I once had a tweet read out by John Suchet some years ago on Classic FM following his playing Wagner's Overture to Tanhauser. I wrote: 'Tanhauser truly is music that stirs the Heavens'. Mr Suchet agreed with me. This rendition shakes the Heavens. Utterly sublime. It is amazing that one man, one pair of hands and feet can produce such music. Last night he played this at The BBC Proms, sadly I missed listening to his performance so I came here to hear it. I wish his renditions were available on Amazon Prime Music to listen to.
Superb arrangement and performance (and instrument). First time in 50 years as an organist and organ music devotee I've ever heard such a transcription actually realise the organ's true potential in exactly reproducing and even outshining an original orchestral work, let alone one of such scope and complexity. Brilliant and fluid use of registration, dynamics, tempi and sheer virtuosity (including the astonishing legato thumb solos!) to recreate faithfully all the colour, mood and excitement of the Tannhauser overture - I could listen to the whole Wagner canon thus accompanied. An utterly thrilling discovery, thank you.
+ Peter Barber, I agree with everything you have said. I don't like transcriptions normally for the reasons you have stated, but I think this is the best I have heard especially of this work.
And it seemed all to be on one page of music. I didn't see him turning the pages nor anybody doing it for him. Maybe that what all the atmoshere shots were for. But Bravo. Well played. And who would have thought that Rochdale had such an organ.
What a Tour de force Jonathan ! Absolutely fantastically played. Thank you for that. This video shows the great skill an organist has to show in order to get all the notes in! Left left thumb doing the main tune on the great while the rest of the left had is accompanying on the swell and the right hand doing cartwheels on the choir! Ladies and Gentlemen it don't get much better than this! And a lovely instrument getting on in age now but still in fine fettle, thanks to dedicated organ builders and well done to Rochdale council for still paying for the upkeep of this fine instrument.
MAESTOSO.QUESTO STUMENTO è VERAMENTE IL PIù DIFFICILE E IL PIù FATICOSO DA SUONARE ,TI PRENDE TUTTO IL CORPO E DOPO UNA ESEQUZIONE SIMILE SEI VERAMENTE STREMATO.VORREI CHE I GIOVANI ASCOLTASSERO QUESTE PERFORMACE ANZICHE STORDIRSI CON ANFETAMINE.GRAZIE JONATHAN……….
@Harold Slick Don't conflict him with the tyrant. At the time of his writings he wasn't wrong, in the same way the chinese wasn't wrong 1000 years ago when they tried to find other developed civilizations. One states a fact of the time, the other wishes people and cultures deaths because they weren't the same as his.
E anche questa sera mi sono goduta questa superba esibizione del maestro Scott con questo brano che mi emoziona ogni volta che lo riascolto per la sua pienezza di suoni e la potenza espressiva .
Does anyone else out there just close their eyes, listen, feel, experience, weep, laugh, smile, get chills, hold their breath, hum along, stand up and conduct the "orchestra" like I do?! I hear music like most people read books! Every nuance, every mood, every everything! Maybe this is strange, but I'm 60 y/o now and don't plan on changing anything! Just thought I'd ask... SPECTACULARLY MOVING PIECE AND PERFORMANCE, BTW!!!
I think Wagner is very proud and lucky to hear this perfect transscription and interpretation of his masterpiece using such very fine sounding majestic instrument. This is absolutely royal - King Ludwig ll of Bavaria could enjoy this too! Bravo, Bravo, Bravo.
Excellent performance. I am a Church organist now 83 years of age, I can no longer perform as I once did but I remember how it felt to have good control. Thank you
This is a fantastic trans -cription. Th use of the manuals not to talk about his thumb- work! A thousand Bravos to this Master of the Queen of the musical instruments!
Wagner's Overture to Tannhauser is my one piece of music above all others. And, of course, that is saying a great deal. And then, to hear it played on the King of Instruments...
I have no words to express the enjoyment I had listening - and watching - to this masterpiece. I adored the Frantz Liszt piano version, but this organ arrangement is simply fabulous. Moments of pleasure.
