Well, I've resisted the temptation to post here long enough. In the early 1960's I visited a friend of the family in New York City who not only had a Hi Fi but a real STEREO! High end McIntosh amplifier with incredible Acoustic Research speakers - we're talking state of the art and many thousands of dollars. I'd never seen or heard anything like it. He was a rather eclectic sort of fellow and had all kinds of music. To demonstrate the thundering base response of his system he played Bach's Toccatta & Fugue in D minor performed by E. Power Biggs on the Flentrop Organ. The whole house shook. I've been hooked ever since. There is nothing compared watching a pipe organ played by a master. In the case of Bach, both hands and both feet are in perpetual flight, each playing a separate melody. E. Power Biggs and Helmut Walcha are my favorite artists on the pipe organ.
The first video is Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor played by E. Power Biggs - the exact same recording I first heard in New York.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVu0auaZu7sHere's Bachs Toccata & Fugue in F major played by Walcha:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AiqNq9weEBoth of these artists are dead and gone but their mastery lives on through recordings like these.
Lex
