NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD arr. Virgil Fox | Diane Bish at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Canada
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- In live concert, Diane plays the four-manual, 73-stop organ which was built by Gabriel Kney and his staff, of London (Ontario), Canada. With 5,207 pipes, it is one of the largest tracker organs (gallery console) built in North America. After 20,000 hours of labor, the organ was completed for the Gala opening of the hall on September 13, 1982. The organ has two consoles: The gallery console (tracker action) and a detached electro-pneumatic action stage console.
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Diane has given the world a great gift in her music. We should rejoice and be glad in it,,I do,and Virgil thought a lot of her and her excellent television series is still without equal. Blessings!
I have listened to this and watched this over and over. I am totally awed by it every time. What a treasure to have the phenomenal Diane Bish on this glorious intrument. Thank you profusely for this posing.
Indeed I believe Ms. Bish and Virgil Fox have had unimaginable impact in making the masses aware of the wonderful sound of the organ. I have nothing but shear admiration for these two individuals.
Fabulous,all praise and glory be to our heavenly father.
Very nice diane. You are the best.
I had the great pleasure of attending that concert in that great hall
Absolutely wonderful. Diane is an inspiration. Amazing God given talent.
The love for music has no age and this is confirmation.
is seen in the face of Diane, the love she feels for music.
Fabulous!! All Praise, Laud and Honor to God our Heavenly Father!!!
I love Virgil Fox's arrangement. She does this piece justice. VF would be proud. I have this piece on his Encores CD. Five stars!
A magnificent instrument
Fine lady, powerful organist.
I love the faster paced stuff. It just makes her that much better a player!
I have both of the episodes of this concert on tape.......and in all the pieces she plays like a demon. Im sure one of her finest concerts, and I bet to this day every person in that audience remembers it as amazing.
There is only one Diane Bish. Best of the best!!
Oh my gosh!! This is absolutely incredible!!! Thank you for the chills!
Absolutley magnificant! I love it! We organist should really respect the talents of this woman and of virgil fox! Brilliant!
Diane doesn't just play God's music, she epitomizes divine inspiration.
This is so GREAT!!!!!!
i performed this piece last sunday for a prelude and got a standing obation. it was awesome!
This is a terrific arrangement by Virgil Fox! I wish I could come up with something half as original and exciting as this!
I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (October 21, Pentecost 21), we sang this as our Closing Hymn. It is #839/840 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. We sang #840.
This is a super, super presentation of the Virgil Fox arrangement by Diane Bish on a great organ in Toronto. I would like to see and hear more of Diane on this relatively modern instrument.
I think her speed for this work is perfect
The resonance as she opens it out at 3:10 is breathtaking, as is the roar of the pedal reads. Wow - what an organ!
this is the best interpretation I've ever heard. thanks God for the unique Diane Bish!
Chappeau! Greetings from Switzerland.
I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (July 25), I played this for Sunday School assembly.
Wonderful!!
On behalf of the American Guild of Organists, thanks for this post.
I never heard much of Virgil Fox, other than one of his CDs. Both Diane and Him have received countless awards and recognition from the AGO.
They are very talented organists and this gives US younger organists, like myself, inspiration.
As a Regional Councillor of the American Guild of Organists, thanks for this post.
taste taste taste. I think it is played with spirit and personally find it refreshing. Majestic can be labored at times. As usual, the music is performed flawlessly.
NO. She plays it much TOO FAST. She needs to listen to Virgil Fox play it and emulate his tempo.
@@cootumrebelTaste... MOST of the respondants believe this is well-played. Yes, she does tend to "floor it" on some pieces that I agree are too brisk. This one is good.
Wow this is fabulous!!
Spectacular!! Thank you so much for posting. She's a wonderful player and even on my little laptop speakers I can hear everything just fine. So, no it is not too fast. It may be too fast for most organists to play, but the tempo works well for me. Bravo Ms. Bish!
Grandiosa esecuzione, sono senza parole
fantastic music and beautiful played!!!
Brilliant!!!!!!
Would've loved to see and hear this live!
