Bach Arioso Bb and Paraphrase - Christoph Bull at FCCLA - With love to Frederick Swann
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A note from Christoph:
"Johann Sebastian Bach originally wrote this Arioso as the First Movement, Sinfonia, for his Cantata 156, BWV 156, for the Third Sunday after Epiphany, first performed on January 23, 1729.
It was written in the key of F Major (the dominant to the Bb of this organ version) and the original instrumentation was Oboe, Strings and Continuo. He also used the musical material for the middle movement, a Largo in Ab Major, of his fifth Keyboard Concerto, BWV 1056.
The piece may have been a 'spin-off' of the opening Andante from Flute Concerto in G major (TWV 51:G2) by Bach's friend Georg Philipp Telemann.
This organ performance of Bach's piece was recorded on Friday, June 4, 2021, during the first run-through of the weekly Organ Prelude Concert at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles to take place two days later.
I first played the original piece once through and then added a paraphrased and ornamented repeat from 2:21 on.
I'm dedicating this video to the great Frederick Swann (July 30, 1931 – November 13, 2022).
Fred was organist at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles from 1998 and 2001 and is the church's Organist Emeritus.
He was the first person to invite me to concertize there in 1999. He also invited me to perform at UCLA's Royce Hall during the 2004 National Convention of the American Guild of Organist in Los Angeles for which he was program chair. In subsequent years, he became a much loved and generous mentor and supporter.
I 'inherited' Fred's last student at University of Redlands, Dr. Philip Hoch, when Philip joined the DMA program at UCLA a few years ago and I cherish this connection.
On February 12, 2017, Frederick Swann joined David Goode, Jaebon Hwang and myself in performing at a major event entitled 'Organ Spectacular', celebrating the 150th anniversary of First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and uniting several living FCCLA organists, which was enthusiastically celebrated by a beyond-capacity crowd. The pictures of Fred at the end of this video are from that treasured day.
Fred will be immensely missed by the organ community here and abroad, and his contributions to the field and to his colleagues can't be measured in words.
We love you, Fred, and God bless you."
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