If you don't cry hearing this, you don't have a soul. Tannhauser overture always touch my heart and so does the organ which is the best instrument ever built. I just wish I could hear it live before I die.
Soltanto un organista geniale, quale è Jonathan, può eseguire una trascrizione del genere!!! Semplicemente geniale!!! Semplicemente inarrivabile!!! Semplicemente unico ... Jonathan Scott!!! Chapeau!!!
Esta mesma obra foi executada pelo Jonathan na imensa e linda Catedral de Chester. A performance e o vídeo também ficaram maravilhosos e fazem parte de um concerto online. É um dos meus vídeos favoritos!
Outstanding re-creation of a "soul feuer-werk" - incredibly challenging to play, yet "achieved is the glorious work!" Congratulations to this fine organist!
Absolutely brilliant. I've now spent two straight hours playing and replaying this performance. As a beginner organist myself, I'm intimidated by the technical skills required to perform a piece like this.
Such coordination of the feet and hands. Talk about patting yourself on the head and rubbing your tummy at the same time! Im surprised he isnt using his nose to play a few keys at the same time. Brilliant performance. I couldnt have done better myself. That old fossil of an organ looks and sounds great too. Many happy returns of the day.Thanks.
I think Edwin H. Lemare would be delighted to hear his masterful transcription played so well. Playing transcriptions is an art in itself...as this performance amply illustrates.
That was breathtaking, even listening on the computer. Some of the finest musicianship I have ever seen, and a magnificent interpretation of the piece. And what a transcription!
I am lost for words. Jonathan you are amazing, this is one of my all time favorites and I can tell you definately the best rendition I have heard to date. Thank you so much, you made my day, although my face is now wet with tears!!!! WOW again!!!
Magnificient! fantastic! Congrats to virtuoso organist! It's nearly impossible to perform...Registration, performance, using of swell, fingering, dynamics...ALL EXCELLENT!!!
ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS!!! Makes me wish I was an organist and play these lovely works! I like playing such things on my headset at FULL BLAST just to savor each note like a fine gourmet meal! Well done, Maestro! BRAVO!
+robert shaw I was raised listening to this stuff when I was a kid. My dad played 1st violin for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Shaw, Maestro. ;-) I'd like to hear this work transposed onto rock guitar...that might be interesting to hear. Besides, Bach, Wagner, Vivaldi, etc. were considered the heavy metal musicians and virtuosi of their day
COngrats for your wonderful participation in Classics. People today should listen to more of it. BUT - If you blast your eardrums, you will end up not being able to hear the music for the screaming of tinitus. That for you and me would be a disaster.
Nice - Won't do you any good when you wreck your ability to hear high frequency. or worse, drive you to early deafness. I would n't be so quick to brag about hurting my body if I were you.
I have heard it said that Binns never built a bad organ. First-rate performance - one marvels at the sheer control, which allows one to enjoy the consummate projection of the music. And to crown it all, the organ was built exactly 100 years after Wagner was born. Bravissimo!
Given this I do not know what do say, I have no words to express what I feel!!!! I can only say that I see and hear a million times or more!!!!! Thank you very much Jonathan!!!
The organ is a magnificent instrument, and a skilled organist like J S can make it whisper, sing, bellow and roar. This is magnificent. We need many more organists to master these wonderful instruments!!
Often siblings cannot cooperate but in this case of twins they are so intermingled with each other since birth that they cannot separate until the end.They compete with each other in a friendly manner as we can see.And seldom 0,5+0,5=2 as I can understand.
My step-father was an organist in America and he played this song as the music minister often of the church we attended. It was always the postlude for the service. Everyone loved it. It gives me chills to this day, 50+ years later. Thank you Mr. Scott. Absolutely magnificent!
Wagner must have been pleased with this work. Imagine him writing it out. Also not the organist playing on the Great with his thumbs while his fingers are playing the Swell and the Choir keyboards.
So talented, so lucky to be able to play like this. I know my limitations with the piano. People don't get the recognition they deserve, then there are footballers. All wrong in this world.
