J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, BWV 552
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2015
- played by Markéta Prokopovičová
recorded in concert on April 21, 2015
Michael Engler / Rieger-Kloss organ
St. Maurice church, Olomouc, Moravia (CZ)
registration assistant - Martin Kordas:
/ @martinkordas7130 - Hudba
Can't think of any activity rivalling this...a pinnacle of human achievement. Bach is so relevant today thanks to consummate artists such as yourself. A truly edifying performance indeed.
Warms my heart to see so many new and wonderfully skilled women organists now.
Some comments below show very little knowledge of how hard it is to add the recording job to a live performance especially when most of what we see on you tube is only possible because it is done by enthusiastic amateurs. For my part I am delighted to be able to share so many musicians interpretations and listen to a huge number of different instruments in different buildings, Far more than could ever be commercially recorded so lets rejoice that technology allows us to share so much that would other wise be private and lost to posterity. If you do not like it just move on to the thousands of alternative videos available. I enjoyed the performance of what is one of Bach's monster organ works and I am sure Marketa played her heart out!
Viscount Organs, I am sorry for my inadequate English. Viscount, quote: "If you do not like it just move on to the thousands of alternative videoes available." In other words - at the moment her teacher tell her to play some measures in another way, she leave that teacher to find another one who never pointing out anything against her way of playing? Of course we shall criticize! But you are also right, quote: "...it is done by enthusiastic amateurs." And that's the reason why I decided to remove my first comment, I was almost rude to her, and I regret that. There is no doubt, she got the technical skills, that's for sure! But are there really "thousands of alternative videoes available"? There are "thousands" of performances who play the music far from the original style, yes! For me who search for players who want to restore this old music, bring the music closer to the original style, there are almost none.
I'm very much impressed: tears in my eyes!
Thank you all so much for your kind comments!
Thank you too !!very much.
It's all your fault we love you. With such good playing, it is impossible not to!
@@beasheerhan4482 Thank you sooo much! 🥰
Do you have more from Masterpiece Bvw 552? Marketra is Marvelous
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I've heard this played many times by many organists and I keep coming back to this skilful performance...really lovely!
I agree, dear Simon - the intensity, psychic strength, contrast of tempi, colour, and feeling of Miss Marketa's performance is, hands down, the best performance, currently on CZcams - and that includes Weinberger, Biggs, Richter, Hurford, and Koopman!
Miss Marketa became one with this piece, and, together, they found a new way - it is clear to see and hear!
I totally agree. I have yet to hear a better version of this masterpiece
Bernd Straub , bin von Deinem großartigen und künstlerischen Darbietungen immer sehr begeistert . 🙏💁🏽♂️🌹
This is the best performance I could find on YT. Not everyone gets Bach but this performer does, for sure!
This is masterful. Everything about your performance is top-notch. Absolutely brilliant. Your performance is exquisite art, and I appreciate the 17 minutes of happiness, inspiration, and joy that you provided. I am a good church organist, but certainly not of your caliber. I can appreciate just how challenging this piece is. Your technique is so fluid and supple. Europe has a lot of brilliant organists, and you certainly are a member of the pantheon of greats. God has blessed you with great talent, and you certainly have developed that talent , and we and the world are better for it.
Thank you very much!
Condivido : troppe persone sono esigenti specie quando NON PAGANO NULLA PER RICEVERE IMMANE FATICOSA MAESTRIA !
Brilliant and a truly challenging and masterful performance - thank you for sharing this
A glimpse of heaven in our current locked down state. Thank you so much!
No one can lock down the music...😊
Absolutely wonderful! A small young lady with total command of this huge Rieger Kloss Pipe Organ. She has total control and mastery of this ORGAN. She knows the music and you can see and hear it in her technique, and playing. Bach would be pleased!
Absolutely beautiful! Every time I hear this piece I feel like I'm in the presence of God. Thank you for this gift!
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That playing on top manual at 4:00 would make Bach smile, it takes amazing finger work to play this complicated piece! It is such a treasure to be able to see this performance! Many thanks from Canada!
Really intelligent playing - intellectually, emotionally, culturally - coupled with technical fluency. Thank you very much!
Amen, Dear Aisling - you described Miss Marketa's performance of this exactly correct!
Wonderful tempos and registrations
Ein musikalischer Hochgenuss mit einem Ritt auf den Klaviaturen voller Energie und Inbrunst. So geht Bach mitten ins Herz hinein !
