+wovefish Beautifully said.

+wovefish AMEN!

+Anticapitalist X honestly I was 6 and I play the harp. She's about grade 7 or 8 I'd say. No less. search up Freya Plays The Harp :)

+wovefish wise words

this is the most polite conversation ive ever seen on youtube

Yes, you translate in words what I realized too. It is not a common sound of this instrument, a common performance in harp, but it doesn't matter, because the presentation is simply magnific!

The really mindboggling aspect is that basically after the drums it's pretty much the most ancient instrument of them all. Basically the mother of them all. Drums, or anything hollow, is about rythm: the foundation of music. Then it is flute, or it's predecessors as wind instruments: breathing(whistling) is life after all. Then harp, as strings came along, with manufacturing and processing resources.

@@marrs1013 the first stringed instrument was probably a bow(archery) that someone strapped to a drum, as soon as they understood the concept of a resonance chamber they expanded upon the concept added more strings and voila, the harp is born.

That’s because it’s not promoted in the consumer mainstream. Only the educated and appreciative people who respect the arts will have been exposed at leas to some of the harp’s influence.

I think you might have it backwards. The harp came first. So a piano is a harp turned on it's side and hidden in a harp-shaped box. ^_^

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What strikes me is that even at the harp the music is still that powerful.

Being my favourite piece for organ, I wouldn´t use the word terrifying, but it is definitely overwhelming. It is so intricate and full of changes, flowing from one amazing "scene" to the next. Just when you think it has walked out like Columbo it turns around with another proposition. There is a particular version running around here performed on an organ that has to be the best out there. Last year I finally got to hear it performed on the Organo del Sol Mayor here in Marbella, something I had always missed out and it took the 50th Anniversary concert for it to happen. Anyway, the beauty of music is that there is something for everyone to love, and always a new way to love it even more. Have you heard this artist performing Clair de Lune?

It's said that the last prophet of Islam warned of this instrumental being related and has power in the unseen world...

@@sagasdesbergers2273 fu₹₹ off with the religious bullcrap

Harmonics. The harmonics generated by a string instrument are overtones - higher in pitch. The harmonics generated by a pipe organ are undertones - lower in pitch. These produce entirely different moods.

the harp is just as important or meaningful as the violin or cello. it adds weight and variance to the piece.

Eli Butterfield Well it just is kind of uncommon. I mean, I live in Greece, and to the best of my knowledge, there is no harp teacher in a 100km radius from my town.

Jeezargo yeah same here. Harp players are rare. My highschool music teacher said in the 15 years that he'd been there, there'd been only two harpists... and they didn't want to take his class.

Eli Butterfield Yah, but, as we see here, the harp is a damn awesome instrument.

Is It Bad That I Play A Harp?

It's an incredible piece that can sound remarkably good on multiple different instruments isn't it! I've also listened to beautiful solo violin and viola arrangements of it that sound godly. The Fantasia orchestral version still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it - every single time since I first heard it when I was 3 or 4 years old. The harp is such a beautiful instrument, isn't it!

Theme song for Roller Ball movie in the 70's.

​@@Kateyangyuqing True! There really is no music more versatile than that of Bach.

@Uintabri NO! If you choose to play an instrument, then you must go with the more expensive since the beginning! You can't play beautiful sounds with a sardine can! Do you can? And don't try to contradict me or do you want I use the hot irons in your back? (Insert Family Guy, Peter's violin lesson citation here)

@@eternafuentedeluzdivina3189 There is actually an old Arabic saying (don't remember from which country...) among musicians, especially ney players, that you should master the hardest to play instrument first to become a great musician. If you can handle that instrument, you can handle all the other [similar] instruments with ease. So in other words; if you learn to play beautiful music on a shitty instrument, you will have a big advantage when later switching a better instrument. Or if you will; if you master how to play beautiful sounds with a sardine can, you will dominate any other instruments similar to the sardine can!

