Words cannot describe the emotion that your playing of this incredibleorgan piece has brought about. You have done Liszt, the instrument, and yourself, quite proud, Jonathan. Bravissimo!
It takes a truly GREAT organist to pull that off accurately at such speed. Many will disagree, but I consider this piece sounds best when played as fast as humanly possible!!
Eye-wateringly brilliant. Indescribably superb playing. I confess to being in tears by the final pages as the awesome power of this work, the sumptuous chord progressions and registration, combined with your extraordinary virtuosity throughout tipped me into a place I rarely go; utterly blown away by the beauty and majesty of it all. Thank you so, so much!
Oh that was incredible!! It was an amazingly complex & virtuosic work & really showed what that organ (& Jonathan!) could do. Well done for doing your research also. A wonderful video all round - excellent!! xx
Because of the history, the floating organ and this piece at the concert, I wanted to come to Münster in July. Unfortunately it didn't work out ( great shame). Always interesting and well-selected repertoire. During the live concerts you get the impression that specific organs in a specific place have more power than Thier specifications would indicate. Thanks to you Jonathan to yours Guardian Angel Tom.
Ususally, I don't comment on videos, but this is fantastic. It blew me away what nice and fitting registrations you found on an instrument that has clearly neoclassical roots. The part with the tubular bells made me grin. I really love your musicality and unpretentious virtuosity and look forward to find your name anytime in the local concert program, hopefully!
Astonisingly brilliant performance - such virtuosity and imaginative registration. I've never seen such a breathtaking display of pedaling. This will stay with me for ever. Tom has achieved wonders both - audio and visual. If any performance deserves immortality then this is the one.
Sometimes, I can only shake my head in awe & amazement at what I'm seeing & hearing when presented with a new SBD video & performance. Thie visuals, intriguing. The virtuosity, staggering. Bravo!! Now to read up on the history which I do when you post pieces & places new to me. Thanks for sharing this amazing instrument & music. 💐💐🎹🎶
An excellent performance of the Fantasia and Fugue on Ad Nos, ad salutarem undam on this Fine Karl Schuke Instrument. Accompanying Visual aspects blended well. Thank you both.
Stunning! This is an outstanding performance in every way, and on one of my very favourite organs. I’ve spent many hours at that console, since I first played it in 1992, and so it was thrilling to hear you get around so many of those wonderful colours. Congratulations, this is a milestone performance. Congratulations to Tom too for capturing the organ beautifully; both the sound and all the inventive views. P
The first time I ever heard this piece was on an LP of Jennifer Bate at the RAH when I was a teenager. I'd never heard any of Liszt's organ music before and that album turned my head, I was hooked! Your interpretation and choice of organ are just inspired - thank you so much!
Another great addition to your online SBD performances. You take us to interesting places. We hear great organs (the hanging Schuke is wonderful for this Liszt), and your fine playing with excellent visuals is a pleasure all around. Thank you both.
Simply wonderful! Jonathan executed this work magnificently as if it were easy, and Tom made the video with so much detail, incredibly wonderful! For me it's an incredible video, made with a lot of love and dedication from the two brothers! Thanks for showing us! ❤❤🥰👋👋👋👋👋
The footwork ain the 15 and 16 minute mark almost puts Yon to shame! Your fingers were gliding about the keyboard early but that footwork is A W E S O M E!!!!!
Amazing and beautiful and kept me awake til the end . Mind you the xcitement is growing in this house nearly Bank Holiday Monday and that means the wait is over . I will at last have the privilege of hearing Johnathan playing live at Hereford Cathedral the long wait will be over 🎉🎉🎉. Johnathan if you need an idea for your encore Gounod Judex ( Mora et Vita ) l have lost count of how many times l have played your recording of it . Woopdewoo for Monday 😊
Superb. So difficult to play, so well played on a great organ in a really impressive (and historic: curious history) St Lamberti church in Münster. And the production is jaw dropping .. still marvelled.
This video brings back the excitement of Münster for me.! The overwhelming intensity and the tension leading to the climax make me forget to breathe. Jonathan, thank you for your wonderful performance. Tom, your brilliant filming and editing have brought to life the imagery and the world I experienced at Lamberti.Thank you so much. My heartfelt thanks to both of you...
