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If there's one flaw, it's the surfeit of close-ups on Stamm's hands and feet as he works the keys and pedals (not to mention the odd angles on his face as he studies the music), and the relative lack of longer, wider shots of the magnificent organ and the church in which it's located. On the other hand, one can simply turn off the picture and use the disc like an audio CD, and the power and majesty of Bach's genius will still come through loud and clear. --Sam Graham
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 30 November, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Geneon [Pioneer] |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Classical, Color, Dolby, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Classical, Classical Video, Music Videos - Classical, Orchestral & Symphonic, Performing Arts |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 013023150492 |
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Customer Reviews of Bach - Greatest Organ Works, Vol. 1
Lifeless and fake Pipe organ music is, of course, best heard performed live, but I hoped that 5.1 surround sound would come in second (ahead of stereo). It does, but this pair of DVDs (BGOW volumes 1 and 2) is not worth listening to in any fidelity. There's something about the way Hans-Andre Stamm plays Bach, it seems lifeless. Perfunctory. Like he's playing the notes without feeling them. I'd rather listen to my cassette tape of E. Power Biggs playing Bach. The video accompaniment to the music is lame too, clearly staged shots of him scowling and pounding the keys. Stay away from these DVDs.
Well played and nicely produced
Mr. Stamm's playing is very good, and is consistent with current thinking on historical performance practices. Also, the audio and video quality of this DVD is top-notch. By the way, the video is anamorphic widescreen, not full-screen. I think the opening titles might be in full-screen format, but once the music starts you have a widescreen presentation. Excellent!
The use of multiple cameras keeps things visually interesting. My only suggestion for future volumes is to include more frequent video of intricate pedal passages and less video of the organ's facade. (Hands and feet are where the visual interest in organ performance is found, and both should be featured prominently.) The camera looking down on the keydesk from above provides an excellent view and could be used much more frequently.
The extra features are also outstanding. Musical analysis and registrations are invaluable. This is a classical music DVD done right.
Hopefully we'll see more organ DVDs in the future, including different organs and different composers.
high performance recording - tocc&fugue not satisfying
like with other composers some very early works have unbelievable strength, power and emotional depth, toccata&fugue d-minor is a good example for that (I also like Rachmaninov op3 etc). I have an older (ddd)recording - decca with Carlo Curley playing at philadelphia chapel of Girard College Dec.88 - which has got to much noise in the recording, so I was very much interested to get a better sound quality and this new DVD was promising everything.
However the result especially for the toccata&fugue was far away from meeting my expectation and the reason is that the Trost organ deep bass section has an odd sound and H.A.Stamm somtimes plays too quick, this becomes evident against the organ played from Carlo Curley which has really exceptional good sound. To avoid misunderstanding this was checked with really high end equipment (Meridian full digital as well as alternatively analogue tube amps Convergent limited).
My summary therefore is 5star for recording, 5star for the nice collection of all works together on this DVD, 3star for video sequences and 3star/only average for the top score toccata&fugue.
Having the possibility to choose which disc I'm playing I still will use the old CD with all its noise imperfections.