I haven't heard this Lady before but lovely performance! What fascinates me about organists,is that not only are the hands doing different things often at different tempos but the feet are also doing even more different things at different tempos too!

beautiful...i've been searching for this for over 30 years...

This is a beautiful display of style and class on the organ.

Simply magnificent! Thank you Ms. Bish. Praise God!

With so much love for the legendary Ms. Bish, I feel it must be pointed out: The first fugue theme really does resemble the opening line of St. Anne, but it also resembles fugue subjects found in other works around and about the early 1700s. It is not at all clear that the English hymn tune made it across the channel to Germany in time for Bach to have heard it; it seems likely that this is just one of those cases where a good idea strikes more than one person in more than one place.

This is one of Bach's pieces that is so intricate, it really needed to be played on a "tight" organ, that speaks very fast, to avoid blurring of notes. E. Power Biggs version of this on the Harvard Flentrop is an excellent example.

You play Bach with such deep understanding. You seem to know that for many of us, Bach is where we get our Christianity - raised a Methodist, I became a Presbyterian because their organist played one Bach piece every Sunday - and from you, it is pure.

Grande organista... Brava Diane Bish....Bella interpretazione....Grazie

Fabulous interpretation!

Dear Ms. Bish. What a glorious delight it is to hear you play. This most marvelous piece is a true great but it takes a player of true class and caliber to bring out its creativity to the full. I hear you and feel a controlled passion that allows the music to sings and state itself, almost without interference as if you move your fingers through the streams of music and glory comes. It was truly lovely and I do so hope you continue to allow us to delight in your wonderful gift for the great art. R

Immaculate playing, Diane. I join you in calling Bach the greatest composer -- not just for the organ, though -- but for all time of all the greatest composers. Beethoven worshiped him; Mozart pales beside him Even for those not particularly inclined towards the religious, Bach's music remains one of the most profoundly spiritual experiences a soul can have. His counterpoint is a perfection of intelligence, both conscious and unconscious, which consummates the deepest resources of the human.

Stupendo!!!!☺

Simply awesome❤❤❤❤❤❤

Ottima tecnica, eccellente "legato", brava!

Super excellent with very good interesting video

Superb!

Amazing ;-)

Beautiful

Dane Bish is a consummate master of the instrument. Few play as well, and none better, although we might quibble about her choice of registration which seems a trifle muddy and lacking in subtlety here. This most splendid among Bach's many magnificent organ works is most certainly a triple fugue. The primary subject developed in Section 1 is repeated in altered rhythm in Section 2 against the running eighth note figure that comprises the second subject. In Section 3 a strongly rhythmic third subject is introduced is introduced OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY FRAGMENTARY STATEMENTS of the RUNNING EIGhTH NOTES of the SECOND SUBJECT. The first subject is never lost but becomes subordinate until its grand restatement in the pedals as the piece soars to its majestic, hair-raising, goose-bump producing climax. I would have much preferred Miss Bish to have reserved all that power and glory for the THIRD Section, but even so it's a glorious performance of possibly THE most glorious piece in the organ literature.

The Love of Our Savior Christ Jesus is evident in your playing. God The Father Bless You all the days here on earth until you go onto Glory Ms. Bish.

Very good ! Why in USA does she play so fast ? Here she plays with normal tempo, thank you Miss Daine Bish !

Greates of all

03:30 - 03:55 "O god our strength in ages past"? this passage is so hard to execute because of the tightness between the voices. It's easy to turn into mush, but Ms Bish makes every line heard. OMG the reverb after the end takes forever to decay.

Question for the Diane Bish fans. Is the prelude that goes with this fugue available on KZfaq with Ms. Bish playing?

I haven't heard her play before but I'd say she's pretty good...

It's extremely unlikely that his piece was based on the opening phrase of the English hymn-tune "St Anne" (1708). It IS similar, however, to the beginning measures of the Lutheran chorale melody, "O Herzensangst, O Bangigkeit" that Bach would have certainly been familiar with. And it's technically not a "triple fugue" but a TRIPARTITE fugue - and yes, there's a difference.

Bach would be pleased.

Een van de Grote der Aarde. Zij is er dus een van. translated this from Dutch to English, thanks for this upload.

Well played, Diane! I think the video and audio are not very clear, unfortunately. I agree that Bach was the greatest organ composer. His compositions suit the instrument perfectly.

Gosh, I love how she reads this Bach piece. She was able to translate the crisp and effervescent scintillating melody of this fugue into a grand ode to the power of Almighty. Its like as if I am "ascending into the high heavens".

geir øyvind eskeland This is called a triple fugue because there are three individual fugues within the work. The three fugues are: 1. a five part fugue, 2. a four-part double fugue on a single manual and 3. a five-part double fugue for full organ. Hope that helps.

Well according to the program coding, it was released in 1990.

BWV?

Dear Thomas Mole. Sorry, but it didn't help. "Three individual fugues" is not the same as a triple fugue. You'll never find fugue 2 together with fugue 1 and 3.

I could do without her commentary. The music more than speaks for itself.

No one ever played this as well as E Power Biggs on the almost supernatural Flentrop organ at Harvard.

Why does she keep pushing them bits of stick with her feet.

Why so fast ?

What even is this registration lollll