Bach - Concerto in C major BWV 594 - Kofler | Netherlands Bach Society
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- This Concerto in C major, performed by Peter Kofler for All of Bach, is a transcription of the Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra by Antonio Vivaldi. Bach made surprisingly little change to Vivaldi’s original notes. This creates a wonderful paradox: although its multiple keyboards for hands and feet mean that the organ can simulate a whole orchestra, what mainly stands out here are the long passages where the whole organ imitates a single frenzied solo violin.
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Peter Kofler, organist
Organ: Arp Schnitger, ca. 1700 - Hudba
0:07 (...)
7:09 Adagio
10:20 Allegro
@cranglepiano Agreed, both about the chord and about the quality of what follows. The NBS is good enough not to need an announcement.
The only two persons in history who would be allowed to give a thumbs down to this video are Bach himself and Vivaldi himself (whos work is the basis of this piece). Everybody else has to give a thumbs up, invariably. But I firmly believe that Bach and Vivaldi also would give a positive review!
Vivaldi would give the thumbs-down, purely out of jealousy: Bach improved upon the Italian's original ;-)
@@paulcaswell2813Haha. No.
oh the sound, the majesty of this organ, the composition and the performer! Peter Kofler, outstanding!
It's just amazing what people could build more than 300 years ago. And Peter Kofler is making the most of it, guided of course by the master hands of Bach and Vivaldi.
In these time of confinement, the videos from the Netherlands Bach Society are such a blessing! Thank you so much!
Ja!!!
Peter Kofler is a Genius! But he is a onest and really kind person! Not like some other musicians who are not as good as he is.. he plays a lot better than Koopman and even better than Lohmann... But if you take a coffe with him he is just a normal guy 👍 This makes him even more genius!
I love his facial expressions as he plays...He is "one" with his music...
I feel the same!
What an organ and what a beautiful playing. Can't get enough of this.
Superb audio recording. Exceptional clarity. An audiophile quality source.
Listen to this often. The Organ, playing, and acoustics are awesome. Unbelievable clarity in each note. From Chicago, U.S.A
Bach + Vivaldi, quale risultato da questo connubio? Grandezza assoluta, bellezza travolgente!
Bravissimo Peter Kofler!
Perfect performance on a beautiful organ! Bravo!
Whoever disliked this video needs to post their own rendition of it!
Why?
Not really. I liked the video, but some people may not like this rendition. You don't need to be a hairdresser in order to dislike a haircut.
I love the piece, I liked the rendition, did not disliked it, but personally I do feel uncomfortable with the lot of high pitch diapason chord progressions (this particular organ I guess)
a live rendition of it
To naysayers, this comment was written half-jokingly, but only half :)
I really love the sound of this organ
I really love the original violin concerto by Vivaldi but it's also fun
Definitely Vivaldi's music, with Bach's energy! Thank you Netherlands Bach Society!🙂
What a beautiful instrument
Endlessly beautiful and deep music
Although my first time hearing the piece, let alone Kofler, an exqusite performance.
Mooi gespeeld op een van de oudste orgels van Nederland 🇳🇱
Wunderschöne und lebhafte Aufführung dieses perfekt arrangierten Meisterwerks im gut phrasierten Tempo mit klaren doch etwas warmherzigen Tönen der historischen Orgel und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Wunderbar und tiefempfunden zugleich!
As Goethe said, Bach's music is the soliloquy of God before the creation.
This is Vivaldi though... ;)
@@HenrikBergpianorganist Ok, but Bach practically transforms it.
I always love to listen to those colleagues who don't forget the orchestral intention on which these transcriptions are based and the fact that baroque music wasn't intended to be played by MIDI files. Bravo!
Bravo ! Very well played. Deze muziek verlicht het hart in moeilijke tijden. Al het beste van de Vrije en Hanzestad Hamburg!
It’s a scientific masterpiece as all the rest of Bach music , goes deeper and deeper into the unknown. Cosmic music vibration . I love ❤️
Etrit absolutely, it’s just endless!