Wow! I guess I shouldn't have expected anything less, but Liszt really doesn't disappoint in terms of flashiness and forcefulness of his composition, whether it's on the piano, orchestra, or organ. Something I really appreciate about Jonathan's performances is that he really makes even a piece like this - an obviously extremely taxing piece on both the manual and pedal - look and sound smooth and natural. His playing is so relaxed. And Tom adds to that with his videography to help enhance the overall experience with appropriate scenes (and it's nice he managed to get an overhead camera for this one to show just how much work Jonathan is putting into this). Love the video! Thank you! (Just an interesting tidbit I found while looking up information on this piece is that Liszt himself would've played this piece a lot slower, about 45 minutes. I know some people might balk at Jonathan's performance for being "way too fast", but I honestly think Liszt would've approved how flashy Jonathan made this piece with the speed, given some of his piano pieces. Haha.)
Regarding the tempo that Jonathan plays the vs reports of how much slower Liszt played the piece it’s worth noting that Liszt regarded himself as not a being virtuoso on the organ as he was on the piano. Plus organs in those times were all manual trackers and stop changes ponderous needing registrants so playing as fast as Jonathan was impossible. On a visit to St Sulpice to see the relatively new CC organ the then titular organist Alfred Lefebure Wely offered Liszt the bench to have a go and Liszt refused saying “I only play village organs”.
@@epincion not strictly true. This organ is tracker action, as of old, but good registrants ( usually at least 2 ) can keep registration well up to speed, even "planning ahead" to make very slick changes. Good mechanical action can lend itself to quite rapid (if tiring) playing and repetition, but Liszt probably would have played this slower as his pedalling was the "weak spot" (!). Regarding others, like Jonathan; they would , correctly, play to the acoustic.
Hello Jonathan, I have been patiently waiting for this... and I am sure Tom did an excellent recording. Going to listen and watch now. Wow! Arizona, USA.
What a great performance on one of my favorite instruments. After the organ was inaugurated, I played, among other things, Duruflé Suite op. 5 in a concert.
Hallo! All I can say is this Really breathtaking!!! Wow what a GREAT performance from the master Jonathan. Beautiful filming and recording Tom thank you so much ❤❤B B. With Love Always from the Netherlands
Bravo, brothers! What a fine, impressive, and enjoyable production. First-rate playing, inspired video editing, and even some "fun facts" at the very start of the video! This is clearly a labour of love by both of you. Thank you!
Wow that was a wonderful experience, the sheer skill of Jonathan with hands and feet, his choice of registration, that monumental organ in a huge acoustic in the very church and town where the events Meyerbeer composed an opera about and inspired Liszt to sit down and compose this great organ work. That we can see & hear it’s greatness is all due to Toms skill at recording the sound and his filming and editing of the video. I must say having read about the grisly events in 1534 I think it’s time for the church and town to remove those cages to a museum. What happened to those three leaders was not Christian justice but a revengeful act of evil.
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for all the work and effort you put into these outstanding videos. You put the major recording companies way into the shade.
Pierre-François Dub-Attenti a mis en ligne des extraits de ce chef-d'œuvre joué par Daniel Roth à St Sulpice. Recherchez YT avec cette expression en anglais 'Saint-Sulpice organ, Daniel Roth plays Ad Nos, Liszt (audition 22 September 2013)'
Jonathan, are you wearing jeans? Somehow I don't expect that level of the human. You and Tom are so magical and amazing that I sometimes forget that you're also human. Your performances are truly out of this world in every aspect!
*Fantastic! As always! Bravo to the BRILLIANT Brothers Scott!* A note about the Anabaptists: in a nutshell. They were not all radical, but tended to strive for quiet, peaceful lives. They were hounded and persecuted, their numbers decimated, yet they hung on as best they could. Their descendants are alive and well here in the USA: The first Mennonites (The group led by Menno Simmons, hence the name) came in 1683 to Germantown, Philadelphia at William Penn's invitation. In 1699 the split occured: Jakob Aman found the somewhat progressive trend among many of the Mennonites more than he could bear, and his followers are known as the Amish.
I was talking to the organist Andrew Unsworth after an organ recital in the Tabernacle at Temple square and when I brought you guys up he said he’s definitely heard of you!!! Who knows maybe some day you’ll have the incredible opportunity to play on the worlds most famous pipe organ. And if not at least the conference center theater organ. Keep up the great work you guys!!! ❤
Jonathan "furious." Are there any fingers, legs and feet left after this piece? That's why he's always slim, because he burns a lot of calories playing the organ. How awesome! Spectacular! 🖐🦵🦶👢🎼🎵🎶🎹 ❤💋
Jonathan, that was an astonishing performance. How long did it take to get the organ programmed up? Tom, your video and sound were superb. The shots around the cathedral were just beautiful. Thank you both. Nice to see the old organ shoes get an outing!
