J.S. Bach Toccata BWV 540 www.luteduo.com
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- The organ toccata BWV 540 arranged and performed on two 13 - course baroque lutes by the LUTEDUO Anna Kowalska & Anton Birula.
Our Special thanks and great respect to Father Wojciech Drozdowicz for his support for our duet and the possibility to film in this absolutely magnificient church full of unique energy and spirit!
We are also thankful to our friends who made this recording possible:
Sound Master - Dirk Fischer
Video editing - Marek Wawrzyniak
Good old Bach..
That BWV 540 is generally a maelström, a hurricane, a tornado that blows everything when it is played on the organ. And generally the organist pulls all the stops, in order to give that powerful piece the magnificence it needs....
... well, actually, I never heard a single organist who dares to play the great 540 on the great organ, with just a Flute 8 !
Yet this is where we are invited to go in this video. I never thought of quietly hear the 540 in a so self-controlled execution. And it's a pure joy. With the delicate sound of the lute, we can calmly distinct all the melodic architecture of this jewel. Its a new way, more intimate. We are allowed to approch the beast while she is sleeping....:D
Thank you @luteduo for that momentary lapse of reason. I'll come back to Bach on the great organ of course, but I'll always keep an eye on this particuliar 540.
Absolutely incredible.
Astonishing.
Ultra-talented musicians like this should be the billionaires in our world.
:) money is way too vulgar to interest these kind of artist
bravissimi
Nous sommes admiratifs devant ce duos tres talenteueux. Apres Ida Presti et Alexandre Lagoya, enfin un
heritage de qualite. BRAVO❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@paulettemaier4580 Thank you so much, it means a lot to hear this 🙏🧡❤️🍀
Nourishment for the soul
This is really magnificent! How beautiful!
Продолжаю. Слава вам и родителям вашим. Дай вам Бог всего доброго. б
Would never have believed this would work on anything but organ until I heard this - wonderful!
I just want to dance to this.. and dance.. and dance... no matter what version, organ,. piano or lute... F major tocatta (540) is a prime example of "All of Bach is a Dance." I don't even know who said that... but someone did say that.
Absolutely amazing, beautiful couple, so gifted, so well integrated.
you are incredible ! fantastic !
Remarkable. It's an effortless, continuous rippling river of sound. Close your eyes and let it flow through you. Bravo!
Two lutes sound better and more dynamic and refined than a harpsichord! Thanks for your virtuosic and beautifull registration of a Bach registration who himself considered the lute as "etwas feines von Musik".
Lovely couple. Sooo talented!
BRAVI e grazie di cuore
La beauté de cette musique interprétée par ces deux musiciens extrêmement talentueux est la preuve que JS Bach a transcendé les limites humaines. Comme il est évident, il a atteint et capturé les choeurs des anges; de conscience dimensionnelle supérieure.
J'ai écouté cette performance plusieurs fois avec grand plaisir. Merci beaucoup de partager vos talents avec nous.
Ausgezeichnet! Vorzüglich! Sehr exquisit! Supertalente, die wirklich transzendente Musik spielen ...
Дорогие ребята. Спасибо за удовольствие
We don't have to worry about the lack of "likes" or views, we are one of the few select group of people that can understand and like this gem and the eternally works of JS Bach.
Long after modern music is dead and forgotten, some kid somwhere will be strumming this, humming this, picking this on a piano or organ or harmonica.. it is that timeless.. that... infectious. It's an earworm, ain't it?
How truly fortunate we are to hear such beautiful music performed by wonderful performers on majestic instruments once for so long almost forgotten. Thank you, Lute Duo and those who made this video possible..
Sublime!!!
I watch this one every day, thank you so much for posting.
Great!!!!
