French organ music is at its best when played on a French organ! Superb - this piece is a magnificent example of a glorious crescendo soaring to the heavens!
I watched a video about 25 years ago on the building of grand cathedrals...and it's still inconceivable to me that such grandeur can exist. Mind-boggling.
Again - the location, the organ, the performer, the recording.......the best......keep these wonderful performances coming - the world, everyone, can use the inspiration from these sounds and sights.
Hello!!! Everything in this life is connected with time. I like to spend my time to listen to your performances Jonathan!!! And to watch the recording from Tom. Thanks!!!! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Johnathan, you've spoiled us. I was watching someone playing the organ with dirty shoes(!), and I could hardly stand it. Thank you for always being beautifully put together. xx
@@mandyofmarymac Mandy, I don't believe you are right about the organ. Look up where the Wanamaker organ is located and compare where this piece was played.
Psssst Jonathan: Here's the opportunity you've been hoping for and striving for. She really loves your music ("I leave the planet when I hear you play"). So be sure to take it! 🙂 (I'm just having fun Debora; please don't be offended. I think your comments re his music making are really beautiful and I do hope he gets to read them. And he did once lament that he doesn't have a Mrs Bach...).
@@jb9652 I'd like to be one, but first I'm going to try to get a wig with white curls. But, maybe there aren't many women because pipe organs were always built for men to play. I have 1.60 meters. Do I have a chance to be a Mrs Bach?! rssss...
Hello Jonathan, I had not heard this piece by Louis Vierne before. This particular piece would be familiar to many that own grandfather clocks. I have one. Thank you for sharing this magnificent piece with your subscribers! I should also like to state that I truly enjoy seeing the fantastic cathedrals you perform in. Best regards, Will Ortiz
Fantastic! - made it look easy too! Does anyone know if French tracker actions are lighter than 19th century English trackers? All the manuals coupled at the end must need amazing strength, that was a sight to behold!
Mais uma interpretação de alto nível de Jonathan Scott. Gosto muito da sonoridade deste órgão Pascal Quorin 2006 instalado na Catedral Notre Dame de Évreux.
Well noticed. Notice also that it happens in time with his right foot movements on the swell (box) pedal. It's marked in the score. The swell pedal controls shutters etc on a box that encloses one part (division) of the organ.
Short answer is no they are not like a swell box but have a role . Its a 12th century cathedral with a very high but very narrow nave and Atelier Pascal Quoirin describes the problems faced when tasked with building a new organ; "This musical conception of the organ attempts first and foremost to build a coherent work, in perfect adequacy with its own architecture and its integration in the narrow Gothic nave of the Cathedral (only 7 meters wide). The length of this nave, acts as a kind of sound tunnel, resulting in a transept and a choir of the same length, but the vaults of which, higher, are surmounted by a lantern tower which is a terrible sound trap. This very particular architectural configuration thus brought us to imagine an organ case which can throw effectively the sound as far as possible. It is what justifies the presence of shutters acting as megaphone and abat-sons crowning the Grand-Organ and the "positif de dos" When not in use those shutters close around the organ and it looks like a huge highly polished cylinder and they also serve a purpose in keeping out dust.
