Franz Liszt - Les Préludes - Organ arrangement

[@guillermosantamaria5212]

He captures the deeply romantic aspect of this piece with a romantic organ! Excellent!

[@MtFgt]

romantic organ, hahaha

[@ronalddunne3413]

@@MtFgt The organ, much like the human voice, can do almost anything if properly trained and "operated"...

[@originaltommy]

This is beyond incredible.Performance, instrument, engineering.....faultless. Totally enthralling. I am a professional organist myself and THIS is what I look for in performances! Something really authentic and exciting. This is dynamite and exactly what Liszt had in mind if you think about it. A thrilling experience. Liszt was a big fan of the organ anyway. I mean, why wouldn't he have been? lol

[@FougarouBe]

Hello :) I agree with you. If you are interested in watching the live performance of Helmut Deutsch at Saint Sulpice in Paris, here it is (at 57:30): kzbin.info/www/bejne/paawhnd_j5x7Z5Y And if you like "dynamite piano", I am inviting you to watch this video with the piano transcription made by a pupil of Liszt: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PGn6BrhtxobNk Enjoy ! Best regards. :)

[@jeanclaudelecrinier3329]

J'écoute les Préludes de Franz Liszt depuis ma tendre enfance, mais c'est la première fois que je l'entend exécutée sur de grandes orgues. Brillante interprétation, le final fait dresser les poils tant c'est puissant, intense, magnifique. L'interprète a su recréer ce que tout bon mélomane attend d'une oeuvre classique : L'émotion. Et ici même, elle est au rendez-vous. Un grand merci.

[@bruckmania]

Superlative arrangement and performance from Helmut Deutsch, such exquisite taste in timbre! I don't think any conductor brings this piece in at 19 minutes, but Deutsch's tempi are totally appropriate to the organ - and he certainly suffers none of the balance problems that plague most orchestral renditions, with the brass totally swamping the strings in that heart-stopping fanfare. Thank you sanysov for sharing this one!

[@user-dr7no8bq3u]

Огромная Благодарность! За показ Органа@ прослушивание произведения Франтца Листа! И Великолепно - косми'ческое! Исполнение Музыкантов! Благополучия!и всего доброго!

[@MrPeter3011]

Really a breathtaking version for Organ of the famous LISZT-work- both,instrument and organist,are really GREAT......

[@Mitchosaure]

Grandissime!!..Il s'agit pour ma part de ma pièce préférée de Liszt et autant j'aime les cuivres ronflants de la version orchestrale d'origine autant je rêvais depuis longtemps d'en entendre une transcription sur l'instrument-roi..A écouter la rendre sur le chef d'œuvre de Dominique Oberthür nouvellement relevé, on ne peut que se réjouir que ce magnifique instrument ait retrouvé tout son brio! Un immense bravo, donc, tant au virtuose qu'au maître-organier à qui l'on souhaite une bonne retraite!

[@jakeallinson]

Two remarkable feats are at play here: 1 - The immaculate articulation and clarity of the performer. Both are essential for this piece to stand any chance in such a reverberant space. 2 - The ability of this awesome instrument to respond to the performer's touch. Uniquely with these instruments, the organist and the organ builder must share the accolades when such brilliant music is made.

[@originaltommy]

Jacob Allinson I couldn't have said it better. This had me in an orgasmic puddle of years of joy. This organ is like a dream come true! So responsive...the action must be a dream to play. Stunning. Kudos to the artist. Top notch!!!!!!

[@charlesdavis7087]

You got that right, girl.

[@multimapping8303]

3 - the fact that this organ actually has 16' chamades (that actually go into the 16' low range)

[@VirtuosoOrganMusic]

Absolutely stunning Helmut. The memory of sitting in the cathedral with Dominique and others whilst you played this in your practice for the recital many years ago remains one of those artistic experiences one never forgets: the memory has never dimmed - I can hear that performance ringing in my ears. BRAVO! Absolutely stunning.

[@fcfl_lvbrv1236]

This organ has such a great voice with this pice it goes perfectly.Probably my favourite pice with liszt's BACH.

[@user-nk5jb8dj1s]

L'instrument est prodigieux de même que la prise de son, et AVANT tout : l'ORGANISTE. Bravo !

[@lefrancdominique3284]

Ah ...!!!! Franz .... ici sublimissime, l'instrument, la registration, l'interprétation, tout, oui tout y est ! Merci.

[@arpschneider]

The rendition of this piece brings ones to tears at its thrilling magnificence!

[@thomasgunther18]

Ich schere mich nicht um die Orgel viel und nicht wo sie steht.Ich freue mich, hier ein Orgel-Werk des großartigen Komponisten Ferenc Liszt hören zu dürfen- und bin so froh darüber..Eigentlich war Liszt ja ein Piano-Virtuose- aber ich höre das sehr, äußerst gerne: Ein meditatives Werk auf den Sinn des Seins.Wunderbar!