It is all too common to see great talented musicians (such as yourselves) provide the world with a tremendous performance only to get so little views and likes. You deserve more for your hard work! Regretfully, all I can do is add a "thumbs up" (the 77th one). This is unfair. You have contributed to my heart and I can not contribute back? I am unemployed but I tell you with all honesty that you are appreciated tonight by someone who loves Bach. And to Father Drozdowicz, thank you for providing these fine musicians with such a great performing location. I hope Anna & Anton encounter more generosity in the future so that all the world can benefit from their talents just as I have tonight. Thank you greatly!
+gerubach If these fine musicians used Bitcoin, and you used Bitcoin, you could send them money with a click of your mouse, on the same computer that you watched this on.
As I type this, there are 2,605 views, and 86 thumbs up. If each of the thumbs up was a Bitcoin donation.... you do the math. And there are many performances like this on CZcams that would similarly earn the players substantial money.
Finally it will be worth putting performances on CZcams. Don't complain that there is nothing you can do; there IS something you can do; use Bitcoin!
And while I am here, this really is one of the finest Bach interpretations on Lute that I have ever herd... sublime!
+gerubach Geru! I'm a big fan hahaha. Thanks for introducing me to Bach Passacaglia and Fugue and Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor. Didn't know organ was so cool. I want to build a small one now out of wood XD
not an easy task - the organ was not without reason called the most advanced machine before clocks. If You really decide to, then I wish all the best in that endeavor.
THANK YOU very much for the warmest words. If you would like to support us, you are always welcom to buy Cds from www.luteduo.com!
But Lady Gaga! Jk. Lol. Yeah, unlike sports where the best athletes tend to get the awards here it's all about who knows who and that's it
Stunning ! Thank you so very much.
Bestens, DANKE, ;-))
Brano Fantastico che rinfranca l'Anima. Grandioso Bach, sempre Moderno. E' una Cascata di suoni che viaggeranno per sempre nell' Universo. Grandi Complimenti ai due Maestri, si sente che hanno una Montagna di Studio e tanta Passione. Esecuzione Impeccabile. Bravi. Un Napoletano che mastica Musica da cinquanta anni. Ciao!!!
Just goes to show how flexible Bach's music is - a lovely performance of one of my fave organ works!!
I absolutely love your music. Brilliant. Beautifull!!
Just beautiful. Thanks.
you sound like 1, bravo!...I love the lute and theorbo, and mainly BACH, (to me the GREATEST one)
So beautiful...
cudowna muzyka, dziękuję
What a wonderful setting for wonderful music. And these artists make it look so simple!
Vraiment magnifique, quel son, quel constance dans la déclinaison des notes, quelle passion dans les transitions et les cadences,, un travail d'orfèvre de haute joaillerie, vraiment. Mille mercis!
extraordinary!
This is SO unbelievably beautiful that I've already listened to it 15 times via an excellent Sennheiser headset. The execution of this transcription is perfect. What talents we have here ...
Mesmerizing! Beautiful music and excellent rendition by LUTEDUO!
Excellent. Thank you so much, Anna and Anton; I wish you had CD's available in the U.S.
We ship CDs worldwide from luteduo.com;)
@@antonbirula6750 Thank you! I ordered three of them, and they are excellent.
What can I add to what everybody else has already said? Truly wonderful and what a setting for Bach and string instruments!!!!
What a pleasure! You make it seem spontaneous and effortless.
thank you so much!
this is wonderful, I cant imagine how much nicer it sounds inside a big space like that
Thank you Thank you. This became my morning meditation today.
Merci ! Oh merci ! Quelle beauté !
I prefer this on the organ, but the duo is masterful.
Sooo schön, leicht und luftig, wer gibt denn da nur den Daumen ´runter, da braucht doch einer dringend Hilfe.
Hermosa y Majistral Interpretación de J S Bach.
Lute atiorbato, belo duo
beautiful.
beautiful recording and playing, in a word, sublime!! This amazing arrangement works so well on 2 lutes, it was wonderful to hear this, obviously a lot of work went into making this happen.... I am inspired!! Bravo!!
Bravo!
Esecuzione stupenda. Bach espresso a meraviglia. Grazie!
