I'm not an organist, but it seems to me that there is a LOT more to it than just knowing where to put your fingers and feet. That takes an enormous talent, but additionally, knowing which combination of stops to use for the mood of the music at appropriate passages. Mr. Scott greatly excels at both.
People often mistake "talent" for plain, simple hard work. To play that monstrosity at the level Johnathan does requires a LOT of practice. Commendable.
It could be argued that "what stops to use where" is more a composer/arranger skill than a performer's, but given that Jonathan Scott is the arranger as well as the performer, that doesn't take away from your main point at all. (And it seems to me that any travelling organist should have at least a bit of arranging skill, since no two pipe organs have the same set of stops.)
It’s all about fitting the stops to the occasion, using your different types of registers and different divisions to great effect and word painting when playing hymns is also a big part of it. It’s definitely the part that separates a good organist from a great one.
happy for you , Jacob .as i know not much about organs other than what you can see + air powered , can you tell me how many "pipes"this one "possessed" ? thank you ...
+r p/p - At 4 manual there should be at least 45 stops with 61 pipes per stop. This would be about 2800 to 3000 pipes depending on number of Mixtures and Pedal extensions. I can hear a Trumpet that was never in the original instrument. The pipe work was changed to some degree.
You have English blood flowing in your body somewhere, Todo. Grown men weep bitterly whilst lamenting the slow death of our country and language, as this plays in the background, or Jerusalem, (and did those feet in ancient times)
Funny thing I always wondered why I can’t help but get emotional when I hear this part of Jupiter/I Vow to Thee/O’ God Beyond All Praising…and then I did a DNA test and it came back with a shite ton of British Ancestry I had no idea was there. Thought my ancestry from that part of the World was all Irish but I was wrong.
@@Walawaliguili97It's also so moving seeing as that is played at remembrance, I can't help but think of those men and women who lost their lives fighting for England
The section starting at 3:10 is my favorite part of this piece. Every time I listen to his performance at that moment I get chills and I'm just in utter awe at the beauty of the composition but also the voicings, registers, and performance on this beautiful instrument by a truly gifted musician. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I Vow To Thee My Country is epic, personally I think all British politicians should sing this before every government session, it might remind them who they work for 😂😂
I can recommend Mr. Scott's performance of "The 1812 Overture." Words cannot describe the wonderful sounds Mr. Scott creates with his brother filming the occasions.
If I had to choose my favorite part of this piece, it would be the middle section. "I vow to thee my country" I'm not British but this brought a tear to my eye.😊
The last third where you really start hitting the lower pipes had me in tears it's so overwhelming. I wish I coul have been there as you not only hear but feel great instruments like this and even expensive headphones just don't cut it. Fantastic arrangement
Everything that this guy does is pure gold! I hope one day he does a recital at St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol because the organ is simply amazing and I just know he would be fantastic. I am biased because I am from Bristol but he is one of those organists that comes along once in a lifetime and he needs to play as many great instruments as possible!
Blown away by the virtuosity of this performance! The arrangement is stunning and, as ever, the filming is such high quality. Thank you for continuing to inspire.
What can I say? Jonathan Scott is on such a lofty plane of virtuoso organists that he is redefining what that term means. I only hope that he brings his talent to the United States so that I might have the opportunity to see him perform live.
That part is called “Thaxted” and it is the tune to the British song “I Vow to Thee My Country” and the hymn “Oh God Beyond All Praising.” It is the greatest piece of anything ever written.
I don't know what appearance fee Mr Scott commands, but tell the Royal Phillharmonic Orchestra: "We don't need you". Oh to have been there and experience the growl of the pedal pipes in the reprise of "I vow to thee my country" at the end.
Wonderful transcription sounding totally magnificent on this Victorian grand organ, a credit to the Burghers of Huddersfield who have obviously cared for this instrument so well. What can I say further, Mr Scott, such musical power at your finger tips, and feet of course,, truly virtuosic. I've just now had another listen, with my Audioengine speakers at a good volume, totally overwhelming.......