This is NOT Bach per-se, but Bach's bow to Vivaldi! It is not JSB composition, rather a transcript of Antonio Vivaldi's RV208 violin concerto "Il Grosso Mogul". Check it out, e.g: czcams.com/video/VDdHsK5y_Fo/video.html You're welcome.
There's nothing divine, cosmic or profound about Bach's keyboard arrangements of Italian string concerti or the originals. Keyboard arrangements of Italian concertos were simply popular at that time in Bach's career. His arrangements were either commissioned by his ducal employers or written to expand his repertoire as their court organist. Not to pay homage to or learn from the Italians. This arrangement in particular is a mostly note-for-note transcription of the Vivaldi original.
Bach had to be in touch with the higher realms. My word, the craftsmanship and design of this 1701 Schnitger is one gigantic Stradivarius, as is the rest of the Jacobikerk church in Uithuizen.
Heavenly beautiful.
Bach grande "viaggiatore musicale" sia nello spazio che nel tempo!
Bijzonder fraai, zowel spel als orgel. Dank!
Anche la trascrizione è un'arte. Bach tratta magistralmente l'originale e ne fa un'opera nuova. Grandi enrambi Vivaldi r Bach
Erhabene Musik und wohl gespielt! Danke vielmals!
sounds beautiful, thank you
Поделился ссылкой с друзьями. Для меня это было откровение!!!! Прослушал 2 раза.
Peter Kofler es un Ejecutante Magnifico y Delicado Totalmente Inspirador.
de una OBRA EXTRAORDINARIA Y MAGISTRAL.
desde México gracias.
pleasingly beautiful!
Although I find Vivaldi's music generally tedious and unsatisfying, compared with Bach and Handel, this organist offers a technically flawless and beautifully nuanced rendition - the finest I've ever heard.
Many thanks. 👍 ❤️
It's good, as all NSB clips. For my taste a bit dry thou. But check out how Ton Koopman did it on the big Groningen Schnitger organ. Just brilliant and not for a second tedious czcams.com/video/Ho8ZSzKbiMc/video.html
The rubato is pretty extreme, this piece is like riding a rollercoaster.
So clean a presentation of the voices and articulation. So many Bach Organ performances are overblown and mushy.
Sacré Jean-Seb, toujours en forme !
Een Fantastisch mooie uitvoering.
Heel goed 👍 gespeeld. Je swingt de kerk uit !
Bedankt voor deze interpretatie ! Ik denk zo heeft Johann Sebastian Bach het zo bedoeld en waarschijnlijk gespeeld.
Well done!! Thank you!
Wonderful!!
Absolutely crazy
Lovely and festive! I am surprised that 'Vivaldi violins' works this well on organ! A little surprised too, how commentaters here use words like divine and cosmic and deep ;) I don't think so ... Bach was a 28 years old court-composer when he re-wrote it for organ ... probably because it is highly entertaining and Vivaldi was hot news at the time!
Exactly. There's nothing divine, cosmic or profound about Bach's keyboard arrangements of Italian string concerti or the originals. Keyboard arrangements of Italian concertos were simply popular at that time in Bach's career. His arrangements were either commissioned by his ducal employers or written to expand his repertoire as their court organist.
@@herrickinman9303 These are not simply transcriptions, Bach makes many modifications that makes them superior on organ.
Ennah08 My summary of why Bach transcribed 10 Vivaldi concertos? The influence of Vivaldi on Bach the composer was significant.
* Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749 - 1818) wrote the first biography about Bach published in 1802. Forkel corresponded directly with Bach's sons Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach & Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. One can assume that Forkel received authentic information from the Bach family.
