Bach: Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565 - Tariq Harb, guitar
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- Guitarist Tariq Harb performs J.S. Bach's monumental Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565. This is an adaptation for solo guitar by Edson Lopes.
The Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565, is a musical composition in two parts for organ, written sometime between 1708 and 1750 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and known for its majestic sound, dramatic authority, and driving rhythm. The piece is perhaps most widely known due to its appearance in the opening minutes of the 1940 Disney cult classic Fantasia, in which it was adapted for orchestra by the conductor Leopold Stokowski. It also has a strong association in Western culture with horror films; it was included in films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Black Cat (1934) and The Phantom of the Opera (1962).
The first part of Bach’s piece is a toccata, the name of which is derived from the Italian toccare, “to touch.” It represents a musical form for keyboard instruments that is designed to reveal the virtuosity of the performer’s touch. Bach’s take on the toccata is typical in that it has many fast arpeggios and runs up and down the keyboard but otherwise is generally free form and gives the composer much latitude for personal expression. In Bach’s day, toccatas often served as introductions to and foils for fugues, setting the stage for the complex and intricate composition to follow.
The fugue - a technique characterized by the overlapping repetition of a principal theme in different melodic lines (counterpoint) - that is the second part of Bach’s composition reflects the particular popularity of the form during the late 1600s and early 1700s. Bach made much use of the fugue in his compositions, most famously in solo organ pieces such as this one but also in instrumental works and choral cantatas. This particular fugue is quite unusual in its form; it is a plagal fugue using plagal cadences as opposed to the authentic cadences that Bach usually employs. It also does not introduce the subject in all the voices one after the other in the beginning of the fugue. Instead, Bach slips in sequences in between the announcements of the subjects which is again quite unusual for a Baroque fugue. The fugue, with its accompanying toccata, is not only the best known of Bach’s many fugues but the most famous of fugues by any composer.
Performance: Tariq Harb
Transcription: Edson Lopes
Guitar: Douglass Scott, 2018
Strings: Savarez basses and Augustine Regel trebels
Audio and video: Drew Henderson
Location of recording: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I’m an organist and an amateur guitarist, and I am nearly in tears after watching this. Superior tone, phrasing, technical skill... I would give this a five minute standing ovation in a public performance. Well done, my friend.
I don't feel that way... everything's relative, though. I suppose whatever instrument a person has played the most is the "easier" instrument. Every instrument has its unique challenges, that's for sure.
Nice and am trying to play 5th of Beethoven.
Agree
I have found two in the room, this gentleman is no doubt one of them thank you very much for the Post
Tf is an organist
No matter what else you do, you'll be remembered for this flawless performance.
absolutely... this is just a classic for me, he caught the true soul of Bach. very intense and emotional
I am a guitarist. I have been listening to this performance again for months. Tariq is exceptional. Technique, phrasing, sound. Bach would be happy with that
Listen to Marcin version it's fantastic no word can explain
@@mariazaya4447Listen to Moran Wasser
@@mariazaya4447marcin indeed is a great guitarist, but sometimes less is more. In my opinion he is overacting in most of cases..
@@mariazaya4447marcin version is soo soo bad.😂 no good taste to appreciate this poor version. Marcin is only good when he play marcin otherwise it’s often crap.
For me, its not just what he plays which is impressive. Its what he doesnt play. The pauses are perfect to my ear. Not rushed.
Its heavily a "call" and "response" piece. It has to talk like a conversation.
Beautifully performed.
My thoughts exactly. The fermatas allow for great expression of the musician by not specifying the length of the rest. In my opinion it is more accurate to say that during the rests he "plays nothing" rather than "not playing".
Exactly, if you don't have a musical background it might be hard to understand really but what you said is the whole point of the "Fugue".
don't be silly, you heard lisa saying that on the simpsons
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@@tarek-khdr 5:13
A brave man to try this on a guitar, speechless.
Especially brave by being the one solo instrument.
Maybe you haven't heard. There is a band named, "Sky". They did an amazing cover of this. Go check it out.
Me: *looks at my ukulele*
Uke: *don't even think about it*
Check out taimane. Shes done a beautiful rendition of it on uke :)
You: Hell, I am going to try!
*strums a C*
Im in tears 😂😂😂😂😂
The one in your hands doesn't look like a uke, it more or less resembles a potato😊
The most beautiful guitar rendition of J.S. Bach's masterpiece. Thank you.
The most beautiful rendition of Bach in all instruments.
