J.S. Bach's Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor (like you've probably never heard it)
I was completely drawn in by the first few seconds.
June 20, 2023, 05:51 AM
mttaylor1066
Fantastic. This guy really nails it.
Although no one is 100% sure that this is really a Bach composition, the legend is that this was the piece that Bach used to test out church organs and diagnose issues with the installation of the “instrument.”
___________________
Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me.
June 20, 2023, 08:09 AM
Pipe Smoker
Thanks for sharing! I love the piece and I loved the performance – that guy has talent! I think JSB would’ve liked it too.
I’ve never seen an accordion with a right hand keyboard like that one. But, sadly…
February 19, 2018 “We have been saddened to learn that the Toronto accordion virtuoso Alexander Sevastian, died on Friday in Ajijic, Mexico, a few hours before he was due to give a concert with the Quartetto Gelato. He apparently died in his sleep from a massive heart attack. …”
An accordion captures the wind sound of a pipe organ, of course. But without the bone-rattling power of bass pipes 12 or 14 feet long.
I am also unfamiliar with that kind of accordion, but I don't know much about accordions to start with.
An impressive performance.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
June 21, 2023, 12:18 PM
erj_pilot
HO. LEE. CRAP!!!!
JEEZUS!!
Has passed away at age 41?!?!? Massive heart attack while on tour...
From Wikipedia: Alexander Sevastian, "Sasha", (October 2, 1976 – February 16, 2018) was a well-known virtuoso Russian-Canadian accordionist. . . . Sevastian died suddenly of a massive heart attack at age 41 on Friday, February 16, 2018, while on tour with Quartetto Gelato in Mexico. Major Canadian news organizations reported on his death, including CBC Radio One and The Globe and Mail.[4]
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
June 21, 2023, 05:26 PM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
Originally posted by erj_pilot: <snip> Has passed away at age 41?!?!? Massive heart attack while on tour... <snip>
As noted in my post, above.
Serious about crackers.
June 21, 2023, 06:23 PM
erj_pilot
Oh. DUH!!! Sorry, PS. Hate when I do that...
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
June 21, 2023, 06:34 PM
Pipe Smoker
^^^^^^ No problem.
That is one new fangled accordion, for sure.
Serious about crackers.
June 21, 2023, 07:35 PM
vthoky
Wow, that was awesome.
God bless America.
June 21, 2023, 07:43 PM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I’ve never seen an accordion with a right hand keyboard like that one.
It is a Button Accordion (as opposed to a Piano Accordion). They've been around for almost two hundred years.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
June 21, 2023, 09:14 PM
Pipe Smoker
^^^^^^^^ Thanks. Maybe a Russian bayan or chromatic button accordion?
“Right-hand manual: The Russian bayan and chromatic button accordions have a much greater right-hand range in scientific pitch notation than an accordion with a piano keyboard: five octaves plus a minor third (written range = E2-G7, actual range = E1-D9, some have a 32 ft Register on the Treble to go even lower down to E0. …”
