I'm agree, but you're definitely played Saint-Saëns. I absolutely loved your performance. You are such a amazing organist! I will corect the description. I like this combination of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra that lead seamlessly into Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony. One of the videos were incomplete so that's why I jointed them. I hope you don't mind.
It sure does look like you, Anna. Only you would know whether you played this concert. It certainly looks like a woman with her hair pulled back like you wear yours.
Perhaps. But the visual can enhance the sound, particularly for modern audiences. Even Handel appreciated some fireworks. Criticizing anything that further connects listener with performer is silly.
WTF defines a modern audience ? A load of musical illiterates sitting all the way through a concert concentrating more on opening their Werther's Originals and sucking for all their worth.
MANY years ago my daughter's high school marching band from Virginia went to some invitational exhibition/competition (don't recall the name) held in some large indoor stadium in Indianapolis. It was a very large high school and they marched almost 500 on the field. They did the march on, which seemed to last forever, to a very unusual cadence, but then about halfway onto the field they started playing Zara (as they called it). They timed the ending of the piece exactly to when the full band was in place. It brought down the house and everyone knew after that that the real competition was now for second place.
Stroke of Genius to segue these two pieces together! (Though I always feel S-S should have kept this first bit for the end; I always find the following 6-7 minutes [3:18 on] a bit of a letdown after the If I Had Words bit.)
I absolutely _ADORE_ the 4-handed piano part in the Saint Saëns finale….wouldn’t it have been wonderful if the brilliant composer had found a way to include them even more?
Two different concerts between the Strauss and SS! You can tell because the choir has moved, the percussionist is a different guy, and the first violin is a lady in the first concert and a dude in the second. Oh! And Anna Lapwood is there!
14 czerwca 2024, Filharmonia Łódzka na organach romantycznych (jeden z 2 instrumentów w sali). Byłem na jubileuszu FŁ, teraz też się wybieram. Sala ma niezłą akustykę. Niektórych piszczałek nie usłyszysz jako dźwięk, tylko niskotonowe wibracje odczuwalne całym ciałem. Nie wiem jak w innych salach koncertowych w Polsce, w których ostatnio zbudowano organy, ale w Filharmonii Narodowej tego efektu NIE MA.
Excelente trabajo 🎉!!! magnánimo muchas gracias!!!!imagino asumiendo Milei como presidente argentino y al mismo tiempo saliendo esposados por las puertas de servicio al ex presidente, su expresidenta y su ex ministro de economía!!!y ahi seremos todos!!!!!
More like a rock concert. I'm not complaining. I'd go to more orchestral performances if they were like this. Plenty of Statlers and Waldorfs in the gallery.
I agree. Also as a note on the Strauss I had listened to the whole thing (nearly 40 minutes) without knowing of 2001. When I saw the Barbie movie I didn't see the use as a reference to 2001, but rather the storyline of the book Strauss based his symphonic poem on of the same name (yes, Also Sprach Zarathustra is a musical adaptation of a book from before the film score era). And the film works pretty well as a loose feminised and modernised adaptation of the book.
The 'second half' of this just goes to show that great music like this does not need a multitude of varilights and clouds of smoke to make an impact. The sooner concert promoters realise this, the more enjoyable their concerts will become. Audiences are there for the music, not the light show. 😡
It doesn’t say which concerts these were taken from, but I have a hunch the first part was taken from a concert that was very much promoted on the light show as much as the music. If I recall (I went to one with my mother after she had been to one on a day trip by the local bowls club and wanted to go again, and she’s been dead 10 years) they call them Classical Spectacular and they market them rather more at day trippers and the grey pound. All easily listening, populist classics from the Classic FM drivetime playlist, and with a touch of a last night of the proms vibe rather than late radio 3 for those with a passion. Look down your nose all you want, but having witnessed it, they are very popular with their target market and in the days of dwindling public money to the arts (or anything else come to that) they are the sort of thing that keeps orchestras fed when they are playing to the small crowd who want to hear the harder stuff
If you're going to incorporate light/other fx in concert music, give some thought to the content and context of the piece... The fx during the initial statement of Zarathustra were overdone and tone deaf, like interrupting the title card "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" with a lightsaber ignition... If you don't get why that doesn't work then i can't help you.