Да ...интересный у вас канал !!! Вся эта история написанная в начале впечатляет конечно . Христианский коммунизм оказывается есть такое явление , я и не знала ! У нас в городе есть такие люди - они в церковь ходят и в тоже время считают себя коммунистами . А может таких и не мало .. А сама музыка очень сложная . Я внимательно прослушала , я чувствовала гармонию , но это очень сложно . Спасибо ❤!
Христианский коммунист, говорите вы. Что ж, это имеет смысл, поскольку новое коммунистическое правительство в 1534 году пришло к власти в результате предполагаемой народной революции, но очень быстро превратилось в диктатуру. Три лидера стали абсолютными монархами, захватили контроль над всей собственностью и постановили, что все женщины, которых они выберут, должны спать с ними. Всех, кто не соглашался, обезглавливали на городской площади.
Jonathan, you know how much I love and admire you, but despite all your hard work on this piece, there was little in it that spoke to me. I'm sorry.---Tom, thank-you do much for bringing this magnificent edifice into our lives.
The registration and tempo reminds me so much of the Jennifer Bate recording on the Royal Albert Hall from many years ago (and which remains one of my favourites). Is Jonathan familiar with that recording?
Hello guys my son has been wanting one of those portable folding Reed organs that he saw yall play could you tell us where we could possibly find one? We are in the USA and it seems they are very rare to find.
I’m in Europe and your question is interesting. My only comment is that these portable folding reed organs are very popular in India and you may be able to find one on one of the many internet based market places and import it to the US
Meanwhile, like on trust for Jonathan (who finally uploaded it) but above all for Ad nos, a masterpiece without equal. Honestly? I expected it to be different. (this is not a criticism but just my very personal opinion) The beginning was too fast, even the end. It loses a lot of its gothic charm. For the rest nothing to say. The fugue fantastic, perfect registers. Playing it like this isn't easy, I know what I'm saying because it took me a year to learn it. Well done, all my compliments
Das Stück ist an sich nichts, womit man Orgel-Muffel ins Konzert locken kann, im Gegensatz zu vielleicht einem auf einer Orgel gespieltem Radetzky-Marsch. Aber wenn J. Scott das "Ad nos" so flott und recht laut in einer halligen Kirche auf einer großen Orgel spielt, macht es was her.
St-Saens said it was 'the most extraordinary organ piece that has ever been written' and that is true in the sense of its technical difficulty and its sheer shocking greatness especially in a 'pre-modern' time when classical organ works ruled, but I don't think that he meant it was the best organ work ever
Words cannot describe the emotion that your playing of this incredibleorgan piece has brought about. You have done Liszt, the instrument, and yourself, quite proud, Jonathan. Bravissimo!
Now it's time for Jonathan's arrangement of Liszt's "Les Preludes". From Chicago, U.S.A.
It takes a truly GREAT organist to pull that off accurately at such speed. Many will disagree, but I consider this piece sounds best when played as fast as humanly possible!!
Jaw dropping performance. Absolutely beautiful 👌😎✨
With stunning videography!
Eye-wateringly brilliant. Indescribably superb playing. I confess to being in tears by the final pages as the awesome power of this work, the sumptuous chord progressions and registration, combined with your extraordinary virtuosity throughout tipped me into a place I rarely go; utterly blown away by the beauty and majesty of it all.
Thank you so, so much!
Beautiful Jonathan. You must be SO proud of your achievement here. Well done both of you!
Oh that was incredible!! It was an amazingly complex & virtuosic work & really showed what that organ (& Jonathan!) could do. Well done for doing your research also. A wonderful video all round - excellent!! xx
Because of the history, the floating organ and this piece at the concert, I wanted to come to Münster in July. Unfortunately it didn't work out ( great shame).
Always interesting and well-selected repertoire. During the live concerts you get the impression that specific organs in a specific place have more power than Thier specifications would indicate.
Thanks to you Jonathan to yours Guardian Angel Tom.
A beautiful piece wonderfully played! And a very interesting story to go with it!
Ususally, I don't comment on videos, but this is fantastic. It blew me away what nice and fitting registrations you found on an instrument that has clearly neoclassical roots. The part with the tubular bells made me grin. I really love your musicality and unpretentious virtuosity and look forward to find your name anytime in the local concert program, hopefully!
Astonisingly brilliant performance - such virtuosity and imaginative registration. I've never seen such a breathtaking display of pedaling. This will stay with me for ever. Tom has achieved wonders both - audio and visual. If any performance deserves immortality then this is the one.