I'm a student classical guitarist, ... (studied piano for 7 years), but this performance is unreal. I'm ready to simply throw my "Fernando Sor Studies" out the window, and go back to playing harmonica as I did when I was 8 years old, {which I never got the hang of either}. I'm 66 years old now, ... guess maybe in another life. Brilliant performance!
Keep going. The only person you're competing with is in the mirror. It's not about the destination, it's about journeying through a life filled with music.
I know you posted this a year ish ago... I learned guitar right handed (even though I'm not right hand dominant) off and on throughout high school and college. Unfortunately I got sick and even though it barely stuck during lessons I seriously lost it after all of my surgeries and such... I decided to buy an electric left hand guitar and use Rocksmith to learn (I am still debating a teacher because one on one can't be beat) but maybe that'll help you keep with it?! They have lessons and technique games as well as "learn a song". Not to mention you can get custom content so you don't have to pay for songs to learn though the popular ones are locked to pay. I think it might help because it has me! We all know how much we need music in our lives and I'd hate for you to give up! If I can do it through physical and mental trauma and illness than so can you! I believe in you!!! 💙😁
You and I get to experience masters perform here. I too had dreams but never dreamt of hearing something like this.
@@merijnreerink1799 Well said!
Many guitarists who attempt this seem to decide that only about a quarter of the notes really matter and gloss over the rest of them. Bach wrote them all for good reason, and you, sir, bring each one alive. Splendid.
I bought a tab book to learn this song but, didn’t go through with it as it only contained 1 or two of the musical lines. So for now it’s on the back burner till I can find tab that covers most of the notes, Melodie’s and counterpoint.
@@MASTEROFPUPPETS238 please, could you send ne notes or tabs, pls, im 14 yo, have no money
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@@helloworld1692 Google is your friend. Free tabs can be found.
Man, this guy’s tone is beautiful, and his volume control is superb. It’s videos like this that make me wish CZcams had a love button instead of just a like
Awesome
@@davesheil7454 Not necessarily. The guitarist controls the outcome of the tone with his experience, expertise and years of training.
Vero good
❤ Beautiful indeed. Very! ❤
Исполнено потрясающе , слушаю и чувства переполняют : слёзы на глазах , нет слов...Спасибо вам...💘💔
Classical guitarist myself. I would never have imagined this piece could be played on our instrument.
The natural reverb in that hall is beautiful
without the sensitivity of the soul, the technique is nothing, we are lucky to see that you have both :)
Mr Harb’s hands are an entire orchestra, his fingers individual members, all in perfect timing, rhythym, and harmony. Mind-blowing performance!
Sitting here with tears streaming down... so much beauty pouring forth - Bach's incomparable music, Tariq's incomparable playing, that gorgeous guitar, the acoustics of the chapel, the outstanding, audio recording, videography and editing, all coming at me at once on this incredible color screen and speakers in my home... could we be so lucky? to have ears to hear such celestial perfection?
This has to be one the great guitar performances of all time. My mind is blown.
Bach himself would be astounded by your performance! I certainly was!
I had precisely this thought.
Bach would have given a standing ovation!
Брависимо! Седнах уж за минутка да отдъхна и сега не мога да стана… като в приказка е вълшебно и това е силата на виртуозния музикант, да те освободи от собствения недъг и да те пренесе на едно съвършено място, където няма присъди, няма тревоги, няма и време - то нали времето е нашият най-голям враг. Г-н Тарик, вашите ръце ме пренесоха на едно по-хубаво място и сега се усмихвам и ми е топло и спокойно на душата. Брагодаря Ви!
steady enchanting soul🎉🎉
That is 250% the greatest sounding guitar EVER made. Unbelievable
This is without a doubt one of the finest performances of Bach’s Masterpiece that I have ever had the pleasure to have enjoyed. The fact that is performed on a guitar makes it even more special. The attention to the intensity of the sound and the absolute clarity of the call and response sections of the piece are flawless. It is a towering performance of an exquisitely crafted composition. Bravo!
tottaly agree with you. The partita (BWV 1004) played on guitar is another awesome piece.
I can't believe Bach sounds this good on classical guitar. I got goose bumps on my skin.
The way Bach could use so many different chord progressions in a single phrase and still find a way to resolve it is truly mind-blowing. Bravo sir, a magnificent performance.
2023 ! WOW ! And he still Rocks ! And that's is also IMPRESSIVE here in this Electro Tech AI World of TODAY. I'm Amazed. 😎🎸🤘
Aside from the unbelievably musical and technically perfect performance, hats off to the audio/video tech who filmed and recorded it. The sound quality and acoustics is ethereal.