So ist es.
Habe vor über 10 Jahren aufgehöt Rockmusik zu hören. Der Grund war der okkulte Hintergrund dieser Bands. Wie ich gelesen und gehört habe zerstört Rock die Fähigkeit Klassik tu hören. Das kann ich bestätigen. Habe es Gott sei Dank hinter mir.
Übrigens war Bach ein gläubiger Christ...und ich denke ich auch...
💑👭👸💝👄💑💝💘👨🎓
What a feast for the ears this performance is! Ms Prokopovicova's mastery of the score and the five manual Engler/Kloss organ is a wonderful sound to behold!
Really marvellous playing! Grand, cerebral, lively, intelligent!!!! An absolutely fantastic organ too!
Thank you for the best peace of Bach organ works of BWV 552 Played by a young person , keep playing like this for a long time Best you
A grand performance of a grand piece by the master. Brava! Brava!
I love the passion with which you perform. This acoustic, plus the organ itself, they seem quite challenging to play this particular piece. But your articulation, registration, tempi, they were all fantastic! So happy to see someone young pursuing the organ and mastering it. Looking forward to hearing more performances ftom you.
Bravo! You honor Bach!
Brilliant performance. Perfect registrations. Perfect tempi!
I have listened to many recordings of this grand piece by famous organists, including most recently at the Proms 2021...but this recording is by far the best. Fantastic & exciting all the way through, & the 3 themes of the Prelude amazingly well laid out and then brought together. Also, what a great organ!
WOW an angel plays my favorite organ piece of all time....
Bravo 🙌🙌 played with real passion wonderful thank you for sharing
Great work great playing Bach is proud of you.
Splendid, fantastic registration ! Very good job ! 🙏👍
I’ve heard and seen this played many times, but rarely better than this. A wonderful romantic interpretation of a Bach masterpiece. The world is whole again, and to quote the new president ‘always better angels will prevail’
So good to hear such a passionate performance, exciting and emotional rather than dry. But also the individual voices are clear, particularly in the fugue, letting us appreciate its full splendour; many powerful organs tend to have a muddy reverberant acoustic which loses this. So bravo all round - even for the physical challenge of reaching the furthest corners of the multi-stacked keyboard! I first heard this piece played by Marie-Claire Alain over 50 years ago and fell in love with it; this is one of very few performances that stands comparison with hers.
Marketa, I very much like your dynamic an passionate and musical performance of this difficult and majestic organ-work. And thks also for your nice explanations....greetings from the Netherlands.
Markéta Prokopovičová Bravo !!!!!!!!! GORGEOUS !!!!!!!!! Thank you very much !!!
Splended performance! What a console! I imagine she must have worked very diligently at setting the manuals before the recording. I can barely play the piano, so I am in awe of someone who can master such a complicated and majestic instrument.
Ever since early childhood I have loved and enjoyed J.S.Bach's works. An absolutely beautiful performance. :)
A great performance from a gifted and talented organist. Perfect registration and tempo,especially at the beginning of the first fugue.Your assistant was obviously as engrossed as you....how lovely to witness youthful enthusiasm!!
THANK YOU BOTH.
I agree. She played it wonderfully. I would prefer stricter adherence to the tempo she set.
This was a magnificent performance of a Masterwork by favorite composer: Bach! Thank you so much for "taking me to Church".
Better than being taken to the woodshed, no doubt, which is precisely what Miss Marketa Prokopovičová has done to other organists in her playing of this piece!
Marketa, your playing is absolutely inspiring. Thank you!
Dear Lady, playing Bach's music is more than a performance...it's an Expedition through a polyphonic maze, nay, forest! Bravo! for a well-executed BWV552!
Jedna z mých oblíbených Bachových skladeb - vychutnal jsem si vynikající hru organistky, která si zvolila této krásné skladbě odpovídající tempo, registraci a výraz.Gratuluji!
Je to už 19-20 let, kdy jsem měl možnost zahrát si na téchto mistrovských, a krásně znějících varhanách díky mé dceři, která tehdy studovala na olomoucké univerzitě a vzala mě do chrámu Sv.Mořice, za co jsem jí dnes nesmírně vděčný.
Tenhle koncert mi připoměl tehdejší nádherné časy.
Děkuji Markétě Prokopičové za hluboký citový zážitek!
One of my favorite Bach compositions - I enjoyed the excellent playing of the organist who chose the appropriate tempo, register and expression for this beautiful composition. Congratulations!