Eterna Fuente de Luz Divina I’m sorry but I’m going to say as a string player for 12 years, go with something not expensive.. consider renting even. You may desire and gain interest in playing an instrument, but it’s if you will continue playing that instrument with a good passion. I only bought my expensive violin after 6 years of playing... you don’t want to lose any money here

As I told: the most expensive model so your teacher& dragon mom/tiger dad could do this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZxhnK15ldm3Z4U.html

Play something on a hair-comb first and if you decide it's too hard - don't buy a harp.

Well go to night school or summit.

lol, I'll just say that she's good and this is a cool tune too 😎

You did fine, buddy. 👍🏻

Nobody has that vocabulary

Right!

Thanks for listening! The harp is full of presence, and has amazing bass - it's a big part of why I love playing it.

​@@amyturkharp Wow, thanks for replying! I have always very much liked the harp, but never imagined that it was possible to create such intense sounds like you have here on it. I play the organ, and just previously assumed that the harp was too light for this particular piece. But as you said, the bass is significantly more prominent than I have heard before, and you did an absolutely wonderful job with this in its entirety. Truly fantastic, and awe-inspiring to me.

@@amyturkharp dont forget to answer Vinheteiro. A Master just admires you!!!! :-)

The harp is pretty much configured as the piano, except the strings are plucked rather that being struck from pressing the piano key. But the actual physical mechanics involved for playing the harp look WAY more demanding. An incredible disipline. I wonder what happens to a harpist as they get older and their fingernails become more prone to chipping and breaking. They are probably one of the most cared for parts of their anatomy.

@@jacktheripoff1888 you are my hero....

Vinheteiro saludos capo

look it’s you

Maestro

Houla, muito gusstossa minha musica

Vinheteiro salve Lord

Thanks for telling us how Bach intended it

@@dfarzan1234 Can you explain your comment further?

You should listen to Xaver Varnus play it in the Berlinner Dom. No rushing there.

She got pretty much everything out of the harp that it can give to the song though i still say it is more imposing and impressive when played on an organ. The harp just misses the sheer volume of sound that the song needs.

mikemather5 -- What a great comment ...

You got a 100

Decades

*lifetimes

And then it turns out they don’t have ears

Also... mind, heart, soul & some damn sore fingers!

this sound its scary in a diferent point of view

It starts off rough, but quickly improves..

I struggle with Metallica one on a six string.. lol

+caveatemp She reminds me of Jaqueline DuPrez - that lady had the same intensity with her 'cello that Amy Turk shows here on her chosen instrument. A fantastic performance...and now I'm going to watch it again!

+Jonathan Peden Thanks for the tip!

caveatemp Enjoy beautiful music and Happy New Year to you!

+caveatemp If you enjoy an intense harp maybe you should have a look at the south-american harp tradition. Maybe check Edmar Castaneda.

andramoie tks!

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As a medical practitioner, i would send you straight to heaven for your condition. No cure to harp

My jaw is on the floor,too! No words left to say... calling that performance "awesome", "fantastic" just isn't enough to describe.

My jaw literally dropped when she got to the tone changes at like 4:50 because holy crap. The level of proficiency needed to play this in the simplest form is unreal, let alone the level she is playing at with the dynamic and tone changes. She captures the mood of the piece so well!

I saw this on my home page and immediately had to listen. This is where music transcends mere mortal experience. Bach himself would’ve listened in awe.

🤣🤣

LOL. I knew it was missing something.

Well hey, bud... when you have Actual Human Beings in an audience, coughs happen. Got a problem with that? Then go buy a CD recorded and edited In some sterile sound studio, and sounds completely artificial. I'll take the "real thing", thanks. And I have been as guilty as everyone else of "coughing" during stage performances during the past seven decades. So maybe I should have just committed Seppuku? 😲😆🤔 P.s.: It may have possibly escaped your notice, perhaps, that Amy and Ben recorded this at her home? Well, duuuuh... your bad.

Conrad In Hawaii You just might want to commit sudoku my friend... I was making the joke that I’m always used to hearing the coughs in performances, this performance is fabulous and clean and I was joking that she missed the cough usually heard and as such, not what I’m used to. I believe we just have a simple misunderstanding but, I appreciate you voicing your opinion. Take are.

@@TylerLL2112 Some people take life to seriously. Specially when it comes to sudoku, art, venting and Godwin's law.

