Mormon Tabernacle Pipe Organ: Saint-Saëns Prelude

[peteacher52]

Tempo doesn't matter as long as the performance sounds complete and convincing. This rendition had ticks in all the 'Good' boxes.

[v1x4g2]

Beautiful!

[OrganNLou]

Wonderful organ just wish their religious beliefs weren't so strange.

[JackBlair2]

@OrganNLou SHADDAP

[organistable]

I love this piece and it could not be played by a better performer or a better organ. Thank you!!

[romandhug]

first I thought "dear! that's much too fast", but on second thoughts I revised my judgement, quite interesting actually...

[giovdan]

mmmmm, I prefer Labric interpretatio for this piece but this is another approach interesting.

I think this tempo is a bit to fast, compared to composer indications "Doux et calme, sans lenteur".

Ok, sans lenteur but not a "toccata"!!! ;-)

[FeikeAsmaFan]

Oh yeah, I like that organ!!

[dustystix76]

i've seen that monster organ....a LONG time ago, but to date the biggest i've ever seen

[BolswardHinsz]

much to fast! bad!

[chuchotarantino]

hahaha the inevitable person coughing, that's true, too bad it always happens

[AdmRomulus]

@chuchotarantino I know! I hate it when they do that during performances. Coughing is such a distraction, both to the performer and the audience.

[SacredComposer]

Excellent rendition! I have a question for anyone out there. I have been trying to locate an album that I had came across at the Brooklyn public library many years ago. Unfortunately I do not name of it but it had beautiful recordings of brass & organ music mostly American patriotic type pieces but there one by either Shubert or Schumann that I really loved. If you any information or can refer me to a site please do! Thanks.

[a55b47]

The album that immediately springs to mind would be E Power Biggs' "Heroic Music for Organ, Brass & Percussion" on Columbia Masterworks (1962). I don't think it ever made it to CD, & I also don't recall any Schubert or Schumann. Columbia & Biggs produced another organ/brass album a few years later that had Gigout & Karg-Elert & Dupré -- but, again, nothing by the 2 Schus.

[SacredComposer]

Thanks for the help.

[josephR1938]

@SacredComposer

I just today received the music for this piece from Dale Music in Washington. Oy! It's a lot more difficult than what it seems. Thomas Murray is so great with this as he is with anything he plays. I had the privilege of a private concert by him a few years past on a new Schoenstein organ in Madison Wisconsin.

[codeman2008]

Fabulous organ! And a much different approach to the piece as compared to the version at Saint Ouen! Both interperations are gorgeous!

[jdcrash7]

A spectacular concert organist plays a spectacular concert organ!