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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
Posts 10,160
Joined on 05-28-2004
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The Hannes Kastner’ Toccata and Fugue, D Minor.
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I have been fighting a minor war with my mother in-law. She
plays to kids different kids music (Raffi and alike) what they
sleep but I insist to play only Bach. While I was playing all possible Back music
to my kids I came across a cheap CD “Master of Classical Music” dedicated to
Back. It is Laserprit label and usually those type of collections have good music,
performed by their echelon of musicians, usually bad eastern Europeans, not necessary
because they are bad musicians but because the labels can get them to sell their
right for very little money.
So, I was casually listening this Laserprit 15802 CD, while putting
Thomas to bed and suddenly I got shocked how great the interpretation of the celebrated
Bach’s Toccata and Fugue D Minor was in there. The name of the organist Hannes
Kastner says nothing to me but his reading of the Toccata is nothing short of
spectacular. I was listening it perhaps 20 time and cannot believe how perfect
it is. It is a VERY hard work to make all timing right and to equate the reverberations
and decays, in fact in my mind no one ever made it right. Hannes Kastner has nailed
it down just perfectly. I am very surprised that such a staining interpretation
was released within this trashy collection.
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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