Hadn't listened to the trio sonatas for years as I wasn't that keen on them when I was young (sorry!). But hearing Richard play No. 6 was a revelation! Was so taken with it that I went back and found all the others. Wonderful! Thanks so much 😊
I love how in Vivace, the 3 parts with arpeggios changes. First is the main melody in right hand then in second it changes to left hand and in the last one its with both hands! Such a lovely piece!! 💚😌
I'm SO excited by this performance! I first recall hearing the Bach trio sonatas in the early 1980s played by Peter Hurford. I was spellbound! I loved them immediately. For years I thought his performances would never be rivalled. Now, in just the past few years, we're seeing multiple great musicians, including Anna Lapwood and Richard McVeigh, turn their eyes, mind, hands and feet to them with truly wonderful results. (I too have started learning them, thanks to the COVID lockdowns. Maybe a silver lining of the lockdowns is that musicians have been able to give such music the time it needs and deserves). Why am I excited? Thanks to CZcams and truly musical performances like this one, I think we might be on the edge of the organ becoming far more popular.
Love this trio sonata #6. Thanks for giving your viewers the opportunity to hear the way it’s supposed to sound! And the original Bach scores?? Cool we can see them, amazing experience, really.
Absolutely superb! Amazing articulation, flow, registration - but most impressive is how you got these all learned and to concert standard so quickly. The mind boggles. You are amazing - congratulations on this achievement. I know I'll be enjoying these performances again and again!
I don't really like wearing headphones but sometimes the speakers in my monitor are just not enough! Another excellent rendition - thank you. (In fact, I am going to play it again right now.)
Incredible sound on this 1738 organ when Backh was still alive. Great to hear this nicely paced recording compared with Simon Preston's whose Bach box set is glorious.
Really loving this piece Richard, so relaxing which I need due to a very close friend having a heart attack! I especially like the feet screen showing here, very innovative! Great to try new presentation ways!
I like it when the musical score was included in the views. Enjoying your player during my worship and studies has made me a better player. Amazing how that has translated almost effortlessly with the new found appreciation that develops from interaction with BIS.
Absolutely wonderful performance! Congratulations on finishing all the trio sonatas, it must be an incredible feeling to have that New year's resolution and accomplishment fulfilled.
Delicious! Absolutely love your phrasing - really brings to life the melodic shapes and counterpoint. And a lovely choice of instrument to play it on. Thanks for taking the time to learn it and to share it with us.
..This has to be one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever. It has lifted my heart on a dark day, thanks to Our Precious Lord Jesus Christ, for using and enabling J S Bach to write this masterpiece. All this for His Eternal Purposes and the Glory of God. Soli Deo Gloria.
This is a real inspiration. I have the Peter Hurford recording, but yours seems to have more soul and flexibility to it as well as your technique. A beautiful performance.
I agree. I love Peter Hurford's performances, and it was largely him who inspired me to learn the organ many years ago, and the trio sonatas in particular. However, like you I feel that this performance has more soul and flexibility.
Sorry to get here late --- Greetings from Mid- Florida! I am listening to your excellent performance from the beginning --- this is one of my all-time favorite pieces and you are playing it very clearly, with beautiful solo stop selections. I can easily follow each voice, which is adding immensely to my enjoyment of this magnificent brilliant Bach composition. Thanks! This is womderful! Your pedal image in the 1st movement was really cool, and it was shown in the correct perspective, as if you had a big monitor there! How cool was that! Then following Bach's handwritten score in the 2nd movement was a real treat!
Well done, Richard! Your progress from earlier in the week is nothing short of fantastical! I'm almost envious of your ability to rapidly learn difficult music. I would be interested to know which edition of the Bach you play from, as some of the accidentals are different from what I learned with Widor-Schweitzer, but it was easy to see from the manuscript portions you displayed that it can be hard to tell what Bach actually wanted! Thank you so much for such an invigorating and sensitive performance!
