Product Details

• Actors: Hans-Andre Stamm
• Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
• DVD Release Date: December 11, 2001
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QW5B
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,920 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Organist Hans-André Stamm is featured performing the most beloved of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ pieces. This program has been recorded in video with 96k/24 bit multi-track audio on the newly renovated Trost-Organ in Waltershausen, Germany. Tracks: Fantasia in G Minor; Fugue in G Minor; Prelude in G Major; Fugue in G Major; and more. 86 minutes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bravo!! Noch Zwei Mal Herr Stamm, January 13, 2002

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Doctorblaster (Quakertown, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bach - Greatest Organ Works, Vol. 2 (DVD)

As big fan of Volume I, this second DVD was even as rich. The 5.1 Dolby on my HTS places that Trost-Organ right in my living room. Herr Stamm's technical abilities and interpretive tempos are superior. The video is almost an extra here as you can view the immense and complex baroque organ produce the sounds that live for centuries. The audio is just simply awesome. My preference is to leave the 'music analysis' subtitle 'on' so that visually I learn something historical and interesting about each piece. A full 86 minutes of grandeur, the performance is punctuated with Fanatasia g minor BWV 542/1 that for me has never been performed better. As a baroque junky, music lover, and HTS fan, I can only hope that Volume III is soon on its way!! Hans-Andre Stamm playing J.S. Bach in exactly the method and venue for which is was written. It doesn't get any better for home listening.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Good Bach Organ DVD!, September 16, 2002

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Alan Craig (Grand Junction,CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bach - Greatest Organ Works, Vol. 2 (DVD)

Hans-Andre Stamm and Pioneer have given us another great DVD of
Bach's Organ music in a very well chosen recital I can once again only hope that there will be more volumes to come! I think my favorite work on this recital is "This is the Day of Rejoicing" ("Der Tag der ist so fredenreich") BWV 605 from the
"Orgelbuchlein".

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely well done, May 30, 2004

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This review is from: Bach - Greatest Organ Works, Vol. 2 (DVD)

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.

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.