Henk-Jan Bakker I agree. I give the guy some slack though.. it isn’t always easy to tell if someone is joking or not. You get comments of people being serious that you think are joking or the opposite. You take care my friend. I appreciate your comments.

It is truly a service to humanity. She is a lighthouse.

Hyperbole

Indeed so beautiful in many ways

It's still boring to play something you've played a hundred times before. I get it's awesome, but put yourself on her shoes. It's just the same repetitive work.

Armchair Rockstar! That’s just a sour grapes thing someone who doesn’t know the pleasure of dedication and passion of practising an instrument. Also you can practice different pieces.........🙄

40 hours a day

@@masshysteria1757 accurate if you lose the 0.

It takes 10 lives to have the soul, about 20 years to master the harp to that level, plus about a year to master this masterpiece and record it. Thats my estimate :)

@@mialotusmusic its all in the head, depending on the person it can take 10x more or 10x less

@@lilsimon420 yes and no . Its also in the fingers if you want to record it. Plus... soul is not your head ;)

As far as I understand the video description, she actually transcribed it herself for harp.

@@Kosekans That;s amazing, I think that;s what Xavier de Maistre does too. He said somewhere, that since he'd discovered how little has been transcribed for harp, he decided to transcribe as many pieces as he could.

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Bought the song on iTunes for .99 cents 🥰

Russians in the chat

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What's the word I'm looking for? What's the word...? Oh ya, Amazeballs! :O)

That has not been established and even now it is debated that J. S. Bach is the original composer. In fact, it would have been lost forever if not far a single surviving transcription by Ringk found a century later. Wikipedia has a fascinating history about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565

who cares? we’re all retards now

@@machtschnell7452 BUT I think it is from Bach! Period!

Golly, Superman.

@@alpinemaximus7085 Your choice.

that was my first emphasizing no muzicsheet.!

+alipitogen Agreed, simply amazing!

+Amy Turk Yes, it is, but it is also true.

tecso47 True things that are also lovely are my favourite.

maybe he did, c; doesnt get any better than this

Don't be ashamed, triangle can be surprisingly difficult to play :) That said, making music isn't too difficult, you've just got to take the time to get into it (which is less than you might imagine).

Percussion playing has one big problem....timing is *everything*.

a sixteenth note is a quarter note divided into four. but it's got 3 sides?

Harry Andruschak how is that a problem? let alone a big one? it is intrinsic to its nature, organic.

Gary Nicol lol

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I know! If you would have told me Bach wrote it for the harp I would have believed you

Well described! Music like this is as if it has come from heaven, gracing us on "this side" with what can only be described as magic. That any creature is capable of producing such a phenomenon is like a miracle, definitely one of humanity's greatest facets.

The harp plays many instruments?

To me it shows how amazing our Creator Yahuah is 💕

Yeah, credits to us, wooo! XD

Amy is an amazingly talented human 👑 ❤️

You're privilege is unbelievable

@@thememeoverlord.1949... Your* 😬

Wonder if it's something to do with the instrument itself? I'm not sure how but it might be easier to apply different pressure etc to each note than say a violin.

No, that's not what I'm talking about. Most players approach Bach as if the music is a string of notes which must be played as evenly (and rapidly) as possible from the beginning of the piece to the end, as if it consisted of one sole phrase. The closer to a computer rendition they can get the better they consider the performance. Try listening to Itzhak Perlman's Partita No. 2, or Caleb Hudson's Partita No. 1, both on youtube. In fact, there is a succession of phrases connected to each other by what are called dove-tailed cadences, cadences which overlap, but which are cadences (that is, conclusions, no matter how subtle) nonetheless. The give and take of these question-and-answer phrases is what music is all about, and it didn't just disappear during the Baroque period.

I prefer my Bach cold und precise, like my Kantian imperatives. If Bach wanted syncopation he would've invented ragtime. Bah! You've offended my Prussian sensibilities again!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y52VeaVpt5O9ppc.html Stiffening your spine might help you get through this.

What a savage

Their soul and the instrument become one

@@laurab703 beautifully written!

in college concert band I was moving to the music as we played and the conductor stopped the band to ask if I was having a seizure. I was not...