That audio/video tech is non-other than another spectacular classical guitarist Mr. Drew Henderson. I highly recommend to check out Drew. As well, he's part of a duo called the HK Duo. Drew plays with Michael Kolk also amongst the stellar classical guitarists on the planet.
The human journey in its fullness is contained in this masterpiece. Incredible.
Closed my eyes and listened.
What a treat… the best 9 minutes wellness for my soul!
Thanks Tariq for this great performance.
Classical guitar player here. This interpretation is absolutely gorgeous. Speechless.
Mr. Bach would have been enchanted listening to this...
He would have left his organ and picked up the guitar.
When Tariqs guitar meets Bach, the sounds of symbiotic masterpieces fill the air, our soul and eternity with loving humility...
Even the first minute only takes ten years of practice to play it like that. WOW!
Это не гитарист , а золото: очень талантливый!!!! Браво!!!!!!!
My Ex Wife bought me the Music to this about 30 years ago for Christmas,no other presents were opened that day,Love Bach's Music.This is a fantastic performance.Loved it.
You better open that fruit cake Peter
Thank you all very much for your comments! I am grateful and at the same time overwhelmed by your words and your kind support, whether it's through commenting, liking, subscribing or sharing, it means so much and it keeps me going. I look forward to sharing more content in 2020. Have a wonderful and inspiring year ahead!
Hey, nice playing Tariq, very difficult piece. I uploaded a version of this on my channel, drove me mad working it out. Check it out... hope you like it :-)
Absolutely phenomenal performance, subscribed and looking forward to more
_Thank You_ for sharing!
Hi! Where can buy this awesome partiture??
Thanks!! :D How can get this incredible partiture!? :D WoW
I am a guitar player (solist grade). I have performed this piece in music halls. But this performance brought endless tears in my eyes. The feeling, the clarity, the dynamic range, the resonance of the guitar... Majestic. I felt like i was back in the middle grade of practice comparing your performance with mine.... Thank you from the deepest core of my heart.. Is there a chance to buy this recording in full bitrate? A cd quality perhaps?? I' d love to listen it in my high end set... Again and again...
One of the greatest guitar performances on the internet.
I am also a guitarist and I am in awe and nearly stunned to hear this favorite piece played on guitar, which I would not have thought possible until hearing this. I would love to be able to play this, even just a few passages.
Fiquei extremamente feliz de ver minha transcrição sendo divulgada e de forma tão brilhante. Parabéns.
Excelente transcrição, Edson Lopes!
Thank you, Edson for this great adaptation and for making it available for us. All the best to you and hopefully I'll meet you one day.
@@TeeHarb Obrigado. Espero encontrá-lo um dia também. Forte abraço
Parabéns mestre Edson, está incrívelmente fiel ao Bach. Tenho a certeza que se fosse vivo, vos dava a ambos os parabéns.
Lindo, né?
I saw your performance at Tokyo International Guitar Competition 10 years ago. Since then, I become a big fan of you!
Thank you for your support throughout these years! 🙏
I don't know enough elegant phrases to fully express my admiration for this playing. The tremendous space the playing creates with what is essentially an intimate instrument is breathtaking. Thank you.
Музыкант поцелованный Богом! Моя благодарность и наилучшие пожелания!
I was too amazed by the performance. It shows a Toccata in another light...as a light and lovely. I would never thought that it would sound so nice on a guitar.
This is a special performance. I am all admiration.
this is unbelievable awesome beautiful and shows to what the classical guitar is able....pure love and emotions...thank you..
.And I'm Still in love with this tune/video/artist. ..and I return to this tune, time after time..
2023 Verry verry good sound, and performance !!! ❤ᜃ♠ Thanks.
How can a humble twangbox with 6 strings sound better than a church organ? In Mr Harb’s hands, it can! Unbelievable skills and musicality Tariq, thank you
It’s actually a very expensive hand made luthier built twang box with 6 strings ..........
@@paularcher9176 lol was about to say, not sure a 3k instrument should be called a twang box haha
@@tientje98 Yeah, fair point, but compared to several million for a new concert organ, even 3K might be described as something of a twangbox! Still Fantastic performance by Tariq Harb on a great guitar.
Pure talent.
The world needs more of this,.
Electric guitarists choose amps and these top classical guitarists pick their churches. The performance is a blend of history, wood, stone, technique, dedication and love. Thank you.
