When I was at school I slipped I slipped up to the Temple Church on a Sunday whilst doing my A levels. I used to go there a lot to hear GTB and his choir and GTB recognising me invited me into the loft for the service. He put me in a tiny corner and told me to keep still and quiet and to listen, watch and learn He told me that as it was the last Sunday of term the boys who were leaving chose the music. I was a nobody schoolboy and he was very kind and generous with his time. The organ voluntary was the Toccata from the Duruflé Suite. He opened the score at the first page and then never turned so he played it all from memory. The performance was of course immaculate. What I have never forgotten was the stillness. No silly flamboyant flourishes, he was playing this very difficult piece yet appeared to be doing nothing at all. It was the best organ lesson I have ever had.
Yes. Cesar Franck is the best....better than Bach if I dare say. But there is the French organ repertoire and then there is everything else...hand down.
Awesome! You are an amazing player. You make this piece sound beatific. It is very impressive that you can do this memorized. Sarah Vincent, I love how you make this composition sound! You make it other-earthly. It transports me I especially enjoy how you did the parts around 3:05, 3:40, and 5:10-24. I am an organ Mom and know little of music. My 15 year old played this for her organ teacher, yesterday, who also recorded it. Now she is listening to your recording for learning and comparison. There is so much to learn. Thank you for sharing. Sarah's Mom
Vincent never fails to amaze me. He has played so many items without the score. What an amazing memory. I did hear from somewhere that he has memorized the complete works of JS Bach? It wouldn't surprise me!
Playing without a score was very much the norm before the new-broke period. No professional organists used scores in a performance. Today organist are too lazy to memorize, To add insult to injury they can't even turn their own pages. Many of them even use piston pushers. They don't know how to register a romantic, symphonic or classic organ because there are few German names on the stop knobs. It's all the German stop names that give these new imitation tracker organs the sound of the original baroque organs from North Germany. There have been more organs destroyed by the tracker fad than by age, fire and vandalism combined. Oh boy is this one going to bring the hate mail
@@organbuilder272 no hate mail, but what you state does not really apply to France. The "néo-classique" movement made few explicit references to German organ building, but rather to an imaginary French golden age. And in France, trackers mostly remained the norm except for very big instruments, quite unlike anglo-saxon countries (electric action) or Germany (pneumatic). There were of course some exceptions, such as Puget building pneumatic organs of any size (from around 189x) using a licensed Weigle system. This has helped limiting the damage. What triggered the reaction against neo-classicism was a series of scandalous "restorations" of those few preserved XVIIIth century organs, such as Auch. This reaction earned us quite a few magnificent organs, such as St Séverin (Paris) or St Maximin (Thionville - not to be confused with the big Isnard in southern France). Surprizingly though, back in the seventies, even top Dupré (ex) students were happy to get those Cavaillé-Coll organs "modernized", with all sorts of ill-fitted mixtures, and (worse) destroying the original voicing of flue pipes (ND de Paris under Cochereau being a well-documented example, as well as Nancy cathedral, Le Mans, Chartres, and so many others). The "new-broke", as you call them, cannot be held responsible, sorry. Never heard that Costa, Cochereau, Grunenwald, Langlais, Messiaen and many others were "new-brokes". On one thing I certainly agree - under Dupré, memory playing was the norm. His students had to perform two new pieces per week, technically clean, and from memory. But that was at the top conservatoire in France, and should not be generalized hastily.
@@Airy59 Hi Airy59. Anglo Saxon - I assume you refer to England and North American builder. Used Electro-pneumatic, not electric. There was only one builder - WICKS, the relied on DE action. The pipe speech suffered as a result of the "Shock" of having the wind suddenly stuffed up its foot rather than the slightly slower responSe of E-P, Tubular Pneumatic and Tracker valves responding. Disastrous "Restorations" I can agree 100%. The Baroken organs are those built in modern time - since the revival of the N. German organs that sound wonderful if you are playing Bach but are entirely unsuited for much else. The organists and builder seeking to emulate the early builder went way too far the other way with the result that modern organ have reeds that sound like machine gund and Mixtures that would tear your toupe off rather than remembering that higher harmonics are like seasoning - just a touch will do. Anyway, the arguements rage on. I think that Pipe organs should be restored as the builder intended unless they are an absolute disaster from the start. I have nothing against tracker as long as they are not younger than 1900 when people knew how to build them with good tonal structure. The problems inherent in trackers have not been overcome, At normal playing tempos they do not respond to touch, They do not sound any better than any other organs and they use electric action for coupling which completely negates the argument for the use of tracker to start with.