Unless I've become a man without realising, that's definitely not me playing the Strauss...! 🤣
I'm agree, but you're definitely played Saint-Saëns. I absolutely loved your performance. You are such a amazing organist! I will corect the description. I like this combination of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra that lead seamlessly into Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony. One of the videos were incomplete so that's why I jointed them. I hope you don't mind.
@@bennystefan YEP Thats Anna Lapwood
How did you manage to swap places so quickly! Amazing performance, as always.
That was a quick change then?
It sure does look like you, Anna. Only you would know whether you played this concert. It certainly looks like a woman with her hair pulled back like you wear yours.
The most beautiful piece of classical music ever.
Have you heard Anna Lapwood perform 'Chevaliers de Sangreal on this magnificent organ?
Anna Lapwood any day. Always enjoy the Saint-Saens. Excellent performance. Looks like a full house.
Damn those lights. These masterpieces don't need the help.
Perhaps. But the visual can enhance the sound, particularly for modern audiences. Even Handel appreciated some fireworks. Criticizing anything that further connects listener with performer is silly.
WTF defines a modern audience ? A load of musical illiterates sitting all the way through a concert concentrating more on opening their Werther's Originals and sucking for all their worth.
That's not "help" the lights are providing, more like annoyance.
Just wonderful !
Speechless!!!!!!! What an awasome combination!!
Anna, your registrations are fantastic… I’ve never heard that organ sound so “French!” Loved it!
Magnificent ❤❤❤
MANY years ago my daughter's high school marching band from Virginia went to some invitational exhibition/competition (don't recall the name) held in some large indoor stadium in Indianapolis. It was a very large high school and they marched almost 500 on the field. They did the march on, which seemed to last forever, to a very unusual cadence, but then about halfway onto the field they started playing Zara (as they called it). They timed the ending of the piece exactly to when the full band was in place. It brought down the house and everyone knew after that that the real competition was now for second place.
Very well done Ms Lapwood! Wonderful!!
Glad you like it!
What a great combination! Also, love the lighting and visuals!
That jacket, that hair, that flair! Had to be Anna Lapwood!
I concur.
Fantastic
Meraviglioso
Wow. Just wow ❤
Absolut genial!! Genau so wollte ich das schon immer hören!!
Chills down my spine, ABSOLUTELY TOP NOTCH!!!!! Thank you 🙏🙏
Wow!
I really have to get over there and catch one of the Proms concerts.
Preferably the movie themed ones.🇺🇸🇬🇧
Stroke of Genius to segue these two pieces together!
(Though I always feel S-S should have kept this first bit for the end; I always find the following 6-7 minutes [3:18 on] a bit of a letdown after the If I Had Words bit.)
Lorsqu'on écoute une gymnopédie d'Eric Satie aussitôt après ça, ça repose... 😊
Absolutely wonderful! 🙏🎹🎼🎻
Es fehlen jetzt nur noch die Kanonen am Schluss, die von Tschaikowski's 1812 Symphonie
I absolutely _ADORE_ the 4-handed piano part in the Saint Saëns finale….wouldn’t it have been wonderful if the brilliant composer had found a way to include them even more?
when light shows are sad.
Two different concerts between the Strauss and SS! You can tell because the choir has moved, the percussionist is a different guy, and the first violin is a lady in the first concert and a dude in the second. Oh! And Anna Lapwood is there!
Coś fantastycznego🎉 a co dopiero uslyszeć to na żywo😮
Jest z tego płyta dvd????
14 czerwca 2024, Filharmonia Łódzka na organach romantycznych (jeden z 2 instrumentów w sali). Byłem na jubileuszu FŁ, teraz też się wybieram. Sala ma niezłą akustykę. Niektórych piszczałek nie usłyszysz jako dźwięk, tylko niskotonowe wibracje odczuwalne całym ciałem. Nie wiem jak w innych salach koncertowych w Polsce, w których ostatnio zbudowano organy, ale w Filharmonii Narodowej tego efektu NIE MA.
Excelente trabajo 🎉!!! magnánimo muchas gracias!!!!imagino asumiendo Milei como presidente argentino y al mismo tiempo saliendo esposados por las puertas de servicio al ex presidente, su expresidenta y su ex ministro de economía!!!y ahi seremos todos!!!!!