Sometimes, I can only shake my head in awe & amazement at what I'm seeing & hearing when presented with a new SBD video & performance. Thie visuals, intriguing. The virtuosity, staggering. Bravo!! Now to read up on the history which I do when you post pieces & places new to me. Thanks for sharing this amazing instrument & music. 💐💐🎹🎶
An excellent performance of the Fantasia and Fugue on Ad Nos, ad salutarem undam on this Fine Karl Schuke Instrument. Accompanying Visual aspects blended well. Thank you both.
Stunning!
This is an outstanding performance in every way, and on one of my very favourite organs. I’ve spent many hours at that console, since I first played it in 1992, and so it was thrilling to hear you get around so many of those wonderful colours.
Congratulations, this is a milestone performance.
Congratulations to Tom too for capturing the organ beautifully; both the sound and all the inventive views. P
A monumental performance of a monumental piece!
The first time I ever heard this piece was on an LP of Jennifer Bate at the RAH when I was a teenager. I'd never heard any of Liszt's organ music before and that album turned my head, I was hooked! Your interpretation and choice of organ are just inspired - thank you so much!
Yes, most complicated organ work EVER! Bravo, Maestro Scott! Superbly performed! (Don't fall out of that organ loft!) Best wishes, from Canada.
Another great addition to your online SBD performances. You take us to interesting places. We hear great organs (the hanging Schuke is wonderful for this Liszt), and your fine playing with excellent visuals is a pleasure all around. Thank you both.
One of the (Organ) world’s absolute “virtuosi”
stunning! In every way!
Simply wonderful! Jonathan executed this work magnificently as if it were easy, and Tom made the video with so much detail, incredibly wonderful! For me it's an incredible video, made with a lot of love and dedication from the two brothers! Thanks for showing us! ❤❤🥰👋👋👋👋👋
The footwork ain the 15 and 16 minute mark almost puts Yon to shame! Your fingers were gliding about the keyboard early but that footwork is A W E S O M E!!!!!
Absolutely staggering performance, enhanced by brilliant videography. What a treat!!
WOW! How do you do this!? You & and your feet were amazing! XX
Wow! The new definitive performance of this piece. Bravo Maestro.
Amazing and beautiful and kept me awake til the end . Mind you the xcitement is growing in this house nearly Bank Holiday Monday and that means the wait is over . I will at last have the privilege of hearing Johnathan playing live at Hereford Cathedral the long wait will be over 🎉🎉🎉. Johnathan if you need an idea for your encore Gounod Judex ( Mora et Vita ) l have lost count of how many times l have played your recording of it .
Woopdewoo for Monday 😊
Jealous here in the USA!
Superb. So difficult to play, so well played on a great organ in a really impressive (and historic: curious history) St Lamberti church in Münster. And the production is jaw dropping .. still marvelled.
Magnificent - both musically and visually
There are so many laudatory commentaries that I don't know what to add. But I share everything said by those who have expressed their emotion and joy.
This video brings back the excitement of Münster for me.!
The overwhelming intensity and the tension leading to the climax make me forget to breathe.
Jonathan, thank you for your wonderful performance.
Tom, your brilliant filming and editing have brought to life the imagery and the world I experienced at Lamberti.Thank you so much.
My heartfelt thanks to both of you...
Wow! I guess I shouldn't have expected anything less, but Liszt really doesn't disappoint in terms of flashiness and forcefulness of his composition, whether it's on the piano, orchestra, or organ. Something I really appreciate about Jonathan's performances is that he really makes even a piece like this - an obviously extremely taxing piece on both the manual and pedal - look and sound smooth and natural. His playing is so relaxed. And Tom adds to that with his videography to help enhance the overall experience with appropriate scenes (and it's nice he managed to get an overhead camera for this one to show just how much work Jonathan is putting into this). Love the video! Thank you!
(Just an interesting tidbit I found while looking up information on this piece is that Liszt himself would've played this piece a lot slower, about 45 minutes. I know some people might balk at Jonathan's performance for being "way too fast", but I honestly think Liszt would've approved how flashy Jonathan made this piece with the speed, given some of his piano pieces. Haha.)
Regarding the tempo that Jonathan plays the vs reports of how much slower Liszt played the piece it’s worth noting that Liszt regarded himself as not a being virtuoso on the organ as he was on the piano.
Plus organs in those times were all manual trackers and stop changes ponderous needing registrants so playing as fast as Jonathan was impossible.
