Topic: J.S. Bach Prelude BWV 552 J.G Walther - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimm
J. S. Bach: Prelude (and Fugue) in E-flat major, BWV 552
Please take time to read all this to understand the outcome of my ”work” with Organteq
First of all, this piece require organo pleno registration (the full organ but not same as tutti). As I have learned, it means full principal chorus, 8’ 4’ 2’ mixtures……and use them together. Unfortunately, I couldn’t create such a festive and joyful sound as I wanted. That’s not Organteq’s fault. It’s my little Mac mini late-14, 2,6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3. CPU say overload and the music is interrupted. Too many stops used :-( So, I had to reduce the number of stops, and the polyphony to 192). I listened to about 60 performances on Youtube and everyone was different, their own registrations, tuning, sound and tempo. So I created my own registration/tuning to get festive feeling with so many stops mac mini could swallow (and diapason 435Hz, French 1859, suitable for my Organteq room temp. 59°F/15°C :-)
(They say a pipe organ will sound its best whenever it is at the same temperature as when it was last tuned. Don’t know which temperature Roman used for particularly this my Organteq :-) but they also say the temperature should be the same as that at which the organ will be typically used) :-)
Bach Prelude in E flat major BWV 552 (the beginning of it, used as wedding music, about 33 bars). It is, in my opinion, one of the most fantastic Bach-compositions for organ. Sorry to say, in some places I couldn’t play a lower mordent and upper mordent (pralltrille). My fingers didn’t work. Hope you forgive my mistakes. But this is me. Have to test Organteq with different kind of music and to keep practicing, let’s see where I stand after six months :-) Because we are never too old to learn an instrument. Always when we do something, the brain is changing (rewired) and that lasts into old age. My old headmaster said, when I was young, that you can do the same things as old and learn, but it goes slower and takes a bit more time. Well, now I’m there :-)
One can have different opinion about the registration, tuning and tempo, (faster, slower as on youtube) but this tempo is my choice. - And for those who don’t know, I’m not an organist (that takes years of practice, discipline, talent…) I’m just an Ptq/Orgtq enthusiast that like to play these instruments and need to use composition and playing to express emotions. We all have our own, individual ways of dealing with difficult situations in life.
Keyboards and stops used in the Prelude:
Re´cit: Flute 4’ Doublette 2’ Cornet Voix Humaine 8’ Clairon 4’
Grand Orgue: Bourdon 8’ Quinte 2’2/3 Doublette 2’ Plein Jeu 5’ Trompette 8
Positif: Flute Traversiere Plein Jeu lll Clarinette 8’
Pedale: Principal 16’ Gambe 8’ Flute 8’ Flute 4’ Bombarde 16’
Couplers: Pos./G.O. Re’c/G.O.
And - Thank you so much, Roman and Modartt, for Organteq! :-)
https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...%20552.mp3
J.G Walther - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme 1684 – 1748
Walther was born at Erfurt. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to Johan Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer's cousin (Wikipedia).