@@Airy59 Hi and thank you for your reply. I was not referring to the players but to the Neo Baroque organs that have swept Europe, England and the USA since Biggs and Arthur Howes went on their crusade in the 1960's Personally I love the sound of the old builders and respect their enginuity. I agree that all to many were radically changed by the effects of the Tracker Craze that swept the world. Yes the New broken organs substituted Mixtures for decent chorus work, saving money with stopped basses and 1/2 length reeds. Tubular action was just an advance in pneumatic technology and Estey was building T-P organs right to the end in 1960. In Korea it takes 3 people to play, The key pusher, page turner and piston pusher - that Piston likely a sequencer. The "Good Guys" are fast leaving and the new organists play like machines. Discouraging. Thanks for your thoughts.
wow wowowowowowow love this pereformance all by memory and the registracion i woud love to know the registracion use here thanks so so much for this video
D'une rare sensibilité musicale, l'Organiste Vincent DUBOIS, par son remarquable ressenti de "l'Ame romantique", s'impose comme l'incontournable interprète de César FRANCK !
A very, very musical performance. Only possible with such a sensitive musician who truly "owns" the music. No score needed! I'm sure Franck would have approved!
When I was at school I slipped I slipped up to the Temple Church on a Sunday whilst doing my A levels.
I used to go there a lot to hear GTB and his choir and GTB recognising me invited me into the loft for the service.
He put me in a tiny corner and told me to keep still and quiet and to listen, watch and learn He told me that as it was the last Sunday of term the boys who were leaving chose the music. I was a nobody schoolboy and he was very kind and generous with his time.
The organ voluntary was the Toccata from the Duruflé Suite. He opened the score at the first page and then never turned so he played it all from memory. The performance was of course immaculate. What I have never forgotten was the stillness. No silly flamboyant flourishes, he was playing this very difficult piece yet appeared to be doing nothing at all. It was the best organ lesson I have ever had.
Franck is the best! And great performance by Vincent.
Yes. Cesar Franck is the best....better than Bach if I dare say. But there is the French organ repertoire and then there is everything else...hand down.
Very beautifull!
Phantastic performance!
I realy like this interpretation.
It shows the energy of Franck ....
Thanks for the upload!
Thank's Vincent, nice and good music, good organist friendly Jacqques.
Awesome! You are an amazing player. You make this piece sound beatific. It is very impressive that you can do this memorized. Sarah
Vincent, I love how you make this composition sound! You make it other-earthly. It transports me I especially enjoy how you did the parts around 3:05, 3:40, and 5:10-24. I am an organ Mom and know little of music. My 15 year old played this for her organ teacher, yesterday, who also recorded it. Now she is listening to your recording for learning and comparison. There is so much to learn. Thank you for sharing. Sarah's Mom
Vincent never fails to amaze me. He has played so many items without the score. What an amazing memory. I did hear from somewhere that he has memorized the complete works of JS Bach? It wouldn't surprise me!