Tone. Dynamic control. Fun. Perfect. Loved this 100 %
Гениально....спасибо за музыку за то ,что Вы есть.💥🌟🌹
Lovely....so clean too. Arpeggios where each note can be discerned, but still with shade and tone. The delicacy that the guitar brings to a piece that is so well known is very pleasing to the ear.
Tus manos no solo tocan magistralmente la guitarra, que lo hacen!
Tus manos acarician la piel, tus manos secan lágrimas, tus manos mecen cunas, tus manos abrazan, tus manos liberan, tus manos escriben versos, tus manos me han hecho volar de felicidad al escucharte
Saludos y felicitaciones desde Quito Ecuador
❤🇪🇨🤓😉🎧🎤🎹
Not a piece I'd consider in guitar repertoire, but Mr. Harb provides a amazing and masterful performance.
I was suprised to see how well this music lays out on the guitar in Am, its like the music was written with the guitar in mind!!
Как нежно, оказывается, звучат произведения Баха, исполненные на гитаре. Понравилось очень.
Я бы сказала: именно это произведение! А Пера-Улофа Киндгрена не слышали? Тоже очень «нежно»:
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Wow. The guitar adds so much passion and soul to this piece. Also, love the expressiveness of the performer, he's not just playing the piece, he's... FEELING it. Amazing job.
Enfin une interprétation qui respecte la sensibilité de la Toccata à la guitare. C'est la vrai bonne interprétation qui élève l'âme.
This piece has always been a favorite of mine. I've heard it on an organ and a harpsichord...never on a guitar. This is awesome!
living near Koethen in Germany, where J.S.Bach lived for 6 years, videos like this bring me to tears..
These are very hard days for the whole world. Listening to this melody and how it is executed, make me have hope in the future. Thanks for your music.
we missed this in Fredericton last week ... what we heard was wonderful
Divine beauty.
The kind of things that connect us to something beyond.
The rendering, production and filming makes respect for this eternal piece.
Kudos for the player and all involved.
I wasn’t sure about this at first; I thought I would miss the “grandeur” of the sound of the organ. But this is fantastic. Beautiful playing, beautiful tone; great recording.
Even Bach would be amazed at this beautiful rendition.
Here I lay in bed one night trying to turn of the world and run across this gem! What phrasing and what musical control! After listening to this for just five minutes i am completely relaxed and not thinking about the world. Thank you Tariq for sharing such beauty with the world.
Это истинное счастье слушать такого виртуоза!
What an arrangement...and so flawlessly performed. Sheer genius. There can only be a few people on Earth that could play at (THAT) level. Masterly...
Bravo, Maestro....this touched my soul.
One of the best performances of this beautiful piece of music. Love hearing it banged out on the organ, but this is so subtle and controlled.
Thank you
One of the best guitar performances I've ever seen.
This is clean, pleasant execution, without adaptations or improvisations. A masterpiece executed in the image and likeness of its creator!
Какое счастье - иметь возможность услышать безупречное исполнение любимого классического произведения! Огромное Вам спасибо! Удивительный талант!
Tellement c'est fabuleux à écouter que je reviens régulièrement ...
This has made my day. Excellent piece played flawlessly. Im learning guitar and this is what inspires me
To play that from memory -- unbelievable !
To give fullness to every note, and presence to the space between the notes -- sheer bliss.
I came to this straight after hearing Narciso Yepes, and it carried me even higher.
Thank you so much.
Блестящая игра! Браво! И спасибо за такую преданность музыке!
The tone, the control, the dynamics, the feel, all of it...it's just amazing. So well done, so impressive. Thank you for your wonderful performance!
It is almost as if the guitar is playing itself. Speaking like you or I would, naturally and experienced. This is seriously some of the best guitar I've heard in my life. Very well done Tariq.
When CZcams recommended this I was very skeptical, imagining that there would be no way to capture the magnificence of this organ piece using a guitar. I was wrong. Thank you so much for a masterful performance! Bravo!
The versions played with the organ are often so massive - this one played with the guitar sounds fine and delicate. I like this.
You really demonstrate the polyphonal aspects of your instrument in the way that Segovia talked about it and did. Just amazing.
I keep returning to this video..
- I feel like I'm acting in a scene in Clockwork Orange movie every time I hear this.
J.S.Bach 🤘✊🏼👊
I was raised in a guitar store. A beautiful childhood with musicians visiting from all over the world. This monumental piece would often be played. Very few mastered it with such grace, skill, and resonance. Thank you for sharing. I listen to this and am better for it.