On a visit to St Sulpice to see the relatively new CC organ the then titular organist Alfred Lefebure Wely offered Liszt the bench to have a go and Liszt refused saying “I only play village organs”.
@@epincion not strictly true. This organ is tracker action, as of old, but good registrants ( usually at least 2 ) can keep registration well up to speed, even "planning ahead" to make very slick changes. Good mechanical action can lend itself to quite rapid (if tiring) playing and repetition, but Liszt probably would have played this slower as his pedalling was the "weak spot" (!). Regarding others, like Jonathan; they would , correctly, play to the acoustic.
Absolutely brilliant performance.
Hello Jonathan,
I have been patiently waiting for this... and I am sure Tom did an excellent recording. Going to listen and watch now. Wow! Arizona, USA.
Absolutely. a brilliant performance of this giant of organ works in every aspect of musicality ,Thank you so much Johnathan
Excellent; many thanks Scott Bros!
What a great performance on one of my favorite instruments. After the organ was inaugurated, I played, among other things, Duruflé Suite op. 5 in a concert.
Hallo!
All I can say is this
Really breathtaking!!!
Wow what a GREAT performance from the master Jonathan.
Beautiful filming and recording Tom thank you so much ❤❤B B.
With Love Always from the Netherlands
Brilliant and viritusositic! Bravo!!
AMAZING thank you JONATHAN ❤ 🇫🇮
I agree I know this piece played on the piano very technical its so much better on the organ, Jonathan unbelievably beautifully played!!
Astounding playing, thank you !
Excellent & extatic fantasy and fugue❤🎉
Bravo, brothers! What a fine, impressive, and enjoyable production. First-rate playing, inspired video editing, and even some "fun facts" at the very start of the video! This is clearly a labour of love by both of you. Thank you!
Wow!!!!....fantasties!!....wonderlike uitvoering
Bravo! Terrific performance and a wonderful organ as well.
Wow that was a wonderful experience, the sheer skill of Jonathan with hands and feet, his choice of registration, that monumental organ in a huge acoustic in the very church and town where the events Meyerbeer composed an opera about and inspired Liszt to sit down and compose this great organ work.
That we can see & hear it’s greatness is all due to Toms skill at recording the sound and his filming and editing of the video.
I must say having read about the grisly events in 1534 I think it’s time for the church and town to remove those cages to a museum. What happened to those three leaders was not Christian justice but a revengeful act of evil.
FABULOUS !
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much for all the work and effort you put into these outstanding videos. You put the major recording companies way into the shade.
Merveilleuse interprétation ! Je ne connaissais que celle de Jean Guillou.
Pierre-François Dub-Attenti a mis en ligne des extraits de ce chef-d'œuvre joué par Daniel Roth à St Sulpice.
Recherchez YT avec cette expression en anglais
'Saint-Sulpice organ, Daniel Roth plays Ad Nos, Liszt (audition 22 September 2013)'
An absolutely immortal performance of a masterwork!!! When can we look forward to your performance of the Reubke 94th Psalm????
Spooky, love it! 🎶🎹❤️🎹🎶
Brilliant, thank you!
13:26 This part is soo beautiful!
Just wow, thank you❤🎉
Jonathan, are you wearing jeans? Somehow I don't expect that level of the human. You and Tom are so magical and amazing that I sometimes forget that you're also human. Your performances are truly out of this world in every aspect!
Такой интересный комментарий ))) !
...джинсы - это ужасная одежда , как их вообще можно носить )
*Fantastic! As always! Bravo to the BRILLIANT Brothers Scott!*
A note about the Anabaptists: in a nutshell. They were not all radical, but tended to strive for quiet, peaceful lives. They were hounded and persecuted, their numbers decimated, yet they hung on as best they could. Their descendants are alive and well here in the USA: The first Mennonites (The group led by Menno Simmons, hence the name) came in 1683 to Germantown, Philadelphia at William Penn's invitation. In 1699 the split occured: Jakob Aman found the somewhat progressive trend among many of the Mennonites more than he could bear, and his followers are known as the Amish.
Fantastic !
MAGNIFIQUE !!!
YES!! Was waiting my entire f... life for you to the cover this work from Liszt and here it drops like a nuclear bomb on top of me!!
That was wonderful. I've got a few videos saved of you playing this organ.
I was talking to the organist Andrew Unsworth after an organ recital in the Tabernacle at Temple square and when I brought you guys up he said he’s definitely heard of you!!!
