Diane Bish - Pomp and Circumstance

[silverstartrucker]

Good Lord...Something she is not speeding through like an express train...Virgil Fox's version playing the Wanamaker organ leaves this in the shade...Diane should listen to Virgil's version then record this again...

[Jiffyacid0522]

circumstances are pointing to you sucking my dick



[rbmoser]

I can't imagine imagine what apoof111 is think in that this is Ms Bish' worst recital!

[apoof111]

I love Miss Bish, But I have to say this is the worst recital I have ever heard from a professional. Gutted!! Everything else she has played is top notch, but this really is a let down!

Sorry Miss Bish!!

[12161euclid]

goosebumps

[LoverGothicGaaraKai]

wow, she's simply a natural pro. I love it!!!!

[Vladimirorlov1989]

Is it her own arrangement of this song?

[up27a]

@Vladimirorlov1989 no, this is the original arrangement, but i would want to see her version of this...

[Vladimirorlov1989]

Is it her own arrangement of this song?

[przwll]

grr wish I paid more attention to my piano lessons -would love to play like this!

[ch604]

this is one of the few bish recordings i've heard where it speed is correct (or close to it). i feel she often plays very quickly, but this is perfectly magnificent.

[zanteson]

Go Diane!!

[DOLRED]

Gosh I could have been a contender but I quit piano lessons in 1961. Then I tried Clarinet in high school but could not play the high notes... oh well. Thanks for this wonderul music.

[DBGOGIRL]

Diane:  You are my Hero...BH Charlottesville, VA

[vicaralan]

Really gifted I could listen to Diane all day. one of my churches has Handel`s organ at Great Witley Worcestershire England

[willoooooooob9]

I too am hearing only one channel in my headphones. Not sure what the problem is but it doesn't come through both???

[The123gator]

@willoooooooob9 You might need a new sound card

[SBernardoni1991]

@willoooooooob9 same problem here

[EmeraldGoddess109]

@willoooooooob9 same problem.

[Geersification]

she is one of the FINEST

[12345677396]

E meno male che qualcuno che la trova stucchevole... ce ne vorrebbero di più di donne organiste come Diane Bish... è solamente fantastica...

[12345677396]

La classe non è acqua...veramente!!! una concertista dotata di grandissima tecnica, grande stile, grande fascino... sarebbe bello poterla scoltare dal vivo in Italia, magari in Toscana, magari nella provincia di Massa Carrara, magari a Carrara...sarebbe veramente bello... fantastica Diane...

[manuelyamaha55]

El sonido sale por un solo canal, no se puede apreciar esta hermosa obra muy bien interpretada, por favor corrijan ese defecto, o subanlo de nuevo.

[chenwenhua2269]

Any organ will always sound so nice when Diane Bish plays it the registration and artistry of this woman is awesome! I can't help but be inspired by the music. Thanks soi much for posting!

[AmandaCaines]

had never heard of this woman before - she can play, she really can....terrible frocks but fabulous fingers and I listened to her Bach D minor fugue 5 times..... not a single bum note - very impressive

[penventinue]

British patriotic song Lyrics  Solo Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned, God make thee mightier yet ! On Sov'ran[7] brows, beloved, renowned, Once more thy crown is set. Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained, Have ruled thee well and long ; By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained, Thine Empire shall be strong.

[penventinue]

Chorus - Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,

How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?

Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set;

God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet,

God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

[penventinue]

Solo

Thy fame is ancient as the days,

As Ocean large and wide :

A pride that dares, and heeds not praise,

A stern and silent pride ;

Not that false joy that dreams content

With what our sires have won ;

The blood a hero sire hath spent

Still nerves a hero son.

Chorus

[ThirtyTwoFoot]

The English are the only people that can play Elgar properly - it is in their blood. This is terrible. The timing and feel for the music is completely wrong.

[encpirateman]

Ahhhh who then is your suggestion? Just asking. Thanks.

[ThirtyTwoFoot]

Try someone like Simon Preston, John Scott , Thomas Trotter, Jane Parker Smith, Robert Quinney...there are loads.

[bryan3550]

@ThirtyTwoFoot Not much of a facile, stupid bigot are we?

[ThirtyTwoFoot]

Certainly not - how rude your use of English is! I am giving some intelligent suggestions, and if you knew anything about these players you would appreciate the suggestions. Perhaps you could better them? I think not.

[organistInTraning]

i like the beginnig!

[silverstartrucker]

Listen to Virgil Fox's version on the Wanamaker organ. I can upload it if anybody wants to hear it...

[DennyAlbert]

One of the world's greatest organ players!

[Firesorcerer1987]

Stellar performance :)

[zeneize93]

Mai vista tanta rigidità... Pessima interpretazione. Inoltre è incompleta della parte centrale

[MrPipeCat]

Great performance. Does anyone have the sheet music for this?

[0627nmp]

@MrPipeCat I am pretty sure that this is her own translation. You may want to try one of her books.

[chrisnwokc]

This recording is terrible. The left audio channel is extremely low and has a loud BUZZZZZ. And yes, I played this through headphones to double check.