This random musicians sometimes is the best 👈👈👉👉

I did that before... The music gets you in an unplanned moment..but you become..your heart beats ..

TV Oommen yeah! with a bit of stringy feel.

+Pixelson Way easier ?.......I see there are pedals to be done with ........I am not sure.

Everytime, "hey this instrument doesn't look too hard to learn !" suddenly, *pedals*

watch "a night at the Opera"

The harp is way harder than piano, even without pedals.

Love the different way harp needs to get the other notes too. I'm originally a keyboardist, so all the notes are there, but she needs to do the pedals to change the notes in the scale. Totally different way of thinking about it. Very cool!

@@seejayjames Harps have pedals too, I learned something new today!!! 😁

If course it shows the pedals 10 seconds after my comment lol

I am totally speechless. My God Ms. Turk. you are incredible.

National TV doesn't want us to calm down.

Doubtful. This is privilege to them. And darkness can't comprehend light.

Our telescreens are too busy telling us how to think and what to buy to show us anything this pure.

who needs national tv. this is global! and as good as it gets! welcome to the future 2020

@@speedysandisk78 thats a great comment, propaganda. been around since the dawn of scribes scrolls and trolls!

This is a beautiful way of describing music - by sharing her expertise, she has enriched the human spirit. Indeed, musicians do provide so much beauty that touches us in the deepest parts of our souls. Their passion enriches their own lives, at the same time as it enriches the lives of those who listen. Music is one of the most incredible and magical things that humanity is capable of. I wonder how many hearts J.S. Bach's music (in its various forms and arrangements) has touched over the last 300 years or so! And then there's all the great composers that were influenced by him too. Truly one of history's great geniuses.

I'll bet Beethoven would've loved to hear it to! 😂

@@evolutionglitch4739 also einstein.

@@evolutionglitch4739 Something that powerful would give enough vibrations he could feel, especially if he was up close.

My thought exactly! What if Herr Bach could have enjoyed the transcription for harp as performed by this most talented artist, Ms. Turk. Brava!

Makes one wonder that if Mister Bach had heard Amy play this wonderful work of his on her harp, he may have thought to himself... "Damn... I wrote this for the wrong instrument!" 🤔🤣💖

Purple Petunia thats what she said

Thank you very much sir! You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Consider the fact that the music was written for the organ; an instrument boasting 2-6 keyboards that give voice to anywhere from 200 to 10,000 pipes. A decent organist needs several helpers to play this music. A phenomenal one could get away with one. The ability to condense the grandeur and scope of such a large composition into a piece that can be played by a single person on an instrument that uses a single voice without losing the essence of the music is awe-inspiring. :)

Doubtless :)

Perhaps …. Tears of talented appreciation … this is emotionally uplifting

***** but can an organ be played pres de la table? Haha All jokes aside you seem to have misunderstood my point. I was simply saying I thought it was clever how the transcription incorporates a good use of techniques specific to the harp... pres de la table allows a different timbre to be created. No instrument is better than the other, they all create the beautiful sound that is music. But if we're talking about "Edge" with regards to power and volume, then of course an organ would out perform any other instrument volume wise, after all, something that requires a whole building to itself isn't gonna be quiet now hahah.

***** fair point, can't argue with that :)

David Bell Brougham Thanks so much for listening! Yes, I really do love to attack the harp, I love to play loud and to hear and feel the sonorities at the low end of the instrument. The section you mention with the alternating PDLT and normal positions is something I decided to do to replicate this moment in the original version, in which the organist switches between manuals to utilise different pipes and change timbres with each repeat of the figure. I really enjoyed working on subtle dynamic changes, long cresc/dims and so on in the fugue, that's really something I felt the harp could bring to this that the organ couldn't. Pretending to be an organ and playing as loud as possible is fun too, although obviously there is a limit to how much I can compete in sheer volume, but the impression of volume that you can get is effective enough, I think! Any excuse to play brutal harp really. :P

I managed to afford 6 lessons with a teacher a few years ago. She knew I would only be having that amount before going off and doing my own thing, so she stressed to me just how versatile and powerful the harp can be... for me you're proof of what can be achieved :)

***** Are you an organ manufacturer or something? What are you trying to achieve here exactly?

I am so memorized...

