Your red socks are the perfect touch for this presentation! I am new to your channel and catching up. Right now I'm binge watching while I fold laundry. This is too exciting to fold by! Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
The organist at Belmont Abbey , Hereford played this at the end of Mass one Sunday. He wasn't sure if it would go down well, but it did - with some of the monks (and congregation) wanting to know what it was. Thank you - a superb and stirring rendition.
Love all your offerings, I feel better whenever I see you on you tube and listen to your amazing playing. Thank you for proving music is a great mood lifter and letting your talent shine through every piece. When I return to the UK I hope to hear you. Happy new year from a brit in the USA
So lovely to hear this piece. I am new to your channel but live in the Wylye Valley. My son was a chorister at Reeds School Cobham under the well known organist Richard Coulson, if anyone knew of him sadly no longer with us.
What a fun piece! It would have been a joy to hear upon exiting the service and would have set the mood for a great week ahead! I applaud your choice😊!
I have been a subscriber for a while but decided to start at the very beginning of your videos. I LOVE this one! It made me feel so happy. Just a treasure!
I love playing 'silly' stuff for the postlude after church services, like the theme from Close Encounters, Darth Vader's Theme, or stuff from Harry Potter, or Gone With the Wind. Thank you for sharing.
I have to thank you, you caused me to use the organ mode on my digital piano and to play all kinds of organ music. Xaver Varnus and you are a great inspiration for me although I am far far away from your skills on the piano. For example, I detected a recording by Xaver Varnus of Bach's "Come sweet death" and found that my recording of the same piece is rather similar to his recording, wherefore I uploaded my recording that I had made about a year ago. But you are the one who brought me there. But Ben, you said that you don't have a job and that you make a living by making your very interesting and educating videos - a question: As a free flying bird, do you consider the fact that you get older and that you will need social security? Of course, I don't want an answer from you, but I want you make to think about that.
You got me thinking. When my older son said he was going to get a Fine Arts degree, I thought he should study something to earn money. But he had a plan. He planned on owning a tattoo studio and that is what he did. His wife is an artist and she sells her art on her Instagram page Ben is not just someone who learned to play the organ. He has incredible natural talent and I am sure he has a plan, just as my son did. And I doubt it includes applying for social assistance or living off his parents for the rest of his life. Music, art and literature enrich people’s lives. Thank goodness for people like Ben who find innovative ways to share their talents and earn a living at the same time. That’s what my son and his wife do too.
@@lizwilliams14 Thats ok, but look at some Hollywood greats, they earned Millions but they became later poor for several reasons. Examples are here in youtube.
Fab - a small organ with great punchy stops and sensitive playing really brings this piece alive. I'm sure the composer would be delighted with tis rendition. Why am I the only one to comment?? Fwiw - I've just reviewed all the entries that U-tube have presented to me on this piece - and I must say this performance is the tops! Registration, tempo, everything just explodes. Just the piece to exit a rather dull service Conversely How about as (intended) - played at the end of a service - perhaps a wedding instead of the 'usual' pieces???
I've just had the great good fortune of finding this video! What a surprising pleasure. Apart from the wonderful music, i very much enjoyed seeing you with long hair again, not to mention your velvet jacket and red silk socks. Well, all in all, I loved your eccentric 'Oscar Wilde' phase. It was great fun. P.S. I even liked the white stripe on your shoe heels. 🤗
Magic fingers. Do your long fingers maybe help with playing such lovely music? I have small hands and short fingers. I don’t think there is much I can do to grow them so I’ll listen to your music and admire that and your elegant fingers.
Actually, there was nothing eccentric about him at that time and place. Comic opera style music was quite the norm in churches. Boëly was dismissed from his church job for playing more serious music, and Saint-Saëns' priest at La Madeleine admonished him to play comic opera style music because so many of their parishioners were rich folk who frequented the comic opera.
Your red socks are the perfect touch for this presentation! I am new to your channel and catching up. Right now I'm binge watching while I fold laundry. This is too exciting to fold by! Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
The organist at Belmont Abbey , Hereford played this at the end of Mass one Sunday. He wasn't sure if it would go down well, but it did - with some of the monks (and congregation) wanting to know what it was.
Thank you - a superb and stirring rendition.
I have no doubt Ben’s choice of voices here only makes this piece more alive than other performances. He’s very very good.
The long hair and the red socks are perfect for this almost circus like composition!
More please!
Well he's an artist and that fits well.
The acoustics in your church are the best I,ve heard for recording an organ.not overloaded with reverberation.
