{"id":4224,"date":"2009-07-10T21:31:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T03:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2009-07-10T21:31:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T03:31:14","slug":"karl-richter-bach-d-moll-toccata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/karl-richter-bach-d-moll-toccata\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Richter &#8211; Bach D moll Toccata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zd_oIFy1mxM<\/p>\n<p>This morning I&#8217;ve been watching Karl Richter videos on YouTube. I especially enjoyed clips of the Bach B minor Mass. In this video of JS Bach&#8217;s Toccata and Fuge in D minor listen to Richter&#8217;s organ stop choice at 4:30 &#8211; I think it&#8217;s wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure, but from the looks I think this is the original organ of Bach in Leipzig, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This Toccata can be considered an improvisation of JS Bach that he put to paper afterwards. I like to imagine Bach warming up in the sanctuary before a service and improvising this to warm up.<\/p>\n<p>In my life one of my favorite moments was practicing pipe organ pieces at church late on a Saturday night in preparation for the Sunday morning service. This was one of my favorite pieces to play, which I liked to play around Halloween &#8211; which usually got a few giggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zd_oIFy1mxM This morning I&#8217;ve been watching Karl Richter videos on YouTube. I especially enjoyed clips of the Bach B minor Mass. In this video of JS Bach&#8217;s Toccata and Fuge in D minor listen to Richter&#8217;s organ stop choice at 4:30 &#8211; I think it&#8217;s wonderful. Not sure, but from the looks I think this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-168","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4226,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}