Es nicht zu fassen, welch großartige Leistungen Menschen in der Lage sind, zu vollbringen: so ein Instrument zu bauen, so eine Musik zu komponieren UND: so unglaublich - ich möchte sagen GÖTTLICH - die Orgel zu spielen (obwohl "spielen" hier nicht wirklich ausdrückt, was da passiert - aber ich glaube, dafür gibt es [noch?] kein Wort)! Phantastisch!!! 🎶🎹
Jonathan, congratulations on an absolutely stunning performance. I had my doubts as to whether the organ could successfully mimic an entire Orchestra but you sure allayed any fears I may have had in that regard. Bravo!!!
When COVID is done and international travel is possible again, please come to Australia and play some of our organs! The Melbourne Town Hall organ is a good start!
Couldn't help noticing the clocks on both stage sides of the pipes. My question is: WHY ARE THEY THERE?!?!?! Who could possibly care what the time is when listening to this majestic performance?!?!?!
To take note of how little time you have left to savor the raw, magnificent power of this nigh sacred music and the instrument playing it, and then immediately weep that it's not nearly long enough.
bit of a tangent, but aside from all the very deserved praise for this stunning performance, this video made me a bit sad for my hometown peterborough, where our insipid idiot council have destroyed our historic town hall, converting into shops, flats and offices, as they have done for much of the once-beautiful city centre. it's so nice to see such a beautiful historic building so well preserved.
Yes, it is nice to see it pedestrianised, but it did lack something of a civic liveliness when I walked through Peterborough a few years ago (as part of a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Iona, but that's another story!) The cathedral facade though takes one's breath away.
Peter Sykes' Neptune arrangement is literally out of this world. Listening to it while I am looking at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field view of distant galaxies makes me feel that I am in intergalactic space. Unmatched experience.
Absolument magnifique ! Félicitations pour cette transcription très fidèle ! Et quelle technique de jeu ! A quand un concert en France par exemple à ND de Paris (quand l'orgue pourra de nouveau être joué après l'incendie de la cathédrale) ou un autre très grand orgue ?
Reminds me of Birmingham town hall organ another great Victorian growler I remember the organ in Brum being played in a hard hat incase the ceiling came down twenty odd years ago.
That's slightly provocative! Although they can't all match Jonathan Scott, our organ concerts website organrecitals.com today lists current organ programmes to be given in the UK by 707 different organists!
Sorry, it wasn't meant to be provocative. I meant that Jonathan Scott is a brilliant organist and it's nice that he isn't from the Continent because most of them are quite conceited.
My apologies also for suggesting it was provocative! Actually, we are very lucky that there are so many outstanding organists in all parts of Europe, especially younger ones, like Jonathan Scott, who are so exceptionally talented.
Finally, a rendering of a piece of music I don't like that I didn't give up on. (Holst is far from a favourite, but I got through the whole thing.) Superb playing wins again!
The only thing these fabulous English Northern Town Hall organs lack (Lancaster, Huddersfield, Leeds, Bradford etc) is the resonance one gets within a large Gothic church or cathedral. But, we are still much better off for having them; and Huddersfield's is one of the finest!
It is thanks to early England, likely Scotland and wales as well, that these organ even exist. They once provided the entertainment for the populace of the town 100 and less years ago. They were tonally designed as organs that had the ability to perform orchestral works. Not sure this classifies them as romantic. But leave it to the Gb builders to have some astounding instruments with a wide range of tonal selections backed up with good English Diapasons and some fantastic reeds
I don't know, the prolonged reverberations of many large churches is a great character, but it can muddy the music. There's a clarity in this performance, and others in similar venues, that more than makes up for the resonance of a cathedral, wonderful though that is.
Excellent organist, the instrument and his arrangement of Holst's beautiful piece of work. I wonder that this would have sounded any better on the Royal Albert Hall organ? I've always been too afraid to ask until now: Was Holst 'on something' when he penned it?