- In the biography Forkel wrote: "Joh. Seb. Bach's first attempts at composition were failures... Without any instruction... these are the arts that all beginners have in common. In this way they can only become 'finger-composers'... Bach did not long remain on this path... At that time recently published violin concertos by Vivaldi provided him with just such a lead. He heard them praised as excellent pieces of music so often that he had the happy idea of arranging them all for his keyboard. He studied the treatment of ideas, the relationships of these to each other, the sequences of modulation... The transformation of ideas and passages intended for the violin and not appropriate to the keyboard also taught him to think musically, so that after his studies he no longer needed to rely on his fingers for his ideas, but could already form them from his own imagination."
* Forkel is probably referring to Bach's early efforts at composing concertos. With that problem Bach turned to Vivaldi. Why did Bach transcribe 10 Vivaldi concertos? Because there is plenty of Vivaldi's music which brilliantly provides a solid structure between soloist & orchestra. Vivaldi did that in a variety of creative ways which attracted Bach. From studying Vivaldi's music, Bach was led in the right direction to a being a great composer in many different types of compositions.
- As for which Bach’s transcriptions of Vivaldi I suggest listening to, (besides this video), I recommend the organ transcriptions (BWV 596 / 593) & his concerto for 4 keyboards.
@@bb1111116 It's true only after Bach studied Vivaldi that he started incorporating harmonic modulations to plan his work, as well as the obvious solo-tutti influence for his works.
@@bb1111116 Thank you!
Beautiful 💚💛
Bravo 👏🎶
Very nice, a dream of harmony and peace 🌺🎶...Bach
The "imitation" of the violin, the recitativ, the orchestra... turned into the finnest organistic style.
Grande organista
Excellent !
This is amazing!
Спасибо за совершенство!
Bravo! Grande órgão e a maravilhosa Música de Bach!
Just to be correct : MARAVILLOSA musica from Vivaldi , genial ARRANGEMENT from Bach 😊😊 Stay well .
Bellissima sinfonia
This is the cutest organ music I've ever heard! Vivaldi wouldn't have expected this.
Search for BWV 35, I think you'll love the organ.
Que le pasa a la gente que comenta este video? Es el primero donde me encuentro muchos comentarios atacando o tachando a Vivaldi de aburrido; nada que ver con la realidad, les guste o no, Vivaldi fue el compositor que mas transcribio Bach, y sus motivos habrá tenido. Incluso el orgullosamente pro-germano Forkel aceptaba que Bach aprendió mucho transcribiendo a Vivaldi cuando estaba empezando.
Posiblemente sean seguidores de Stravinsky . Bach sí supo reconocer la genialidad del prete rosso . De aburrido nada . Viva Vivaldi !!
magnífico
Bravo!!!
Thank you !!
nádherná interpretácia, Ďakujem ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Awesome!!!
That video cut in 3:08 is pretty hilarious 😂
super!
a respectable instrument 😮
Wonderful! Perfectempo!
I play this sans body English.
sounds good!
6:35 🥺
GREAT PLAYER Peter Kofler 😮😮😮 ( though the educated Title is VIVALDI transcribed by BACH ; also the footnotes confirm that Bach did actually change ONLY FEW NOTES , please read them , thanks ) 😮😮😮
Per corretta informazione. Ricordo che per il pezzo specifico l'autore è Antonio Vivaldi e che Bach l'ha trascritto per organo. Quindi nel titolo almeno ci dovrebbe essere scritto Vivaldi/Bach. Per giusta nota e per giusto rispetto nei confronti dell'autore. Grazie
Excelso. Justo en su. Día de nacimiento!!21(3)1685.
I love how these Baroque organs literally sound like one thing and one thing ONLY -- an organ. lol. Pfoo Pfoo, chirp chirp, fwap fwap.
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The violin register sometimes seems more similar to that of a flute (but I say it as a listener and not as a musician!). The concert is difficult and requires great skill with both hands. (and let's not forget the feet!). Pleasant execution
That's because it's a wind instrument and no stringed instrument. It has pipes, that looks like large flutes to me, and they are. But a window instrument can never imitate a violin perfectly.
Bach give me the power to do good on my solo comp tomorrow
solo comp?
scuffed bach competition
More onde great meeting between the North Great Master and the South Great Master.
