🎵 2 Hours Of AMAZING Performances // Best Organ Music

[@juliawake880]

Dear Richard, thank you for giving us such wonderful organ music to listen to. All the amazing people who have played on your brilliant organ there in your home have just loved to give us such heavenly music to lift our souls. Thank you so much. You deserve that lovely fresh air to escape to. Lovely photo of you. Best wishes from Julia Wake, Guildford, Surrey.

[@emeraldacrefarm9976]

I could not have said that better! Thank you, Richard!

[@jerryfolsom]

Still the King of Instruments! Thanks for posting this collection. Kudos to the artists.

[@flavio5051]

God save Anna Lapwood. Thank you for sharing.

[@billraty14]

0:00:02 Bach - Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543 (Anna Lapwood) 0:09:41 Liszt - Liebestraum No. 3 (arr. Falks) (Richard Gowers) 0:14:06 Widor - Allegro (Symphony No 6) (Dariaa Lytvishko) 0:23:43 Widor - Allegro cantabile (Symphony No. 5) (Colin Walsh) 0:30:55 Bairstow - Allegro giocoso (Marko Sever) 0:34:29 Sweelinck - Mein junges Leben hat ein End SwWV 324 (Martin Baker) 0:41:39 Dupré - Evocation (Jeremiah Stephenson)* 0:49:02 Debussy - Arabesque No 1 (Richard Brasier)* 0:54:15 Iain Farrington - Live Wire (Ben Bloor)* 0:59:53 Whitlock - Toccata (Plymouth Suite) (Francesca Massey)* 1:04:08 Hesse - Fantasie für die Orgel zu 4 Händen (Paul Fey)* 1:09:50 Ghislaine Reece-Trapp - A Toccatella (Tom Bell)* 1:12:37 Franck - Choral No 1 in E major (Joseph Wicks) 1:29:33 John Hosking - Improvisation on Happy Birthday*

[@beautyinsound]

Thanks Bill!

[@indiana600610]

MAGNANIMOUS MCVEIGH! I love that you chose to share your channel w/ other outstanding organists instead of only featuring your own absolutely incredible work! ❤

[@SheilaPorter-lr9qz]

Thank you Richard for this amazing collection of wonderful organists. My father was an organist who was trained in Scotland and played there before coming to Canada where he held several positions playing the King of instruments. There is absolutely nothing like it 🎹🎶❤️

[@janemazzola4454]

I LOVE seeing & hearing this young woman perform! THANK U for including her as one of your organists guests...

[@byteme0000]

I always love to see and hear Anna Lapwood perform. Wonderful. But... everyone else was amazing, too. Fabulous video.

[@markclarke6579]

Iam moved beyond belief, this has left me a gasp, the most beautiful music for the soul I would love to hear this live❤❤❤

[@richardsedding8444]

What a magnificent recital by such talented players. Thank you Richard!

[@mervwhitney7229]

Some wonderful music here and many pieces I have not heard before. Thank you Richard and all the other Organists.

[@scottflanagan8433]

This is a wonderful compilation of pieces! Showing off a variety of skills and the amazing versatility of your instrument!

[@michaelcollins6577]

Excellent recital program. Thanks to the musicians and as ever BIS.

[@DavidLPatton]

A wonderful collection of pieces on an amazing hauptwerk instrument. Thanks, Richard.

[@rallegra]

So much talent in one video. Thank you.

[@briankiddcello]

I am completely elated! I am a cellist but the organ is my favorite instrument. I am only 3:27 into the video. I cried at only two minutes in. The organ is an instrument where we dance AND play. I haven’t learned the keyboard, yet, but I find this so motivating to finally begin. Also, Richard, you are a genius for many reasons, but specifically I want to thank you for adding a video inset of the pedals in front of the sheet music; perfect place for an inset.

[@jerrymartin79]

Thank you for this amazing retrospective - each of these concerts was an epic milestone, and this showcase is just breathtaking to sit back and enjoy. Such amazing variety of music, musicians, and styles. I cannot wait to see what the future holds for BiS. Thank you for all you do!!!!!!

[@martym61]

Wonderful compilation. Looking forward to future recitals.

[@sheilabeckmann4810]

Great idea to put this together, Richard. Thank you!

[@НеляНеля-м9н]

Браво !!! Натхнення вам шановні !!! Миру...добра...гармонії !!! Чистої планети від ядів та війн !!!

[@JanetThompson-fm5ig]

True beauty in sound...

[@soundsofmartinique]

Dariia !!!! Bravo !

[@adrianhockey9334]

Pure Quality! Thanks for posting,😊👍🎹

[@GZamzung]

Amazing performances

[@sevengreen5494]

Amazing performances and sound quality. The Dupré Evocation is stunning.

[@jsbe1429]

Thanks Richard, well done! It would also be interesting to put the sample set used next to each performance.

[@beautyinsound]

I will do, but it would be interesting to see if you can work them out 😉

[@jsbe1429]

@@beautyinsound It seems to me Dudelange surround, Rotterdam big Marcussen... and then? And what are the combinations?

[@MartinShorthose]

I echo this request - and have made it myself before. For some of us, the organ is the important bit. If I am buying a recording, I choose first the organ I want to hear - then the programme, then the organist. Sorry! :) What instrument a bassoonist or a violinist is playing in pretty irrelevant, but the organ is particularly unique to the building, so a sample set indication would be welcome - not only to identify the organ, but also the building in which it lives. Thanks

[@conemadam]

Sublime!

[@johnweddel687]

Perhaps it might have been better to descibe these performances and "notable" or similar instead of "best". All who were invited to BIS brought their time, talent, and skill and they all were excellent performances.

[@winstonpetersen3442]

to ther others too Martin Baker bravo

[@winstonpetersen3442]

wow ricahard and Fey

[@marksmale827]

What is the organ in the first piece? It sounds very English (Willis? Walker?).

[@beautyinsound]

It’s the organ of St Laurenskerk in Rotterdam

[@nasibars4575]

❤❤

[@andrewloose3419]

21.16 and I have lost the live chat. 😢

[@Meditatiocatolica]

Hello

[@lordenoch0]

Dariia not Dariaa

[@beautyinsound]

Updated in the description thanks

[@JohnSmith-ms5ly]

First I would like to say that I appreciate everything what is presented on this channel. Thanks for that! Now there is one thing that is puzzling me. It has happened more than once on this channel, but also with other famous organists on other channels, that, if Bach is played on the organ, often that phrasing on the first note of the measure is being used. I am not sure why organist are doing that. I mean, its like their fingers are sticked to the keys with chewing gum. It really distracts me from the sheer virtuosity Bach is displaying through his organworks. (I am not talking about Chorals) Can't help it, but if I hear it I instantly skip. Maybe my ears were spoiled too much by listening to Michel Chapuis. Perhaps its a matter of taste. So I don't want to offend anyone. Sometimes I think that organists cannot keep up the speed and cheat with phrasing.....

[@mraNewfoundland]

Organists are becoming more and more a dying breed, so much so Churches are trying to fill the gap with pianists.

[@emeraldacrefarm9976]

I think churches are hastening the demise of organists by filling their programs with the modern so-called worship music. My late piano/organ instructor called called those modern songs 7-11 music -- 7 words repeated 11 times - mere noise.

[@billraty14]

@@emeraldacrefarm9976there is wheat in the chaff. I most definitely love the organ and prefer the traditions I learned in the late 20th century as a professional organist, but each flock will find its own way with the music that means something to them.