Awesome, knocked out by this, on repeat. Inspirational!
Wow!! What a wonderful interpretation of a truly spectacular piece! Many thanks for all your work in arranging, performing, and recording it! ♥️👏
perfect transparancy and separation voices - jsb would have his pleasure at your performance ;-)
Just wow...how beautiful.
that's absolutely amazing
Your arrangement and setting, that is to say the interplay between and unique, complementary tonality and sonic textures of the two lutes, inspires and breathes an authentic freshness into Bach's composition with which he would doubtless be quite pleased. Absolutely divine. Thank you.
Sublime
This is wonderful. Over in the 70s rock world, Keith Emerson did a bit of this on their Tarkus LP. I hope this recording becomes at least as well known.
wow Amazing!
This is one that I missed.
Ethereal and beautiful.
The acoustics are wonderful.
Excellent transcription, wonderfully played
Leçon bien apprise ! Une superbe fleur de la discipline !
Beautiful.
Ein Traumpaar & ein unglaublich reif & ❤ wunderschöner Performen 👍
Fantastic!
I’m speechless. One of Bach’s greatest organ works reimagined for two lutes. Gorgeous and magnificent. The stereo antiphonal sections are a delight.
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Sehr, sehr schön. Danke fürs Teilen!
Amazing!!
Utterly magnificent performance! Many thanks for posting :-D
Well, if Bach himself likes it, it must be good!
Oh it seems to work out... Fuuiyooo! Well played
Splendidi
So nice to listen to you both!
Enjoyed it very much!!
Magnificent! I have been listening to BWV 540 for longer than I recall, having discovered a Deutsche Gramophon LP of Helmut Walcha at least thirty years ago. Never would I have imagined that this music would work so well on a baroque lute duo. This is actually a higher compliment than you might first expect - one of my greatest passions is performing the sublime music of Silvius Leopold Weiss on das barocklaute. Especially the Dresden Source and Manuscript Harrach. Thank you for the beautiful music. Francois Couperin once said that he'd "much prefer to be moved than astonished". Your rendition here has happily accomplished both!
Very good.!!! Your are angels!
Sublime! Thank you...
A superb performance, thanks very much
Quite unique and very well done!
Molodzy,krasota!v.m
Nice work,, sounds great,,
And to him who wrote the music----
Perfect…. In every respect.
Your own arrangement, no less? Wunderschön! (Sorry, I can't do it in Polish.) I know JS Bach wrote many transcriptions and arrangements (witness at least two Vivaldi concerti I know of he re-worked, pared down the sequences & added portions in related keys), so it is just possible he would hear this and approve. I sure do. Many thanks.
Yes it is owrs:) thank you! We have made two Bach projects of arrangements Luteduo plays Bach & Luteduo Bach Visions. czcams.com/video/Ifsk0RDMiaM/video.html
czcams.com/video/-0Zm0N3NB5M/video.html
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Plucked strings give a wonderful clarity to Bach’s counterpoint, which I think a lot of pipe organs obscure, for mechanical reasons, the articulation not crisp enough.
The music transports the listener to a beautiful place. Speaking of beautiful, what's the name of the church?
Thank yu for watching!
This is a great place by all means
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camaldolese_Church,_Warsaw
Sublime , bravo .
Mais... SVP où est cet église - la?
Where is this church please ?
Gdzie i jaki to kosciol , prosze . ?
This is a church in Warsaw
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camaldolese_Church,_Warsaw a great spiritual place;))))
I like this but I miss that remarcable fixed tone in bass which comes with organ pedal..
Krasota
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真好听 ma toaccata cosa vuole dire? toccare ?
op zich "netjes" gespeeld maar doet geen recht aan de magistrale orgelversie...
Agreed; the lute cannot rival the organ in the latter's own domain, no matter how excellent the lutenists, but I can understand why the duo ventures beyond music written for the lute, much as I appreciate it.
All you useless comments .. where’s the fugue
Bravo !