Well done on completing all six sonatas - that was one of my projects last year too, and it feels so good to have them all under the belt. Of course, learning them is only the beginning - there is so much to find in them, and given their usefulness for recitals and in services, they repay the effort of learning them many times over. That's an impressive sample set you've used! It really enhanced your already very stylish interpretation.
Bravissimo, mi piace soprattutto il Tuo approccio non aggressivo ai tempi, questo permette di gustare l’intreccio melodico armonico come fosse il respiro dell’anima. Il quieto battito del cuore. Non sono un organista titolato ma solo appassionato e in questo periodo dopo anni di abbandono dello strumento ho ripreso a studiare. Tra le altre cose in fase di studio c’è pure la 5 e la 6 triosonata. Un godimento senza fine.🙏🏻
That trio sonata is often considered the hardest one of the bunch. I tried learning the first one but never got around to even completing the first movement. And also question for Richard, as a cathedral organist how do you practice to learn so many pieces rapidly?
I feel the same way, I also dealt with the Trio Sonatas about 8 years ago. Couldn't really play it live... Got some help with Cubase to complete for me ... :-) ..and Richard; really well done - bravo
Congratulations for the 6 sonatas. I studied them for years and still I am not fluent and perfect like you. I was curious about your way of acquiring the total independence of the three parts. Do you prefer separate LH-Ped, RH-Ped, Hands, or you were able to play soon together?
From my experience: this set of pieces in particular requires any physical or mental problems to be identified and practiced in isolation. That can often mean just one part, and then just two parts. I'm learning them at the moment, and I've twice found that the only way I could move forward was to force myself to play just one part (usually the left hand) on its own for an entire day of multiple practice sessions - several hours in total. I found it required immense restraint! The next day, in both cases, I found the three parts seemingly playing themselves. Very relaxing and satisfying! I hope that helps.
@@JSB2500 Yes, it helps. I'll try this. I decided to study always coupling two parts per time but effectively the left hand (I am righthanded) is the more difficult part to achieve independence especially in the fast movements with imitations.
@@fabiogalmat5226 To solve the independence problem with these pieces, I very strongly recommend memorizing them, then simply identify and solve problems until the whole thing is fluid and almost effortless. (Do NOT simply repeat the piece from the start when practicing!! Instead, work only on whatever bit concerns you most. Try to do this only from memory). In case you think you can't memorize, I think I can help. I used to think I couldn't. Now, having learned from concert pianist friends how to do it, I can. It turns out I wasn't doing it right at all! I've since memorized many complete Bach organ works, including 582, 542, 565, and many others.
An example of how this helps with the Trio Sonatas: Last Oct I started learning 525iii. I could more or less sightread it, but I wasn't happy with the result: it involved too much mental effort. I spent a few days memorizing it, then put the score away. After that, I worked on bits that concerned me. Mostly they were left hand mechanical problems. Playing entirely from memory enabled me to work diligently at solving these problems. From start to my first recording took a few weeks: almost entirely working on mechanical problems (even though I've played the organ for decades!). I don't think I would have attained that fluidity playing from the score.
Have a look through my CZcams videos to hear the result. (NB: I'm actually playing it from memory in the recording, hence why I turn the page turn at completely the wrong place!). If there's anything I can teach you, I'm very happy to try. If you're already ahead of me, I'm happy to step aside! Incidentally, I'm intending to start a CZcams channel on how to learn Bach's organ music.
After the pleasure of this, I must search out the others. My listening is imprinted with the Schnitger sound which I mentioned in a different post. I look forward to the other five to readjust my perception. A humble request. Could you place on screen the regiatrations you use. Or, in the description if you don't have big changes. As ever, thank you.
Congratulations on the completion of the six most wonderful pieces. I estimate you averaged about one every two months(ish) which, considering the amount of other things you've been involved with, is nothing short of brilliant. Which is your favourite I wonder?
