Next one in the Bach Orgelbüchlein cycle. This is an ingenious little canon, where the pedal consistenly follows the RH chorale theme one bar later, while both hands fill the space in between with lots of notes. This is also remarkable in that the pedal part reaches up to the very highest note.

Bach - Orgelbüchlein - BWV 600 - Gott, durch seine Güte

I think the file is bad. Audio skips all over the place.

Pete

Nope, nothing wrong with the file... I check every file before putting it up and also after,
to make sure it's ok. Maybe it's my playing that skips all over the place

I get this effect, like a CD skipping. When you listen to the file, do you hear the clicking and skipping or a smooth playback? Maybe it's my computer's problem?

Confused,
pete

I downloaded it back and could hear no problems with it. Strange ! Maybe your comp is allergic to organ music, having been weaned on piano too long...

I had no problem with the file.

I'm trying to become a better listener as far as organ music goes- can you point out the time (ex. 0.25) where the pedal reaches the highest note?

Yes, it's at 0:12. Pretty nasty moment, doesn't happen all that much in organ music.

Why do you say that? I didn't hear the high pedal note but I didn't hear anything nasty, either.

I meant to say it's pretty difficult to reach, at the far right end of the pedal keyboard. It's only the first (or perhaps second) time I encountered this so far. It's pretty extreme according to my teacher.

Ohhhh. Maybe you have to do the 'splits' with your legs.

sounds good to me, You footwork is very fast for this work. Am I right??
No problem with the down load.

I was using quicktime. I switched to Windows Media Player and the playback is smooth, now. So, I'm guessing the file type wasn't entirely compatible with QT. Either way, it was good!

That is probably an illusion. The feet, and top RH, only play half and whole notes (it's a 6/4 measure), the RH plays eights and the LH plays quarter notes. Because the pedal part is so high, it sounds in places as if the running quarters are played by the pedal. It's an amazingly inventive and effective piece indeed. Who could do it but Bach...

Just another one virtuos played organ piece!

However at this speed and especially amount of reverb it gets way blurred. Hopefully you did not add extra reverb! The church reverb is not avoidable of course, but maybe a slower version would work better in order to catch a bit more of the accompaignement beside the melody. Although all those Orgelbüchlein items are coming from chorales whose melody can be sung, they must not be played that one can indeed sing to the melody (so said my organ teacher).

Beside that, if sitting in the middle the high f is same distance for right feet as the low c to the left feet. And the low c is often used from Bach. Nevertheless interesting that he used the high f because the pedal tones were often more limited in his times as nowadays. I am not sure, but I think on "my" organ it goes to the high g, but it is also almost a modern organ, no baroque one (from about 1905).

Ah but I did... Light Concert Hall as usual. I find the acoustic in my regular church too dry otherwise. I like to have a bit of a 'churchy' sound even though it means losing some of the clarity . On the bright side I don't need to use reverb in the booming basilica that I now sometimes play in (you won't like the bwv686 that I recorded there ) Talk about blurred.


Yes, distance-wise it should not be the same and not more difficult. I think high notes are more difficult just because they are so much less common. I have the same problem in the 'Christ, unser Herr zum Jordan kam', some very high notes in the cantus firmus though not right up to high f.