Organist Jonas Karlsson Plays Bach – MIN SYN PÅ BACHSPEL (Video)

This video was recorded in 2016 at my home organ. I play different organ works by Bach, and I explain how I think, when I play theese works. I don’t try to make Bach’s music sound like it it did, when Bach himself played it. I am more like an entertainer. Hopefully with great taste. The organ is from 2014, and far away from the instruments Bach used.

The works I play are well known. Bach’s Chorale Partita on Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768, is a work that I used to play live, years ago. The Prelude in e minor, BWV 548, has the potential to sound like complex Rock ‘n’ Roll, if you play it rythmically. I have played it live, many times. The Fantasia in c minor, BWV 537, sounds lovely, if you play it in a Frensh romantic way. This is my approach. I play Bach’s organ music in the style that best suits the specific piece of music.

The video is in Swedish.

Organist Jonas Karlsson on Swedish Television – Year 2004 (Video)

Swedish Organist Jonas Karlsson on Swedish television

This is a fun memory for me. I am playing the organ on Swedish television, before a concert tour. And I try to describe the music I play for the tv team. I am playing two of the my own compositions, and I improvise a fugue over a well known children song.

This was recorded in September 2004. I am playing on my own digital church organ, a Gem Plenum.

Organist Jonas Karlsson – MY WAY OF PLAYING BACH (Video)

On this video I am talking about my way of playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s organ works. The video was recorded in Nälden – Sweden, in June, 2016. 

For me, the way organists played Bach in the 1970:s – feels like a very modern way. 

Jonas Karlsson talking about Liszt’s piano works (Video)

On this short video, I am talking about Liszt’s piano works. Piano music, that I really love. The video was recorded at home, in 2019.