Virgil Fox | Reubke Sonata
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2013
- The Virgil Fox Legacy
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Julius Reubke - Sonata on the 94th Psalm
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn Heights, NYC
Skinner Organ Co., Opus 524, 1925 
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Many photos from various publications about the master! Thank you for this posting, however. A young Fox, and even younger (18-year-old) Robert Hebble at the Riverside console from the early 1950s sums it all up!
Robert taught at Stevens Institute in Sinatra Land, and two of my brothers - both excellent guitarists - had him as students at Red Bank Catholic High School. Such musical excellence in every sense - another great team, as it were.
You have brought our beloved hero and leader back to life. Thank you!!! His glorious career passes before our eyes as we hear him play the Reubke. How much he added to our lives -- how much we lost when he went to his reward. Who are you exactly?
Wonder why they set up Black Beauty by the George Washington Bridge.
Thank you for posting this! I was not familiar with this piece at all. Yes,the recording is less than stellar, but we can still enjoy it.
One of the great mileposts of the organ literature. Prodigious Julius Reubke, a pupil of Franz Liszt, composed it when he was in his twenties.
I am going to offer this as my contribution to the National Day of Prayer 2021
According to the church's website, this organ is still in use, and is (pre-covid?) used for concerts and recordings. They admit that it needs restoration. For example, neither the chimes nor the celeste play.
I live for the Virgil Fox haters. He's laughing at them from the grave while I cheer him on.
E.M. Skinner organ Opus 524 (1925) 4 manual, 64 ranks in Brooklyn, New York
Please consider posting the rest of this Album (Reger "How Brightly SAhines the Morning Star, and the Pierne Suite. They are all definitive performances. I serve at St. Ann's shorly after thtat recording was made in the final illness of Eric Alderfer. It was a greast thrill to sit on that bench week by week.
Virgil recorded this at the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, probably the late 1960s or early 1970s. E. M. Skinner organ.
Unfortunately, THIS organ is no longer heard. It is still there.. Question for the group? Just WHY is it that instruments in Europe lasts for a few centuries and in America, that won't last 50 years for the most part.?
ACTUALLY! This was pretty good, after enduring the recording for the duration.
He Play This Much Better Live 1965
Allen Spence
Unfortunately, THIS organ is no longer heard. It is still there.. Question for the group? Just WHY is it that instruments in Europe lasts for a few centuries and in America, that won't last 50 years for the most part.?
ALSOOOOOOOOOOOO! If one is complaining about THIS recording with VIRGIL! What would have been the comment's on this instruments with a "LESSER" organist?
This is one muscular piece of music……a work out to be sure. Virgil Fox brought classical organ music to the masses when was a teenager in the 1970’s. His concerts were a regular event. When I I attended to two of them, it was all young people in the audience. He was so talented on many levels, and he loved the controversy…as he ran to the bank laughing. He was on par with Barry Humfries in the genius department.
Good or bad. I wonder why there is no echo, no delay? I suspect the composer counts on delay when playing the piece. Even better he should indicate the amount of delay (so many seconds in this or that church). But in this recording you can hear all chords... Not muddled with any delay...(edited: I can finally hear what he plays. Even the structure of composition becomes clear. Too bad for the complainers: I like this recording...)
When was this recording made? I've heard Virgil's other recording of this piece, and, frankly, this one is the better of the two! I just wish that Virgil hadn't rushed that final cadence--it always sounds muddy when you do that! Biggs's legendary recording of this same piece at Methuen--especially that last cadence--could have taught Virgil a lesson or two about this piece, much as I hate to say that! Nevertheless, many thanks for uploading this historic recording!
Thanks for your insights. Always enlightening.
The Methuen organ is a very difficult instrument to play. I have played it. Hate it!
I would blame the muddiness on the recording quality.
Unfortunately, THIS organ is no longer heard. It is still there.. Question for the group? Just WHY is it that instruments in Europe lasts for a few centuries and in America, that won't last 50 years for the most part.?
What organ is it? I don't find it listed anywhere.
Our churches are heated and air conditioned whereas in Europe those big stone edifices stay about 55 F years round. We have now some absolutely top notch organ builders, but may of the organs from the 50s, 60s were not well built. Electric action breaks down easily where as tracker does not. A few other reasons.
@@normastevlingson2924 Yes, and if you read the history of many of the famous european organs, they have gone through rebuilds, alterations, and restorations as well. I recommend the site "Musique et Musicians" which gives wonderful coverage of hundreds of churches and their organs.
The original recording of this work is stellar. Greater virtuosity than Alexander Boggs Ryan or Dora Poteet Barclay!
simon preston, you should give this a lissten
Pretty good playing. Less than good organ (or is it the recording person's fault?).
Definitely the fault NOT of the organ but of the sound-recording engineer(s) &/or equipment being dealt with.
Otherwise, there's PLENTY to learn from this recording - one really understands what Reubke was trying to convey in the writing of this piece. Truly, one of the two truly-great sonatas in the organ literature (the other being that of Edward Elgar in G major, Op.28) - and Fox plays much of it very beautifully indeed. Mind you, I wouldn't ever wish to so rush anything that things don't get heard properly (and the last few chords prior to the very last one indeed consequently don't make the full impact they ought to)...
Unfortunately, THIS organ is no longer heard. It is still there.. Question for the group? Just WHY is it that instruments in Europe lasts for a few centuries and in America, that won't last 50 years for the most part.?
It's the reproduced recording that is of technically poor quality. The original is much better.
ALSOOOOOOOOOOOO! If one is complaining about THIS recording with VIRGIL! What would have been the comment's on this instruments with a "LESSER" organist?
Unfortunately, THIS organ is no longer heard. It is still there.. Question for the group? Just WHY is it that instruments in Europe lasts for a few centuries and in America, that won't last 50 years for the most part.?
A damn good quesiton! The same question applies to buildings in America vs. homes AND cathedrals in Europe!
@@dalerider3124 - As with anything, the key is maintenance. I think dedication to maintenance is why the European items last longer, they are more dedicated to upkeep.
Europe still holds up the classics, classical music and maintains their many historic organs. The USA has many great organs, but congregations have long since dwindled to nothing Ana’s churches close. It’s very sad. That said, the Wanamaker Organ is maintained and the Stentor division was finally added several years ago. It is an Orchestral organ and boosts over an hundred and fifty thousand pipes. The Atlantic City Convention Center Organ is equal in size and is in the process of complete restoration. The organ at Christ Cathedral ….previously The Crystal Cathedral at Garden Grove was all purchased by the RC Church and the organ is fully restored. The Organ at Chicago University is fully rebuilded and added to in its restoration. It’s happening all over the USA actually. Tracker action organs are now the rage in the USA. The Wanamaker Organ can be heard here on RUclips.
I love Virgil and his recordings. That being said, I always respected Virgils "unique" and creative take on standard repertoire even if it wasn't to my personal tastes, but this recording of the Reubke is just awful. Sorry Mr. Fox. You have done better.
This youtube version is poorly reproduced from the original recording which is of much better and clearer technical quality.
Let's not confuse "recording" with "performance." Performance is great, as always.
Probably not one of Fox’s best performance. I have heard better.
I stopped listening after 2 minutes. Was he drunk?
No he was just a crap organist
No, Silverton, but maybe you are?
@@thekathal: Speak for yourself. You could never outplay him even on your best day if you tried!
@@thekathal thank you. At least I have someone on my side. I couldn't stand him.