The greatest instrument. The King of musical instruments with the grand piano coming in an honourable second. The only greater instrument is the orchestra itself with the conductor as the "performer"
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I'm not an organist, but it seems to me that there is a LOT more to it than just knowing where to put your fingers and feet. That takes an enormous talent, but additionally, knowing which combination of stops to use for the mood of the music at appropriate passages. Mr. Scott greatly excels at both.
People often mistake "talent" for plain, simple hard work. To play that monstrosity at the level Johnathan does requires a LOT of practice. Commendable.
It could be argued that "what stops to use where" is more a composer/arranger skill than a performer's, but given that Jonathan Scott is the arranger as well as the performer, that doesn't take away from your main point at all. (And it seems to me that any travelling organist should have at least a bit of arranging skill, since no two pipe organs have the same set of stops.)
It’s all about fitting the stops to the occasion, using your different types of registers and different divisions to great effect and word painting when playing hymns is also a big part of it. It’s definitely the part that separates a good organist from a great one.
There are many possibilities of color, it is often very hard to decide what to do and in which keyboard
I'm proud to be able to say that I was part of the 2006 overhaul and helped Wood of Huddersfield in their care of this fine instrument.
David is a top bloke. Brilliant organ builder.
I worked for him over many of my summers. I've seen and played more organs than I ever would have been able to otherwise.
happy for you , Jacob .as i know not much about organs other than what you can see + air powered , can you tell me how many "pipes"this one "possessed" ? thank you ...
+r p/p - At 4 manual there should be at least 45 stops with 61 pipes per stop. This would be about 2800 to 3000 pipes depending on number of Mixtures and Pedal extensions. I can hear a Trumpet that was never in the original instrument. The pipe work was changed to some degree.
Would you please tell what the expression shoe sitting off to the right does?
3:10 hit me in the feels 😢❤ so beautiful
You have English blood flowing in your body somewhere, Todo. Grown men weep bitterly whilst lamenting the slow death of our country and language, as this plays in the background, or Jerusalem, (and did those feet in ancient times)
Let the feels flow.
Funny thing I always wondered why I can’t help but get emotional when I hear this part of Jupiter/I Vow to Thee/O’ God Beyond All Praising…and then I did a DNA test and it came back with a shite ton of British Ancestry I had no idea was there. Thought my ancestry from that part of the World was all Irish but I was wrong.
If this doesn't move you, you're not from Earth--or Jupiter!
@@Walawaliguili97It's also so moving seeing as that is played at remembrance, I can't help but think of those men and women who lost their lives fighting for England
Sounds like an orchestra, I’m blown away
The section starting at 3:10 is my favorite part of this piece. Every time I listen to his performance at that moment I get chills and I'm just in utter awe at the beauty of the composition but also the voicings, registers, and performance on this beautiful instrument by a truly gifted musician. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I Vow To Thee My Country is epic, personally I think all British politicians should sing this before every government session, it might remind them who they work for 😂😂
Scottsbrothers the bringers of jollity!
This may be the most impressive performance in the entirety of the internet.
I can recommend Mr. Scott's performance of "The 1812 Overture." Words cannot describe the wonderful sounds Mr. Scott creates with his brother filming the occasions.
this chap must encourage lots of young people to play the organ, he is fabulous.
If I had to choose my favorite part of this piece, it would be the middle section. "I vow to thee my country" I'm not British but this brought a tear to my eye.😊
SOME OF THE GREATEST SOUNDING ORGAN REEDS I HAVE EVER HEARD!
The last third where you really start hitting the lower pipes had me in tears it's so overwhelming. I wish I coul have been there as you not only hear but feel great instruments like this and even expensive headphones just don't cut it. Fantastic arrangement
Everything that this guy does is pure gold! I hope one day he does a recital at St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol because the organ is simply amazing and I just know he would be fantastic. I am biased because I am from Bristol but he is one of those organists that comes along once in a lifetime and he needs to play as many great instruments as possible!