A beautiful job of expressing this music! Even before addressing the technical demands of the arrangement, we must be in awe of how such a piece needs to be dramatic and enthused. And this instrument is an impressive example of how a medium-large organ can stand in well for an orchestra without the excessive excess we see in too many modern halls.
Magnificent. Anyone who loves this piece will love the movie "Counterpoint" with Charleton Heston. This music is played throughout the movie. Heston plays an orchestra conductor playing for the Nazi's during WWII in Germany using all refugees in the orchestra. Its a great & exciting movie as is the music. Thanks.
Fox, Biggs, Schweitzer, Widor....and now Scott! Hooray!
Good grief, I bet that organ never dared to say 'no' to anyone after being subjected to that! Stunning!
great organist,and recording
It is really amazing how just one man can recreate the athmosphere of an entire orchestra.
Those descending triplets just destroy me when they kick in, every time.
How many people could do this? One in a billion? One in a hundred million? So fantastic.
Everything here - the composition, the arrangement, the playing, the filming, the organ and the building - is a masterpiece.
That looked like hard work.
Beautifully played.
Oh my, that is what Heaven sounds like!!
I once had a tweet read out by John Suchet some years ago on Classic FM following his playing Wagner's Overture to Tanhauser. I wrote: 'Tanhauser truly is music that stirs the Heavens'. Mr Suchet agreed with me. This rendition shakes the Heavens. Utterly sublime. It is amazing that one man, one pair of hands and feet can produce such music. Last night he played this at The BBC Proms, sadly I missed listening to his performance so I came here to hear it. I wish his renditions were available on Amazon Prime Music to listen to.
He has also uploaded playing it on the organ of Chester Cathedral which is twice the size of this organ - well worth a listen
Superb arrangement and performance (and instrument). First time in 50 years as an organist and organ music devotee I've ever heard such a transcription actually realise the organ's true potential in exactly reproducing and even outshining an original orchestral work, let alone one of such scope and complexity. Brilliant and fluid use of registration, dynamics, tempi and sheer virtuosity (including the astonishing legato thumb solos!) to recreate faithfully all the colour, mood and excitement of the Tannhauser overture - I could listen to the whole Wagner canon thus accompanied. An utterly thrilling discovery, thank you.
+Peter Barber Not being a musician, all I can add is: All of that goes double for me!
+Peter Barber yup
you took the word right out of my mouth! www.gofundme.com/4ej3ic
+ Peter Barber, I agree with everything you have said. I don't like transcriptions normally for the reasons you have stated, but I think this is the best I have heard especially of this work.
And it seemed all to be on one page of music. I didn't see him turning the pages nor anybody doing it for him. Maybe that what all the atmoshere shots were for. But Bravo. Well played. And who would have thought that Rochdale had such an organ.
There are no words. This is the best performance of the Tannhauser Overture on any medium. Absolutely overwhelming.
Yes I agree and he has also uploaded a newer video of him playing it on Chester Cathedral organ which is easily twice as big as this
Jonathan Scott is a true MAESTRO - ein genialer, grossartiger Musiker! ****** Thank you so much!
No, he is not a maestro. He is a god.
What a Tour de force Jonathan ! Absolutely fantastically played. Thank you for that. This video shows the great skill an organist has to show in order to get all the notes in! Left left thumb doing the main tune on the great while the rest of the left had is accompanying on the swell and the right hand doing cartwheels on the choir! Ladies and Gentlemen it don't get much better than this! And a lovely instrument getting on in age now but still in fine fettle, thanks to dedicated organ builders and well done to Rochdale council for still paying for the upkeep of this fine instrument.
Perfekt gespielt: Tannhäuser durch eine Orgel erklingen zu lassen- der Organist ist ein Könner, super.
MAESTOSO.QUESTO STUMENTO è VERAMENTE IL PIù DIFFICILE E IL PIù FATICOSO DA SUONARE ,TI PRENDE TUTTO IL CORPO E DOPO UNA ESEQUZIONE SIMILE SEI VERAMENTE STREMATO.VORREI CHE I GIOVANI ASCOLTASSERO QUESTE PERFORMACE ANZICHE STORDIRSI CON ANFETAMINE.GRAZIE JONATHAN……….