It's been 19-20 years since I had the opportunity to play this masterful and beautiful-sounding organ thanks to my daughter, who was studying at Olomouc University at the time and took me to St. Mořic Church, for which I am extremely grateful to her today.
This concert reminded me of those wonderful times.
Thank you Markéta Prokopičová for a deep emotional experience!
Wow! A terrific performance.
Thank you!!
A wonderful performance, on an organ that is truly worth listening to. And watching Ms. Prokopovičová fairly dance through this forest of notes was possibly the greatest delight of all. Such spirit in evidence. Thank you!
I love watching pipe organists at work, with all the intricacies of moving between manuals, working the stops, and playing the pedals, to make wonderful music!
Markéta hraje velmi jistě a je v tom srdce. Krása, obdivuji! ♡
Pulchritudinous in every way. Of the many recordings ive heard of this masterpiece, this interpretation most successfully (for me that is) 'fulfills' the original glory, and purpose - and seems to masterfully exude the creator's true origin when he wrote it - you deserve honorable mention amongst any "other; as equally or greater talented organist" who's ever learned, and performed this piece. Bravo!!
thanks for the new word.
You know, Dear Mr. Robinson, I am going to have to report you to the CZcams authorities, because anyone who uses the word, 'pulchritudinous' is a danger to the community, as a whole!
sehr ausdrucksstark, fantastische Interpretin und perfektes Instrument für dieses Es-Dur Werk
Thank you so much for an absolutely glorious performance of a piece I hadn't heard in years.
Beautiful sound, uplifting music and so wonderfully played. Thank you!
I’ve never hear this glorious piece played quite this way...with such a passionate and exuberant approach and with sensible tempi and dynamics...Five keyboards allows for some dramatic registration changes, but, wow! What a reach!!! This organ, too, is so rich-sounding and has such apparent power as well as delicacy in its stop catalog. Just a terrific performance in every way. Such a pleasure to her this unique and individual interpretation.
A beautiful and exultant performance. Bravura, passion and wonderful musicianship. Bach at his best can elevate the soul to the highest peaks. Here, this is done. I think the critical comments by eskeland miss the point entirely. This is music is of high value played by a gifted, and talented organist. I only hope that one day I will get to hear her play live so that I may thanks her in person for doing this video. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. Im going to listen to it again now. R
Thank you for your heart-warming comment.
Bravissimo! You are a heroine for the great cause of bringing this treasure of classical music to the online world. Encore!
It's good to see so many comments appreciating the vigour and emotion of this performance. Baroque era music need not be played in a dry, stuffy and academic way, so-called "authentic" but not always so. Bach was a passionate man with a devout faith. His Fantasia and Fugue BWV542 is virtually headbanging stuff; see Leo van Doeselaar's fine CZcams video for the Netherlands Bach Society that almost takes this literally! In his final years Bach took great pains to select and compile his finest lifetime compositions into single works for posterity, such as the magnificent Mass in B Minor. What would Bach and Handel have made of a modern orchestra given the chance? Handel used a vast wind-band in the Music for the Royal Fireworks and the Messiah sounds thrilling with a huge choir like the Huddersfield Choral Society singing their hearts out under a conductor like Sir Malcolm Sargent. His organ concertos can sound fine with a large organ and orchestra - almost never done nowadays. Musical fashions and culture change; human nature does not.
Very well done! No, pure doing something is mechanics. Doing it well means - feeling it to start with! And that's what I can hear when listening to this performance.
Thank you very much for posting, for playing and for feeling at first!
Magnificent performance!
Congratulations! A fine performance of what is maybe the greatest piece ever written for organ.
Eine wunderschöne Orgel für diese Komposition. Vernünftig registriert und gut artikulierend gespielt. So klar hab ich es selten miterlebt. Herzlichen Dank und auf Wiederhören. Kees Wisse, Niederlande
Wunderbar! Sehr schön gespielt!
Expression fantastique !
Merci Mme !😊
Great performance of one of my favorite Bach Major Organ Works. Thank you for your excellent interpretation.
Amazing organist! This organ prelude and fugue is my favorite from Bach.
Perfect playing and one hell of an organ. Superlative!!!
Восхитительный инструмент и Ваше исполнение. Отменная координация! БРАВО!!! Из России с уважением!!!
Now that's the way to do it! Congratulations young lady.