It would be good to know the reasons for Bach to transcribe Vivaldi's work. Was it for personal pleasure or challenge and for who the transcription was performed for. I understand that Bach could be a bit of a show-off, always wanting to display his playing ability. I don't own the score for this work and wonder if like Bach, Mr Kofler extemporised. It would be wonderful to know that he did.
This performance is highly enjoyable, and an addition to the works of Bach that I would occasionally listen to on waking up in the morning. Thanks again to NSB,
This tells you all about them:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_concertos_by_Johann_Sebastian_Bach
This concerto was transcribed for the prince, who loved concertos.
Looks a bit like the schnitger/freitag-organ in Zuidbroek, GR.
Boy there are many places here that do not sound at all like Bach. He is clearly in the early days of working out his sound (as can be told by the low BWV number). It's a kind of interesting doodling and playfulness that only dimly intimates the glories to come. Still, a fascinating piece. (And well played!) But if Bach had stayed at this level, his name would have faded into history...
Oh I see -- a transcription of Vivaldi. That explains everything.
Started laughing at your first sentence. At least you realized why, haha.
@@oxoelfoxo
From the height of all composers to the tenth root of Bach's talent is quite a jump...
The Lutherans and certainly not the Catholics can claim the greater composer.
The BWV number are not in chronological order! These transcriptions were made in about 1713 at Weimar.
@@spiritualpolitics8205sorry, IF YOU'RE RIGHT all the educated Contemporaries of Bach were DULL AND INCAPABLE of evaluate Music , indeed during his lifetime Bach was mister NOBODY 😢😢😢 on the contrary Vivaldi was famous all over Europe , and was PRINTED by the Best Editors in Amsterdam Paris London 😮😮😮
@mariapiazza-od8ib
Lol Bach could step through 12 keys of chromatic counterpoint in 4 voices on multiple subjects before Vivaldi had gotten up out of bed and left the tonic.
Comparing Bach with Vivaldi is like comparing the Mandlebrot Set with the graph of a triangle.
Popular sentiment is not always a guide to aesthetic greatness. Just listen to the drek popular today.
Question: Peter Kofler is playing in C, but the piece sounds in D. Does this organ sound too high, or does it have a transposing device?
Why do you assume a historic Baroque organ would be tuned to A440?
A=466 pitch Shorter pipes are less expensive (Chorton) :D
@@herrickinman9303 some are tuned higher. Hehe, as pointed out by Andrea here, pipes were pricy to have built or purchased, so the shorter they were, the higher the pitch. Some rich people could probablu afford longer pipes, so lower pitch.
@@UlimorUdamenta You seem to be suggesting that if price were no object, they would have tuned Baroque organs to A440. However, A440 tuning was unknown in the Baroque. In the Renaissance and early Baroque, the prevailing tuning of wind instruments was a 1/2 step to a minor 3rd higher than A440. The pitch of Baroque organs (called _organ pitch_ or _choir pitch_ ) is based on Renaissance wind pitch. Even in the late Baroque, when winds were being designed to be played at _chamber pitch_ (A415) or _deep chamber pitch_ (A394), most new organs were still being designed to play at organ pitch.
If price were the reason for making the organ pipes short, then why not make them even shorter?
Church organs were paid for by the town, not by a rich person.
The new organ built in the Weimar ducal court when Bach was the court organist was tuned to organ pitch, even though the ducal treasury could have paid for longer pipes.:)
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브라바 ~!!!
12:27
Well, I think I *finally* found a piece by Papa Bach that I'm fine hearing only once, haha. No offense to anyone who likes it or to the performer's ability, of course. Looking now, I see it's a transcription of a piece by Vivaldi, so I guess that explains it. Interesting that Bach was apparently such a fan of his!
heyguysinternet yikes, your loss :)
Vivaldi's original is RV 208.
Smukt og fint varieret orgelværk……
Mijn vrouw vond het niks, ze slaapt nu in de schuur❤
Excelso.JSB creo a dios!