Hey, i just had to comment. What a bright lively sounding organ. it there a sample set aval? I follow organs all over. seen your setup as well. I have a huge multi hauptwerk setup in my synth studio. Happy Playing
It’s hard to play in the right way, in terms of articulation, phrasing and tempo, and hard in terms of notation and fingering. The 1st movement isn’t *too* bad, but the 3rd movement is very hard.
@@kenmerola4797 the problem is, it is only authentic from the console perspective. But if the recording is "in the room" you would (hopefully) never hear that much racket downstairs. And I think that hearing the mechanism clank loudly is a *defect* not a *feature*. So for playing at home and having fun, sure, turn them on if that's your thing, but for pushing out recordings that essentially sound like CD's, it's rather ironically not realistic at all, but rather synthetic.
Terence - How could you say that?!! This is a great performance, even better and clearer than E. Power Biggs' definitive performance of this piece, which I have always loved and to which I have listened many many times
Dear Richard, I really love your recordings that brings a lot of great joy to many of our's life. I understand your point but your example is not the best to argue with my question. The pedals on Bach's organ were short-which made it impossible or very hard to use the heels. Of course you can use heels if you like but I think it is not necessary to use heels (except D major scale in the D major Prelude). It is a school nowdays and taught at the music academies. It is much easier to control articulation using toes that give benefit for the playing.
Hadn't listened to the trio sonatas for years as I wasn't that keen on them when I was young (sorry!). But hearing Richard play No. 6 was a revelation! Was so taken with it that I went back and found all the others. Wonderful! Thanks so much 😊
You’re very welcome
I love how in Vivace, the 3 parts with arpeggios changes. First is the main melody in right hand then in second it changes to left hand and in the last one its with both hands! Such a lovely piece!! 💚😌
The song reminds me of life’s ups and downs and is a great piece to listen to at anytime. Keep up the beautiful music🎵
I'm SO excited by this performance! I first recall hearing the Bach trio sonatas in the early 1980s played by Peter Hurford. I was spellbound! I loved them immediately. For years I thought his performances would never be rivalled.
Now, in just the past few years, we're seeing multiple great musicians, including Anna Lapwood and Richard McVeigh, turn their eyes, mind, hands and feet to them with truly wonderful results. (I too have started learning them, thanks to the COVID lockdowns. Maybe a silver lining of the lockdowns is that musicians have been able to give such music the time it needs and deserves).
Why am I excited? Thanks to CZcams and truly musical performances like this one, I think we might be on the edge of the organ becoming far more popular.
I absolutely loved this performance. The Trio Sonatas are close to my heart, and listening brought much joy. Thank you
Exact same for me. They've been close to my heart since I first heard them 40 years ago. This particular performance also brought me much joy.
Love this trio sonata #6. Thanks for giving your viewers the opportunity to hear the way it’s supposed to sound! And the original Bach scores?? Cool we can see them, amazing experience, really.
The comfort of this performance is full of far superior splendor amazing
Beautiful. The separate lines converging into intricate harmony is mesmerizing. But then... Bach. Thank you for posting.
Absolutely superb! Amazing articulation, flow, registration - but most impressive is how you got these all learned and to concert standard so quickly. The mind boggles. You are amazing - congratulations on this achievement. I know I'll be enjoying these performances again and again!
Thank you for the occasional MS score. Another dimension.
Better late than never ….. love the pedals and sock work shown in place of the music score .
Bravo Richard. And brilliant on Haarlem's stunning Baroque organ. Wonderful seeing the original score as you played. Thank you so much.
I played this piece myself a few years ago and I love the second movement the most. It is so beautiful.
A spellbinding performance of a lovely, melodious sonata. No. 6 is one of the most difficult of these sonatas, technically speaking.
Richard,Thank You for this suburb, marvelous , complexity of notes.. Enjoy the instrument.
I don't really like wearing headphones but sometimes the speakers in my monitor are just not enough!
Another excellent rendition - thank you.
(In fact, I am going to play it again right now.)
