IM IN COMPLETE AWE ! Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Best Version Ever) REACTION

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IM IN COMPLETE AWE ! Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Best Version Ever) REACTION
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@GenXDaddyO Жыл бұрын

If you ever get the chance to hear this on a real pipe organ you’ll be blown away on another level. The air around you literally shakes. My wife and I got married on Halloween. The organist at our church agreed to play this at the end of the ceremony, and surprised us by donning a black cape and Phantom of the Opera mask right before coming out to play it.

@marieogara1036 Жыл бұрын

Did your wife run off with him in the end?/

@michaelpennington7800 Жыл бұрын

Agreed, in person on an enormous organ is life changing.

@smartypants4571 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelpennington7800 we are talking about the same kind of " organ " , aren't we ?

@smartypants4571 2 ай бұрын

@@michaelpennington7800 we are talking about the same kind of " organ " , aren't we ?

@SevenEllen Жыл бұрын

Just putting it out there, Bach was only eighteen years old when he wrote this piece! Absolute genius.

@vinceblanket1327 Жыл бұрын

Mindblowing 🤯 That Fugue Counterpoint is so perfect

@nairolfmackebrecht Жыл бұрын

With Bach I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote this in utero.

@mellertid 6 ай бұрын

The origins of this piece is uncertain.

@eduardramos7438 5 ай бұрын

WHAT!!?? I have no words bruh he had my age💀

@GrimrDirge Жыл бұрын

The beginning is so iconic, everyone has heard it. The rest of the piece deserves more attention.

@SevenEllen Жыл бұрын

Oh it's been getting plenty of attention, believe me! Ha ha! :D It's been around a while now. ;-)

@argtv1007 6 ай бұрын

the organist is E. Power Biggs

@mikehart5619 Жыл бұрын

A toccata is a piece that is played with a light touch, rapidly. A fugue involves a brief melody that is taken up and repeated in another form and then the pieces are woven together together. This one works for a scary movie theme because it's in a minor key. And yes, it has been used in several scary movies. I really enjoyed you reacting to it.

@FS2K4Pilot 8 ай бұрын

It was used to great effect in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (the original version with Kirk Douglas and James Mason).

@bryanCJC2105 Жыл бұрын

Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach about 300 years ago. This piece is usually associated w something sinister or macabre, but I don't think it was perceived that way 300 years ago. Classical is some of the most complicated music ever composed and it was all composed in the minds of these musical geniuses. I can't imagine how it was done. These are not short songs. Writing all the notes down by hand and trying to keep track of how it all fits together. Some of them involve many many instruments, let alone coming up with something like this in the first place. It blows my mind.

@williamevans3902 5 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. Most musicologists agree it was written by a youthful Bach, probably as a breakout piece from the strict musical orthodoxy of the day. Amazingly it virtually disappeared during his lifetime, only to be re-discovered as the most iconic organ piece of all time.

@marieogara1036 Жыл бұрын

Bach --- I will make order in the chaos of the universe.

@paxonearth Жыл бұрын

If you haven't already, check out Mozart's "Lacrimosa."

@TheB787heavy 7 ай бұрын

Not an opera song. It is a piece specifically written for the pipe organ

@armadillotoe Жыл бұрын

I have been watching you since you were a man/boy. You have turned into a fine man now. It is amazing what a few years will do. Best wishes to you and your future success.

@squeaky1374 Жыл бұрын

His Brandenburg Concertos are glorious. Welcome to baroque music, imho the best era for classical music 😁

@karmicscope5259 6 ай бұрын

This is classical music, not opera. Classical is instrumental & opera is singing. Great reaction video.

@jlegends211 4 ай бұрын

Classical can include singing/choirs, but opera is specifically for stage performances where each vocalist plays a character in a story/play.

@stevesharp6138 Жыл бұрын

One of my most favorite classical !!!!

@user-fg2mu2my3m 8 ай бұрын

This Masterwork was played on the Dom Organ in Passau,Bavaria,the largest Baroque Organ in the world.The Organ player was Ludwig Ruckdeschl.

@drose1526 3 ай бұрын

This is Baroque music. The category is usually "classical music". To pronounce it, Tocatta Toe-cah-tta and Fugue is Fyug (g as in 'go'). Kudos to you for opening your mind to new things. Music is soooo much more than you've experienced before. Back wrote these pieces of music to be played by both hands AND feet, so find one that shows it being played. That will be a true thrill. These pieces were written for church music. Back then sheet music wasn't out there. The choirmaster wrote original pieces to be played for catholic church services. God bless your journey into music history.

