, The Hague. There is something hypnotic about this. Watch and try to distinguish the different melodic lines produced by his feet vs his fingers.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Wow! That was fantastic!
I’m amazed at the keyboards that played themselves. When was that added to the classical organ?
I’m guessing the high point for pipe organ development and playing technique was the Baroque era in Northern Europe, and if you watch the keyboard closely the self-actuating keys are apparently linked to corresponding bass pedals. The instruments from this period use a fantastically complex system of wooden linkages (trackers) below the various ranks of pipes that control where the air is being directed and as a result generate different tonal qualities, and they are sometimes linked in tandem like this.
And notice how the page turner is kept busy adjusting the stops of the instrument for particular passages as the piece goes on, so that there is a great deal of choreography happening (four hands and two feet) in this enjoyable video.
This deserves to be played on a system capable of 90 dB at 32 Hz. This organ pedal has a 16 foot Bourdon rank, which are stopped pipes, producing sound an octave lower than open pipes. The fourth C below middle C is about 32 Hz.
One of my Saxon ancestors was an organ builder during the time Bach was alive.
i find this piece extremely emotional.
Not a fan of the pipe organ, generally. Too much overtone, and not precise in attack. But: Wow. Noticed the organist ‘pulled out the stops’ at the end.
Maybe easier to fly a helicopter?