Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast
Oct 15, 2026 · 26 min · 9 segments
Welcome to Episode 800 of the Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! In this milestone episode, Vidas and Ausra reflect on reaching 800 episodes and share their recent tour experience visiting the musical…
Ausra Motuzaite-PinkevicieneHost
Vidas PinkeviciusHostThe most striking feature for me of that, uh, trip obviously was, uh, ability to, to go to the Bach Museum and, um, and, uh, see all the, uh, places and, and, uh, documents.
And hear, hear the, the music authentically performed, uh, and it was very interactive museum experience.
And, um, of course, very few actually original things survived really.
But we had the chest really, uh, from Bach household, so it was, I think, one of their most treasured, uh, artifacts in this museum, because it has that beautiful, beautiful, um, [lips smack] uh, or- orthography which is, you know, where you can see the letters J-S-B, and then from the left to right, and then the same letters from the right to left.
It's beautiful, and it has crown on the top of it, so it's a really very beautiful chest.
And of course, other artifacts and other old instruments, uh, like crumhorn [laughs] and, and gamba, and all that kind of stuff.
And of course, beautiful music, beautiful s- original scores by Bach in a special room where we really keep the temperature and humidity right up to, mm, you know, appropriate level that they would keep it themself.
But for me, in that, um, basically, uh, you know, in the museum and in the Thomas Church, you know, actually, in the Thomas Church, m- most impression me- for me, made that room where we have, um, lots of, uh, cantatas texts, uh, written on the walls.
Uh, this is the first line of one of those chorales from that cantata, which is one of my favorite.
And actually, this was the first time when I realized that all that poetry for that particular cho- choral and other text from that particular cantata are taken directly from the Bible.
What Ausra is talking about is, uh, in- on the wall of, uh, of one of the rooms in, uh, in, uh, in St. Thomas Church, you could see, [lips smack] um, the text of, of the cantata, Es ist genug.
And directly to each line, uh, of the, of the text, you could see Bible, uh, citations, where this line, uh, comes from originally-
And there are, you know, like, scattered sources, not, not, not like one verse from one particular passage of the Bible.
No, it's just one verse from, from here, another verse, or one line from another s- completely scattered sources.
It's really, it just shows, you know, how deeply people at that time understood the Bible.
The most striking feature for me of that, uh, trip obviously was, uh, ability to, to go to the Bach Museum and, um, and, uh, see all the, uh, places and, and, uh, documents.
And hear, hear the, the music authentically performed, uh, and it was very interactive museum experience.
And, um, of course, very few actually original things survived really.
But we had the chest really, uh, from Bach household, so it was, I think, one of their most treasured, uh, artifacts in this museum, because it has that beautiful, beautiful, um, [lips smack] uh, or- orthography which is, you know, where you can see the letters J-S-B, and then from the left to right, and then the same letters from the right to left.
It's beautiful, and it has crown on the top of it, so it's a really very beautiful chest.
And of course, other artifacts and other old instruments, uh, like crumhorn [laughs] and, and gamba, and all that kind of stuff.
And of course, beautiful music, beautiful s- original scores by Bach in a special room where we really keep the temperature and humidity right up to, mm, you know, appropriate level that they would keep it themself.
But for me, in that, um, basically, uh, you know, in the museum and in the Thomas Church, you know, actually, in the Thomas Church, m- most impression me- for me, made that room where we have, um, lots of, uh, cantatas texts, uh, written on the walls.
Uh, this is the first line of one of those chorales from that cantata, which is one of my favorite.
And actually, this was the first time when I realized that all that poetry for that particular cho- choral and other text from that particular cantata are taken directly from the Bible.
What Ausra is talking about is, uh, in- on the wall of, uh, of one of the rooms in, uh, in, uh, in St. Thomas Church, you could see, [lips smack] um, the text of, of the cantata, Es ist genug.
And directly to each line, uh, of the, of the text, you could see Bible, uh, citations, where this line, uh, comes from originally-
And there are, you know, like, scattered sources, not, not, not like one verse from one particular passage of the Bible.
No, it's just one verse from, from here, another verse, or one line from another s- completely scattered sources.
It's really, it just shows, you know, how deeply people at that time understood the Bible.
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