Playing without a score was very much the norm before the new-broke period. No professional organists used scores in a performance. Today organist are too lazy to memorize, To add insult to injury they can't even turn their own pages. Many of them even use piston pushers. They don't know how to register a romantic, symphonic or classic organ because there are few German names on the stop knobs. It's all the German stop names that give these new imitation tracker organs the sound of the original baroque organs from North Germany. There have been more organs destroyed by the tracker fad than by age, fire and vandalism combined. Oh boy is this one going to bring the hate mail
@@organbuilder272 no hate mail, but what you state does not really apply to France. The "néo-classique" movement made few explicit references to German organ building, but rather to an imaginary French golden age. And in France, trackers mostly remained the norm except for very big instruments, quite unlike anglo-saxon countries (electric action) or Germany (pneumatic). There were of course some exceptions, such as Puget building pneumatic organs of any size (from around 189x) using a licensed Weigle system. This has helped limiting the damage. What triggered the reaction against neo-classicism was a series of scandalous "restorations" of those few preserved XVIIIth century organs, such as Auch. This reaction earned us quite a few magnificent organs, such as St Séverin (Paris) or St Maximin (Thionville - not to be confused with the big Isnard in southern France). Surprizingly though, back in the seventies, even top Dupré (ex) students were happy to get those Cavaillé-Coll organs "modernized", with all sorts of ill-fitted mixtures, and (worse) destroying the original voicing of flue pipes (ND de Paris under Cochereau being a well-documented example, as well as Nancy cathedral, Le Mans, Chartres, and so many others). The "new-broke", as you call them, cannot be held responsible, sorry. Never heard that Costa, Cochereau, Grunenwald, Langlais, Messiaen and many others were "new-brokes".
On one thing I certainly agree - under Dupré, memory playing was the norm. His students had to perform two new pieces per week, technically clean, and from memory. But that was at the top conservatoire in France, and should not be generalized hastily.
@@Airy59 Hi Airy59. Anglo Saxon - I assume you refer to England and North American builder. Used Electro-pneumatic, not electric. There was only one builder - WICKS, the relied on DE action. The pipe speech suffered as a result of the "Shock" of having the wind suddenly stuffed up its foot rather than the slightly slower responSe of E-P, Tubular Pneumatic and Tracker valves responding.
Disastrous "Restorations" I can agree 100%. The Baroken organs are those built in modern time - since the revival of the N. German organs that sound wonderful if you are playing Bach but are entirely unsuited for much else. The organists and builder seeking to emulate the early builder went way too far the other way with the result that modern organ have reeds that sound like machine gund and Mixtures that would tear your toupe off rather than remembering that higher harmonics are like seasoning - just a touch will do. Anyway, the arguements rage on. I think that Pipe organs should be restored as the builder intended unless they are an absolute disaster from the start. I have nothing against tracker as long as they are not younger than 1900 when people knew how to build them with good tonal structure. The problems inherent in trackers have not been overcome, At normal playing tempos they do not respond to touch, They do not sound any better than any other organs and they use electric action for coupling which completely negates the argument for the use of tracker to start with.
@@Airy59 Hi and thank you for your reply. I was not referring to the players but to the Neo Baroque organs that have swept Europe, England and the USA since Biggs and Arthur Howes went on their crusade in the 1960's Personally I love the sound of the old builders and respect their enginuity. I agree that all to many were radically changed by the effects of the Tracker Craze that swept the world. Yes the New broken organs substituted Mixtures for decent chorus work, saving money with stopped basses and 1/2 length reeds. Tubular action was just an advance in pneumatic technology and Estey was building T-P organs right to the end in 1960. In Korea it takes 3 people to play, The key pusher, page turner and piston pusher - that Piston likely a sequencer. The "Good Guys" are fast leaving and the new organists play like machines. Discouraging. Thanks for your thoughts.
Emouvent... Lei è un grande artista. Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962
A beautiful performance.
the best performance of this piece in internet
wow wowowowowowow
love this pereformance all by memory
and the registracion i woud love to know the registracion use here
thanks so so much for this video
D'une rare sensibilité musicale, l'Organiste Vincent DUBOIS, par son remarquable ressenti de "l'Ame romantique", s'impose comme l'incontournable interprète de César FRANCK !
A very, very musical performance. Only possible with such a sensitive musician who truly "owns" the music. No score needed! I'm sure Franck would have approved!
Super
is this me?
ecco un organista vero
Shit. Just let me tune it.
That organ looks ugly.