[@georgescott3652]

This is wonderful’ Absolutely wonderful!

[@charlesdavis7087]

The finest performance I've ever heard of this work. I only for one word for you: " Wow!!! "

[@eisenbahner95]

Da zeigt der Organist und die Orgel all ihr Können.Großartig gespielt

[@eisenbahner95]

Das ist sehr gut für die Orgel umgesetzt, es hört sich sehr beeindruckend an,auch die großen bassregister bringen ein sattes Stimmfundament. Auch die ruhigeren Passagen kommen sehr gut herüber. Bin sehr beeindruckt von diesem Stück

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

My favorite instrument and one of my favorite Liszt compositions combined and a beautiful performance. Liszt would have loved it since he often transcribed his works for keyboard, orchestra, voice and whatever worked.

[@bengunn99]

I agree totally. Stirring stuff. I knew a David Smith great bloke and sportsman.

[@donlewis5291]

You are amazing in your conception of orchestration for the pipe organ and your ability to move the heart with your performance! Kudos! Thank you for making organ music exciting to hear and to feel!

[@JacquesBRUNO13007]

Franz Liszt était un mutant. Brillante interprétation et très bel enregistrement. Merci.

[@salvatoremessina3074]

Grande composizione, splendida esecuzione, fantastica condivisione che amo! Grazie!

[@ronalddunne3413]

Someone once said that the only instrument more versatile than the pipe organ- is the human voice... this is a formidable version of Les Preludes, and I think it is going to enter my list of favorite performances.....

[@davehellod]

My gosh this is wonderful. it takes my breath away

[@ronalddunne3413]

It would be interesting to watch Liszt' reaction upon hearing his masterpiece played thusly, transcripted for organ!

[@HoeeSayy]

Given the reports that he had a proclivity for showmanship, I’m sure Liszt would love Helmut’s transcription and interpretation. The electricity of this performance falls right in line with ‘Lisztomania.’ Love it!

[@quickfoxxes]

What an amazing performance of organist, registration, timing and the actual playing of the building (as the previous reviewer mentions!) This is the most satisfying arrangement of Les Preludes because of its uniqueness of quality. Bravo to organist and the one who posted to share with the rest of us who passed by. Wish others had the same enthusiastic and sensational experience we have shared. Unbelieveable that anyone would "thumbs down" this video. Obviously they are oblivious of the technical and artistic skills to pull off such a wonderful performance. Their minority explains the lack of understanding.

[@rmbjr60]

Wow! Glorious! Wish I could've heard this performance live :-)

[@marioribeirodeazevedoneto311]

Excelente performance! Não é fácil executar uma obra complexa do Franz Liszt. Parabéns ao organista!

[@eisenbahner95]

Eine hervorragende Orgel, sehr gut dem Original nachempfunden,auch die mächtigen Zungenregister an Anfang und an Ende,einfach hervorragend gespielt.

[@pawelorenc2624]

To jest po prostu qwa GENIALNE! BRAVO!

[@jacquesbruno2908]

Splendide arrangement, magnifique interprétation de cette œuvre de Liszt. Le choix des registres et l'excellente qualité d'enregistrement magnifient le son de l'orgue. C'est une totale merveille ! Merci Helmut.

[@sanchofilho1028]

O arranjo para órgão manteve as características essenciais da obra de Lizt. Muito majestoso de se ouvir. Congratulations!

[@mrmaniac3]

Absolutely amazing!

[@romanomigotto7804]

Listening this music of heaven, my heart is flying high as an eagle in the sky... absolute beauty!

[@Tedbb1]

So many goose bumps from head to toes!

[@L.Frank2000]

Wow, Wonderful! Thanks to post and gimme the opportunity to listen to this.

[@huberthaye7602]

Magnifique !!!! tout simplement, Magnifique Hubert Haye

[@lucase.garcia8026]

It is always a real pleasure to listen to this transcription, it has an unusual fidelity. I recommend Schubert's Symphony 9... it deserves a transcription at this level. Simply stunning.

[@topper2142]

This is OUTSTANDING!!!!!!Loved it!!!!!!

[@stevenwrigley9694]

Wow wow wow. This ticks all the boxes. This is my new favorite organ piece. That was epic.

[@organbuilder272]

+Steven Wrigley Steven - listen to Guilmants 1st organ symphony or Widor's 5th in its entirety. How about Vienre's Carrillion de Westminster or the Liszt BACH, Franck's B Minor Choral or his 1st and 3rd or the Grand Piece Symphonique. Try Dupre - Cortage et Litany

[@eb.1]

robert shaw those are all fantastic pieces! Some great recordings out there of this. However, this is a fantastic arrangement of Liszt. It translates better to organ than anything else I can think of.