Who knows maybe some day you’ll have the incredible opportunity to play on the worlds most famous pipe organ. And if not at least the conference center theater organ.
Keep up the great work you guys!!! ❤
Bravo !!
Jonathan "furious." Are there any fingers, legs and feet left after this piece? That's why he's always slim, because he burns a lot of calories playing the organ. How awesome! Spectacular! 🖐🦵🦶👢🎼🎵🎶🎹 ❤💋
Brevíssimo!
my favourite piece of organ repertoire, a piece that NEEDS a SACD release
The best ❤
Jonathan, that was an astonishing performance. How long did it take to get the organ programmed up? Tom, your video and sound were superb. The shots around the cathedral were just beautiful. Thank you both. Nice to see the old organ shoes get an outing!
Да ...интересный у вас канал !!!
Вся эта история написанная в начале впечатляет конечно . Христианский коммунизм
оказывается есть такое явление , я и не знала ! У нас в городе есть такие люди - они в церковь ходят и в тоже время считают себя коммунистами . А может таких и не мало ..
А сама музыка очень сложная . Я внимательно прослушала , я чувствовала гармонию , но это очень сложно . Спасибо ❤!
Христианский коммунист, говорите вы. Что ж, это имеет смысл, поскольку новое коммунистическое правительство в 1534 году пришло к власти в результате предполагаемой народной революции, но очень быстро превратилось в диктатуру. Три лидера стали абсолютными монархами, захватили контроль над всей собственностью и постановили, что все женщины, которых они выберут, должны спать с ними. Всех, кто не соглашался, обезглавливали на городской площади.
@@epincion Я тоже недавно подумала , что если этих лидеров так жестоко казнили , то наверное они не были белыми овечками .
@@marionilla Это были не белые овцы, а волки, однако их казнь под пытками сама по себе была большим злом.
Jonathan, you know how much I love and admire you, but despite all your hard work on this piece, there was little in it that spoke to me. I'm sorry.---Tom, thank-you do much for bringing this magnificent edifice into our lives.
Utterly superhuman !
Nice performance! I would like to request A Fifth of Beethoven.
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If anyone can do it , Jonathan can! What a complex piece? It definitely needs his nimble and fast fingers
Oh and his fast feet too
I - N - S - A - N - E❗❗❗😱😅🎹🎊
Poderia apresentar Georg Friedrich Händel, "Water Music / Music For The Royal Fireworks"?
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I would have paid Oasis prices to have been sat halfway down the nave whilst that was played.
💯👍👏 Wow! Just mind blowing. Typical Listz 😂
The registration and tempo reminds me so much of the Jennifer Bate recording on the Royal Albert Hall from many years ago (and which remains one of my favourites). Is Jonathan familiar with that recording?
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Hello guys my son has been wanting one of those portable folding Reed organs that he saw yall play could you tell us where we could possibly find one? We are in the USA and it seems they are very rare to find.
I’m in Europe and your question is interesting. My only comment is that these portable folding reed organs are very popular in India and you may be able to find one on one of the many internet based market places and import it to the US
Meanwhile, like on trust for Jonathan (who finally uploaded it) but above all for Ad nos, a masterpiece without equal.
Honestly? I expected it to be different. (this is not a criticism but just my very personal opinion) The beginning was too fast, even the end. It loses a lot of its gothic charm.
For the rest nothing to say. The fugue fantastic, perfect registers. Playing it like this isn't easy, I know what I'm saying because it took me a year to learn it. Well done, all my compliments
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Ok fast feet too!
I think Johnathan almost run this organ out of puff, is that what the meter is for?
I think the meter was for how much the swell shutters are open, as I noticed that the organ got louder as the needle on that meter went up.
Das Stück ist an sich nichts, womit man Orgel-Muffel ins Konzert locken kann, im Gegensatz zu vielleicht einem auf einer Orgel gespieltem Radetzky-Marsch. Aber wenn J. Scott das "Ad nos" so flott und recht laut in einer halligen Kirche auf einer großen Orgel spielt, macht es was her.
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Saint Saens was wrong. Bach's works were the greatest. Sad that we seldom hear them on this channel.
St-Saens said it was 'the most extraordinary organ piece that has ever been written' and that is true in the sense of its technical difficulty and its sheer shocking greatness especially in a 'pre-modern' time when classical organ works ruled, but I don't think that he meant it was the best organ work ever
It's a rendition. Puny sound in the tutti, thin registration, but mostly well played. Why did JS not choose the RAH???
Nope just the perfect organ and acoustic for this piece.
Plus the historical context of the location of the Organ.