[borglanparty]

Make your own

[Thepianoorganist]

well you said the recording was terrible but Diane Bish is never terrible . Correct?

[0627nmp]

@chrisnwokc You must have some stinky headphones because I am listening to it with my stereo, and it sounds fine.

[pburnxr12]

Great piece and fantastic organ, one of the best of British. Shame it lost a manual, gained an "mfi" console, and in this recording seems to have severe wind problems in places.

[sunnyblonde2118]

Was this version the same one they used to the Sesame Street Octopus film?

[dramamajor1985]

1:35 is my favorite part.

[codykillian]

This is a really nice organ piece on Pomp and Circumstance. Diane Bish is certainly a talented organist and has worked hard.

[codykillian]

This is a very nice organ piece. You are definetly a talented organist. It is definetly obvious that you have studied hard.

[RichardPowell500]

She doesn't understand this piece. The recording by the man at Washington Cathedral is much better

[praisethelord333]

littel bit to slow at beginning but well done!

[ve2so]

She's very good!

[lorbo77]

damn cutted version

[bryan3550]

Certainly a different interpretation of Land of Soap and Borax...

Go Diane - they deserve it!!!

[joyfulyes]

Land of Soap and Borax?

[bryan3550]

Yes, that was the beginning of some rather scurrilous lyrics to "Land of Hope and Glory." I wish I knew the rest... Elgar was appalled at the chauvinist lyrics that someone else wrote.

The final refrain of "Rule Britannia", can otherwise be sung "Five Chinese crackers (fireworks) up your bum (ass) go bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!"

I have no idea where that came from, but it is popular here in Australia. Sadly, the Poms (Brits) tend to take themselves far too seriously...

[ThirtyTwoFoot]

That is just what I would expect from an Australian....no taste

[ihadaralf]

I love to hear American organists playing British music. It always sounds as if they're constipated, forcing the music out in a regimented, march like "yes Sir, No Sir" manner.

To be fair, Diana Bish is very good at what she does but then again...

[enchammade16]

well, Most British music is constipated, I mean it is a march themed song, it's Pomp and Circumstance. It just matches your constipated Queen. So no need to make fun of American organists.

[OrganistGreg]

This is a horrible rendition of this piece.

I am a great fan of Diane Bish, but this interpretation especially at the beginning stutters and lacks the energy and drive it should have.

[ThirtyTwoFoot]

Quite agree

[joyfulyes]

Love organ music, love this piece, love Bish -- but can't help singing along the ridiculous goofy words my friends mande up to this tune in high school!

[LooMinn]

Joyfulyes- very curious to learn the goofy lyrics that your friend wrote to this Elgar composition. Can you share them?

[joyfulyes]

OK! Enjoy -- but they do make for an annoying "brain hamster'"!

(the below was in honor of the school band's unofficial mascot, a stuffed reindeer)

My reindeer flies sideways

My reindeer flies upside-down.

My reindeer likes pizza

My reindeer's a clown!

(repeat ad nauseam)

[LooMinn]

Thank you Joyfulyes! Now I have these comedy lyrics repeating ad nauseam in my head as I listen to this Elgar masterpiece.

thanks for sharing

[joyfulyes]

Heh, tried to warn you... ;->

If you want more humor, find the guy who plays Bohemian Rhapsody in hand farts. They call him a "manualist".

[bryan3550]

Huh?

Second line doesn't fit very well!

[joyfulyes]

I thought it was pretty good for high school. Enough that after 24 years it is still with me.

[codykillian]

Very Good. I have never heard this.

[MariannNicole]

That was played at my graduation from high school. I thought it was in G though.

[vinniecaruso]

this actually isnt the entire song. there is a portion of the song where this same theme is played earlier in which it is in fact in g major it switches to d major about half way through the song. i guess she only opted to play the middle and end

[1401JSC]

This is not a song unless you sing!

[mccainorobama]

I love this song. It was played at my Eighth Grade Graduation on the organ. I think the one at my graduation was some strange electric organ, but it still sounded nice. I like the way Diane Bish plays it. Very happy and joyful.

[brandon10175]

for one she doesent...... for two your just jealous...

[Knappa22]

for one I believe she does.... for two it is perfectly acceptable to offer up criticism without being jealous.

If you believe that all artistic criticism is driven by jealousy you're an idiot.

[MadCoSnareLine]

@Knappa22 It's about time someone said this.

[dieselheart001]

I'm just happy to hear her play. It lifts me up out of my little world into a much bigger, brighter one. Leaden and uninteresting? No.

Not for me.

DieselHeart001

[Nosteratees]

Leaden and uninteresting.

[64ftContraBombarde]

lol, the definition of Diane Bish!

[caddyorganist]

You've got to be joking?!?! This is exciting and full of power!

[ARFRC1]

On behalf of the American Guild of Organists, Thank you for this great post.

To our First Lady of the Organ, Keep up the good work, you are an inspiration to US younger generation of Organists.

That includes myself, 29 yrs old.