I actually loved this- I think that the notes would sound much cleaner at this tempo if I were there to actually there to listen to her live, vs over a youtube recording.
I can almost feel her energy and emotions emerge through this. Bish is a big inspiration for me in my own Organ studies. I hope that I may become 1/4 the Organist that Bish is.
Supertoll gespielt auf einer tollen Orgel!!
I couldn't agree more. She plays as she interprets the music and in my opinion it usually sounds amazing
GREAT ORGAN PLAYING,VERY RESPONSIVE AND WELL PERFORMED
Amazing! I love it, thanks for posting!
Very musical performance of this piece, I like the slight ritards at the end of certain phrases...makes for a more dramatic feel than just playing it "straight through"...also, that's quite a thrilling sounding instrument! Interesting console, looks kinda more like a Kawai than anything else...lol...but a very thrilling sound!
On one of Virgil Fox's live concerts he about this arrangement: "In one hand, the original composition, in the other, Martin Luther. Grab hold, will you?"
Shes like the Rock star of church organist ! Hurray Diane
I'm a little late on Virgil Fox's birthday, his 106th Birthday was on Thursday May 3, 2018, he passed away on Saturday October 25, 1980 at age 68 years, 5 months and 22 days.-----Looks like an interesting place in Toronto, in general, I "wish" I could simply travel there, I've been to Canada once, a very short stay in Simcoe, ON, with my parents in early September '84, I was 20 then and lived in Westerville, OH (Westerville didn't have alcohol then).
I actually have this piece as done by Virgil Fox, and I feel like Diane does a much better job- I like it faster; it's more exciting!!
Exactly! She plays it as a spritely yet immensely powerful piece. I love how she stomps the guts out of the organ in the second half of the arraingment.
Where did you get this music? I would love our organist to play this in church
Diane Bish is the best looking and best- and most gifted- pipe organist we have alive today. She's just plain fierce. Kind of like Bach was in his day: Anyone who heard or saw him play was both enraptured and terrorized. He got fired from one job as the kappelmeister for physically and emotionally terrorizing the choir boys, especially one child who ran home with bleeding ears to his father who happened to be the head of the church committee. His comment: "He sings off-key."
been a fan of yours for years
Diane is flower from heaven
I like it the way it is
Slow down good grief! No one is gonna steal the organ!
Cool Console!
"Her humility and necessity made her glad of crumbs. Those who are conscious to themselves that they deserve nothing, will be thankful for anything…The least of Christ is precious to a believer, and the very crumbs of the bread of life." - Matthew Henry
I can't believe all the negative comments about this arr.. For those who are musicians, you will recall when we were taking lessons we were always told to play as the music was written. but once you begin to master that instrument you are incouraged to put your own twist on it. thats what musics about.
wow!!
i wish i could play like you mrs bish. I have to get back into it and be like you. Also where do you get your hymns like this from. One day if i win a load of money i would like to get a church organ on my own!
Yes, according to the catalog # it was filmed in 1986.
As many have said the stop action is electric with solenoid actuators on the sliders and of course modern combination action. On the mechanical key action are electric solenoid pulldowns for the movable console. Naturally a computer interface between the electric console and the organ proper.
I watch this Episode on EWTN some years ago
“Now thank we all our God” - a robust chorale tune by J S Bach in an arrangement by Virgil Fox
@Episcopalcriticiser
As an AGO National Councillor, I too have a funny story. I recall at an organ recital, I was playing at the Cathedral of Madeline in SLC UT. I was 14. I had the most horrific rash on my derriere & was performing the Toccata, Adagio, & Fugue by Bach, the itch was so bad that I got up in the middle of the piece & went to restroom. Came back told Audience I had a "Call of Nature". My late father said the crowd was in shock as I got up & left, but laughed after explanation.
the word is ovation
Faster than most I have heard...but she holds it "together" very well, especially that considering...and she certainly milks it for all it's worth with the slight ritards at the end of the phrases...a very, very musical performance, no matter what the speed!
Well said.
