Elbphilharmonie LIVE | Wayne Marshall plays Bernstein, Widor, Ager, Baker & Beethoven at the organ

He is a genius on the organ, and a charismatic conductor, composer and entertainer: Britain's Wayne Marshall can do church music and jazz, Bach and Broadway - and has a worldwide fan community. To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, he improvises in the Elbphilharmonie on themes written by the great composer. To start with, he plays major works from the French organ repertoire, a complex Toccata and Fugue by his Canadian colleague Andrew Ager, and an improvisation on music by his artistic lodestar Leonard Bernstein.
// PERFORMER
Wayne Marshall - Organ
// PROGRAMME
00:00 Intro
02:40 Improvisations on themes by Leonard Bernstein
Charles-Marie Widor
16:30 Symphony No. 6 g-minor op. 42/2
George C. Baker
50:00 Deux Évocations
Andrew Ager
1:02:40 Toccata & Fugue
1:14:02 Improvisations on themes by Ludwig van Beethoven
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[@vcb0210]

Really great! Absolutely amazing!

[@robertozugnoni413]

Meraviglioso. Grandioso. Maestro Marshall Grazie molto..... Grande ...Grande... Grande.. Concerto stupendo.

[@rossmorrow3013]

What a wonderful improvisation :-)

[@derMcSven]

Thanks for sharing this music life!!! Enjoy it on Friday evening

[@jacques6870]

Superbe orgue dans un bel écrin et surtout un organiste de grande qualité. !!! Merci

[@davidsavoury1632]

Thank you for a wonderful concert, Maestro! Such a a treat for our sequestered souls..... I found the Widor 6 mesmerising in its subtlety and power. I can't thank you enough. God bless you for keeping on putting it out there for us, no matter what. Bravo!

[@ChollieD]

Beautiful! Really great speaker food.

[@AustinAto]

Wow! This is amazing

[@kelvinsmallwood6315]

Brilliant concert & wonderful organ. Your playing of Beethoven certainly brought the organ to life. Look fwd to more of you.

[@praedatos5489]

Amazing. Thank you very much

[@TheMch24]

Magic!

[@stephanusgraficus3000]

Wonderful. The Widor Symphony was amazing! Congregulations!!

[@TheBaritoneCrooner]

Thrilling concert Maestro Marshall! The Widor 6th Symphony was simply breathtaking. As a lifelong jazz aficionado and jazz vocalist, I’ve always been a fan of your jazz harmonies and arrangements going all the way back to your CD of improvisations on the Meyerson Fisk. The opening tribute to Lenny Bernstein was a stroke of genius and really showed off the jazz capabilities and registrational possibilities of this fairly new symphony hall instrument! Yet another world class instrument by Orgelbau Klais. ❤️

[@jazzbassoonpaul]

Incroyable

[@LNAVeranda]

Splendide, Thanks a lot for this beautiful concert

[@thebes50]

The Improv on themes from West Side Story was brilliant. As a lover of Bernstein and his music, I know he would be proud.

[@james.flores]

Epic!!! Go Wayne, that’s the speed it should be played at on this organ. 😎

[@renategraupner5100]

P

[@marcopol217]

Widor: It's just terrible, fast and brutal.

[@DJDevvin]

Why do you say that?