¡SUBLIME! ¡Técnica e interpretación insuperables! ¡Un organista genial para un compositor genial!
Let us not forget the genius of one Richard Wagner.
Wagner was not a musical genius he was just a guy who was really hard working on his musical knowledge his hole life !
@Harold Slick Don't conflict him with the tyrant. At the time of his writings he wasn't wrong, in the same way the chinese wasn't wrong 1000 years ago when they tried to find other developed civilizations. One states a fact of the time, the other wishes people and cultures deaths because they weren't the same as his.
Bravo!!!
Bravissimo!!!
Astonishing!!!
Magnificent!!!
What else?
I'm without any word!
Good? :-)
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever listened to in my entire life.
It must be wonderful, to be able to not just play this music but too also feel it!, what a wonderful talent.
I would just sit there in tears and thank god for Richard Wagner.
A Wagnerian masterpiece, superbly played by a Master organist.
It doesn’t get any better than that...
E anche questa sera mi sono goduta questa superba esibizione del maestro Scott con questo brano che mi emoziona ogni volta che lo riascolto per la sua pienezza di suoni e la potenza espressiva .
Simply wonderful and incredible! Thank you both for the beautiful video!
Does anyone else out there just close their eyes, listen, feel, experience, weep, laugh, smile, get chills, hold their breath, hum along, stand up and conduct the "orchestra" like I do?! I hear music like most people read books! Every nuance, every mood, every everything! Maybe this is strange, but I'm 60 y/o now and don't plan on changing anything!
Just thought I'd ask...
SPECTACULARLY MOVING PIECE AND PERFORMANCE, BTW!!!
JaxxMann me too!!
it’s a wonderful feeling. a sublime experience and sensation overall
Jonathan Scott justifies the restoration or tuning of every organ in the UK.
Just saw this comment, still very true!🎹🎶
Something for the national lottery to fund?
I am sure he was instrumental in getting the Manchester Cavaille Coll restored. It’s condition was a travesty. Let’s hope Parr Hall gets sorted next.
I second, third and fourth that motion
So true! Let's hope this happens!
la tua passione per la musica è grande ! per essere cosi bravo hai un dono da parte del tuo Dio ! non mi stanchero mai di dirti bravo!!!
I can't watch this enough. It has become a daily thing with me. Sometimes more than once.
Absolutely brilliant! It's as if I was listening to the whole orchestra performing!
I think Wagner is very proud and lucky to hear this perfect transscription and interpretation of his masterpiece using such very fine sounding majestic instrument. This is absolutely royal - King Ludwig ll of Bavaria could enjoy this too! Bravo, Bravo, Bravo.
Excellent performance. I am a Church organist now 83 years of age, I can no longer perform as I once did but I remember how it felt to have good control. Thank you
Pure virtuosity ! Could not believe it until I listened ut the last tone.
Oh my God I'm breathless. This is soooo beautiful!!!
This is a fantastic trans -cription. Th use of the manuals not to talk about his thumb- work!
A thousand Bravos to this Master of the Queen of the musical instruments!
Wonderful. It does not get better than this.
Wagner's Overture to Tannhauser is my one piece of music above all others. And, of course, that is saying a great deal. And then, to hear it played on the King of Instruments...
I have no words to express the enjoyment I had listening - and watching - to this masterpiece. I adored the Frantz Liszt piano version, but this organ arrangement is simply fabulous. Moments of pleasure.
I am sick of it
Jonathan Scott is a whole orchestra in himself playing this work. Superb performance!
If you don't cry hearing this, you don't have a soul. Tannhauser overture always touch my heart and so does the organ which is the best instrument ever built. I just wish I could hear it live before I die.
Why someone doesn't like this? Great great great!
thank you
Soltanto un organista geniale, quale è Jonathan, può eseguire una trascrizione del genere!!! Semplicemente geniale!!! Semplicemente inarrivabile!!! Semplicemente unico ... Jonathan Scott!!! Chapeau!!!
