Saint Saëns | ORGAN SYMPHONY NO. 3: FINALE | Diane Bish at Cadet Chapel, West Point Military Academy
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2009
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Diane plays this piece on the chapel's massive Möller 23,511 pipe organ with the West Point Military Band.
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I feel like so many organists play this with a rather small registration... it is nice to see something different
Agree - relish the power. However it rather depends on what is available on the instrument - This Möller is a bit of a beast and has a huge number of stops from which to build the several Registrations needed for this masterpiece. The premier was performed on a much more infamous instrument at St James Hall - known as “That terrible box of whistles”.
Shivers down your spine when you hear that organ come in.
One of the most powerful piece of music ever written. I love the organ and Diane Bish is brilliant!
I think she is phenomenal. She mastered this organ with absolute perfection.
WOW...JUST....SIMPLY....WOW!!!! This is how you play an organ.
What a marvellous performance from Dianne & the band, which sounds a most arduous accomplishment for anyone who has the opportunity to perform
ASTOUNDINGLY beautiful. Diane Bish is n American treasure.
The power and the majesty of the pipe organ!
I can never get enough of pipe organs!
SUPERB, glorious sonic splendor no words can describe! Kudos to everyone who participated in this EXTRAORDINARY performance! Moved me to tears!
Fascinating and very nice transcription of the orchestral score to the score for the band.
Splendid version of a Saint Saën classic by Diane Bish. This piece always causes me to have chills. Slàinte Mhath🏴
Diane Bish needs no introduction to the music and organ world. She has brought new attention to the MIGHTY ORGAN... the King of Intruments. Thank God for her!
Pretty amazing that this movement was played with a brass and drum instead of strings et al. Diane Bish was brilliant on the organ!
This is a fantastic piece of music and the organ playing by Diane Bish the famous lady who has played many organs around the world and bought organ music to the front do alot of people can see and hear thankyou
POWER! DRAMA! Marvelous SOUND,ORGAN! SYMPHONIC BAND ! WOW! I do love the Symphonic Band version of this with the very fine artistry of Miss Bish. This so exciting for me to hear. Yes, I was an instrumental music teacher in elementary school, and played in Symphony Orchhestra and Symphonic Band as well. I enjoyed playing in the band a bit more than with the orchestra,,,more brass and more excitement for me (humble opinion)....The ending is soooooo GRAND!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
wonderful diane bish just wonderful!!!!!!! thank you sooo much your a great lady
The quality of Our West Point musicians shows how fortunate we are to have such talent ; a pity it is wasted on war, but necessary. Great Moller organ, and Diane Bish at her brilliant best.
What a brilliant performance. Brava Ms. Bish!
Good Jeepers. I've been listening to this for 20 years but have never seen this incredible lady do it. Unspeakably brilliant!
Very good orchestration. I would never have thought this piece would sounds as well as it does without strings.
Grande émotion ! Talentueuse organiste bien accompagnée. Que c’est beau!!!Merci pour ces frissons!!!
This piece is transcendent when performed right.
Auntie Diane! Just love this Saint Saëns. 💕
Absolutely STUNNING!
Camille Saint-Saens said of his Symphony No. 3, "I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again." (David Dubal, The Essential Canon of Classical Music, New York, 2003, p. 337.)
You're welcome.
As a boy in a cathedral choir, we had 4 rehearsals a week (4 1/4 hours in all) to prepare four sung services: Mattins, two Evensongs and a Mass.
The repertoire of Psalms, Responses, Canticles, Motets, Anthems and Services was very large and was in a biennial rotation.
People!!!! This is a military orchestra that is performing this so what do you expect. A lot of people are posting about to much woodwinds and brass. What is a military orchestra mainly made up of? So most likely there is going to be a large amount of these instruments incorporated into this rendition. There are other wonderful renditions posted that are absolutely beautiful. Saint-Saëns - Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78 - Järvi for one. Happy listening.
Wish the military would make more music .... and less bloody WAR
Beautiful arrangement. Moller organs have such a beautiful low end to them, very solid.
I grew up with a much much smaller Moller pipe organ in my family home in Atherton, CA. One of my life's mistakes was not to learn to play the organ.
Very nice., Nice to hear something a little different for military band. Organ chords are strong, clearly her arrangement for TV. :)
Thank You bishfan, great sound, and Organist. She is amazing.
Just went to a great performance of this piece... organ and orchestra is truly a great combination.
Excellent and outstanding, as usual
Ms. Bish, an absolutely superb performance! Thank you!
