Komm, Heiliger Geist Have you ever listened to a rendition of a Johann Sebastian Bach piece played on a multiple hundred years old organ in a multiple hundred years old church? Can you imagine anything more sublime? The below YouTube video is a chorale prelude for “Komm, heiliger Geist”, or “Come, Holy Spirit”, BWV 652 (I know of at least one other prelude for the same chorale, BWV 651). One of the unusual things about it is that it is exceptionally long. These pieces tend to be of shorter nature because they were and are being played during church services. I found two live performances on YouTube, where you can see the hands and feet of the organist, but the following rendition is of higher quality. It also features the score of the prelude, timed to match the performance, as a special treat for people who can read music. This incomparably beautiful piece of music is “Komm, heiliger Geist”, performed by Bine-Katrine Bryndorf on the Wagner organ (built in 1738) in the Nidaros Cathedral at Trondheim, Norway. As I have said many times before, this is why we fight. I chose to enter the trenches in this information war so that music such as this might not be wiped off the face of the earth. I decided to do what I do now so that these lambent pipes might not lie dented and silent amidst the broken and charred woodwork in the rubble of the cathedral, next to the headless body of the organist. Come, Holy Spirit! (Phil, hope you enjoy this too!)
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:33:37 +0000
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