🎵 JS Bach - Toccata and Fugue in F Major BWV 540 | St Laurenskerk, Rotterdam

Toccata and Fugue in F major BWV 540 by JS Bach (1685-1750) played by Richard McVeigh on the organ of St Laurenskerk in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

This was played live during an organ recital on 31st October 2020.

This organ was sampled for Hauptwerk by Sonus Paradisi.

The gigantic Toccata couples a pedal toccata with a ritornello section in a ratio of 2:3. Very striking to the listener is the rhythm of the cadence figue, so much that it becomes a kind of mini-rondo. The same figure leads to one of the most startling interrupted cadences even in JS Bach's peerless repertory of them. Mendelssohn enthused over these cadences in a letter to his sister, and their repeated effect in the Toccata is without parallel, underlining amongst other things how necessary the final dominant pedal-point is to the movement's tonality.
The Fugue is a unique example of the 'alla breve' or ricercar fugue in which themes are separately exposed and then combined. It is Bach's only thorough-going double fugue, where two subjects are exposed in separate sections and then combined. The effect is enhanced by the increasing rhythmic activity of the second subject and by the more frequent use of modulation in the final section of the fugue.

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