I had the pleasure of hearing this piece live a few years ago. What a tremendous piece!!! You feel as though your in a movie with EPIC music all around you
That's what I like about Ms Bish, she may have played this piece a thousand times but she always looks like she's enjoying every second to the full, dammed fine organist too.
Saint-Saens never again attempted to write a symphony. But then, considering this one, especially the finale, what more is there for him to say musically?
HOW BLESSED IS MISS BISH. THE WONDERFUL TALENT SHE HAS THAT ALLOWS HER TO HAVE ACCESS TO MOST OF THE IMPORTANT ORGANS IN THE WORLD. SHE ATTACKS THIS DIFFICULT PIECE WITH ABSOLUTELY HER MASTERFUL TOUCH.
These great organs are really a marvellous feat of artistic work by great and wonderful geniuses by superior knowledge of mystery and invention of a Instrument with so much complexity that it will put the great master's of old to wonder if it was made in heaven. God Bless everyone who has endeavor to partisepate in the development of such gigantic instrument for the world to have a little of heaven on Earth. We thank God for the many who has partisepated in its structure. submitted by Jackie C. Dangler steel drum tuner and pioneer of world wide music invention, one love.
Listened to this ever since I watched Babe. I love all the versions, including the orgin of them all.
bellissima esecuzione.......il suono dell' organooo e stupendooo...!!!!!
_Majestic_ in the true sense of
the word -- and in this marvellous
interpretation even _beyond_
words!
Diane Bish and Virgil Fox, my two favorites on the pipe organ.
When San Diego's classical music radio station, the old 50KW(!) KFSD went off the air, Kingsley McLaren announced, "We are going to go out with a bang," and proceeded to play a recording of this symphony. At the end, he asked, "Who said a Frenchman can't write a symphony?" Several years later I was fortunate to hear a live performance at San Diego's Symphony Hall, with Robert Plimpton on an admittedly much more modest organ.
Yes, you're quite right. The St.-Saëns Organ Symphony was used (without the organ) in the musical score for Babe, not only this (the final) movement, but also the tender, soaring Adagio from the first movement.
BEAUTIFUL
Powerful.
Very good orchestral reduction and excellent teamwork of Diane. Very good also the organ setting and the direction. Congratulations and greetings from Argentina.
Absolute organ and windband power display.
At 4:40 the more familiar strings are replaced by the woodwinds to tremendous effect! An entirely different sound, bringing out counterpoint otherwise hidden by the strings. There are several other spots where the band vs. orchestra makes interesting and positive change. It certainly gives an old war horse a bit of a fresh feel! I agree with the comment bemoaning the absence of the "piano rain!" But ya can't carry a piano in a band! And the glorious Ms. Bish, quite a warhorse herself!
I like all versions of this song including the one done by the Philadelphia under the direction of the late maestro Eugene Ormandy and Organ. Plus the one done with Munch and the Boston Symphony.
Quelle classe ! Bravo !!
Beautiful!
Diane Bish is an extraordinary musical talent and what's more she's a very nice lady.
Magnifique ce qu'un orchestre d'harmonie peut faire !
Mighty Music ---
This piece was beautifully set to lyrics in the 1995 version of "Babe" starring Christine Cavanaugh and James Cromwell. That said I have fallen in love with this rendition
yesssss! I was very impressed by their use of the piece in the movie. I worked at a cinema and shed many happy tears over it
the pop song version dates back to the 70s well before babe made the scene.
Wonderful...
the Queen of organ-players at the Queen of instruments...what more can one want....
Splendid organ. Powerful but quite harmonic.
Bach as a boy transcribed works by his elders and betters. So did I. So did my students. Not only a hommage, it's also a good way to grasp the writing from the inside rather than from rules.
404a & 405 are "adaptations" and "additions" to JSB and WFB's fugues.
WAM wrote adagio intros for string trio. These remain studies however, because WAM writes in a modern way.
Bach's own sons (CPE, WF, JC) did not play their father's works, but their own, written in Gallant, Preclassical Empfindsamkeit.
I miss the orchestra sound but this is pretty amazing for an ALL Brass and Woodwind band! Well Done. How is Diane's outfit!!! Rick Wakeman eat your heart out!
This gave me goosebumps.. Always have loved this piece
This is fantastic!! Unreal that this is a band that is playing this so well!!!
Diane, I love you, you performed so masterfully on that very very awesome organ.
I got to hear a really high quality recording of this with a real pipe organ in a concert hall that probably echoes for about a minute and a half (exaggeration). it was amazing. gottah love them horn parts at the very very end
breathtaking!