Esta mesma obra foi executada pelo Jonathan na imensa e linda Catedral de Chester. A performance e o vídeo também ficaram maravilhosos e fazem parte de um concerto online. É um dos meus vídeos favoritos!
Outstanding re-creation of a "soul feuer-werk" - incredibly challenging to play, yet "achieved is the glorious work!" Congratulations to this fine organist!
I would love to hear/see Jonathon play the Wanamaker organ in Philadelphia. better yet, make a recording.
Simply Superb! ❤❤
Absolutely brilliant. I've now spent two straight hours playing and replaying this performance. As a beginner organist myself, I'm intimidated by the technical skills required to perform a piece like this.
You are a Genius Mr. Jonathan Scott!!! Congratulations!!!! A friendly HUG!!!!!
Such coordination of the feet and hands. Talk about patting yourself on the head and rubbing your tummy at the same time! Im surprised he isnt using his nose to play a few keys at the same time. Brilliant performance. I couldnt have done better myself. That old fossil of an organ looks and sounds great too. Many happy returns of the day.Thanks.
I think Edwin H. Lemare would be delighted to hear his masterful transcription played so well. Playing transcriptions is an art in itself...as this performance amply illustrates.
merci beaucoup pour cette ouverture , je suis toujours autant émerveillé par l'orgue, un grand bravo pour votre interprétation
Wow. The dedication, the talent, the sheer volume of practice it takes to achieve this level of perfection. 10,000-thanks.
I haven’t seen/listened to something this amazing in a long while
That was breathtaking, even listening on the computer. Some of the finest musicianship I have ever seen, and a magnificent interpretation of the piece. And what a transcription!
I love this video. I keep coming back to it. This is a town hall¿ It would make a really beautiful church.
Hier j'ai eu la chance de l'entendre jouer cette œuvre sur l'orgue de la cathédrale d'Evreux, magnifique.
non ci sono parole.......è semplicemente, stupendo, magnifico, unico...
I am lost for words. Jonathan you are amazing, this is one of my all time favorites and I can tell you definately the best rendition I have heard to date. Thank you so much, you made my day, although my face is now wet with tears!!!! WOW again!!!
Magnificient! fantastic! Congrats to virtuoso organist! It's nearly impossible to perform...Registration, performance, using of swell, fingering, dynamics...ALL EXCELLENT!!!
Simply breathtaking!!!!
Amazes me to think that 39 people can play this better. I'll be looking for you!
Ray Jennings: Now there are 78!
@@tom7601 83 now. I think the curve is flattening.
A tour de force, masterful...Bravo!
ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS!!! Makes me wish I was an organist and play these lovely works! I like playing such things on my headset at FULL BLAST just to savor each note like a fine gourmet meal! Well done, Maestro! BRAVO!
+SolarAngel Waldeck Keep doing that and you won't be listening to much of anything in a few years.
+robert shaw As Beethoven allegedly said on his deathbed, "Then I shall hear in Heaven." LOL
+robert shaw I was raised listening to this stuff when I was a kid. My dad played 1st violin for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Shaw, Maestro. ;-) I'd like to hear this work transposed onto rock guitar...that might be interesting to hear. Besides, Bach, Wagner, Vivaldi, etc. were considered the heavy metal musicians and virtuosi of their day
COngrats for your wonderful participation in Classics. People today should listen to more of it. BUT - If you blast your eardrums, you will end up not being able to hear the music for the screaming of tinitus. That for you and me would be a disaster.
Nice - Won't do you any good when you wreck your ability to hear high frequency. or worse, drive you to early deafness. I would n't be so quick to brag about hurting my body if I were you.
Absolutely stunning, fantastic performance !
Grandissimo da brividi suona con tre mani e tre piedi grazie di questo momento
I have heard it said that Binns never built a bad organ. First-rate performance - one marvels at the sheer control, which allows one to enjoy the consummate projection of the music. And to crown it all, the organ was built exactly 100 years after Wagner was born. Bravissimo!