[ARFRC1]

Class of 1998 of Kearns, Utah and Class of 2001 of Anaconda, MT

[OMGvp]

CLASS OF 2010!!!

[metagicmos]

I love Diane Bish's music but I don't like her keyboard technique. She is using what appears to be more of what a pianist would do: fiddle away with the keys rather than making everything connected and smooth.

It's a beautiful song, but I almost poked out my eye watching her "Carillon De Westminster" video.

[MANTLEBERG]

As an Englishman, i belive this is the correct phrasing, and mix for this peice, ive played this on some right bonfire wood in the past, but this always sounds good, she is one of the genius players that always brings joy, and light, into the heart of any listners

[bobsamuals789]

I'll admit that it may not be quite like the orignal Willis organ but the solo was taken out because it was overcrowded in the Triforium and therefore not projecting into the nave (which is why they are planning to do more work soon)and only four stops were lost. However,we are left with a largely unchanged great and swell with a very nice sound and an effective choir with a very nice cremona stop.

[bobsamuals789]

The sound of the Mander-Willis organ is no worse then many other cathedral organs, this recording doesn't do it justice.

[MEPPO06]

Do you really think not? I'm a great admirer of Father Willis (and used to play an unaltered instrument of 1896 on London). But apart from being stuffed up in the trioforium, the Canterbury Willis has lost two of its four original manuals (the whole of the Solo apart from the Tuba), and the whole Choir replaced with a neo-baroque Positive. The Pedal organ has been altered, and bright neo-Baroque mixtures. It is a pale shadow of what was by repute never one of Willis's best cathedral organs.

[34045]

Hear hear to both comments

[1401JSC]

Just because there's a new positive doesn't mean that you have to use it for baroque effects!

I remeber Conrad Eden at Durham being rather disappointed in discovering that the Quintatön 8' (a stop on the newly added positive division) produced the same effect as the old choir viola da gamba 8 + flauto traverso 4 + Nasard!

4 manuals? When do you ever play on all four at once?

[MEPPO06]

Rather stodgy and unrhymthmic, and the unadmired Mander-Willis at Canterbury does it no favours either.

[rgdorg]

Love your version of Stomp and Circumstance

[legamature]

Too thick. Melody should be played with a solo stop. Softer acc.

[metagicmos]

I would have preferred slightly less ups and down's on the hands. She was making things sound very ,... more jumpy and not as smooth as she could have been in her fingering.

[ihadaralf]

It is quite a bizarre performance! Somehow you can tell it's an American playing without looking at it and what's with the pause before the coda?

[klodg]

Très difficile pour un organiste de s'exécuter entre 1:16 à 1:36 sur cette pièce d'Elgar. Vous la faite bien..

[oakberry61woohalol]

god bless Britain.

[cnmmnc8852]

Not for nothing but Diane did study with Virgil, you know. She's a very solid performer and tremendous personal faith in God and while I might not do it 'her way' I applaud her nevertheless.

[silverstartrucker]

Virgil Fox plays this piece much better but Diane Bish is a great Organist.

[Chesterbarnes1]

Miss Bish needs no praise from me, she is a pro. I could listen to this great woman 24/7 and enjoy her playing. I wish Bach could have witness her and Fox, playing. I would love to hear what he would have said about them. Thanks Diane Bish.

[daltonwalters]

I wish she could have played at my graduation! :D

[helloitsmelol097]

@daltonwalters no kidding :) she's amazing I got to play a 3600 pipe organ for my graduation and it was amazing but I only played organ about 5 times before i played for it... I only did a simple version but it was so soft compared to how powerful the organ could be.... Now I play the organ every couple of weeks and love it. I play after the church is locked and have even had people humming along to my music :)

[AARONFOLWELL]

Iv played this organ a few times very nice organ and who then to pick diane bish to play the organ very very good woman organist then next Virgin Fox

[nistorgxx]

Not quite sure that I like some of the staccato phrasing in the middle section, but really exciting playing. More please, Diane.

[KE5RHD]

The late Virgil Fox said on a video while sitting at the Wannamaker that when mind merges with keyboard you have perfection.

[pipeorganist]

this is beutiful, my fovorite orgainst. I hope there will be more videos on here soon !

[mattbod]

Just down the road from me. Not the biggest Cathedral organ in the U.K but most of the pipework is Willis. Great stuff and the woman here (who I can't say that I've heard of) plays this well.

[mattbod]

Well Diane maybe I should have heard of you sorry! Checked out your website and some of your other performances! Loved them and excuse a parochial Brit his ignorance. I thought Manders would ruin the organ when they reduced it to a three but there was so much clutter up in the triforium with the old four that the sound didn't project. It looks like the Cathedral are planning another substansial rebuild when they have got the cash as well.

[farmervern]

Awesome!! can't wait to see you in concert in April in Michigan USA!!!

[kgs202]

Very spiritually inspiring video....regal and full sound, superb playing...representative of the career and life of Diane Bish...she is an excellent role model for any musician.

[vinniecaruso]

great video. diane has to be the best organist alive right now and one of the best ever