[@Joep_Verstappen-67]

Yes sir...yes indeed !

[@colinearcenciel]

Beautiful, bravo. Une oeuvre splendide.

[@charlottewhyte9804]

love the string sounds at beginning

[@dalerider3124]

About this performance, I appreciate the wonderful restraint in the registration, the "together" of both hands illustrated in articulation, the gradual and exciting crescendo eventually to the use of the great battery of en chamade reeds and the precision evidenced in the accompanying keyboard work behind it all. BRILLIANT WORK, Maestro!

[@es0x]

hey mr. 4 line comment, will you MAYBE chill?

[@dalerider3124]

Brother Lance, I am so very sorry my four lines of supportive comment "got your goat." Now I will chill. Peace.

[@jpstenino]

hey red and cob read your comment.... my take is you are either a goose, a complete goose or slightly, moderately or perhaps completely nutty.

[@dissilymordentroge5818]

Chill? Hardly needed for providing an astute, accurate, sensitive and scholarly analysis of the performance. I suspect if any ‘chilling’ is required it’s from someone other than Mr Rider.

[@tueddlschlichbach3643]

This is simply brilliant.

[@Mitchosaure]

MAGNIFIQUE!!..La meilleure transcription sur un instrument qui s'y prête ô combien! La composition de Dominique Oberthur avec ses brillantes chamades et ses soubasses toutes en rondeur donne ici toute sa chair à cette œuvre dont je suis fan depuis ma tendre enfance! Un seul regret: que la vidéo ne soit pas dynamique, j'aurais adoré voir le jeu de cet éblouissant exécutant!

[@Mitchosaure]

HAHAHA!! When I spoke about the composition, I meant the organ's one!!.. Dominique Oberthur is the builder of St. Etienne cathedral's organ in Auxerre!!

[@es0x]

nobody likes you

[@jmdujardin]

C'est très beau. Je préfère néanmoins l'enregistrement somptueux de Pierre Labric sur l'immense Cavaillé-Coll de l'abbatiale de St Ouen de Rouen, disponible sur You Tube. Ce monument de Cavaillé, parmi les plus prestigieux qu'on lui reconnaisse, a permis de très beaux enregistrements de Guilmant, Widor, Dubois, Boellmann etc.

[@charlesdavis7087]

You took the words out of my mouth. Love. Moi

[@Mitchosaure]

Euh.. Il y a bien les Funérailles transcrites par Jeanne Demessieux, mais en ce qui concerne les Préludes, je ne vois pas..

[@pawelorenc2624]

Na koniec ta "blacha" jest po prostu super.

[@porridgeandprunes]

Never heard this as an organ arrangement before. Interesting.

[@L.Frank2000]

Me too.

[@jamesdownham6417]

Liszt's music is never for the faint - hearted . I personally got past Liebestraum and the Consolation in D flat for piano and that was enough ! The Transcendental studies and others are best left for virtuosi to tackle and listen to .

[@yenaurapourtoulmonde]

Superbe interprétation. Registrations très riches. Bravo, vraiment !

[@jeanjacques605]

"L'orgue, le seul concert, le seul gémissement qui mêle au cieux la terre; la seule voix qui puisse, avec le flot dormant et les forêts bénies, murmurer ici-bas quelques commencement des choses infinies".

[@alex669953]

Bravo et merci

[@johnsammut2568]

D.Dengler o

[@jacqueslahondere4649]

je ressens la même "chose" que vous

[@eensio]

Splendid arrangement! Fantastic performance and all qualities are good: audition, recording, organs.

[@stephenroyal9219]

Fantastic. Beautiful.

[@Organgrinder1010]

EXCITING ! Beyond words!

[@Tedbb1]

Gives me goosebumps on my goosebumps.

[@peteacher52]

WOW!! Just wow!

[@GermanGreetings]

Although it is ''Molto Bombastico'' Franz Liszt..., You dear Helmut manage the super-accustic space of a giant Cathedral like Saint-Étienne until the finishline ? How dare you 😉🙃😇:) You keep it transparent for the audience... AND you do this by a wonderful accentful expression, permanently ''listening'' ('Witterung' in german) with you ears, finest antennas for transparence, keeping this up in souvereignity - even in Liszt`s worst `majestic flashs`... and what I admire most: with your mature expriance, to fill a Grand Church up with dignity, beauty and joy, swinging, promenading, causing the old Walls nearly to dance and smile... Being a nerd about church organs for 50 years, I never heard somenone reaching this christalline sound... Wow ! Love and admiration to you from here, heartly greetings to St.-Étienne ! Et allez les Bleues: Notre Dame de Paris avec sa Grand Orgue ...reviendra !

