GRISON - TOCCATA IN F - ORGAN - JONATHAN SCOTT

Jonathan Scott performs Jules Grison's Toccata in F on the 1871 organ by William Hill & Son of The Holy Name Church, Manchester UK.
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The organ of Holy Name Church, Oxford Road, Manchester UK.
Built in 1871 by William Hill & Son
Rebuilds and alterations: 1902 (unknown), 1928 Ernest Wadsworth, 1950 Jardine & Co
The organ was restored in 2004 by David Wells, Liverpool reversing earlier changes and a new electro-pneumatic action.
Manual Compass 56 notes
Pedal Compass 30 notes
SPECIFICATION
PEDAL
Sub Bass 32
Open Diapason 16
Violone 16
Bourdon 16
Principal 8
Flute Bass 8
Fifteenth 4
Mixture III (17.19.22)
Trombone 16
Ophicleide 16 (1952, from Tuba)
CHOIR
Lieblich Bourdon 16
Open Diapason 8 (1928, originally Clarabella 8)
Gedact 8
Dulciana 8
Salicional 8
Gemshorn 4
Lieblich Flute 4
Flautina 2
Corno di Bassetto (TC)
Clarinet 8
Tuba (1928, 12”)
GREAT
Double Open Diapason 16
Open Diapason I 8 (Added post 1928)
Open Diapason II 8
Stopped Diapason 8
Gamba 8
Principal 4
Harmonic Flute 4
Twelfth 2 2/3
Fifteenth 2
Full Mixture IV (15.19.26.29)
Sharp Mixture III (22.26.29)
Posaune 8
Clarion 4
SWELL (enclosed)
Bourdon 16
Open Diapason 8
Rohr Flute (Originally named Stopped Diapason)
Viol d'Orchestre 8
Voix Celeste 8 (1928, originally Twelfth & Keraulophone)
Principal 4
Suabe Flute 4
Fifteenth 2
Mixture III (17.19.22)
Double Trumpet 16
Horn 8 (Originally named Cornopean)
Oboe 8
Vox Humana 8
Clarion 4
Tremulant
Couplers
Swell to Pedal
Swell to Great
Swell to Choir
Swell octave
Swell suboctave
Swell unison off
Choir to Great

[@georgewilson9553]

Yet another gem from a seemingly inexhaustible supply. Words are not enough!

[@ingegnerluca]

My most respectful admiration.

[@honesteagle98]

I heard this live in Lausanne, in cathedrale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Had me almost sobbing, I did have tears though.

[@jimshaw899]

Wow! What a fine closer for a recital. They WILL invite you back. Pull the 32 contra bombarde and they depart in tears. [grin]

[@ettorecavagna5293]

JONATHAN SCOTT SEMPRE GRANDIOSO!

[@kristiina1221]

I simply LOVE this ❤️🇫🇮

[@stko9164]

W O W ..... . . . !! ( And that's all one needs to know. ) Just greatful, thank you so much, Jonathan Scott.

[@jonnyboy9899]

Wow Jonathan 👌

[@williemollentze429]

Thank you for adding so much joy to our existence!

[@robertheed7345]

En fin TOCCATA som är fint spelat AV JONATHAN

[@richiejohnson]

Tempo more evenly metered than the atomic clock! Always astounding! I can't imagine the camera set-ups but it seems to be one run-through caught by 8 cameras by a crew of 12! Bravo Tom

[@honesteagle98]

What a beautiful organ

[@tadeodewiesent1482]

¡¡¡Bravo...!!! 👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@berthar.shewman9921]

This particular performance of this particular toccata made this particular Sunday very very special for me. Bertha 20211128

[@maartenbuma3527]

Fantastic Jonathan!! Best regards Maarten Buma Pretoria South Africa

[@ATLAScom]

Beautiful instrument, acoustics and playing!

[@deborah85728]

Fabulous 💕🤗✨✨👏

[@annskinner8467]

Scott Brothers, always here for us 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@amangogna68]

Amazing music and fantastic organist !

[@retrotvchannel7307]

Svetlana N. Give Thanks for the music best and original the video!

[@martinhill7222]

One of my favourites!

[@jclou65]

Bravissimo!

[@markfortuin7111]

What interpretation. Jonathan, you are a “larger than life” organist and musician. Mark Fortuin, Johannesburg, South Africa.

[@linddaipauls3584]

I enjoy his "quite" playing. He makes this ,in my opinion, a difficult piece to play look very easy

[@WINCHANDLE]

This is a one fun piece of music expertly performed. A favorite

[@anjasalentijn145]

Bravo!!!!!

