Aural Pleasure: Dmitriev - Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

[sedentary_beast]

For any of you Bach fans, here's something novel: The famous Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor played on an accordion by some Russian dude. Unfortunately the piece is broken up into two videos: one for the Toccata and one for the Fugue, and to hear the piece properly, they ought to be heard in succession and in that order.

The Toccatta:

The Fugue

Comments

[lordtangent]

This is amazing -- one of humanity's most sublime pieces of music, played on one of our most bizarre instruments!

[sedentary_beast]

Don't get many strangers come 'round these parts...

I'm always happy to see another Bach fan in the world. :) Yes, sublime is what I'd call it (it's one of the about four or five pieces of music that can make me cry). Combine sublime with absurd (accordions always seemed a bit absurd to me) and I'm elated. :D

[lugonn]

While the piece is beautiful, the opening is so overused, that it has lost much of it's effect for me. And I must admit that I'm more of a Mozart man.

[sedentary_beast]

Yeah, I know - I was just thinking that last night, actually. It's a shame that the first minute of the piece has become a cliche, and I think most people haven't even heard the rest of it. Bach dedicated much of his work soli deo gloria ("for the glory of God alone"), and yet what a shame that it has become a shorthand for evil/horror/spookiness. Oh well.

Are you familiar at all with Bach's Well Tempered Clavier? There are some amazing harpsichord masterpieces there.

I really like Mozart too. :) I'm quite fond of most of his Requiem, his Salzburg Symphonies, and many other pieces.

[lugonn]

It seems wrong to listen to this without seeing Vincent Price on the screen. :)