@dan74695 2 ай бұрын

English spelling is awful lol

@stephenrobins4756 Жыл бұрын

I was on holiday in Germany a few years ago and visited Cologne cathedral. The organist was rehearsing this for a concert that night. The sound filled the cathedral and stopped most people dead in their tracks.

@steveford8999 8 ай бұрын

The bass notes are played with the organist's feet. A WHOLE keyboard at his feet.

@robertherring9277 Жыл бұрын

My grandmother started our city symphony. She had a baby grand in her house, and played pipe organs in churches and the Military Institute (where symphony played). She was a Motzart lady, but would always warm up with this!

@Giles316 5 ай бұрын

I first heard this when i watched Disney's Fantasia. Fell in love immediately. There are only a handful of classical pieces that bring me to tears, and this is one.... idc if ppl hate me for it or think less of me. This is a beautiful masterpiece. Jean-Baptiste Dupont's translation is next level, in my opinion.

@drose1526 3 ай бұрын

Opera music is sung. It's a play on stage with the lines being sung.

@somthingbrutal Жыл бұрын

like a lot of classical i first heard this in a movie either 20,000 Leagues under the sea or Rollerball. thanks to my high school library (pre internet) i was able to listen to the full version

@penshaw2 12 күн бұрын

My second favourite composition after Thomas Bergersen's empire of Angles and was the reason I learnt to play the organ/keyboards and piano.

@SevenEllen Жыл бұрын

8-D Oh my god!! You listened to it!! I am SO. FRIGGIN'. HAPPY !!!

@OlJackBurton Жыл бұрын

Do Air On The G String next

@malcolmbrown7683 Жыл бұрын

If you want to listen to more organ music (and you should) try the Scott brothers videos. Jonathan Scott plays the organ (on many different organs) and his brother Tom does the excellent sound and vision recording. When you see the organist playing you can appreciate the skill required, both hands and feet, stop changes etc.

@RooDawson 16 күн бұрын

This is highly spiritual music. Bach was a devout Christian (a Lutheran). He is quoted as saying: "any music that ISN'T devoted to G*d is nothing more than an infernal bawling and scraping." Everything he did was for the Almighty. Speaking of religion, Bach played the organ with a seemingly super-human ability. If he were playing in a cathedral and people couldn't see who it was who was playing, they said it had to be either Bach or the Devil playing the organ.

@RooDawson 15 күн бұрын

Thanks for the heart. You might also want to know that a toccata is a short piece of music intended to showcase a virtuoso's playing ability. Eruption by Eddie Van Halen would be considered a toccata. A fugue (fyoog) isn't really a song or piece of music as much as it is a kind of study that is part Mathematics in its treatment of a particular motif (a series of notes, not quite a theme) and part artistry by linking the mathematical bits together by improvised passages that were written down. The motif is played by two or more voices (registers on the organ in this case) over a few different keys in an attempt to explore the motif's possibilities. Fugue is from the Italian verb fuggire (to flee). It's where we get the word fugitive in English. It means the motif is fleeing, running away with abandon as the listener tries to catch it. I'm sure the great master would be pleased to know his music is begin appreciated on this platform. I wish you health, happiness, and peace. Keep on enjoying your musical explorations.

@jazzmaan707 Жыл бұрын

This is as famous as Beethoven's 5th, nearly. In the movies it's instantly recognizable, and something bad is going to happen.

@suecraig8720 Жыл бұрын

The beginning of the piece was in many B horror movies back in the day. So much of my exposure to classical music was from cartoons growing up. Coming to Opera and Classical music late in life.

@armorer94 7 ай бұрын

It was out of copyright and thus free...

@SAM-dg3vd 7 ай бұрын

if you get a chance, check out a video that shows the organist... this is one person playing a triple keyboard with both hands, and also playing with both feet on the pedals under the organ... plus there are handles all over the sides called "stops" that give the pipes different sounds when they are pulled out. That's the origin of the phrase "pulling out all the stops" to indicate going all out on something :)

@Varnofx 3 ай бұрын

Soooo just edify you a bit😁. This is not Opera music. It is Baroque organ music. If in doubt just go with Classical music. I love your reaction though. It's so nice to see younger people appreciating things like this. Thanks for playing it. It gives me chills every time I hear it. My dad and I(both church and classical musicians) have also performed it on Organ and Piano. It is our absolute favorite. My mom and siblings had to endure hearing us play the record over and over again in the house. 🤣

@mrod7692 Жыл бұрын

Those were the days, I remember them well.

