Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

[ificandream]

Perhaps the most stately piece of music ever.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. also as performed by an electric guitar orchestra.

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[ificandream]

2. Never saw this before. Thanks!!!

[cos dem]

5. Well, it is in D minor, which is the saddest of all keys.

This really stands out in the fugue, where each guitarist plays their own independent part.

[nancy1942]

3. Thanks!

Beautiful. Brings back wonderful memories of watching my brother at the pipe organ. One of the greatest.

[cos dem]

4. Always good to find other organ music aficionados.

I'm pretty sure the picture is the organ at Passau, Germany, the largest organ in Europe. It's unclear if the recording was made there or not.

I'm actually partial to this performance by Gert van Hoef. It's quite a pleasure to watch him play, or really to watch this team play. On a fully manual instrument without presets (or electronics), it takes a team of human presets to activate the stops at the right time.

Gert has quite a few videos on Youtube. If you like organ music, I definitely recommend checking them out.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. I Learned This On My Dad's Hammond H Series

When I was in high school, E. Powers Biggs was becoming a thing among prog rock fans.
I learned just to do it.
Sounded good, but it's so much bigger sounding on pipe organ.
I actually grabbed my pipe organ samples from a recording of this piece. The piece lends itself to snagging a sample because of the periods of single notes being held for a while.
I think I used those sampled sounds on three different songs over the years.

[WestMichRad]

7. Keith Emerson's arrangement:

Just an excerpt…
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