Virgil Fox | Jongen | Symphonie Concertante | Toccata - Allegro moderato
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Fourth Movement: Toccata - Allegro moderato. The finale (Toccata [Moto perpetuo]: Allegro moderato) is a brilliant showpiece for both orchestra and organ, with unceasing right-hand figuration in the organ carrying the movement through a series of ever more intense climaxes. This perpetual motion stops only at the very end, in a forceful coda.
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Fox was an organist rock star.
I love this piece of music. Thank you Virgil Fox (RIP) for introducing me to it.
I always dug the recording of this piece that he did with Georges Pretre and the Paris Opera Orchestra. I held every other recording that I've heard against his since then. Nothing surpasses that great performance, in both scope and expression of tone.
There is a Telarc recording of this at the Davis Symphony Hall. It is a piece that the organ has to DOMINATE the orchestra and here it does, courtesy of Virgil Fox and the heavy organ. Truly masterful.
Thank you for posting this incredible performance by certainlly the most profound organist of our time, whose passing was way too soon!!
The man played from his very depths of his soul and brought the organ to life. I'm a trained organist and Virgil Fox is an inspiration to me.
He was proclaimed a virtuoso at 17 years of age by the east coast musical elite of that day... I saw him perform in Portland, Oregon about 55 years ago!!! Couldn't believe my good fortune! I have a vinyl LP album of him playing the Wanamaker pipe organ, Philadelphia, PA! Phenomenal!!!
Damn! I needed to see and hear that today. I literally clapped at the end. Virgil was in his element and that was a fantastic performance! Thank you for sharing!
I cheer and scream with joy every time!
Thank you for posting this. Wonderful performance. I remember Virgil playing this as a solo. He had the full score in front of him playing both the orchestra and organ parts! He was the BEST!
Arguably the greatest organist of the 20th century, and possibly of all time.
dont forget the french organists
Think of it. The only musician in this video not playing from a score in front of him. All from memory. This is the genius Virgil at the top of his game !! :-)
Oh my God! This dazzling piece and the dazzling performer makes me "jump out of my skin."
This should be overplayed since it is so well-written and requires virtuosity on the part of the organist and the orchestral performers.
Jongen, you are a rock star and your piece will live forever. Unfortunately, the virtuosity required on the part of all performers makes
this one piece that will be little performed. What a shame!!!
It's a complete masterpiece .
It's remarkable, mostly, for its energy. But a masterpiece? Well, it remains firmly entrenched in the repertoire to this day. But there's not a phrase in it that isn't a cliche and its energy masks, I think, an underlying triteness and tiredness. Cudos to Virgil Fox for his performance, but . . .
@@thomasthompson6378 mischievous, vitality , but I understand the reason who take me back .
In his biography of Fox, Ted Alan Worth, who was Fox's assistant during the recording session for the Jongen LP recording session with George Prêtre, explained that Fox had earlier performed the piece only in his own organ solo adaptation, and really couldn't keep himself to playing the organ part as written for the orchestral version. For example, in this video c. 2:00, the organ begins an octave-based fast accompanying figure while the orchestra takes the melody. That accompanying figure is assigned to both hands in alternation in the original. But here, Fox puts all that accompanying figure in the right alone, so the left hand can then play the melody, which then doubles that of the orchestra. So, in a sense, Fox was just making things more difficult for himself, but in a way he just couldn't help it!
The man was totally without peer, and probably to this day still has no equal. A consummate musician, and to be able to play all the major organ works from memory is almost superhuman!
What a great smile and fist-pump at the end with a "YES!"; that is the true feeling of satisfaction.
The best of the best.
This goosebump music by a great large scale organist. To the best of my knowledge, E. Power Biggs never attempted this piece.
Not many do. I'm a professionally trained organist and its s technically demanding piece. I wouldn't touch it
@@crazyorganist1609 Fox made his own arrangement that expanded the organ part. His joy in this performance is palpable!
@@marcallen4532 definitely
He was proclaimed a genius at the age of 17.... look up his professional history...
I heard Fox at Trinity Cathedral, Miami in 1964. He is the greatest interpretive artist of all time.
That's not only a 11/10 but a solid phuqqing yes . Virgil was plugged into the universe. I have my own transcription of the Toccata but this is ultimately so much more satistfying.
I SAW HIM WHEN I WAS 17...A MASTER!
awesome... what a frightening & exciting piece
Excellent performance by all. Venue, orchestra, conductor, anyone?
fantastico Virgilio!!!
What a thrilling ride... Have it on my car hifi : ear-blasting!
You should have heard this in Washington D.C's National Cathedral. "THUNDER IN THE CATHEDRAL".
+Joel Ensign - Are you referring to the performance several years ago by the National Symphony with J. Reilly Lewis on organ? If so, I was there - a phenomenal performance indeed!
Which orchestra is this? These guys are excellent.
It's sort of one big long fanfare, yes? It's astonishing in its own way, of course, but it does grow a bit tiring because the themes are so trite.
Brilliant!
Wow!
I SAW HIM
Anyone know who built the organ, and when?
Karl Schuke of Germany in 1973.
James Kennerley does a good job on this Toccata on the SMV Aeolian-Skinner: ruclips.net/video/1INFujWl_ZY/видео.html
The war in heaven!!!
where was this concert?
Tokyo,Japan.
At the NHK Concert Hall in Tokyo. The organ was built in 1973, by Karl Schuke of Germany.
Totally Awesome from a guy only 5ft.2inches tall.
If you're referring to Fox, he stood just under 6 feet in height!
Just a note. There are no presets on this organ.. Appears to be all manual registration. Some foot tab presets maybe.
He hits one at 3:07 (and tries again 3:08), and 3:45.
There are oodles of presets, on both manual and pedal. The video of Bach's A minor P&F (ruclips.net/video/ivkct--3PiQ/видео.html) shows illuminated manual general pistons and a good close-up of the pedal pistons. Like many players, he liked to do a lot of hand registration, and must also have been conscious that it looked more impressive to the audience, even if all he was drawing was a Dulciana on top of full organ 🤣
Looks that way to me, which makes the performance even more incredible in my opinion - so much already going on technically on the instrument without having to ALSO think "hit the 1 3/5' Tierce stop on the Positiv manual on beat 3 of measure 236"
A shame the organ isn't better; the stupid 1960's-early 1970's baroque screamers just don't work.
Now. You need better stronger foundations
A noisy piece. Virgil certainly had big hands!
This is the Finale. It is meant to be stunning and spectacular. And it is.
Little mistake at 2:05.
This is a musical train wreck, but in the end that seems not to matter. It shrieks out at us from beginning to end, trying to convey something that may be vitally important but that is also somehow lost in the chaos of the orchestration. But at least it's memorable, if not entirely for the right reasons.
ah yes.....on youtube everyone's a renowned music critic...........
On RUclips everyone has the right to express his or her opinion.
@Greg Monks It's true that I've never held the score in my hands. I do still maintain this music is very bad indeed; confessing, at the same time, that I'm but a musical amateur. And I suppose it could be said it's "deliciously" bad . . . because I do keep coming back to it.
I realize this is an old thread- but I will add my two-cents, for the record. If you look at this music in the context of which it was written, it makes more sense. It was written to be played at the Wanamaker store on the world’s largest pipe organ. This Toccata evokes a great deal of pageantry, grandeur, and grace, and, with its flurry of colors, textures, tones, etc, completely embodies every quality of the room itself- a beautiful department store. Add to that, it was written for that massive pipe organ. This music suits it well!