Given this I do not know what do say, I have no words to express what I feel!!!! I can only say that I see and hear a million times or more!!!!! Thank you very much Jonathan!!!
Can't improve upon, but can only reiterate all the comments below. Utterly masterful performance of a masterwork
It is nothing but a miracle that this complex symphonic poem can be played on an organ in this furious way. Fantastic!
A stunning rendition and some excellent camera work on the close up fingering.Wonderful!!
What an incredible performance. Thoroughly moving and inexpressibly grand.
Wonderful and so fulfilling.
I agree with Peter Barber on the performance.
The phasing is so tricky with Wagner, and Scott nails it here.
The organ is a magnificent instrument, and a skilled organist like J S can make it whisper, sing, bellow and roar. This is magnificent. We need many more organists to master these wonderful instruments!!
Fabulous virtuosity! Wonderful performance.
Absolutely fantastic Jonathan,it's such a pity that Stan Evans didn't see you play before he died last week,he'd of been very proud.
Anybody who can play four keyboards at the same time (counting the pedals) wins the Musician Badge.
Often siblings cannot cooperate but in this case of twins they are so intermingled with each other since birth that they cannot separate until the end.They compete with each other in a friendly manner as we can see.And seldom 0,5+0,5=2 as I can understand.
Tannhauser is one of my favorite pieces. Jonathan give it justice.
You are certainly a world class organist..!! Hope I can get the opportunity to hear you in person.
My step-father was an organist in America and he played this song as the music minister often of the church we attended. It was always the postlude for the service. Everyone loved it. It gives me chills to this day, 50+ years later.
Thank you Mr. Scott. Absolutely magnificent!
Strahlend schön und einfach wunderbar.
Astounding performance! Three keyboards at once plus the pedals, I mean what can I say? I am speechless!
Very high accomplishment. You should record the full Liszt's organ works.
Wagner must have been pleased with this work. Imagine him writing it out. Also not the organist playing on the Great with his thumbs while his fingers are playing the Swell and the Choir keyboards.
David White
And the hearing of the re-capitulation of the work is like finding a very translucent uncut diamond in a rippling brook
So talented, so lucky to be able to play like this. I know my limitations with the piano. People don't get the recognition they deserve, then there are footballers. All wrong in this world.
Pele of the organ.
Absolutely fantastic! Bravo!!
Scott performs this version as though Wagner composed the Tannhaeuser Overture for organ. It really comes into its own during the last, several bars.
Magnificent! Really amazing, great version, superb skills, thanks for this!
A beautiful job of expressing this music! Even before addressing the technical demands of the arrangement, we must be in awe of how such a piece needs to be dramatic and enthused. And this instrument is an impressive example of how a medium-large organ can stand in well for an orchestra without the excessive excess we see in too many modern halls.
This is one of the most beautifully played organ music I've heard!!🥰🥰💕💕 Thank you!!🧡🧡
This man is just a genious. Nothing more to mention! A great delight to attend to his performance. Thank you very much!!
Exciting beyond words! Stunning arrangement of an exceedingly complex work superbly played! Thanks!
Amazing. His “thumb down” playing and string-like tremolo are simply amazing.
This is gorgeous. I’m reminded of the Wanamaker organ, Philadelphia. It has the same orchestral sound. The City Hall here is also magnificent.
Magnificent. Anyone who loves this piece will love the movie "Counterpoint" with Charleton Heston. This music is played throughout the movie. Heston plays an orchestra conductor playing for the Nazi's during WWII in Germany using all refugees in the orchestra. Its a great & exciting movie as is the music. Thanks.
Just listened to this again. An absolute masterpiece
QUE MARAVILLA DE INTERPRETACION DE ORGANO Y OBERTURA MARAVILLOSO
Magnificent. A religious experience.
Bravo pour cette transcription magistrale doublée d'une virtuosité époustouflante. Les frères Scott - d'exceptionnels artistes !
Majestic performance... from a fellow Rochdalian, BRAVO