@larindanomikos Жыл бұрын

I love this piece. It's what the Phantom of the Opera plays.

@propatria1942 Ай бұрын

The organist was Hannes Kästner, a German organist and harpsichordist.

@andreshernandez1180 Жыл бұрын

Classical music is the best, people who don’t appreciate it don’t really know the power of music.

@rravvia 8 ай бұрын

You gotta try an orchestra version of this.

@jonnyhog1002 8 ай бұрын

Love your reaction, I first heard this in the 1952 version of Phantom of the opera and I've loved classical music ever since

@sarkor7419 Жыл бұрын

What always amazes me is that all the lower octave/ bass notes are played with the organist’s FEET. And each hand is on a separate keyboard! I have heard this played in person and the floor and the pews in the church VIBRATE. You literally feel the music. It’s visceral. I love watching your reactions…you are so pure. ♥ Have a great day!

@lanzknecht8599 Жыл бұрын

The organist was Hannes Kästner, who also was a well known cembalist. The "Toccata und Fuge in d-Moll" as the german title is, was probably his most famous performance.

@stephenvalente3296 Жыл бұрын

Love a bit of classical music. Mozart, Smetana, Mahler, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Puccini, Verdi, and more. Relax to the music without any lyrical distractions.

@brianmurphy4032 Жыл бұрын

One thing i love about this piece is all the fake endings. Like he hits power chords but its always slightly off. I dont know music theory so i dont know what chords they are, but he comes to false resolutions and just keeps building until the end. The final chord just feels like home. All the other chords are like the steps to get there, but the end is so fulfilling.

@cpnlsn88 10 ай бұрын

That is a ver perceptive thought and something I've often felt with this piece.

@karmicscope5259 6 ай бұрын

Reading this comment was reminiscent of someone describing a painting. I realized while listening to this piece, that I see colors moving in my mind. It’s magical. Thank you for sharing your experience of this piece. Beautiful.

@karmicscope5259 6 ай бұрын

Btw, opera is singing. Classical is the instrumental. So this is classical music, not opera. Great reaction.

@felixsafire Жыл бұрын

As always-truly a pleasure listening to great music with you! I also got goosebumps

@richardrejmer8721 Ай бұрын

Imagine being an 18th Century peasant. . Living on the land. . The only sounds you heard every day were the sounds of nature and human voices. Once or twice a year (if you were lucky) you might hear someone play a simple flute, or fiddle piece . . But that was it. . Then imagine you travel to the 'big city' and go to a cathederal that has a pipe organ. . . THIS is the 18th century equivalent of a WALL OF MARSHALL AMPS! BASS that punches you in the chest and makes your guts vibrate! The WALLS ARE LITERALLY shaking and the bench you are sitting on is trembling with the POWER of the sound. . And such sublime and complex sounds! Nothing like the peasant music you were used to. . NO WONDER the poor believed everything their clergy told them. . . The power of their god was there for the uneducated peasant to experience.

@michaelpennington7800 Жыл бұрын

This is incredible music. Anyone who can not feel it's majesty is missing out. Bach is my favorite Classical composer and this, The Brandenburg Concertis, and the vocals of The Magnificat are must listen, experience and enjoy the awe of the pieces. The cold chills, goosebumps are only the beginning. Thank you for your reaction, as always.

@DarthSantaFe Жыл бұрын

If you’re looking for more classical, I’d highly recommend Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 Op.73 performed by Evgeny Kissin. 40 minutes long and split into 3 movements, and it is an absolutely grand work of music!

@jonswebilius6900 Жыл бұрын

I love this piece. When played on the organ, it is phenomenal, but you should try listening to an orchestrated version, too. I recommend watching Walt Disney’s Fantasia. This is the first of many really fine pieces in that movie. Keep up the good work!

@sjeeke 7 ай бұрын

In the 1970s, there was a children's cartoon about human history. The intro of the cartoon was the intro of this piece. It always had me glued to the tv set, and come dinner time, my parents could not pull me away from the tv as long as this music was on. 😊 Edit: The intro kzfaq.info/get/bejne/msyef8Rlp5O0kps.html The cartoon (music intro missing) m.youtube.com/@onceuponatimechannel

@TreyBlythe Жыл бұрын

If you like this, might I suggest Moonlight Sonata, all three movements, though 1 and 3 are the best, in my opinion.

