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These "allofbach" videos never play correctly on my computer, they play then stop then play then stop. Why so much video quality if it's going to ruin the music experience completely?
The default is 'auto', which I'd expect to be fine, but if it picks up settings from Vimeo, you might have something else selected.
These "allofbach" videos never play correctly on my computer, they play then stop then play then stop. Why so much video quality if it's going to ruin the music experience completely?
These "allofbach" videos never play correctly on my computer, they play then stop then play then stop. Why so much video quality if it's going to ruin the music experience completely?
Still one can listen to Buxtehude and get taken in the beauty and playfulness of his works, and we instantly imagine how young Bach was equally mesmerized by the same music, and in a way, how it kindled a passion and Bach continued to dig into the same musical goldmine that Buxtehude had been excavating - sometimes even the same tunnels, to my ears.
Some of my faves in the Buxtehude collection, mostly dramatic stuff (no links because I'm on crappy 3G):
Toccata In D Minor (Bux 155)
Toccata in G Major (Manualiter) (Bux 164)
Passacaglia in D minor (Bux 161)
Prelude in G minor (Bux 149)
great piece of music, beautiful website design, something completely different for a change. Bach wasn't into computers much, but man did he hack those notes. Great pick!
Check also its open-source alternative, GrandOrgue.
There are excellent and free sets that work with both at http://piotrgrabowski.pl.
Musicians spend thousands of dollars to build MIDI organ consoles or convert real consoles to use with these virtual pipe organs, myself included. PCs with 64GB RAM and server specs are not uncommon.
Bach's entire oeuvre is incredible. I'm curious to know what this particular work has to do with HN though?
Haha nothing in particular! I just happened to stumble upon that site, which I had forgotten about, while searching for this particular piece, which I find incredibly moving for some reason. I thought the HN hivemind might also find beauty and inspiration in it, which is why I shared.
Just before seeing this on HN I was listening to Buxtehude's organ works on my way home. Buxtehude was one of the main inspirations for Bach as a composer¹, and I always find it interesting to go back and forth. But there's a reason Bach is the one that has come to be a superstar - there's the huge number of surviving works, of course, and in many ways how "the student surpassed the master", not least in contrapuncta…