Absolutely mind blowing!
Thank you so much for playing these.
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Incredible sound on this 1738 organ when Backh was still alive. Great to hear this nicely paced recording compared with Simon Preston's whose Bach box set is glorious.
Great musical production
Nicely done! Love the way you let it breathe! I really enjoyed it.
A revelation; I thought I knew this piece, but Richard you have somehow got to the heart of this marvellous music. The organ tone is beyond delicious.
Performance perfection. LOVE all the different PIP locations on the screen,especially on the music rack. Well deserved smile at the camera at the end!
Really loving this piece Richard, so relaxing which I need due to a very close friend having a heart attack! I especially like the feet screen showing here, very innovative! Great to try new presentation ways!
Sorry to hear this John, prayers for you and your friend.
@@caroline.balfour How very kind Caroline, my pal is home again after excellent treatment at Cwmbran new hospital, had 2 stents fitted. x
I like it when the musical score was included in the views. Enjoying your player during my worship and studies has made me a better player. Amazing how that has translated almost effortlessly with the new found appreciation that develops from interaction with BIS.
Thank you, and I'm really pleased you enjoyed it!
Beautifully played Richard. Put me in a great frame of mind before assisting at the service this morning. From Melbourne, Australia.
Absolutely wonderful performance! Congratulations on finishing all the trio sonatas, it must be an incredible feeling to have that New year's resolution and accomplishment fulfilled.
Delicious! Absolutely love your phrasing - really brings to life the melodic shapes and counterpoint. And a lovely choice of instrument to play it on. Thanks for taking the time to learn it and to share it with us.
..This has to be one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever. It has lifted my heart on a dark day, thanks to Our Precious Lord Jesus Christ, for using and enabling J S Bach to write this masterpiece. All this for His Eternal Purposes and the Glory of God. Soli Deo Gloria.
This is a real inspiration. I have the Peter Hurford recording, but yours seems to have more soul and flexibility to it as well as your technique. A beautiful performance.
I agree. I love Peter Hurford's performances, and it was largely him who inspired me to learn the organ many years ago, and the trio sonatas in particular. However, like you I feel that this performance has more soul and flexibility.
it's a pleasure to listen to you :-)
and then on the St Bavokerk, Haarlem anyway
You can be really proud of yourself :-)
Sorry to get here late --- Greetings from Mid- Florida! I am listening to your excellent performance from the beginning --- this is one of my all-time favorite pieces and you are playing it very clearly, with beautiful solo stop selections. I can easily follow each voice, which is adding immensely to my enjoyment of this magnificent brilliant Bach composition. Thanks! This is womderful!
Your pedal image in the 1st movement was really cool, and it was shown in the correct perspective, as if you had a big monitor there! How cool was that! Then following Bach's handwritten score in the 2nd movement was a real treat!
...A Wonderful Interlude, for a Saturday afternoon!..🌹👏👏👏
Well done, Richard! Your progress from earlier in the week is nothing short of fantastical! I'm almost envious of your ability to rapidly learn difficult music. I would be interested to know which edition of the Bach you play from, as some of the accidentals are different from what I learned with Widor-Schweitzer, but it was easy to see from the manuscript portions you displayed that it can be hard to tell what Bach actually wanted! Thank you so much for such an invigorating and sensitive performance!
Great choice of registration. Bravo!
That was delightful, Richard. Now I will have to hear the other five.
Please do listen to them, and I’d be grateful if you could leave me a comment on each to let me know what you think to them 😊
Very well played. This would make a great musical to be played while people are gathering for worship.
Absolutely brilliant. So pleased I could watch live before heading to church. Well done Richard. Greetings from New Zealand 🇳🇿 👍
Sublime. Thank you. 👍👍👍
Superbe ! Musique, musicien et instrument étaient au diapason ;)
Well done on completing all six sonatas - that was one of my projects last year too, and it feels so good to have them all under the belt. Of course, learning them is only the beginning - there is so much to find in them, and given their usefulness for recitals and in services, they repay the effort of learning them many times over.