I love that word..."chiffy"
@iandavidhenderson I watch it over and over too! it's absolutely amazing! Man I wish I was in the Roy Thompson Hall when this was playing. Those blazing chamades and the growl of the 32' reed! mmmmm Is this the Mr. Henderson from St. Catharines/Thorold area?
Would be interested to know how an instrument with digital/electronic stops and a mobile console could be a tracker. I understand the term "tracker" to mean the stops are actually connected to the boards at the base of the pipes rather and that when swell to great is coupled, the keys actually connect. Can't see that would happen on this instrument?
Listen closely to catch the melody.
Watch Joyce kick the pedals near the end!
@enchammade16 claptrap. Listen to some of the other "slower" performances. No thank you. You have them; I prefer this. Wonderful.
Mein gott, she gives those pedals a good stomp.
agreed!
@AmericanCars101 I think I may have seen it once on EWTN, but unfortunately I didn't record it.
Actually it is played rather well. It is played fast, but if you listen to Virgil's recordings of it...he tends to take it at a fast tempo as well.
@mkl62
Hello there, like you I belong to the ELCA. Unlike the other Lutherans we ELCAers are the partying Lutherans!!
I am so tired of comments about Diane's tempo whe playing the Organ.Does Diane as a artist have the right to play a piece music the way she feels it should played. If you are all so great organist's why dont you have your own Tv Program. She is not just a Church Organist but a true Artist who knows what she is doing I know her very well and as far as her outfits and shoes have you not noticed she is a women and likes
to dress up for her concerts Diane is the greatest organist since Bach.
Whats the name of the sheet music. I would love for our organist to play this at our church.
I have the St. James episodes...9509 and 9603.
@MoneyManTC Wow it does! Who is the builder of your console?
@bishfan I was wondering if you have any footage of the concert she gave at St. James cathedral in toronto? this was many years ago and cant find any of it on youtube..
Sadly it is a dieing art. Not many of us organist left.
DYING art...organists
This is the version arranged by Virgil fox and is certainly accurately played, just a bit too fast. It's not designed as a baroque piece.
a little fast, but she makes it her own.
So fast
sounds like ball dancing at brighton !1
this virgil fox is very inspirated by j. s. bach
This is a hymn,, is it played too fast? Try to sing along and you have the answer.
+rfb91a “Now thank we all our God” - a robust chorale tune by J S Bach in an arrangement by Virgil Fox
Ah I see! So the console being played in the clip does not/cannot have tracker action and only the keyboard on the fixed console is tracked. So its only 50% a tracker organ then?
The arrangement is by Virgil Fox. You can hear Fox play his arrangement on the Aeolian-Skinner at Riverside Church elsewhere on TH-cam. It is a performance I prefer to that of Bish in this case. As I understand it, this is a "concert arrangement" and not actually meant to accompany congregational singing. Bish has the technical skill to justify her tempo, but the tempo robs the arrangement of some of its reverence and grandeur, imo. But then, when Fox plays "Oh God our help in ages past" to support congregational singing (?), the tempo drags to a nearly un-singable pace. Just try to sustain a vocal line a phrase at that tempo ...
She is playing at about crotchet 66, which is about the speed I would sing it. I think US traditions lean towards a slower tempo than the UK.
the registration sounds a little harsh esp. compared to other performances
haha...she loves to cook!
Does she have to catch a bus? What's the hurry?
What's the hurry? Clean up the registration.
Amen
She plays like a computer, all right! And that is not meant as a complement.
Good, but I have to agree it's too fast...
@silverstartrucker
G.Danda plays it a little slower and better.
@enchammade16 blah blah blah........ Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Gott, das war ja auch mal in der Mode so haessliche Spieltische zu bauen xD Und die Aussage: "plays almost like a computer" ist fuer ne Orgel auch nicht unbedingt ein Kompliment :)
An excellent performance by Ms. Bish, but wow...that console is hideous.
enchamade, you answered your own question.. "She wants to impress..." Flashy, but not very musical or pleasant to listen to, but fun to watch.
can you play oh susanna on organ
I love the arrangment. And her skill is amazing. She just played it too fast in my opinion.