@DontH8thePervert 10 ай бұрын

The music is amazing and beautiful, but if you EVER want a real mind blowing moment, watch an organist play this piece on a real pipe organ. They literally have multiple keyboards and a full set of pedals played by the feet of the musician. Yes, you read that right. They will be using all 4 limbs, 2 arms and 2 feet, usually on 3 different keyboards of the same instrument. It is a solid feat of technical prowess. Most of them play it by memory, not even looking at sheet music.

@Ray-lw2rh Жыл бұрын

My grandfather used to play this at our local church. I was always blown away by it.. The amount of skill and dedication it takes to play this piece properly is crazy

@stephenpowell5912 10 ай бұрын

Love this Masterpiece and your reaction Flawless absolutely Flawess ❤😂Great video ❤️

@Panoramix67 8 ай бұрын

Listen Jean-Baptiste Dupont version 👍👍👍👍👍

@barbaracoleman9215 Жыл бұрын

My church has a premier organist come and play during a silent movie (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) like they did years ago. it was totally awesome! Sharing culture is the one thing WE can do to UNITE us. I love what you do. Keep the music playing!

@crosisofborg5524 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been waiting for you to react to thus for a long time.

@phildavies3902 Жыл бұрын

Love all your reactions, J, especially your appreciation of the classical pieces. If you want to listen to a classical beauty please try Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 2nd movement - Andante. IMO, one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed. Keep listening and reacting

@Eurynomea Жыл бұрын

I performed this in college in a brass choir. (TO-cotta and pronounce fugue as you would fuel with a gh at the end, lol.

@somthingbrutal Жыл бұрын

its worth watching one where you can see them play the organ

@catbutte4770 Жыл бұрын

Lovely, absolutely lovely! But I expected to see a phantom playing. lol 🎼👻

@garavonhoiwkenzoiber Жыл бұрын

I've heard over a dozen versions of this song by different orchestras, organs and strings/piano etc. The BEST version I've heard I found about 20 years ago. I have no idea who performed it, which orchestra, where, or when. I wish I could download it again in high res. Most versions don't sell the intro nearly as well as they could.

@mellertid 6 ай бұрын

It's one of the most recorded pieces in the history of... In history.

@hdebard 5 ай бұрын

listen to Bach his Matthaus Passion, the Cello Suites , Brandenburg Concertos and more. Moves you to tears.

@he01gjs Күн бұрын

.....and lets not forget 200-odd Cantata's and the Mass in b-minor

@pawelgoral3276 6 ай бұрын

Listen to this piece played on the organ in the Bernardine Basilica in Leżańsk,Poland

@FS2K4Pilot 8 ай бұрын

May I suggest you listen to Xaver Varnus’ performance? It’s much better. This organist rushes through some parts that end up sounding like mush. Slower is better for this piece. Also, a couple notes if I may: 1. This is more what would be considered classical music, rather than opera. Bach also wrote in the baroque style, but I’m not well versed in the distinctions between them. 2. The title is pronounced “to-KAH-tah” and “fyoog”.

@iainmason2762 Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the alternative universe of J S Bach

@andrewashdown3541 4 ай бұрын

BTW this is just the doorway (well it was for me) to all the others: 566, 564, 552, 543, 582, 552 ... and on and on

@ladydigger Жыл бұрын

Whenever I hear this I imagine it being played as the gates of heaven open.

@mgreene1409 Жыл бұрын

You should consider giving Canadian Brass' version of this.

@resonantdave Жыл бұрын

Okay, you HAVE to listen to his Passacaglia and fugue. He wrote it for a competition that his patron him up to, and when the other guy, his compeditor, heard him practicing, he ran away.

@ChristianHuygens1 5 ай бұрын

BWV 582?

@znotch87 10 ай бұрын

to-KAH-tah and fyoog or foog.

@erikahlander3489 Жыл бұрын

In the late 60s and early 70s many experiments was made to fuse classical music with rock (and jazz, blues, folk, traditional etc.). The Dutch group Exseption made a nice cover in 1973 of this piece with the skilled Rick van den Linden on organ and a brass section! There is at least one entertaining video. Among the many covers is also a metal version with Yngwie Malmsteen live video 2021!

@antoineduchamp4931 Жыл бұрын

Dear JB we all love you loads, as you know..... but my friend.... I have to say this is not Opera, nor is it a song. Opera is sung onstage by usually a fair number of people. This is a solo organ player, playing J.S Bach's most favourite organ Toccata and Fugue. But no matter, it is massively famous all over the world as a mightily drammatic piece of music, used in many films.

@wallacecallow2255 Жыл бұрын

ELP does a unique variation of Toccata. It's very far out!