3:10 - 5:15 the famous "I vow to thee My Country". I didn't expect it can be performed by organ so magnificently. Great work! 👍👏👏👏
I vow to thee my country is simply the middle section of The planets Jupiter with lyrics
What a cheap copy of a good part of the middle of a much greater piece of music.
@@budmeisterI Vow to Thee, My Country was composed by Holst too, so technically isn't a copy after all.
@@budmeister Your ignorance is resoundingly glorious!
Blown away by the virtuosity of this performance! The arrangement is stunning and, as ever, the filming is such high quality. Thank you for continuing to inspire.
This blew me away, a superb organist and a great organ.
That has to be one of the best sounding organs I’ve ever heard
The trumpet pipes were superb 🙂
yes!!!
What can I say? Jonathan Scott is on such a lofty plane of virtuoso organists that he is redefining what that term means. I only hope that he brings his talent to the United States so that I might have the opportunity to see him perform live.
No thanks! LOL
George Wilson you cant have him........He's Ours!
@@samrodian919 We just want to borrow him for a bit so we can enjoy his mastery in person!
This melody is the lullaby of universe, and the cradle of cosmos that he play with incomparable skill and exquisite technique
Masterclass in registration. Brilliant.
03:10 This was played when at our wedding we walked out. Very emotional 😅
Thank you Jonathan.for yet another wonderfully recorded triumphant piece. I love the registration and let's not forget Tom's imagery and camera work
I heard Mars und Jupiter in concert at our local church, and these are now by far my favourites organ pieces.
Beautiful performance of this timeless classic by Holst. It sounds so wonderful on this magnificent instrument.
I love the part beginning at 3:10, it's awesome. Congratulations and thanks a lot!
That part is called “Thaxted” and it is the tune to the British song “I Vow to Thee My Country” and the hymn “Oh God Beyond All Praising.” It is the greatest piece of anything ever written.
Especially while reading C S Lewis!
@@Walawaliguili97 ALL composed by Holst!!!
Thank you for making the middle section sound just as grand as that melody deserves!! Beautiful!
I don't know what appearance fee Mr Scott commands, but tell the Royal Phillharmonic Orchestra: "We don't need you". Oh to have been there and experience the growl of the pedal pipes in the reprise of "I vow to thee my country" at the end.
Agreed.
Who needs the orchestra, with the buffoon on an ego trip, out front?
Wonderful transcription sounding totally magnificent on this Victorian grand organ, a credit to the Burghers of Huddersfield who have obviously cared for this instrument so well. What can I say further, Mr Scott, such musical power at your finger tips, and feet of course,, truly virtuosic. I've just now had another listen, with my Audioengine speakers at a good volume, totally overwhelming.......
Wow. Absolutely speechless.
my gosh...im breathless...and that pedal at 8:00
Brilliant musicianship, videography, and there's nothing like a Willis organ!
It is not a Willis any more. It went through a rebuild. No doubt there were tonal changes. That is like covering up a Monet with new colors.
What a beautiful and powerful transcription!
I knew it could be done! It was just a matter of finding an organist with enough talent AND passion for this music 🎵
Es nicht zu fassen, welch großartige Leistungen Menschen in der Lage sind, zu vollbringen: so ein Instrument zu bauen, so eine Musik zu komponieren UND: so unglaublich - ich möchte sagen GÖTTLICH - die Orgel zu spielen (obwohl "spielen" hier nicht wirklich ausdrückt, was da passiert - aber ich glaube, dafür gibt es [noch?] kein Wort)! Phantastisch!!! 🎶🎹
Brilliant! Can't be played better. This is another true masterpiece of yours.
As I am listening to this, I am reminded of John Williams' music for Star Wars. Low and behold, a major influence? Yes, Holst. No surprise.
