Whenever I struggle to practice, I just listen to this piece and it reinspires me all over again! I love the intensity of the music and the technical choices you've made.
Many organ builders are not accomplished organists, and vice versa. The fact that Doug Marshall has both the qualities of craftsman and a musician is what makes Marshall & Ogletree organs the best digital installations in the world.
Cameron Carpenter designed the console and specification for this organ as well as the organ we built for Middle Collegiate Church, where he was organist. He prefers rocker tabs and we, of course, were pleased to oblige.
5:17 -- the beginning of one of the sweetest passages in all of music. And...what a light touch Mr Marshall has--and though music is sitting in front of him I never see him look at it or turn the page.
What a wonderful performance! The celestes in the swell were magic, and the effect when they were sub and super coupled and on tremulant was beautiful instead of garish. I grew up listening to Alexander Schreiner hold forth on the Aeolian-Skinner in the Tabernacle, and this transports me back then. Magic!
Beautiful! I knew this piece in a version transcribed for piano as recorded by pianist Stephen Hough long time ago. Used to listen to so many times as a teenager. The slow part touches me deeply. Thank you for your wonderful playing.
@organpower @organpower I am a classically trained double-bassist, so I tend to be attuned (!) to low frequencies. :) That 64 foot A on the pedal board came through despite RU-vid's somewhat constipated audio characteristics.
As a pipeorhan builder I have to warning each one: True sound will be in church not on youtube. But it is also true that some of this installation are very good..I have only experience with Hauptwerk. I never heard This brand.
I prefer this performance to the one by M.C. Alain. Very musical and I prefer the virtual pipe organ here which has a warmer sound. Well done to performer and the organ maker!
I'd say standing ovations for this performance! Precision, sensitivity and power! At least with this master player, the digital organ competes well with a real pipe organ. Still I also much would like to hear Marshall with a pipe organ. I´ll look through this site to begin with.
Magnificent in every respect. For a fine contrast, check out Alexander Frey's RU-vid vid of his A-minor Choral performance at Trinity Wall Street (also, of course, a M&O organ)
This recording gives me goosebumps. Especially after the 10th minute mark, love the bass in the pedal there. I stored this video on my NAS and will keep it there forever :-)
Doug Marshall is a fantastic organist. He defines the word "multitasking." Actually, it is impossible to do as many things together as a professional organist. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
...und auch von diesem in die Jahre gekommenen Organisten sehr gut und lebendig interpretiert - ja, dieser 3. Choral von Franck ist auch der bekannteste und wirklich grossartig!!!
Pourquoi cette registration sur la deuxième partie ? Cesar Franck utilisait le hautbois sur le récit pour compenser le manque de puissance de Ste Clotilde d'où un son si particulier, et après cela se gate avec ce son d'orgue de cinéma, quel sacrilège...
Doug is one of the best Organists of today. He always masters the music he plays. I started to follow him when he studied under the late great Virgil Fox, however, it is quite evident that he became great by his own making. It has always been a part of him. He has a perfect technique....both the keyboard, and the pedal.
Doug I would be very interested in knowing when designing your ORGAN why you chose the 'rocker tablets' instead of the push tablets, or draw knobs. Curious??
I've read somewhere on the internet that M&O organs start around 300.000$ up to into the million. Though i can barely imagine such prices for a sampled organ. I would say 50k $ maximum.
+Richard van Pukkem: Did you mean $50,000 MINIMUM?!?? If a M&O digital-organ STARTS at $300,000, that's not much less than what an actual pipe-organ starts at. I can't imagine spending, say, $1,000,000 on a digital when that kind of money can get an already-substantial pipe-instrument...
And including the impossibility to tune some of the reed pipes. So pity that for instance the low A and G# of the 32'/64' are so obviously out of tune. Just take the last few bars, A-B-C sounding like about pff-B-C, F-G#-A like F-grr-pff..
Muy buena interpretación, solo no entendí el sentido de controlar el volumen con el pedal durante el choral. Estos decrescendos bruscos fueron totalmente sin sentido.
Personnellement, je trouve qu'il y a beaucoup d'expression dans cette interprétation, bien que je suis d'accord avec le côté "guimauve"... Ça sonne un peu trop Wurlitzer à mon goût.
Mr. Marshall may be an extraordinary digital organ designer, and a technically respectable organist, but he totally misrepresented this piece. Playing the "chorale" on celestes completely misses the point; the "adagio" is played with all the sensitivity of a Republican. Then at the climactic recapitulation of the chorale with the left hand restating (developed) the opening theme in the left hand, you can't hear it because he doesn't reduce the pedal. A pedal point that powerful simply drowns out any counterpoint going on in manuals. It's simple acoustics.
davewvu1 It may not be "very" soon (it's been 25 years since I"ve played recital); but, it will be. I hope it will be recorded so as to be able to post it. BTW, I'm currently practising on an Allen G330 instrument that's about 9 months old; and, notwithstanding my natural scepticism of electronics the thing is seriously convincing.
@@samnelsonorganist My respect that he can actually play it. But i think this version of Doug Marshall is a lot better. But it's not a competition anyway... everyone can play it however they like it.
I’m guessing you are referring to Cameron Carpenter although i have no clue what he has to do with his video? I don’t think Doug is dressed like a circus acrobat at least.
