06-12-2020, 08:57 PM
We've been dipping into classical music at the end of this thread, which generally has moved backwards in time, but now it's in no particular temporal order. So I guess I can stick in this video of myself playing one of my favorite Baroque fugues for organ. This will be the oldest best "song" ever posted here so far. I recorded this on my phone, but not with live video; I just put some pictures up as the music goes along.
This Fugue in F is the perfect baroque fugue; concise and bouyant like the spirit of the age. Dietrich Buxtehude was J.S. Bach's hero; he vacated his early job as an organist at Arnstadt to walk to Hamburg in order to hear him play and study with him in his last days. I have practiced this piece a lot and finally felt confident enough to record it on my own home organ with my new android phone. I also wanted to record it because there are few if any versions of it on you tube that bring out its full beauty. So actually I think I have the best version now on you tube, but it does not include the preceding Toccata (which is actually easier to play)
This Fugue in F is the perfect baroque fugue; concise and bouyant like the spirit of the age. Dietrich Buxtehude was J.S. Bach's hero; he vacated his early job as an organist at Arnstadt to walk to Hamburg in order to hear him play and study with him in his last days. I have practiced this piece a lot and finally felt confident enough to record it on my own home organ with my new android phone. I also wanted to record it because there are few if any versions of it on you tube that bring out its full beauty. So actually I think I have the best version now on you tube, but it does not include the preceding Toccata (which is actually easier to play)