People, there's nothing divine, cosmic or profound about Bach's keyboard arrangements of Italian string concerti or the originals. Keyboard arrangements of Italian concertos were simply popular at that time in Bach's career. His arrangements were either commissioned by his ducal employers or written to expand his repertoire as their court organist. Not to pay homage to, study, or learn from the Italians. This arrangement in particular is a mostly note-for-note transcription of the boring Vivaldi original.
yes. it´s very non-bach. vivaldi can be very boring. : /
Even the most boring pieces will sound heavenly on this organ!
Bach did not simply make transcriptions for his patrons, he learned a good deal from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. It wasn't until he studied them that he learned to create dramatic openings or to stray away from one key.
The boring original? Seriously? Another fundamentalist 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@s.l5787 What you are calling a "dramatic opening" is simply a _ritornello._ Before the Italian concerto, Bach and other composers were already creating "dramatic openings" and _modulating_ ("stray away from one key"). Italian concertos were all the rage in Germany at the time Bach and other German composers started integrating elements of the Italian concerto style into their own music.
Je n'aime pas trop tous les ralentis qu'il fait dans l'oeuvre... C'est un peu trop à mon goût. Cependant, je félicite le travail et la qualité bravo !
このテンポの変化は無用ですか？ バッハは、どのような解釈も受け入れる広さを持ちます。
Is this tempo change useless? Bach is open to any interpretation.
Echoes of the Hallelujah Chorus.
Bach seriously make alot of remix back then. So the first remix maker ever?
Not the first, but certainly the greatest.
Keyboard arrangements of Italian concertos were popular at the time in Bach's career when he wrote them. This was his Weimar court organist period. His keyboard arrangements were either commissioned by his ducal employers or written to expand his repertoire as their court organist. Not to pay homage to or learn from the Italians.
@@declamatory "Seriously." 😄😄😄
@@herrickinman9303 Lets see, Bach was known for not bowing to the popular tastes of his day and instead chose to stick to outdated styles. It is highly doubtful that he transcribed these works simply because it was a popular style. He must have seen some value in them.
I don't think I've ever seen an organ performance where you need a second person to operate the stops because there are no pauses in the music to do so.
Hello
This person turns also the papers.
And his job is much more then stop assistent. And I know that after working more than 40years of stopassistent.
♥️ 🇲🇹♥️☘ XIXXA
I suggest 20 minutes of facial exercises a day makes the music (sometimes). It is best not to exceed the daily legume requirements. You are at less risk if you are a soloist.
He keeps interrupting the flow for no reason :(
Sign of technician rather than an artist. No sense of architecture at all.
True artists don't make silly faces: czcams.com/video/VDdHsK5y_Fo/video.html
Hola.... No Me gusta en lo. Mínimo tu interpretación... Haces unas pausas o rallentas la obra de modo que por muchos momentos se pierde absolutamente la obra... Eso no es Bach... No llega al clímax pues haces que la persona que está escuchando se pierda en el tiempo y realmente me suena a todo menos a Bach... Por momentos parece que te detienes y hasta el aliento me haces perder... Disculpa no sea tan entusiasta como otros pero no puedo dejar de expresarte esto... Esos detalles me recuerdan a la música de Angry Birds.... Si es tu timeing lo arruina todo.... 😐
Je suis désolé de mettre un bémol sur cette interprétation peu baroque de cette œuvre de Bach, qui par moment est très personnelle et .... bizarre.
Peut-être parce qu’il a été composé par Vivaldi! lire le tekst sous la vidéo :)
Yawn. Typical Vivaldi concerto with extended, boring solo passagework between charming ritornelli.
Herrick Inman it’s not boring
Some nice things in this interpretation. But ... the organ's plenum jangles, and it's too legato ... the organ is very difficult to record well, so I sympathise; but better microphony might bring out the crisp non-legato in those bouyant acoustics. It's a pretty boring piece, way-too-reliant on harmonic sequential passages. I'm surprised Bach bothered.