Absolutley fantastic!!! I love this! Very well played!!🤗🤗🤗 Thank you so much!!🙏🥰🥰
Absolutely majestic performance!
Increíble muy hermoso todo !
El órgano impresionante,
La música de Bach majestuosa, y
La interpretación impecable.
Felicidades !
Absolutely, truly magnificent, majestic and transcendental perfomance. JS Bach at its very finest. Thankyou Marketa.
You got it, Dear Stephen - Miss Marketa nailed this piece so well, I fear that CZcams will ban it for fear that it will rouse nationalist feelings, or some other kind of crazy thing!
I cant stop listening.....wonderful!!!🥰🥰🥰
A wonderful performance of this great work!
Greetings and thank you for sharing a most inspiring performance of a glorious piece of music. This recording has blessed me for the past 6 years and it’s just as impactful as I listen now.
Please continue to play! Your gift is a blessing. Be encouraged!
Great playing, on what looks like a BEAST of an organ!
Wow. All I can say.
Danke sehr Marketa, ausgezeichete gespielt. Erstaunliche Schatze. What a treasure to play the organ as you do. ❤
i like the registration and tempi; it is a musical approach to bach and shows deep incite into his oh sublime thoughts
A brilliant performance of a great and inspiring work of the incomparable JSB. Superb!
Просто невероятное исполнение! Для меня это произведение всегда было символом пасхальной радости, в которой сочетаются вера в Христа, надежда на воскресение и неописуемое счастье от того, что отныне человек спасён. Именно такую мелодию я бы представлял себе, находясь у врат Рая. Здесь в каждую ноту вложили душу, именно таким должен быть настоящий музыкант!
Спасибо большое за то, что Вы делаете, от этого мир действительно становится светлее)
Vaše cesta ještě není u konce, jak bezpochyby vaše duše vyžaduje od vás víc. Velmi pěkně udělal. Doufám, že vaše cesta vám přináší ještě více radosti, než jsem dostal od poslechu budete hrát. Bůh žehnej.
Your journey is not yet come to an end as no doubt your soul demands more from you. Very nicely done. I hope your journey brings you even more joy than I get from listening to you play. God Bless.
(google translate)
Deine Reise ist noch nicht zu Ende, denn zweifellos verlangt deine Seele mehr von dir. Sehr schön gemacht. Ich hoffe, deine Reise bringt dir noch mehr Freude, als ich von dir zuhören hörst. Gott segne.
Bach es el padre de la música, sus obras sublimes llegan al alma, excelente dominio del órgano de cinco niveles, gracias por enviarlo, solo de Dios viene tanta armonia celestial 🎼🎶🙏
Que pensamiento ton sublime y divino.
De quien sino puede llegar tan alta inspiracion?
Bravissima! Sublime!!!
Markéta - what a magnificent performance. Your artistic integrity, along with the incredible drive and commitment behind your playing is so impressive. Many congratulations.
This is one of the best interpretations I've heard. And excellent registration and drama.
I agree it is very good indeed. Have a check at Doug Marshall's rendition though. It's worth your time. I was totally baffled at how easy he makes this piece look like. And it IS indeed, a very very demanding and challenging one.
I aggree. Wonderful playing of this wonderful work! Ingvar, Sweden
Doug Marshall definitely! But this girl rulez! I did not expect millenials to be THAT good is things taking EFFORT to master!! FULL RESPECT! And this Rieger / Kloss instrument is also magnificent!
I also agree with Robert Gift about the "muddy sound" of the 16 ft, stop in the manual. Yet still excellent.
Wonderful passion and excitement...what an organ....What a player
My licenciate piece (LTCL).. brought back beautiful memories, beautifully played 🙏🏻🎵🎶❤🤗
Iskreno Marketa: ovo je najbolja izvedba BWV 552 trenutno dostupna. Raspalili ste orgulje. Tako treba. Srčano i snažno. Pritom kada su orgulje moćne potreban je dobar osjećaj za vladanje nad njima. Interpretacija odličan (5). Sve je odličan (5). Tako treba. Orgulje u punoj snazi. Za dojam i hrabrost i motiv. Hvala vam na ovome, svaki dio bih i ja jednako interpretirao i registrirao. Iskreno: ovako ovaj komad može odsvirati samo čovjek koji ima mnogo duha u sebi. Izvedba je s vašim potpisom. Teško će je netko nadmašiti. Mnogo truda ste uložili. Hvala vam. Uradak je veoma slušljiv i više puta bez obzira što dugo traje. To je vaša zasluga, ali i vama nagrada. Bravo!
