As my first video for Advent this year, I would like to share with you chorale prelude by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland which I recorded on our cozy-sounding folding reed organ Leonardo (Leonhardt). Hope you will enjoy it! Join this channel to get access to perks such as custom weekly members-only tutorials and others: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4K3_6QVJI_HlI5PCFQqtg/join We support Ukraine: https://www.blue-yellow.lt/en If you like what I do, you can buy me some coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/organduo PayPal: https://PayPal.Me/VPinkevicius My Hauptw ..read more

In this tutorial I will teach you what chords should be used with caution in your playing or composition. It was dedicated to Rien Schalkwijk who is my YouTube channel member and supporter. Hope you will find it useful! If you need more help with harmonisation, I recommend Harmony for Organists (Level 1) course: https://secrets-of-organ-playing.myshopify.com/products/harmony-for-organists-level-1?pos=1&sid=1e7a2b2b1&_ss=r Join this channel to get access to perks such as custom weekly members-only tutorials and others: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4K3_6QVJI_HlI5PCFQqtg/join We ..read more

It's Saturday again and it's time for another harmony tutorial. Today I will teach you how to harmonize D sharp minor (E flat minor enharmonically) scale using simple chords (i, iv, V, III, VI, VII, their inversions and V7) for 4 voices. This is the last video in this series and next Saturday I'll start teaching you to harmonize some famous Advent and Christmas hymns. Hope you will enjoy it! If you need more help with harmonisation, I recommend Harmony for Organists (Level 1) course: https://secrets-of-organ-playing.myshopify.com/products/harmony-for-organists-level-1?pos=1&sid=1e7a2b2b1 ..read more

Today is Friday and it means Lithuanian Music Day on my channel. I'd like to share with you my rendition of Fugue on "Pulkim ant kelių" by Česlovas Sasnauskas (1867-1916) which I recorded at Vilnius University St. John's Church. Sasnauskas was an important Lithuanian composer of the Romanticism as well as an organist, choir conductor and singer. Pulkim ant kelių is a famous Lithuanian hymn, created by priest and poet Antanas Strazdelis-Strazdas (1760-1833) and traditionally sung before the Sunday High Mass in most churches even today. Sasnauskas created a beautiful fugue based on this melod ..read more

Hope you will enjoy my rendition of my Meditation on Ukrainian Song "Moonlight Night", Op. 85 which I recorded during a joint recital with Ausra on the Marcussen & Sons organ at St. Nikolai Church in Svendborg, Denmark on August 6, 2023. Thanks to organist and composers Tore Bjørn Larsen for invitation and hospitality! Score: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/product/meditation-on-ukrainian-song-moonlight-night-op-85-organ-solo-by-vidas-pinkevicius-2022-22259178.html?aff_id=454957 Join this channel to get access to perks such as custom weekly members-only tutorials and others: https://w ..read more

Yesterday our folding reed organ Henrietta had a great workout! My colleague soloist from Vilnius University Cultural Center, baritone Modestas Jankūnas and I had a short recital during 242nd birthday celebration of Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine. I played on Henrietta music Lemmens and Joplin and Modestas sang two beautiful songs by Schubert and Mozart. This fascinating instrument, probably built by Leonhardt was donated to us by Dagmar Hamberger, restored by Marcin Majak and tuned by Jakub Wszolek. Hope you will enjoy it! Program: 00:00 1. Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens - Fanfare 03:46 2 ..read more

Today it's Tuesday and it's time for some Romantic music on my channel. In this video I'd like to share with you the dramatic and turbulent Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, WoO9 by Johannes Brahms which I recorded during a live joined recital with Ausra at Vilnius University St. John's church on October 7, 2023. Hope you will enjoy it! Join this channel to get access to perks such as custom weekly members-only tutorials and others: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4K3_6QVJI_HlI5PCFQqtg/join We support Ukraine: https://www.blue-yellow.lt/en If you like what I do, you can buy me some coffee ..read more

Today I'd like to share with you my rendition of Phanthasia Septimi Toni from the Gdansk Manuscript (1591). I played it on September 5, 2023 during Early Music Festival "Banchetto Musicale" with Ausra and a group of other musicians. They sang music by Teodoro Riccio (c.1540–c.1601), the Mass setting dedicated to Stefan Batory, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. Ausra and I played 6 Fantasias from the Gdansk Manuscript (edited by Pierre Gouin & Marek Michalak) which worked very well with the motets from Liber primus missarum (1579) by Teodoro Riccio. The entire event was filmed by ..read more

In this tutorial I will teach you how to avoid parallel octaves and fifths in your playing or composition. It was requested by Rien Schalkwijk who is my YouTube channel member and supporter. Hope you will find it useful! If you need more help with harmonisation, I recommend Harmony for Organists (Level 1) course: https://secrets-of-organ-playing.myshopify.com/products/harmony-for-organists-level-1?pos=1&sid=1e7a2b2b1&_ss=r Join this channel to get access to perks such as custom weekly members-only tutorials and others: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4K3_6QVJI_HlI5PCFQqtg/join W ..read more

It's Saturday again and it's time for another harmony tutorial. Today I will teach you how to harmonize F sharp major (D flat major enharmonically) scale using simple chords (I, IV, V, ii, iii, vi, their inversions and V7) for 4 voices. Only one more video is left in this series next Saturday and after that I'll start teaching you something else. Hope you will enjoy it! If you need more help with harmonisation, I recommend Harmony for Organists (Level 1) course: https://secrets-of-organ-playing.myshopify.com/products/harmony-for-organists-level-1?pos=1&sid=1e7a2b2b1&_ss=r Join this ..read more