XAVER VARNUS PLAYS BACH'S PASSACAGLIA IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2018
- Xaver Varnus plays Bach's Passacaglia on the great organ of the Canterbury Cathedral, under the patronage of Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. Recorded live in the Canterbury Festival in 2004.
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Born in Budapest, his first piano teacher was Emma Németh, one of the last pupils of Claude Debussy. Xaver Varnus has played virtually every important organ in the world, including those in Bach's Thomaskirche in Leipzig (2014), Berliner Dom (2013), Notre-Dame (1981), Saint-Sulpice (2006) and Saint-Eustache (1996) in Paris, National Shrine in Washington, D.C. (1985), and Canterbury Cathedral (2004), as well as the largest existing instrument in the world, the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (1985). His Quadruple Platinum Disc winning album From Ravel to Vangelis, released by Sony BMG in 2007, is the best-selling collection of organ recordings ever. "Put simply, Varnus is a monster talent, every bit as stimulating and individual as the late Glenn Gould". (The Globe & Mail, Canada's National Newspaper, 1985)
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Absolutely AWESOME! I love his use of the slower tempo! GENIUS!
A very demanding interpretation of this great opus of JSB with distinct registration. I like it very much.
btw: This piece was to perform the exame of my mother when she studied organ in the 40's, and she played it totally by memory.
I also am playing the organ from my youth on, and Bach is my favourite composer, in his style I use to improvise on organs and keyboards. It's really balsam for the soul, never boring. ❤️🙏
Xavier col suo tocco magico trasmette la sua sensazione agli spettatori che lo seguono in religioso silenzio. Bravissimo è dir poco.
Lovely to hear JSB's passacaglia on this organ, and this interpretation of it. This is the old 3 manualled instrument I played in 90s. A wonderful experience..... high in the reredos with a view of the vastness of the cathedral - tower just above, and nave beyond.
Grazie Maestro.
Un grande organista, inconfondibile, ineffabile.
Спасибо за такой классный концерт! ❤
Magnifico! Xaver is a superb organist whose style and music interpretations surpasses all! Bravo, Bravo, Bravo! I am a true fan!
Minden alkalommal nagyon köszönöm a friss fellépéseidet
wow what an incredible musical tonal palette he performed. If that doesn't demonstrate the true capabilities of THE KING OF INSTRUMENTS! BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!
Perfect tempo for the reverb in that space!
Fantasztikus.
Oszinten ,nincs eleg szuperlativum,hogy leirhassam azt a tehetseget ami benned rejlik.
Senti la gracia divina cerca, si interpretación es sublime
j'aime beaucoup cette interprétation et son excellente et originale registration
Well done!!
Genius! Best performance ever and I have heard many over many years!
Richter? Walcha? Have you ever studied or played Bach? This is second-rate on so many levels.
This performance is literally healing my soul. Wonder-full!
J.S.Bach`s Passacaglia BWV 582 in Canterbury Cathedral with X.Varnus playing the giant organ : This is heaven on earth !
Superb as usual, Maestro Varnus !
Brilliance - Xavier delivers it every time.
Amazing as always...🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💫
Mooi gespeeld hoor❤
Rio de Janeiro - A música clássica ergue nossas almas👏👏👏👏🤑🤑
Bravo, Bravo. Grande Organista. Great Organist
🕊️☮️🕊️AMEN🕊️☮️🕊️
Мy favorite piece of everything created on earth.
Nagyszerű köszönöm kedves játékodat tisztelettel és őszintén.
My computer speakers couldn't quite handle 32 feet. But I had a good time imagining it.
I am in love...
I love the tempo. I've heard so many people trash through this piece. If you do that you're setting yourself up for fail. Once started, you can't just change the tempo of a piece that's founded in it's opening bars. You start too quickly and by the 6th movement, you'll realise your mistake, Then finishing the piece is going to be torture.
Well, that was a stroke of brilliance that made for a delicious Salisbury steak: After the sustained fortissimo bII6 chord (Db Major/F) at 15:10-16, XV concludes in a slower tempo with a quieter diapason chorus registration, the diapason being the sound that is unique to the pipe organ and derivative of no other instrument.
I have often wondered whether Cesar Franck's Second Chorale in B Minor, composed upon a passacaglia theme, was inspired by Bach's C Minor Passacaglia. Franck ended his Second Chorale slowly with a quiet registration, but only after a thunderous climax of the passacaglia theme in triple octaves. If so, perhaps XV is acting as Bach's regent and returning the compliment to Franck here.
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Great playing and magnificent organ sound. I'm wondering if it was really necessary for the cathedral to carry out such an extensive rebuild and possibly change the tonal brilliance of this instrument. I've heard the new Harrison version and although now equipped with more pipes, a new console and an impressive array of high pressure reeds, is it a worthy successor to the Willis/Mander instrument, which even with its limitations, made a wonderful sound without having to show off!!?
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Mooie opname, goede organist
Where Thomas Becket was murdered by four knights about 1140.
David from London
El eco es bestial.muy buena decisión un tempo lento
Magníficas decisiones en cuanto ala registración. Soy su alumno en la distancia.
I love also the imple version of Karl Richter
Fantastic, shame the ending is the audio equivelent of a controlled sezure.
Richter still is the benchmark and truly in a league of his own, followed by Walcha, and then the also-rans.
The manner in which he played the Passacaglia here is different to the Silbermann Organ in Rötha. Mainly relative to the acoustics.
The contrast couldn't be greater between this recording and Varnus' interpretation of this very same masterpiece on a Silberman organ in Rötha in 2017. Excellent playing in both cases, and Bach can be played on virtually any instrument, but the listener will be given a clear choice about the most suitable organ.
I had two ads through this. Shampoo and food sauce. Nice one.
There is no such thing as THE Canterbury Cathedral.
It is Canterbury Cathedral.
Bad recording
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