Absolutely. Williams borrowed heavily from "The Planets." I recognized that the first time I saw "Star Wars."
Beautiful! This is another favorite of mine, and it was beautifully played on this magnificent organ! Thank you Jonathan!
3:10 is the best part
Of course 😊
I played this on trumpet for marching band one year in our show and i still tear up hearing it. Great preformance
This was truly wonderful
Jonathan, congratulations on an absolutely stunning performance. I had my doubts as to whether the organ could successfully mimic an entire Orchestra but you sure allayed any fears I may have had in that regard. Bravo!!!
As I have remarked more than once, 'Orchestra? Who needs an orchestra?'
A pipe organ is an orchestra but with thousands more players. with a range of pitch far beyond any orchestral instrument.
Great performance. Wonderful instrument.
Thank you so much for this amazing arrangement and performance.
Love the Huddersfield Town Hall organ and her it is played by the incredible Mr Scott........BRAVO !
your a wonderful man Jonathan Scott (beautiful music)
My goodness. What an arrangement AND performance. Bravo!
I am fascinated by this peace a lot
3:10 is what I came for. Wasn’t disappointed at all! :)
Every time I get really into a new classical piece, you upload a video of it! Thank you!
Superb registration and interpretation
simply wonderfull... you are the best...
Marvelous!!!
4:43 Chills. Absolute chills.
Opens up and just goes full Organ
Magnificent ❤
When COVID is done and international travel is possible again, please come to Australia and play some of our organs! The Melbourne Town Hall organ is a good start!
Magnificent interpretation for a magnificent organ. Truly wonderful.
My fiancé will be waking down the aisle to Jupiter played on the organ during our wedding in 42 days. 3:10 there’s going to be a lot of watery eyes
My husband and I used the center portion of this suite to walk down the aisle in 1982. We are still married! Good luck to you both.
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Couldn't help noticing the clocks on both stage sides of the pipes. My question is: WHY ARE THEY THERE?!?!?! Who could possibly care what the time is when listening to this majestic performance?!?!?!
It is a Town Hall remember.... not everything in a Town Hall is organ related remember :)
Gotta plan your transfer window to Jupiter!
To take note of how little time you have left to savor the raw, magnificent power of this nigh sacred music and the instrument playing it, and then immediately weep that it's not nearly long enough.
Back again. Still magnificent.
I have only previously heard “Jupiter” with a symphony orchestra. It sounds wonderful on the organ with this arrangement.
Fantastic organ solo as always!
I hope you can hear my applause all the way from New Zealand.
That's a remarkable instrument
Like Orchestra
Wonderful ♫ ！
bit of a tangent, but aside from all the very deserved praise for this stunning performance, this video made me a bit sad for my hometown peterborough, where our insipid idiot council have destroyed our historic town hall, converting into shops, flats and offices, as they have done for much of the once-beautiful city centre. it's so nice to see such a beautiful historic building so well preserved.
Yes, it is nice to see it pedestrianised, but it did lack something of a civic liveliness when I walked through Peterborough a few years ago (as part of a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Iona, but that's another story!) The cathedral facade though takes one's breath away.
Wonderful!
Fantastic! Bravo.
Wow, just wow!
OK! Now please, Mars and Neptune. If you haven't already! Thanks - as usual!
Peter Sykes' Neptune arrangement is literally out of this world.
Listening to it while I am looking at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field view of distant galaxies makes me feel that I am in intergalactic space.
Unmatched experience.
I love the theme starting at 3:15.
That's "I Vow to Thee My Country"...
@@stevebrown3559 No, it's Jupiter Bringer of Jollity.
@@budmeister The entire movement is "Jupiter"; the theme starting at 3.15 is the tune used for " I Vow to Thee My Country".
@@budmeister
Tsk.