@1videonut Жыл бұрын

Give a listen to Virgil Fox's version on the album "Bach Live at the Fillmore East". Masterful!

@EnDSchultz1 Жыл бұрын

It's unclear when exactly Bach wrote this piece but it's thought he may have been in his late teens or early twenties at the time. Remarkable! To compose a piece that dances and winds and plays with a set of themes on a single instrument for *nine minutes* straight, at that age!

@SevenEllen Жыл бұрын

He was 18 when he wrote this. 😀

@greggweber9967 5 ай бұрын

Nautilus

@somthingbrutal Жыл бұрын

it's the problem when you have only ever read the word but never heard it spoken

@nicolasuribestanko Жыл бұрын

Like, when you read the word forecastle. Ain't English crazy!

@DangerRussDayZ6533 10 ай бұрын

Bach is the father. You should learn about fugues, they will blow your mind. Pronounced F-YOU-G. It is not an opera song. It is a keyboard work for the organ. A tocatta is basically a piece that exemplifies virtuosity, and a fugue is a complex piece of contrapuntal music that requires an in depth explanation.. you will have to go down that rabbit hole yourself if you are insterested. Fugue starts at 3:55

@andrewdscott02 7 ай бұрын

You need a bigger sub and a lossless recording. If the camera didn't go blurry on you when they stomp on the pedals, you need a bigger rig. The bottom C on a pipe organ is 16.4Hz. With the stops all the way out, that's a note you don't hear. You don't even "feel it in your chest." The entire room moves. A room the size of a Cathedral. It all moves. It's insane. Most folks' equipment simply can't reproduce the entire piece. Lossy codecs will whack the bottom end because the algorithm assumes the listener's equipment can't reproduce the sounds. An LP has to be mixed to attenuate the low end or the needle will jump out of the groove. This is a massive amount of sound. I hope you (and everybody else) get a chance to hear this thing performed live on a full-sized organ. It is a level beyond any recording. Watching your face in this video it's clear you appreciate it. If you ever get a chance to hear this live, there will be tears.

@andrewashdown3541 4 ай бұрын

And can you tell us what this 'best version ever' actually is? Thanks!

@capefox8321 9 ай бұрын

Opera music?

@brentfreeland5834 Жыл бұрын

It kinda moves the ground under you just a little bit, doesn't it? ✌️

@MrYuryZ Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video reaction! You made my day! Love Bach's music. Would like to see your reacton on his another famous organ works BWV 552 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNiPna5ey-DLnIE.html or any other works by J.S. Bach for that matter. If you need recommandation on what other masterpiece by J.S. Bach you'd like to give a reaction to I'd glad to help you with that. Anyway thank you again and may God bless you and your loved ones.

@squidlips22 Жыл бұрын

You might also enjoy the cover that was done by Sky in 1980: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h82Smrij1ZfFZ2Q.html

@crosisofborg5524 Жыл бұрын

While the toccata is the best known the fugue is the best part.

@SevenEllen Жыл бұрын

You kind of pronounced it right. It's "TuCARta" and "Fyoog". :D It's technically classical, not opera.

@alanwhetstone3922 Жыл бұрын

Friends of mine The California Guitar Trio cover this on acoustic guitars Link in the comments below

@alanwhetstone3922 Жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rsp1dMaUqp2mfac.html

@TheB787heavy 7 ай бұрын

Pronounce it like this: toe-KAA-ta and FEWG

@erenvelibirinci1766 28 күн бұрын

in my opinion there are no best versions for this piece because the way that j.s Bach designed it so that it could be played so many different ways my favorite versions of this piece is the one by tatiana nikolayeva on piano and for the organ version i always prefer the one that donato cuzzato plays you can find it by searching toccata y fuga re minore 😊

@znotch87 10 ай бұрын

Not best version, but very acceptable. Appropriately intense reaction.

@mkshffr4936 Жыл бұрын

Not an opera but a very well known organ peice. In my opinion the tempo was a bit to fast and regular in the Toccata. Another one you might enjoy is the Dorian Toccata in the same key. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9FkY8Z7sc22hI0.html

@rykehuss3435 10 ай бұрын

Funny title since this is by far not the best version out there. Not by a long shot. For example Xaver Varnus and Gert van Hoef absolutely take this to the next level. This seems amateurish in comparison

@capttheo1 18 күн бұрын

You still haven't heard Opera music. There was no singing.

@jenneast8611 6 ай бұрын

Just to help you out, it would sound like tow- ka- ta and foog. They are both descriptiion of the form of music that it was constructed in. Music student here. Lol