Браво Маэстро!! Каждый звук пропущен через себя!
F*** Yeah!!!! What a play!!! Watch it a hundred times!
WOW. The way you voiced the bass line was amazing - it sang so well. I think few know how hard it is to take a keyboard piece where there are two hands playing (and a foot on the organ) and translate that to a guitar. Bravo bravo
I didn't believe that this complex piece could be transcribed for classical guitar. I am glad i clicked to start the video. Though it is more like an adaptation than a transcription, it is very enjoyable... and it showcases what a fine instrument can do, expertly managed :) will hear it often. Thanks
I'm by no means a concert level guitarist but I am of the strong opinion that you can do anything on the guitar. Perhaps educated decisions must be made in terms of transpositions and displacing certain notes by an octave or perhaps excluded all together. But for the most part whatever it is it can be done.
@@robkrug4304 i wouldn't go so far as to state "can do anything"... for every instrument has its limited range of notes, and a computer can "play" much faster. There are also limitations as to the spread of the Left hand fingers. A transcription would play every note in Bach's composition for Pipe Organ; an "adaptation" is what you mean. A Pipe Organ is played with 10 fingers to press on keys, plus 2 feet to press on the bass pedals.
For 'ukulele, it would be even more difficult to adapt this masterpiece from Bach. Nowadays, church organists don't compose much - there's so much to draw from, once an efficient music notation was developed.
I believe the prevailing opinion among scholars at present is that Toccata and Fugue was originally written for strings and transcribed to the pipe organ later, but that only a copy of the piece for organ survived. It's a very odd piece on a pipe organ, even leading other scholars to assume Bach would never have written it because he never would have written an organ piece like that. For organ, it's simplistic, bombastic, and breaks very many of the rules Bach was devoted to following... however, it's is far more natural as a composition for strings and here, the level of complexity is appropriate for a virtuoso performer.
As far as 10 fingers and 2 feet go, much of Toccata and Fugue consists of octaves, if the piece was transcribed to organ, it's likely that these would have been put in to fill out what would have been a sparse sound for such a powerful, and characteristically multi-voiced, instrument; those octaves are the only part of the composition that seem to be missing here.
@@will9357 So, therefore, the scholars could have transcribed it for string orchestra.
What we know for sure is that the piece survived as a Pipe Organ version... (With J.S.Bach's name on it.. ) The rest is speculation. Scholars get paid to speculate...
Fully agree.
How could you not like this performance? It was passionately and brilliantly executed. Well done sir!
There are solid reasons to not like the australian guitar tone, it's noticeably different from a traditional construction. That aside, there's nothing to dislike about the performance tbh, it's great.
Absolutely! Only those with no soul could dislike this!
Маэстро, это было одно из лучших прочтений!!!
He didn’t play a musical piece. He played his feelings on this beautiful composition. Supreme interpretation. Bravo Bravissimo!
Исполнитель раскрыл максимальные возможности гитары исполняя это произведение! Браво !!!
As a guitar player I don't take any of this for granted. this is savage!
..savage.🤟🎸🖤
Your interpretations of bach's music are my favorite, your music is unbelievably alive!
Prodigieux !!! Quelle guitare : le son est fantastique, puissant. Tout la force de l'orgue est rendue avec seulement 6 cordes mais vibrées avec une telle magie... Bravo Maestro ☺️
Breathtaking ...and Bach doesn't leave much space to recover if you falter. The power of memory you need for this kind of music is beyond comprehension ... wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
The nobility of the classical guitar, perfectly exemplified. Lifts you out of ordinary life. Otherworldly. Thank you.
بصراحه بعد عمر خورشيد لم اجد من يمتع اذني بعزفه علي الجيتار فقط حينما استمعت الي عزفك شكرا جزيلا
I'm completely amazed. I've heard some classical guitarists attempt this piece and they sound alright. But this is played so incredibly well - sounds flawless to me. You make it sound like this piece was composed for the classical guitar. I'm beyond impressed. Subscribed.
There are a lot of organists who have posted their renditions of this song to CZcams who need listen to this. His tempo and feeling are absolutely perfect! He GETS it. It's not a race... it should be felt. Amazing job!
You have reached a new summit, and the more I listen to this recording, the more I love it....
Watched it a hundred times, I cry every time it's so beautiful
Just as impressive as on organ, brilliantly done and so different to John Williams/Sky version which i adore. Thank you for the joy.