3:10-4:40-5:20 BEST PART
Absolument magnifique ! Félicitations pour cette transcription très fidèle ! Et quelle technique de jeu ! A quand un concert en France par exemple à ND de Paris (quand l'orgue pourra de nouveau être joué après l'incendie de la cathédrale) ou un autre très grand orgue ?
Par exemple St Sulpice
Fantástico!!!😀
"I vow to thee my country": a lovely example of how beautiful a solo stop an English Open Diapason can be.
Magnificent !!!!
So Glad to hear this organ in the hands of someone who can play it, unlike others.
Thank you!!!!
beautiful
Bravo 👏 👏👏
Reminds me of Birmingham town hall organ another great Victorian growler I remember the organ in Brum being played in a hard hat incase the ceiling came down twenty odd years ago.
I'm glad to see that all the brilliant European organists aren't exclusively from the Continent!
That's slightly provocative! Although they can't all match Jonathan Scott, our organ concerts website organrecitals.com today lists current organ programmes to be given in the UK by 707 different organists!
Sorry, it wasn't meant to be provocative. I meant that Jonathan Scott is a brilliant organist and it's nice that he isn't from the Continent because most of them are quite conceited.
My apologies also for suggesting it was provocative! Actually, we are very lucky that there are so many outstanding organists in all parts of Europe, especially younger ones, like Jonathan Scott, who are so exceptionally talented.
Magnificent, especially today as it is Easter and He Is Risen!
Please, can you come play it at my funerals?
Ah what an ending with those rousing five horn notes!! Sounds like one of the 1960s ITV franchises nicked it for their jingle 😊
They played your transcription at the spreakles organ in balboa park it sounded awesome as usual
Finally, a rendering of a piece of music I don't like that I didn't give up on.
(Holst is far from a favourite, but I got through the whole thing.)
Superb playing wins again!
5:40 has excellent registration!
The only thing these fabulous English Northern Town Hall organs lack (Lancaster, Huddersfield, Leeds, Bradford etc) is the resonance one gets within a large Gothic church or cathedral. But, we are still much better off for having them; and Huddersfield's is one of the finest!
It is thanks to early England, likely Scotland and wales as well, that these organ even exist. They once provided the entertainment for the populace of the town 100 and less years ago. They were tonally designed as organs that had the ability to perform orchestral works. Not sure this classifies them as romantic. But leave it to the Gb builders to have some astounding instruments with a wide range of tonal selections backed up with good English Diapasons and some fantastic reeds
I don't know, the prolonged reverberations of many large churches is a great character, but it can muddy the music. There's a clarity in this performance, and others in similar venues, that more than makes up for the resonance of a cathedral, wonderful though that is.
So beautiful and very nostalgic. It reminds me of a segment from the game "Sky: Children of the Light". They probably got inspiration from this piece.
1:50 always been my favorite part
1:12 sounds erily similar to legend of zelda. Best part still 3:10
Great I can't unhear that
Holst: No John, I am your father!!
Brian Laywood
Another superb performance Jonathon, you are on the way to being a great British Organist!! Can we have B A C H next?
He already IS a GREAT British Organist!!!
@@Video7Rose Definitely, up there with the best in the world, likes of Olivier Latry Daniel Roth etc., long may he reign!!
@@brianlaywood747 I agree!
WOW
Excellent organist, the instrument and his arrangement of Holst's beautiful piece of work. I wonder that this would have sounded any better on the Royal Albert Hall organ? I've always been too afraid to ask until now: Was Holst 'on something' when he penned it?
* John Williams liked this element *
The greatest instrument. The King of musical instruments with the grand piano coming in an honourable second. The only greater instrument is the orchestra itself with the conductor as the "performer"
Hmm ...
6:25 Is that Lost Woods I hear?
Music for "I vow to thee" and "Oh God beyond all praising"
You can't help but think that Jerry Goldsmith was inspired by this piece for his Star Trek: First Contact and Next Generation themes.
Holy s*+# 😱
The circle of the trumpets in the top of the organ are the solo gran tuba en chamade ?