Never realised the end chord of ASZ is same as first of Saint-Saens 😮
yep, a C Major chord
It's not the last chord. Unless you're just talking the first movement.
I LUV Anna's 'Chevaliers de Sangreal'...
The timpanist enjoyed himself immensely!
super muyica
More like a rock concert. I'm not complaining. I'd go to more orchestral performances if they were like this. Plenty of Statlers and Waldorfs in the gallery.
Yes, the laser light shows are becoming more common. I tend to close my eyes and just absorb the music.
As a classically trained violinist and lighting designer: thank you.
Now play the rest of the Strauss, it get's WAY better!
so right you are:-)
Well, the rest is quite good, but does not outshine that opening.
I agree. Also as a note on the Strauss I had listened to the whole thing (nearly 40 minutes) without knowing of 2001. When I saw the Barbie movie I didn't see the use as a reference to 2001, but rather the storyline of the book Strauss based his symphonic poem on of the same name (yes, Also Sprach Zarathustra is a musical adaptation of a book from before the film score era). And the film works pretty well as a loose feminised and modernised adaptation of the book.
That moment when that one person's instrument drowns out the entire orchestra in a good way.
The orchestra is grand in its power. But can't match that organ.
brilliant performance but the lights are over the top and subtract from the performance
You know that entire building was shaking when the organ played the low notes.
The 'second half' of this just goes to show that great music like this does not need a multitude of varilights and clouds of smoke to make an impact. The sooner concert promoters realise this, the more enjoyable their concerts will become. Audiences are there for the music, not the light show. 😡
It doesn’t say which concerts these were taken from, but I have a hunch the first part was taken from a concert that was very much promoted on the light show as much as the music. If I recall (I went to one with my mother after she had been to one on a day trip by the local bowls club and wanted to go again, and she’s been dead 10 years) they call them Classical Spectacular and they market them rather more at day trippers and the grey pound. All easily listening, populist classics from the Classic FM drivetime playlist, and with a touch of a last night of the proms vibe rather than late radio 3 for those with a passion. Look down your nose all you want, but having witnessed it, they are very popular with their target market and in the days of dwindling public money to the arts (or anything else come to that) they are the sort of thing that keeps orchestras fed when they are playing to the small crowd who want to hear the harder stuff
❤
Piece ends on a C major chord with the organ down to its last C pedal using 32" feet pedal stops. Can't go any lower.
It's a shame they always seem to stop ofter the first part of ASZ, the next section with soaring strings is amazing.
Magnificent
Interesting that I saw these same two pieces performed by the Madison Symphony a few years ago. Are they often performed together for some reason?
Were you even in the audience of either of these clips?
Warum hat man es nicht von Anfang an mit der Kamera Einstellung so gelassen?
Der erste Teil wurde nicht vollständig aufgenommen, also habe ich mein Bestes getan, tut mir leid.
@@bennystefan Great Job! I thoroughly enjoyed it! I keep listening to it over and over again.Thank You very much!
@@orgelspielen I'm so glad that you enjoyed it. Check out my other videos and consider suscribing maybe?
Much too fast, sad, the lights was perfect
A light show should complement the music, not over power it.
I agree entirely! Totally OTT with the lighting.
Agreed. And it didn't. Some parts of the world have embraced the connection between sight and sound that can produce catharsis for an audience.
Catharsis !! 😆😆😆 You sound like a woke resident of Islington who uses Roget's Thesaurus for bedtime reading. Stop talking like a lady's front bottom.
If you're going to incorporate light/other fx in concert music, give some thought to the content and context of the piece... The fx during the initial statement of Zarathustra were overdone and tone deaf, like interrupting the title card "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" with a lightsaber ignition... If you don't get why that doesn't work then i can't help you.
Great music, poor sound quality.
Couldn't agree more. This is just a little glimpse into what can be experienced being in person at the concert. Highly recommended.
The orchestra didn't tune to the organ... It's a shame, because I love Saint-Saëns.
Superbe mais c'est joué trop vite.
これは禁じ手…
What with those lights it was obviously a foot tapping event for the proletariat. 🤮🤮🤮