Frankly it disgusts me to see people in comment sections of videos of contemporary pieces saying things like “not very nice is it?” Or “what horrid noise” and the like. They don’t seem to understand how difficult these pieces are and how hard the performers (and in this case arranger) work to give these wonderful pieces to us in such amazing quality. People really need to appreciate hard, honest work. PS, if you don’t like it just don’t watch it, no one wants to hear your negative comments.
It is St. Eustache. That's the console of the 1967/72 Danion-Gonzales organ. A most unfortunate instrument. It was abandoned as unplayable in 1977. It was replaced by another catastrophic installation by Jean Dunand. It was scrapped even before it was completed. It wasn't until then that the present Van den Heuvel was installed.
Great! Thanks for posting. Interesting, though, that he is not playing the organ version he published. Notice 1:27 In the published version he lets the left hand play the descending chromatic major 3rds, while here he leaves that line out and instead plays the ascending chromatic scale with the left hand (which is ascribed to the pedal in the published version. I wonder what made him change his mind and rethink such a crucial few measures.
@pwoody1958 Je serais ravi de vous entendre jouer cette transcription sans toutes "ces erreurs" (je vous cite) et colorée par de belles registrations. Au plaisir de vous écouter...
ouh la la la console Herman de st eustache ou est elle passe ?? (a savoir quelle etait identique a celle de notre dame )......l'interpretation a l'orgue de cette toccata met en evidence la virtuosite de Guillou deja a l'epoque
They shouldn't have cut back and forth from piano to organ, but just done it entirely on the organ. By the way, this piece is hysterically funny on the organ.
Dobo50: I no longer perform this piece, since I have gotten to the age now where my fingers and feet don't always do what my brain tells them to!! But I have performed the "Toccata" many times in the past, in my own transcription, which is of course very similar to Guillou's. I never played it flawlessly, but I did make far fewer errors than Maître Guillou. I'm not bragging -- I worked my ass off and concentrated like hell!! There are many ways to make it prismatic and interesting as well.
Good to hear what the former organ sounded like- quite frankly it hasn't improved much... =P OK, this will earn me a lot of 'thumbs down'.. bring 'em on.. =)
I feel rather ambivalent towards Guillou as a musician. Very little of his music seems all that well written, and he doesn't seem to proofread anything so it is always riddled with errors. Similarly, his playing is extremely sloppy with wrong notes and distorted rhythms everywhere. Here, what should have been an effective transcription is made less so by the inaccurate playing and the messy rhythms. And why so loud all the time when some colorful registration could have made it much better?
Why is he known as great musician and virtuoso organist? For example this toccata was awful. Wrong notes all the time, rhytmically tragic and lack of musicality. It's absurd that something so disgusting was recorded. How could he make so serious face producing this idiotic noise?
Extraordinaire juxtaposition de l'orgue et du piano, sous les doigts de Jean Guillou !
I like this tempo best. I love how it plods along almost sarcastically like a human stuck as a cog in a great and terrible wheel.
Wonderful! And thanks for sharing in such an imaginative way. !!!!
Frankly it disgusts me to see people in comment sections of videos of contemporary pieces saying things like “not very nice is it?” Or “what horrid noise” and the like. They don’t seem to understand how difficult these pieces are and how hard the performers (and in this case arranger) work to give these wonderful pieces to us in such amazing quality. People really need to appreciate hard, honest work. PS, if you don’t like it just don’t watch it, no one wants to hear your negative comments.
@amenophis972
It's not Notre-Dame organ, it's the old consolle in St. Eustache, Paris.
It's the old Gonzales organ
The piano / organ Idea is just fantastic. And, it is very educational. thank you and congratulations.
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Thank you so much for sharing.
Amazing, Fantastic
I love Guillou! Where did you find this? Thank you so much for posting this!!
@leonengard It's on TH-cam. Look for "Jean Guillou plays Prokofiev - Toccata Op. 11"
It is St. Eustache. That's the console of the 1967/72 Danion-Gonzales organ. A most unfortunate instrument. It was abandoned as unplayable in 1977. It was replaced by another catastrophic installation by Jean Dunand. It was scrapped even before it was completed. It wasn't until then that the present Van den Heuvel was installed.
Great! Thanks for posting. Interesting, though, that he is not playing the organ version he published. Notice 1:27 In the published version he lets the left hand play the descending chromatic major 3rds, while here he leaves that line out and instead plays the ascending chromatic scale with the left hand (which is ascribed to the pedal in the published version. I wonder what made him change his mind and rethink such a crucial few measures.
@pwoody1958
Je serais ravi de vous entendre jouer cette transcription sans toutes "ces erreurs" (je vous cite) et colorée par de belles registrations. Au plaisir de vous écouter...
ouh la la la console Herman de st eustache ou est elle passe ?? (a savoir quelle etait identique a celle de notre dame )......l'interpretation a l'orgue de cette toccata met en evidence la virtuosite de Guillou deja a l'epoque
i think, it's Notre Dame not St.Eustache, isnt it?
e svasta!
They shouldn't have cut back and forth from piano to organ, but just done it entirely on the organ. By the way, this piece is hysterically funny on the organ.
clearly very talented, and i love this piece. but the organ makes it sound rather sloppy at times
Dobo50: I no longer perform this piece, since I have gotten to the age now where my fingers and feet don't always do what my brain tells them to!! But I have performed the "Toccata" many times in the past, in my own transcription, which is of course very similar to Guillou's. I never played it flawlessly, but I did make far fewer errors than Maître Guillou. I'm not bragging -- I worked my ass off and concentrated like hell!! There are many ways to make it prismatic and interesting as well.
it's ND de PARIS Great Organ.
AWESOME!!!!
No it's not Cochereau's Console. I know a striking similarity perhaps.
I forgot to notice that crying african children at the end, are the best coment for his playing.
hahahahahahahahaha omg i can't stop laughing
Well that was not so nice
Good to hear what the former organ sounded like- quite frankly it hasn't improved much... =P
OK, this will earn me a lot of 'thumbs down'.. bring 'em on.. =)
Good God! What a cacophony of unspeakable ugliness on the organ. Playing the correct notes would help...
I feel rather ambivalent towards Guillou as a musician. Very little of his music seems all that well written, and he doesn't seem to proofread anything so it is always riddled with errors. Similarly, his playing is extremely sloppy with wrong notes and distorted rhythms everywhere. Here, what should have been an effective transcription is made less so by the inaccurate playing and the messy rhythms. And why so loud all the time when some colorful registration could have made it much better?
Why is he known as great musician and virtuoso organist? For example this toccata was awful. Wrong notes all the time, rhytmically tragic and lack of musicality. It's absurd that something so disgusting was recorded. How could he make so serious face producing this idiotic noise?
thats horrid music!
Extraordinaire juxtaposition de l'orgue et du piano sous les doigts de Jean Guillou !