Your video, Xavier Varnus plays Toccata & Fugeue in the Berliner Dom, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

yes, your promotions were fruitful:) thanks for the leg-up!
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Sifters! Come along on a thoroughly enjoyable ride!

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Thanks for the promote, it reminded me of this one againa nd I really enjoyed watching it again

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
oh, right.. Um.. *promote?

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Thanks for the douplepromote

In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
Hoooly SHIITT THIS IS WINNNNNNNN

*doublepromote

No no, Thank YOU for always sifting great videos!!! Your submissions are always interesting and worthy of attention.

>> ^EndAll:

That was fucking amazing! And she's gorgeous to boot.
bravo ?
quality


Glad you bravo'd this, else I might have missed it!

Thanks for the douplepromote

In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
Hoooly SHIITT THIS IS WINNNNNNNN

*doublepromote

Good call on bravo, thanks for the quality

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
That was fucking amazing! And she's gorgeous to boot.

*bravo ?

*quality

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Wow, talking heads arguing about talking heads, what a useful journalist. Perhaps if he dedicated his worst people in the world segment to murderers, dictators, oppressors and corrupt organizations I could take him seriously.


Well for one, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor that's always playing in the background clearly points out that this is not a serious list of the worst people in the world, but that's stating the obvious. I'm just saying, like it or hate it take this for what it is.

I enjoy his fact check like segments though, compared to the other talking heads he brings up on his show who just seem to spew whatever sift they can pull out of their asses. I think certain names come up more often because they give him the most ammunition to use. There's obviously at the least some media war bias to who he picks though, it's just they seem deserving of it.

Wow! Rivals this guy's Toccata and Fugue:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Amazing-accordion-player-Alexander-Dmtriev


(the Bach piece is a bit more dramatic, but this kid is awesome)

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>> ^legacy0100:
timpani isn't a very well constructed instrument now that I think about it. 3rd world drums play a much clearer, louder, deeper sounds than these behemoths. These bulbous cauldrons sound way too flat to say the least.
Perhaps because western orchestra's always been about the strings and the winds, and not so much on the percussions.


This isn't an example of a good timpani sound, or a particularly wise orchestration. It looks like a college recital, performed by a student who is still learning, so I wouldn't base your judgment of this instrument on one video.

There are many cool sounding low pitched ethnic drums, but none of them allow you to tune to a particular pitch on the fly. If you look closely, you'll see the performer adjusting a pedal - which tightens or loosens the head - at the base of these drums. A nice set of drums, played by a skilled player will give you a huge, clear awesome sound.

I'd recommend you check out a good recording of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Orff's Carmina Burana or Holst's Planets for a good idea of how Timpani are supposed to sound. You hear it quite a bit in film music too.

Percussion was underused in Western art music up until the 20th Century, so while most of the classical chestnuts only have a bit of perc here and there, you see quite a bit in music written over the last 100 years.

I arranged Bach's Passacaglia in Cm for Vibes, Marimba and Bass (with low C extention) for my junior recital, and it worked really well. I should dig that out and do it again somewhere.

Noooo! You cannot end a video in the middle of the ending cadence of a Bach Toccata! Luckily I was close to a piano when it happened...

great song, i still think it sounds supreme on a pipe organ. the thing i always loved the most about it is the really rich low notes that just kind of loom over some of the higher melody notes. superb.

http://www.videosift.com/video/JSBach-Toccata-and-Fugue-in-D-mi
nor-Karl-Richter

Is this Toccata and Fugue?? I can't tell.