I love it !
It does. I can't begin to imagine how one goes about managing an instrument of that size
always love Me Bish's performances
cool version! great!
At last this favorite symphony of mine shows the organist! The organ drives this part of the orchestration so why don't other presentations show the mighty organist!? Worderful!
In some cases, particularly some recordings, the organ is dubbed in -- depends on the venue and whether a good set of pipes is available. It was a real treat for me to hear Robert Plimpton playing the newly-refurbished organ at Copley Symphony Hall with the San Diego Symphony. Yes, it was just a modest theater organ of the type used in silent movies, but it was still a very moving experience.
Love it.
THRILLING!!! As a former music teacher, band and orchestra musician, I just want to say that this is so grand I have played it many, many times, and love it! An orchestra has strings; a band does not! It's that simple. As for the organist, Diane Bish, IMHO I like her very much, very much indeed! Bishfans...where do you get those Bishfan identities?
Thanks to whomever placed that wonderful Bishfan emblem!!! I do appreciate, admire, and love her and her marvelous playing of the most wonderful instrument in the world!! Yes, I took a few lessons in college, and wish I had taken it more seriously and continued!! BRAVA Diane Bish!
SPLENDID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Merci.
Awesome integration with the orchestra! It's very rare to see the organ and orchestra playing at once.
Bravo, c'est différent et toujours agréable à entendre.
the orchestration is simply that in a band the winds are the strings the brass is the brass the organ plays what it supposed to play as it was written there is no confusion to me. one of the best in my sixty years listening to classics. great Diane Bish. great Camille Saint-Saens
This is the 'work' created in celebration to the end of all wars. For the rest of you, Listen. Learn. And to you the student at West Point, play it again and again. Thank you, dear Diane and all of you at West Point. Thank you! Sent with love. CVD.
Yes, a great celebration of the end of (a) war. While we may not be there yet, an incredibly inspiring piece to drive us on.
Let there be an end to all wars soon.... it looks unlikely but the dream must be kept alive
Awesome
Maravilloso
well. she's always a joy to watch on youtube.
Hi Jens V and Peter and a couple more. I love this work so much I could hear it played on cazzus and be happy. Diane's picture at the begging says it all for me. She's not a happy camper. Besides this was our West Point Band… not a full symphony. The truth is obvious. All in all, they did…. pretty damn good. Sent with love. CVD
I wish I was there
Royal Music indeed
WOW!!!
That was epic!
As usual this is one of the best audio engineered organ recordings on this piece.
Well, thank you very much indeed!! I'm very glad that burden wasn't as heavy as I feared. Still, the fact that he found himself recycling several movements to be used either in other cantatas - or at least in other works! - seems to indicate that even then it was harder than might have been desireable. To boot, even having to perform a cantata every week would be bad enough in terms of worrying which instrumentalists could be counted on + wondering if your singers can handle it.
playd with soul
The scenic country setting of this place is so beautiful. Can I live there¿ The music is ok too. Thanks.
This is a piece of classical music that needs a big,powerful pipe organ with a low,rumbling bass and brassy,fiery reeds.
bellissimo, darrei la vità, per improvsare- compore- suonare, come lei, maestra, e come voi, maestri!?
Hey, great version!
In the case of opera and church services, the singers and instrumentalists were HIRED to play the composer's music for specific occasions - they were not performing the music of their own volition in terms of putting things on programmes out of any other reason, compared to today! Also, the odds, alas, are indeed that Bach didn't play Buxtehude in public; furthermore, that his Leipzig successor Doles kept his master's music in the active library was a departure from tradition (Bach didn't do
Every time , I have to say wonderful! beautiful!
shinig pure pure majostic higher morble good harmony , I like this VTR and orchestra stage.
If you can much higher and lower on pure egegant legart ines in short phrases,whole traditional grand elegant accent is very beautiful.
Saint name composer is higher court supecial music ith brilliant shinig on
pure higher mind and playing , I think so.
Total impression is fame on grand wider as medal giving playing for him is n't it?
I wish she was still on TV with "The Joy of Music" program!
Mike Gross The Joy of Music is still being produced and is on television as well as on RUclips.
Way to crank it! There's no topping the Munch/Zamkochian record -- an impossibly high standard. But I like the clarity in this performance, with the wind ensemble -- nice work!
Wow!
Félicitations !
Actually, it could have been considerably worse - for what it is, this is a very good transcription; furthermore, it does give that Möller monster-organ a chance to shine in that movement given who Diane Bish happens to be (rather shallow relative to her repertoire selections...).