That's an impressive sample set you've used! It really enhanced your already very stylish interpretation.
Thanks Mark!
And there you go! All 6 recorded - now grab some coffee and relax a bit! You deserved it after this tour de force!!
BRAVO!!!
Bravo!
Absolutely delightful Richard. Such uplifting music played with consummate skill and clarity. Thank you so much.
Superb and well worth the wait. I love the big smile to the camera at the end, it says it all 😃👍
It was a sense of relief! 😃
Brilliant. So glad you were able to learn this. It was wonderful.
Simply stunning Richard, and the registration sounds just so right
🎶 Beautiful performance Richard! Congrats on achieving all 6 trio sonatas🎶
Great job Richard! Also sorry I don’t frequently comment.
Don’t worry, just comment when ever you can 👍
Bravissimo, mi piace soprattutto il Tuo approccio non aggressivo ai tempi, questo permette di gustare l’intreccio melodico armonico come fosse il respiro dell’anima. Il quieto battito del cuore. Non sono un organista titolato ma solo appassionato e in questo periodo dopo anni di abbandono dello strumento ho ripreso a studiare. Tra le altre cose in fase di studio c’è pure la 5 e la 6 triosonata. Un godimento senza fine.🙏🏻
That trio sonata is often considered the hardest one of the bunch. I tried learning the first one but never got around to even completing the first movement. And also question for Richard, as a cathedral organist how do you practice to learn so many pieces rapidly?
Sure - I’ll let you know soon 😉
I feel the same way, I also dealt with the Trio Sonatas about 8 years ago. Couldn't really play it live...
Got some help with Cubase to complete for me ... :-)
..and Richard; really well done - bravo
How’s Baylor? Keep up the good work. Greetings from Uber driver at Dfw airport and surrounding areas. Good success and blessings upon you and yours
I reckon they're all very difficult, and in very different ways! 🙂
Lovely gavotte-like quality to the 1st Mov.
I felt Bachianas Brasileiras. thank you for quite joyful time.
nádherná interpretácia ♥
Congratulations for the 6 sonatas. I studied them for years and still I am not fluent and perfect like you. I was curious about your way of acquiring the total independence of the three parts. Do you prefer separate LH-Ped, RH-Ped, Hands, or you were able to play soon together?
From my experience: this set of pieces in particular requires any physical or mental problems to be identified and practiced in isolation. That can often mean just one part, and then just two parts. I'm learning them at the moment, and I've twice found that the only way I could move forward was to force myself to play just one part (usually the left hand) on its own for an entire day of multiple practice sessions - several hours in total. I found it required immense restraint! The next day, in both cases, I found the three parts seemingly playing themselves. Very relaxing and satisfying! I hope that helps.
@@JSB2500 Yes, it helps. I'll try this. I decided to study always coupling two parts per time but effectively the left hand (I am righthanded) is the more difficult part to achieve independence especially in the fast movements with imitations.
@@fabiogalmat5226 To solve the independence problem with these pieces, I very strongly recommend memorizing them, then simply identify and solve problems until the whole thing is fluid and almost effortless. (Do NOT simply repeat the piece from the start when practicing!! Instead, work only on whatever bit concerns you most. Try to do this only from memory).
In case you think you can't memorize, I think I can help. I used to think I couldn't. Now, having learned from concert pianist friends how to do it, I can. It turns out I wasn't doing it right at all! I've since memorized many complete Bach organ works, including 582, 542, 565, and many others.
An example of how this helps with the Trio Sonatas: Last Oct I started learning 525iii. I could more or less sightread it, but I wasn't happy with the result: it involved too much mental effort.
I spent a few days memorizing it, then put the score away. After that, I worked on bits that concerned me. Mostly they were left hand mechanical problems. Playing entirely from memory enabled me to work diligently at solving these problems. From start to my first recording took a few weeks: almost entirely working on mechanical problems (even though I've played the organ for decades!). I don't think I would have attained that fluidity playing from the score.