And neighbors to hell

I am married to a hooker, she don't need no harp.

Paulo Fortza :: for sure!!

lol

They are jealous they can't play harp.

So True!

Lets clarify, to not like is passive, these people for some moronic reason chose to actively dislike what is a display of mastery beyond their understanding.

I think, that this people are Bach and his relatives.

I think those 2.4K ZEROS are headed where there are NO HARPS, and never will be! I'm an amateaur organist who never learned the basics of playing a hymnal let a lone the Sleepers Awake given to me to try and commit to memory....I failed to play music like I wanted too including this one.... but learn to "play" music on the radio spinning records and CD's 5 yrs before the death of my mentor an idol, E. POWER BIGGS, the ONLY true interrupter of Bach on the organ, and not the quack, Virgil Fox, Biggs was The clear outstanding Bach player of his own Interruptation of this piece, from Bach's notes, according to the Biggs Book I have. Many more true organists I heard from Williamburg to Seattle, including petite, Marie Claire Alain, twice, who recently passed a few years ago. So, I still got to "needle" people with an excellent spin of his music as a DJ. Only much later, taking Nina Rota's Love Theme from the movie Romeo & Juliett, that Mancini made famous, did I take the chord progressions and transposing electronically some, to make my own compositions of 8, in 3/4 time signatures, 6 recorded, but they have with their composer's freshman views and Mindfull of orchestra sound not played thru the keys, nor written down missing a chance to connect a midi interface to an apple scoring application, but also they suffered unfortuneately, their creators first time playing from memories, "sameness" good for some composers / performers and bad like me, with others with too much of a repetative orchestrations sounds and rollimg 3 note left hand fills in all 8 pieces and also with fixed chord.choir sounds to have 4 out of 8 of them, played with some fun themes and then some seriousness means, especially on the very last piece with it's 7:20 length about Birth, Life, Separation, and death. That last piece used more of the electronic coupling of 3 manuels (pedals included) and full classical organ sounds of "CHURCH" to finish the series out, ALL played on a Yamaha US-1 from a 1987 design. My instrument recently, not the one I recorded on in 1990 now gone, fell ill and no longer sings due to its 32 year old boards and aging circuits, dead or dying. $24k for an original and $500 and change for mine + $1.25k to ship from the east but didnt fix it when I had the chance.... Sorry Amy, that it took me so long.... I thought you did an outstanding performance! I can recognize a true artist. Live a long life and reach many to play and teach. I hope to be able to tell Bach himself that a fine Harpist is coming and she has great skills and Chops! Keep it up Girl! All the best. I'm going to be sending a lot of wood for that fire below, for those future 2.4k residents! They don'r deserve to hear the work you put into my favorite ckassucal piece behined Rhapsody in Blue, and Copeland's Appalachian Spring....and 'Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber, arguably his best known, from the 2nd movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11....an awesome piece performed by All Angels (England/Britt group) with choir Accapella. Intense and so beautiful! Good luck finding new pieces to play.

A top concert pianist will typically have 100 hours of music memorised. Probably similar for other instruments like violin, cello etc..

@grodhagen they can play 100 hours of music from memory, its memorised.

@grodhagen he never made a distinction between different types of memory. youre just getting into semantics

@grodhagen youre ego is bigger than your bite.

@grodhagen the irony

But have you ever heard it played by a rock band? Well actually a classical/rock fusion band. That is just what the UK-based band SKY did, and the result can be enjoyed here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h82Smrij1ZfFZ2Q.html Personally i have loved every version of this piece that i've come across.

I'm an organist and can play this work on the organ. I've never heard a harp version before and I thought it was superb. I also think it must be far easier to play it on the organ. Apart from the medium of the instrument, she did full justice to the work musically, more so than many organists are able to do, including me.