Thank you so much!!!
Wonderful, energetic playing!
Great - the height of absorption and musicality we associate with the mighty Gillian Weir. Close your eyes and listen, and make the effort to hear through the CZcams audio fog!
Thank you for sharing your prodigious talent with us!
Qué interpretación más poderosa... Tiene una intensidad verdaderamente apabullante. ¡Extraordinaria!
Wow! I could not stop listening.
Hermosura versión de Bach. Gracias.
Wonderful - very inspiring playing and musicianship. Thank you.
I fell in love. Music was also special to me. I am J.S. Bach fan nr.1
You are killing me...absolutly fantastic!!! Marvelous!!🥰🥰
This is a simply superb piece of music brilliantly performed. Thank you!
Firstly, bravo on such a heartfelt musical performance of the likes of Marie Claire Alain and Karl Richter..thats right, its that good.
A few points:
1) you cannot judge an organ performance from a CZcams video, the sound of an organ in terms of volume, dynamics, acoustics, microphones etc is simply too complex to " comprehend" in this way, you have to be there live. The best ever recording I found was on the BIS label from Sweden that used a very sophisticated and ingenious microphone setup the other would be by the folks from Sheffield Labs, they could probably nail that perfectly as well. Even Karl Richters recordings sound at times muddy and screechy.
2) so knowing that, you have to " extrapolate" from a muddy CZcams recording, you have to know the piece intimately, Bach 's music is very complex and layered.
3) many organ players play the organ not as an organ but like a piano that makes " organ sounds, you do not.
4) many organ players seem to " suffer" through the foot work, you play it quite elegantly and naturally.
My biggest gripe about these pieces is that many performers miss the " punch line:, that is Bach is always bringing the successive melodic passage work to a " central theme".
In some of his works that is very defined and clear , in others you have to search and work for it for it to emerge, sometimes only a good teacher can point that out. Of course Karl Richter was one of the organ players I know that really " got it"
In your performance you show " real insight" into the inner workings of this work, bravo!
You hold the tension to the end, keeping the big surprise to where Bach makes some interesting " variations and inversions.
5) this piece is one of Bachs more technically and thematically demanding works, so bravo again for taking on this huge labor.
Lastly people , especially other musicians always get caught up on the " technical aspects", for me your technique is excellent and if you persevere will only get better, what matters most is the " love: for the music and playing the organ, the rest is just a sideshow and distraction.
As I said, the organ, especially one like this is best appreciated "live" when you feel the chords and notes vibrate through your whole body, if anything Bach created these grand masterpieces to move and elevate the Soul.
Thanks again, keep up the good work.
hoshumberry, just a few words about the fugue: The quavers in 6/4 sounds equal to the semiquavers in 12/8, and you think it is ok? We know that Bach wanted "organo pleno" from the beginning of the fugue, but there is no pleno, and it's ok for you? Since you admire Karl Richter so much, I am a little bit worry.....I am tempted to guess that your level of knowlegde is equal to my inadequate English.
The problem with your biggest gripe is due to the construction of the organ and is not due to the performer. Some organs (and some sound environments) simply cannot sound as clean and sharp as needed for Bach, Telemann, Buxtehude, and others of the High Baroque. Imagine trying to play Couperin on an early 20th century theatre organ. It's possible but it would be nasty.
The Sound ingeneering is very difficult. In this Church we have many naturally echoes and reverbs. The Delay time is between a half and one second. Here some picture from this Church in Olomouce. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Mauritius-Kirche_(Olm%C3%BCtz) Soundingeneering and the positioning of Microphones in this Church must be a nightmare. In Reference: the dome in Cologne has a Delay Time of 3 Seconds. In CZcams Videos you has the compression format of MP4. Audiocompression is MP3.
REALLY ENJOYED, THANKS FOR POSTING !
Beautiful interpretation by this young artist on a marvelous organ !
Markéta Prokopovičová, gorgeous sound!
There is no point pretending that this performance is note-perfect which it quite clearly isn't, but the playing is spirited, committed, captures the spirit of the piece and is perfectly suited to this particular organ. Bravo Ms Prokopovičová
This is excellent. You are a superb organist. A maestro!
I like the changes in registration and the energy in this interpretation.
Excelent..!! Beautiful music !!
absolutely wonderful job. I've never a console look like that before.