[@isabellenowak9792]

Quel orgue magnifique 🎶Belle prestation 🎶Merci 🎶

[@1974UTuber]

Sounds awesome. I would love to experience this live

[@jaybeeshultz]

Bravo!!

[@leylinegoddess]

the pipes on that organ are absolutely beautiful. the panoramic views of it really add to the music. thanks.

[@kevinturner7903]

Another musically inspired performance Jonathan you are a master of the instrument! 👏 thank you

[@dennisferrara6940]

A stunning example of tonal voicing of Wm Hill - (19th century English organ builder). An example of a true 64' Contra Trombone exists in his 5 manual instrument in the Town Hall, Sydney, Australia. This organ builder originally installed a 4 manual instrument in Westminster Abney,, London, UK; long gone; however, 78 HMV recordings exist of it. Recorded 1927-1929.

[@dennisferrara6940]

A grand piece and the playing is truly in the "grand Manner!"

[@james.flores]

This is a masterpiece! I want to learn it someday as well.

[@dennisferrara6940]

Electrifying play and a truly grand organ!

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Superb!

[@gideonels]

One of my favourite works from the French repertoire! THANKS! Amazing pedal work.

[@SeppHuaba]

Great Performance! 👌👍

[@Narayan_1996]

AWESOME PERFORMANCE! BRAVO! P.S: There was a little organ chirpe at 6:31

[@jeffkoch8678]

Nice camera work.

[@samrodian919]

Boy was there some fireworks! Wonderful piece Johnathan and a brilliant performance of it too. I have not heard of the composer or this piece before, so thank you for bringing it to us all. Very nice instrument, I thought it was a Father Willis but I was wrong! Nothing wrong with William Hill's organs of that period and earlier big fat reeds and diapasons, a lovely Victorian sound and not changed a lot tonally I would think. Wonderful sound in a wonderful space!

[@caseyflorida]

I had not heard of this composer or piece either until Gert van Hoef posted a video of it a few years back and it knocked my socks off! Of course Jonathan plays it superbly on this wonderful organ!

[@DubyaJE]

This was a completely unfamiliar piece to me, but I absolutely loved it! Thank you!!

[@ЕкатеринаДаркова-и5ъ]

Beautiful music and beautiful performance

[@jeffreyvieira4363]

By far the best rendition of this piece I have heard- hands down !!!

[@fannybarrera4592]

Maestro!!!!!!! Toda mi admiracion por la musica hermosa que toca...el organo una belleza!!! Es un lujo escucharlo...lo saludo desde Argentina...

[@ronaldhorton2438]

I enjoy your work so much. Thank you.

[@anaterezanogueirasalem2016]

Belissimo!!!

[@chucklambooy8457]

Fabulous piece!!! For some reason I had not heard of Grison and this is quite the dynamic piece!

[@4candles]

Great piece and I particularly liked the registrations used, which to me made the instrument sound very full-blooded in a French-instrument kind of way!

[@CarthagoMike]

What a beautiful organ you are playing on. Amazing woodwork, and love the way some of the pipes have been decorated.

[@gertprinssr.9931]

Super

[@jamesh-j8758]

love this piece

[@peternaryd_operasinger]

Absolutely brilliant Jonathan! This one of my favorite pieces! Thank you!😁👍👏👏👏👏👏❤

[@bernardchaudey9684]

Thank you Jonathan Scott for recording this great organ piece. I first heard this Toccata on an EMI record dedicated to various organ composers by Jane Parker-Smith in 1977. Jules Grison seems to be not so well known here in France his own country. Nevertheless in the United Kingdom, Grison's works seem often played. This majestuous toccata in F sounds gorgeously on this Hill & Son organ in Manchester, as well as on the Father Willis organ of the Salisbury Cathedral. Thank you for the wonderful videos you record with your brother! From Lisieux, Normandy, France

[@epincion]

Grison is popular in the Netherlands. One of my favorites is the Dutch organist Peter Eilander playing Grison's Fantaisie sur le Chant de Noël 'Adeste Fideles' on the CC at Saint-Ouen. If you don't know it search YT using the terms, Peter Eilander - Jules Grison - Fantaisie sur le Chant de Noël 'Adeste Fideles'. He was a very fine composer.

[@bernardchaudey9684]

@@epincion Hi fellow, thanks for your advise and information!

[@andre26071955]

@@epincion André de Jager performs the entire work on the Marcussen main organ in St. Laurenschurch Rotterdam, also to be found on KZbin.

[@epincion]

@@andre26071955 Thanks for the comment. I have often listened to the André de Jager performance. Another great organist. Enjoyable also watching the stop assistants work hard on that organ!