@@ZL54JK8 I completely agree. My mother, a classically-trained and pianist and career church organist, played this beautifully on our church's two-register, full pedalboard electronic pipe organ, beginning in the late 1950s. I was with her as her page-turner and "gentle critic" during the many hours she spent learning it, many times on the verge of tears of frustration. No piece of cake, Mister Bach's masterpiece. But I know that Mom would have been amazed at Amy's absolutely beautiful original transcription and performance of this amazing work. I would not bet that it is any "easier" to play on organ, but you do, at least have ten fingers and both feet to accomplish it, whereas Amy has only her thumbs plus index and middle fingers and the heels of her hands as string dampers, plus two VERY busy feet on the seven three-position pedals to accomplish all of that. Sheeeeesh... 😲😊💖

@@BertGrink ANY time John Williams is playing guitar, it is worth stopping and listening, carefully and repeatedly. 😊💖

Ganz liebe Grüße aus Leipzig ❤

hahahaha that is the spirit!

Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

H Angeli he is smooth haha

roll on floor laughing lol thumbs up....good one

Will it be in a volcano? A volcano would be one hell of a backdrop.

Genetic lottery. I ripped my ticket and threw it in the trash.

At least 1,800 to 2,000 hours of practice a year I'd say. Then say it takes some 20 years to get to that level.

Not only proficiency on the instrument but the ability to translate the piece FROM A FUCKING PIPE ORGAN and replicate the textures of every chord, every musical idea, every echo from dissonance to resolution, and fucking own it

@@hectorcorkidi6067 It only takes 1,000 hours to become a master at anything, that includes instruments and indeed the harp. If you set aside 1,000 hours you would be able to play this piece.

@@katejay9786 Lets not get two over the top, music theory teaches us how to do this. Get in 100, or 1,000 hours in to an instrument yourself.

Yes, the pedals give the sharps, flats. Each note has a pedal: there's a C, D, E, F ,G, A and B pedal. Each pedal has 3 positions. Top position makes the note flat. Middle position makes the note natural. Lowest position makes the note sharp. Ex: if you put the G pedal all the way up, all the Gs will become G flat. Put the pedal in the middle position, all Gs become G natural. Put the G pedal all the way down then all Gs will be G sharp.

@@annschwankhaus3735 Thanks, that's exactly the info I came to the comments to learn!

@@annschwankhaus3735 Thank you for explaining that. It's just incredible. I always wanted to play the harp. I sing instead, but man, if I could afford a harp and lessons - I'd practice hard and probably learn to play badly! hehe

@@annschwankhaus3735 Thank you 😊

@@annschwankhaus3735 Amazing. What a wonderful way to address and simplify different keys. I bet it makes frequent key changes a nightmare, tho!

What

What do you mean?

You make no sense

I think you mean "even now." Saying "till now" means that you have now changed your mind.

Meaning God likes this instrument because it’s music just puts your soul at peace

Such a truely beautiful comment ... and how so incredibly true - this is the sheer joy of experiencing the brilliance of Bach via Amy’s incredible talents ... luv the joy of enjoying most of the days week in total awe of such talent - cheers and take care

turn you damn TV off the world my spin a woooble here and there but the sun will come up tommorrow! and yyyeeeessssirebob 8 and counting!

8 billion at last count, so 1% appreciates the arts.

Fr

There are a lot of great people with great tast but you have to find them.

You are not Bach. You do not know whether he would be impressed.

ArchHighLordOmega -Revelation19:17,18 Bach did the liturgical accompaniment for the Lutheran Mass in the parishes in the City of Leipzig, which is used at St. Clement's Episcopal Church (Anglo-Catholic) in Philadelphia.

I agree for sure.

yeah no shit

Michael Park please shut up, you're making yourself look so dumb right now.

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With ya.

not to mention again!!! i will be here for a while with Amy wow her timing is impeccable

Wolfman Curtis ,rock’n’roll and classical,especially baroque music have nothin in common. Those are different worlds.

@@markomarekovic6867 I disagree with you here. Yes they are "different worlds" but so are all "genres". They have a lot in common though...music! And Wolfman Curtis nailed it with his comment. In fact I wanted write something very similar. Amy Turks perfomance is dead on...the groove, the dynamics, technically supreme...so most impressive, inspiring, beautifull

@@markomarekovic6867 Rock music, beyond the obvious origins in blues and jazz has always gained a large piece of it's style from Classical music.

I was able.