[@pawelorenc2624]

Po prostu świetne. Kto daje palucha w dół?:|

[@MrsHgLamp]

Chyba jakiś idiota może dać w dół.

[@samshearman5251]

Wonderful!

[@denismeyer6470]

Superbe interprétation et quelle sonorité de cet orgue ! J'avoue que la version orchestrale comme celle de Karajan ou l'Ouveture 1812 de Tchaiskovski, des merveilles !!!

[@ruramikael]

Great interpretation, great organ!

[@clivesutton2917]

Totally magnificent playing .

[@njex7]

Wow, just wow.... first time hearing this. Amazeballs!!!!!!!!!!

[@gerardbedecarter]

A magnificent presentation.

[@twilaliggett4662]

Magnificent!

[@ferreralex]

Maravilhoso !!!

Marvelous!

[@md2z34]

It's even better than the original arrangement! Congratulations!

[@user-ru8vy1uz7c]

Bravo bravo bravo brilliance Super

[@lorettaverhaagh9266]

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

[@salvatoremessina5437]

Grazie per la meravigliosa condivisione! :)

[@blockhausdreschvitz7357]

Sparkling and overwhelming

[@Buisness1]

I heard this magnificent peice done some years ago at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and St. John The Divine Cathedral. One just need to close their eyes with this and imagine being in one of these vast cathedrals siting mid nave.

[@pedagogo20091]

Excelente transcripción e interpretación. Gracias

[@keithbickle6467]

this organ makes a magnificent sound in the building. The console in INSIDE the organ . Although tracker action everything else is space age with push button stops duplicated on both sides of the console. In recent years there was some major water damage but I believe it is all back and working now.

[@OUHSCTV]

I remember a documentary I watched pretty much as a kid. It would have been in the late 70's. The tracker action was first done with circular brass connectors at the junction points. It meant for a very noisy action. At some time way back, they tried triangular joints. That reduced the action noise a lot because the triangles met at each junction. I've never sat near this console but St. Sulpice is noisy as hell if you are close to it.

[@Krumpansack]

Thank you. Just... thank you.

[@alainschaub1668]

Brilliant!

[@Basal89]

WONDERFULLLL!!!

[@xaviox]

Imo liszt would of tore up the whole modern organ repotoire with amazing pieces like this had he spent more time during his life at the organ and not just the majority of his abbe years....... Absolutely glorious

[@organbuilder272]

This is an orchestral piece that has been re-arranged for organ - quite successfully, one might say.

[@xaviox]

As it is his own transcription I would think so?

[@MrsHgLamp]

Chapeau bas. Amanzing work.

[@samshearman5251]

Very well done!

[@andrewbentley849]

As a commited Lisztian I give this two thumbs up. Awesome.

[@pawelorenc2624]

Bravo!

[@batorlilia5841]

Je ne connaissais pas F, Liszt pour orgues. Cest très beau. Merci

[@paulo3564]

Sublime, inigualável! Execução fantástica.

[@batorlilia5841]

Et un seul homme peut produir les sons merveilleux sur orgues? Les machines divines

[@johanneswolfgangkolbneuhau5231]

vaya excelente arreglo, felicidades ante todo !

[@eb.1]

Search “Organ Recital by Helmut Deutsch at St. Sulpice” to see a new (as in, it was streamed live earlier today as I write this) video of him performing this!

[@yenaurapourtoulmonde]

Listened St Sulpice recording. See my very critic comment in French. Don't agree with you, and coming back to this one!

[@karlbahlmann9772]

Brillant !

[@WINCHANDLE]

a lot of sweet solo stops beginning around 12:00

[@mainaccount131]

Absolutely superlative

[@adou4506]

Super à écouter !

[@Penrhos1920]

Fantastic.

[@jasonnicholasschwarz7788]

The organ turns into a gun turret! Amazing!

[@dudebhbr]

Sensacional!

[@WINCHANDLE]

Such an heroic piece. Nice copper Chamades!

[@u_u8016]

magnifico

[@hanstaeubler]

I like 4:27 the very modern timbre and generally the select of voices/timbres of the arrangement!

[@stevendaniel5649]

Speechless..........

[@zsebi66]

Perfect, but from 8:40 it is simply fantastic !

[@JeanClaudeLucienGRANONa380]

Grandes Orgues de la cathédrale St Etienne d' AUXERRE

[@dielauwen]

DAS IST Wunderbar!

[@14253PF54]

OMG, the Bombarda 16' en Chamade, terrifying, I can't imagine the "telluric" effect with TUTTI!!!