Best Bach Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor

Michael, Murphy Direct disc,a stunner!!

Avguygeorge, is that Michael MURRAY on the old Telarc D to D? You're right, it is a good recording. I'm sure he's also recorded it on CD for Telarc. Murray is the perfect organist for direct to disc because he never makes a mistake. However, I guess my heart lies with Fox, because Murray's performances ultimately seem boring to me.

Thanks,got my organist mixed up with my country western singer.I got both on vinyl(Fox& Murry) That last couple of minutes tears me up/ as in not boring to me.Sort of like the many John Williams-horn,piano,conductor,---us old guys!We never get it right.

My 1969 performance (as a seventeen-yr-old) on a Casavant Freres 4-rank French Canadian organ in the St Jean-de-Baptiste Church in Central Falls, Rhode Island. I even got through the final runs with nary a slip, and was shaking afterwards. I don't own a recording of the piece, and find playing it on my Steinway nowadays nostalgic, but NOTHING like that experience as a kid. Blown away? Sure...and I didn't even know an alternate meaning of the phrase! Phew....

To Subaruguru, A belated and sincere round of applause from me. I'm impressed. I'm a Lutheran Pastor's son. Some of my earliest memories are of Bach on the church pipe organ. My father and his organist friends used to play Bach all the time when I was growing up. It's really difficult music and a recording even on my big bucks system can't come close to it live. Given my background I'm sure you would not be suprised to know that I treasure my Helmut Walcha disks.