Beautifully executed
Excellent performance, congratulations!
I LOVE THIS!
Love all your offerings, I feel better whenever I see you on you tube and listen to your amazing playing.
Thank you for proving music is a great mood lifter and letting your talent shine through every piece. When I return to the UK I hope to hear you.
Happy new year from a brit in the USA
So lovely to hear this piece. I am new to your channel but live in the Wylye Valley. My son was a chorister at Reeds School Cobham under the well known organist Richard Coulson, if anyone knew of him sadly no longer with us.
So cheerful!
Well now! Lefebure Wely was certainly reluctant to put a Coda on that!😂 love that dramatic hair toss in the end, Ben!
What a fun piece! It would have been a joy to hear upon exiting the service and would have set the mood for a great week ahead! I applaud your choice😊!
The fact that you play "Perfect" on the organ is even more outrageous than what L.W. used to do
Thank you for uploading.
I have been a subscriber for a while but decided to start at the very beginning of your videos. I LOVE this one! It made me feel so happy. Just a treasure!
I love playing 'silly' stuff for the postlude after church services, like the theme from Close Encounters, Darth Vader's Theme, or stuff from Harry Potter, or Gone With the Wind. Thank you for sharing.
This is funny until you try to play it. Not so easy. It plays like ragtime. You need to get into the rhythm.
P.P.S. Your finale was outstanding! Bravo, Maestro! Bravissimo!😁👍
The best interpretation of this piece I ever heard and heard a lot.
Thanks
I have to thank you, you caused me to use the organ mode on my digital piano and to play all kinds of organ music. Xaver Varnus and you are a great inspiration for me although I am far far away from your skills on the piano. For example, I detected a recording by Xaver Varnus of Bach's "Come sweet death" and found that my recording of the same piece is rather similar to his recording, wherefore I uploaded my recording that I had made about a year ago. But you are the one who brought me there. But Ben, you said that you don't have a job and that you make a living by making your very interesting and educating videos - a question: As a free flying bird, do you consider the fact that you get older and that you will need social security? Of course, I don't want an answer from you, but I want you make to think about that.
You got me thinking. When my older son said he was going to get a Fine Arts degree, I thought he should study something to earn money. But he had a plan. He planned on owning a tattoo studio and that is what he did. His wife is an artist and she sells her art on her Instagram page
Ben is not just someone who learned to play the organ. He has incredible natural talent and I am sure he has a plan, just as my son did. And I doubt it includes applying for social assistance or living off his parents for the rest of his life.
Music, art and literature enrich people’s lives. Thank goodness for people like Ben who find innovative ways to share their talents and earn a living at the same time. That’s what my son and his wife do too.
@@lizwilliams14 Thats ok, but look at some Hollywood greats, they earned Millions but they became later poor for several reasons. Examples are here in youtube.
Fab - a small organ with great punchy stops and sensitive playing really brings this piece alive.
I'm sure the composer would be delighted with tis rendition.
Why am I the only one to comment??
Fwiw - I've just reviewed all the entries that U-tube have presented to me on this piece - and I must say this performance is the tops! Registration, tempo, everything just explodes. Just the piece to exit a rather dull service
Conversely
How about as (intended) - played at the end of a service - perhaps a wedding instead of the 'usual' pieces???
Wow, thanks so much Henry. In fact I only opened the video for comments yesterday so you are the first…
Really appreciate your kind feedback 😊😊
I've just had the great good fortune of finding this video! What a surprising pleasure. Apart from the wonderful music, i very much enjoyed seeing you with long hair again, not to mention your velvet jacket and red silk socks. Well, all in all, I loved your eccentric 'Oscar Wilde' phase. It was great fun. P.S. I even liked the white stripe on your shoe heels. 🤗
Amazing.
Wow!
Magic fingers. Do your long fingers maybe help with playing such lovely music? I have small hands and short fingers. I don’t think there is much I can do to grow them so I’ll listen to your music and admire that and your elegant fingers.
In this video I see a you resemble your brother, Billy.
Actually, there was nothing eccentric about him at that time and place. Comic opera style music was quite the norm in churches. Boëly was dismissed from his church job for playing more serious music, and Saint-Saëns' priest at La Madeleine admonished him to play comic opera style music because so many of their parishioners were rich folk who frequented the comic opera.
Bravo Maestro. A little bit more vibrato?
How trashy! 😂
Can you play it this well?
@@lauralockwood1377 I'm thinking that the smiley emoji is there because Brian was kidding. As in "Most delightfully trashy!"