[@rojostu1]

This is the first piece i heard young gert play on the hasselt organ, love this toccata :))))

[@andre26071955]

Gert skips the middle part (fugue), which Jonathan doesn't....

[@rojostu1]

@@andre26071955 he does but to me it doesnt detract from the piece

[@vestastreeb657]

Thanks very much. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️

[@SergioLOSOWICH]

Sounds fantastic congratulations!

[@scronx]

Brilliant selection and performance!

[@andre26071955]

You are one of the few organists on KZbin who plays this piece in its entirety, therefore alone already many thanks!

[@garethmooremusic2643]

Superb. It’s a stunning instrument and such a fabulous acoustic!

[@bobh5087]

Wonderful and thrilling. Thank you Jonathan and Tom.

[@richardvoran5514]

As always - simply stunning! Thank you!

[@OperaNut]

Fantastic performance on a gorgeous instrument. The videography is a real treat, too. Thank you, Jonathan and Tom!

[@reneegiacomazzi4877]

Geoßartig!

[@emwin]

Thank you for yet another great performance from you both. Have never heard of this composer so thank you for the introduction! Best wishes from Australia 💕🇦🇺🎶🎹

[@hughmackay5200]

Tremendous playing, what impressed me most was how you handled the acoustics of that barn of a church :)

[@RobertZat]

Wonderful performance Jonathan, and as always Tom, exquisite visuals and audio.

[@CarthagoMike]

Amazing cover. Love it!

[@monicasutcliffe4178]

This is just so special. A sensational piece, performance and production in lovely surroundings I know well, but the full possibilities of that organ a revelation! Totally inadequate thanks!!

[@abnormallyfunny]

Love your musicality. Would love to see you play on different organs; especially cathedrals and the town hall organs of the north.

[@johardy-bishop5525]

Yes please. Selby Abbey is my suggestion.

[@tom7601]

Tom, thank you for another example of your cinematography. It is beyond reproach... As usual. Oh, your brother did alright as well! :-)

[@davidkelly620]

And now I have to file Grison along with all the other composers that deserve adulation . . . Very well played, of course, too.

[@miriamcaraquitena]

Magistral!! Enhorabuena!!😘

[@mathieuc4008]

I like how it starts like Bach's fugue in D minor

[@marekfoolforchrist]

Does it though?

[@richiejohnson]

@@marekfoolforchrist just like the first 8 notes

[@mariadesa1434]

❤❤🥰

[@rattywoof5259]

Possible inspiration by Bach's D minor Toccata?

[@Curtisf_sa]

What cameras and microphones do you use for recording ?

[@Ace_USVI]

He got them hands. Lol

[@michaelciccone2194]

Amazing indeed! Nice suit has on

[@tethyl7662]

Does anyone else hear influence from the fugue to Bach's Fugue from the Prelude and Fugue in D Minor?

[@at0mcollision]

Of course the playing is excellent as usual, but the organ sounds wonderful- it seems like this is the ultimate kind of English organ sound.

[@johanbrand8601]

Which transcription is this? I don't recognize some of the parts at all. And this is one of my favourite organ pieces!

[@erikthenorviking8251]

I believe Mr. Scott is playing the piece in its ENTIRETY. I have known a few musicians make cuts to the central section. Hope this helps.

[@epincion]

This is an excerpt from the full concert in which Jonathan introduces each piece first, he talks of how Jules Grison visited Manchester quite often as he was a great friend of an amateur organist and medical professor at the university hospital just across the road from the church. Jonathan then goes on to say that Grison composed the piece with various cutouts built in depending on the skill of the organist and also the size of the keyboard available but here he plays the the whole piece as written and on an organ that Grison himself played.

[@andre26071955]

@@erikthenorviking8251 You are spot-on! I have the sheetmusic somewhere here in the attic...

[@bikdav]

I don't hear much of Jules Grison's music.

[@clivegessing-richardson2850]

Grison...sadly neglected composer....many organ works...I have most of the organ scores...wish Jonathan would play more Grison

[@epincion]

Especially when Grison himself played on this very organ. He was a friend of a pathologist who worked across the road in the main hospital and who himself was an amateur organist of high quality and Grison used to visit Manchester.

[@bobpegritz555]

A total steal from J.S. Bach. And HE would have LOVED it.

[@fredperruzza8653]

Jonathan - I know your ability and your talent - incredible and immense!! But this is just too fast!! Especially the "A tempo ma tranquillo" section. The beautiful melody is just lost and all the notes "stick" together! Slow it down a tad Jonathan! You are still one of the best!!!!!!!

[@Prof.AlexandeMagnoRomero]

HI