Víkingur Ólafsson – Bach: Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: II. Andante [Adagio] (Transcr. Stradal)

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Wonderful play, very touching, very tender. The transition, from piano to crescendo are brilliant. Thank you, dear Vikingur!

first genius film vid ever!
the human uplifting within a frigid inhuman world

Climbing Cosmic tonal scaffold

My emotions are so stirred by this piece. I weep, but not from sadness, perhaps something more like joy. I do not understand myself. It is so beautiful.

Amazing music! I listen to it from Lofoten, it's very inspiring! 🤗

wow how beautiful, in competition with Gould 💚

Absolutely beautifully played. As someone said in the comments below, I need to hear this beautiful prayer every day of my life.

原曲のオルガンを含めても、最も説得力のある解釈と演奏

How can anyone ruin such beautiful music with a film of ugly, lost "people" walking around in the middle of nowhere? We don't need that kind of background.

When I first heard this melody, I wanted to play it, so I told my teacher and he said yes. Now I'm continuing to study it for my next recital

DIVIN

На органе надо исполнять! На органе!

Masterpeice magic!

That video doesn't count 😅
It doesn't match at all in any way the GRANDIOSE VIBE from BACH'S sonata.
So,... l don't understand why they decided to place that funny video.😊😅

I am crying but still feel hope.

Bach, un filo tra la Terra ed il Cielo ❤️
Grazie per questa "sentita" interpretazione

Lovely version, mellow, not at an obnoxious speed like alot of people think they have to play Bach at nowadays - though the video is giving me Du Hast vibes and I expected Till Lindemann to waltz in and burn the place down.

Dov'è ambientato il video ?

Simply marvelous... Never heard something better! Thank you so much!

私はこちらよりライブバージョン？の方が好きなのですが、どうして私はそう感じるのか詳しい方教えていただけたら嬉しいです。

Vielen ❤dank❤

How have I not heard this before? I wonder how many other gems have been hidden from me!? Thank you Bach, Olafsson (who sounds like one of the all time great pianists to me) and everyone who made this possible.

Watched after a long interlude. Perhaps my favorite music video of all time.

It took me thirty years to appreciate his music...

THIS on a desert island.

Linda música.

Beautiful!

Wonderful place❤❤❤❤and music....where is rhe video? Iceland?

cuando escucho esto me acuerdo de mi madre dios te tenga en su gloria reina de mi corazon¡😔

Dan ganas de ser feliz…

Bellissima esecuzione di questo magnifico brano di JSB. ❤

Thats shostakovich

JS Bach introduced Vikingur to us, and vice versa. 🤍

Questa musica è di una bellezza assoluta, non trovo le parole per descrivere questo immenso mare di sensazioni meravigliose, trascende la materia, è qualcosa di divino, un dono che arriva da chissà dove. Grazie J.S.Bach di essere esistito e di averci dato la tua incredibile musica. Mi commuovi nel profondo dell'anima.

Gorgeous transcription. What is the meaning of the video?

Das ist so unglaublich schön.

The first four notes are already a universe in itself

Too many “suggestions” from the commenters about tempo this, and trill that. It’s an organ piece, not piano. But here’s the thing. Even Karl Richter’s St Matthew Passion (looking at you Deutsche Grammaphon) bears a listen every few years. When you have 6 hours to kill…😊 By today’s standards it just feels wrong. But at the time I bet it didn’t.

This is absolutely astonishing. Transcendent, open, inviting, perfect. It’s no exaggeration to say I’ve devoted my life to J.S. Bach. This is the reason. Thank you seems inadequate. You move me to tears.

Gutta cavat lapidem! thank you!

A Light in the Abyss

MEGA!

it is great and I love it.... but it is an adaption.

Hi, does anyone know the name of the film that the people in the background gather around the pianist? - it looks like a science fiction

그냥 틀어놓고 작업하다가 너무 좋아서 영상을 다시 한번 보게 된- 이게 피아니스트의 힘이란 생각이 드네요

The piano transcription causes this piece to blossom into a fresh burst of unutterable beauty. Vikingur makes himself humbly transparent in his interpretation. I can’t stop listening to this.

Wonderful! beautifully played.👏👏

Good morning. I hear it four years ago.. and.. I am back today in here.
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Lovely Bach