Have a look through my CZcams videos to hear the result. (NB: I'm actually playing it from memory in the recording, hence why I turn the page turn at completely the wrong place!).
If there's anything I can teach you, I'm very happy to try. If you're already ahead of me, I'm happy to step aside!
Incidentally, I'm intending to start a CZcams channel on how to learn Bach's organ music.
After the pleasure of this, I must search out the others. My listening is imprinted with the Schnitger sound which I mentioned in a different post. I look forward to the other five to readjust my perception.
A humble request. Could you place on screen the regiatrations you use. Or, in the description if you don't have big changes. As ever, thank you.
👍👍👍TIPPTOPP👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Thank You ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️…
I love your new Organ
Very nice, but a touch more 'presence' ' in the pedal registration would be a good thing, as it is getting a little lost in that acoustic setting.
Congratulations on the completion of the six most wonderful pieces. I estimate you averaged about one every two months(ish) which, considering the amount of other things you've been involved with, is nothing short of brilliant. Which is your favourite I wonder?
Am I allowed individual movements? The 1st movements of 1, 5 and 6 are probably my favourites. As a whole Sonata, probably No. 2.
@@beautyinsound It's a hard choice isn't it! I think the second, particularly the first movement, is mine if I could only keep one to listen to.
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Hey, i just had to comment. What a bright lively sounding organ. it there a sample set aval? I follow organs all over. seen your setup as well. I have a huge multi hauptwerk setup in my synth studio. Happy Playing
I'm sure you've covered this somewhere before, but I'm curious to learn how you trigger page turns on your iPad whilst playing.
Look out for a slight grimace!
@@JFT. When I grimace my iPad does nothing :(
Is this quite difficult to play?
It’s hard to play in the right way, in terms of articulation, phrasing and tempo, and hard in terms of notation and fingering. The 1st movement isn’t *too* bad, but the 3rd movement is very hard.
I would love it if you reuploaded this without the tracker noise. It is SO distracting.
Otherwise, beautiful video as usual.
I'll bear it in mind for next time.
I love those tracker sounds!! Brings back memories from my earlier years playing trackers. Authenticity.. cool.
@@kenmerola4797 the problem is, it is only authentic from the console perspective. But if the recording is "in the room" you would (hopefully) never hear that much racket downstairs. And I think that hearing the mechanism clank loudly is a *defect* not a *feature*. So for playing at home and having fun, sure, turn them on if that's your thing, but for pushing out recordings that essentially sound like CD's, it's rather ironically not realistic at all, but rather synthetic.
Well played Maestro Richard 👍I enjoyed most of it but have to admit that some parts were less entertaining to my taste🙏🏼
Terence - How could you say that?!! This is a great performance, even better and clearer than E. Power Biggs' definitive performance of this piece, which I have always loved and to which I have listened many many times
We might say there is something for everyone in this lively yet tranquil piece.
Doesn't look like the Bavokerk to me...?
At Bach pieces , the use of heels is not justified.
Is the use of an electric blower justified? How about the use of stops that didn't exist in Bach's time - are they justified?
Dear Richard, I really love your recordings that brings a lot of great joy to many of our's life. I understand your point but your example is not the best to argue with my question. The pedals on Bach's organ were short-which made it impossible or very hard to use the heels. Of course you can use heels if you like but I think it is not necessary to use heels (except D major scale in the D major Prelude). It is a school nowdays and taught at the music academies. It is much easier to control articulation using toes that give benefit for the playing.
Hauptwerk? No, thanks.
Cheers for the comment - great to know you enjoyed it. On your way out, please help yourself to a cookie 🍪
@@beautyinsound Tu es le bienvenu, pour l'amour de Dieu. Merci pour le biscuit, Monsieur McVeigh. Salutations d'Orléans, France.