Mussorgsky/Guillou - Pictures of an Exhibition

[lambda100]

Poor audio

[bengtedqvist]

Sounds like the traffic at Washington bridge, New York.

[HERIBERTO37ify]

Genial video  amigo

[herbyverstink]

wow!!!I have this on cd..its turned me into a huge fan of the pipe organ

[pcma1970]

wonderful !!!

[japansekip]

Waar stond de opname microfoon??. soms te snel gespeeld, laat het orgel zijn tempo bepalen.Komt het stuk te goed.

het stuk heet trouwens The great Gate of KIEV.

[thakkaart]

Dit is een onderdeel van Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, genaamd "The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga)".

Stuk is inderdaad te snel gespeeld helaas maar klinkt wel indrukwekkend op de orgel!

[tenor175]

WHOA BIG FELLA!! This was Waaaayyyy too fast.....but it was good.........I've never heard this piece on the organ before.....

BRAVO!!!!!

[MrDomi77]

Affligeant les commentaires....

[ianshann]

yea this is cool but he needs to learn to play more slowly

[menschmaschine5]

Nice technique. Unfortunately he doesn't think much about musicality or have much of an ear for the acoustic. I can hardly make out what he's playing in the faster sections.

[willowthebored]

I don't know the instrument, but judging by the five manuals and numerous visible stops I'd say this man needs to learn a little bit about variety...it's all one volume, one tempo, little to no variation, and when there is it's all in the wrong direction. It plays like a machine, and while that's not a bad thing if you're on a fugue, Pictures at an Exhibition is most definitely not. This piece requires expression. The organist has none. Good technical performance, poor performance overall.

[lennycaprino2]

I agree even Keith Emerson's version ELP had much more life and excitement!!

[cliveso]

One volume???

[orgatrain]

You make no sense, why dont you go back and look up your history books and see when Mozart, Bach, and the like of Massourgsky wrote their works, they are not forgotton! Better finish school.......

[LJBSasha]

You misunderstood me! What I was saying is that it's those composers and performers (e.g., Schnabel, Caruso, Germani) whose reputations persist longer than 50 years (often even 30 years is sufficient to suspect what's going to happen) that are the ones who get recognised as truly great! This test has been more than successfully met by the likes of Mozart, Bach and Musórgskiy but NOT by people like Graupner, Stamitz, Dittersdorf, Litolf, Joseph Franck (César's brother), etc.

[orgatrain]

Blah Blah Blah ALL you BITCHES do and CRY about how bad everyone else is,

Where's your national recording contracts? CDs? Compositions? Shut Up or Put Up.

[LJBSasha]

So what??? Wait 50 years and the overwhelming majority of those contracts, CDs and compositions will be FORGOTTEN!!!! THAT IS WHEN we'll see if real greatness has been reached or if it all has been fluff!!

Again, one can make all the CDs and write all the compositions one wants; however, they'll all be usually forgotten in less than 30 years at best...

[willowthebored]

You, sir, are a moron.

[LJBSasha]

Excuse me, sir: I don't know who is being so insulted here! [YouTube would make it out to be me, but I need to be sure before writing a reply hitting out at who may be the wrong person...]

[willowthebored]

I'm afraid that would be YouTube waffling the post, as it so commonly does. I was pointing that at Orgatrain's comment of two months ago...tasteless idiot.

[MEPPO06]

Why do all Guillou's pupils play like clones of Guillou?

[biblosz]

Why do all Latry's pupil play like clones of Latry...?

[cliveso]

Admirers of Guillou come to Guillou to learn how to play like Guillou. Could this be more natural?

[chwidder]

Not all Guillou pupils are Guillou clones! A brilliant counter-example would be Youtube user sebastianKB: watch his videos to find out.

Usually, the good pupils of a master end up finding their own way (as Guillou himself had done, given that he was a pupil of Marcel Dupré), and it's only the lesser ones who go on playing like a xerox copy of their master's style.

[LJBSasha]

All the organist's technical brilliance can't overcome his lack of soul (too metronomical) - & ignoring church-reverberance makes matters worse! Also, this is a poor arrangement (too many notes for sheer effect take away from the substance of piano-original, aggravated by registrations that call attention to themselves at piece's expense!). Also, having only 1 expressive division on 5-MANUAL is an absolute CRIME which helps hurt this piece even more via lack of more dynamics!!!!

In sum: F-

[LJBSasha]

Should have also said that too much of it is LOUD, LOUD, LOUD - that's what I also meant about this piece lacking in terms of dynamics as done both in the piano original and in the Ravel orchestration! More variation (registration-colours must also respect the dynamics called for by the composer!) in that regard would have gone a long way to making this performance more attractive if not downright better! [That's where one needs 2 or 3 substantial expressive divisions on an organ this big!!]

[nastirh6684]

it's still not metronomical enough...what he plays is not rubato

[etbuk]

What is the stop played at 2:08? Very beautiful execution!!!

[cliveso]

Think is the Ranquette 16

[etbuk]

it like a regal!

[sistermitzi]

woohoo! star confetti

[shotti15]

Which movement does he begin with? The Catacombs?

[etbuk]

"Hunt on follow's legs" or "Baba Yaga"

[LJBSasha]

"The Hut of Bába Jagá", which indeed rests on the legs of fowl.

[skyler6290]

I've always wanted to hear Pictures at an Exhibition on an organ that fully carried the power and verve that we know in the symphonic version - - I have now!!

[cliveso]

Cavaille-Coll had a tendency not to use wood very much - the common exceptions are the Soubasse and some Bourdon. The Plein-Jeu, in particular, usually has a high tin content, which makes it a lot harder then lead.

[punkd22]

that's so beautiful

[cliveso]

It is not Cavaille Coll. It never was.

[koschinski2]

You're right. It isn't Cavaille-Coll. The organ was newly rebuild in an old case by van den Heuvel, they are Dutch organbuilders.

[LJBSasha]

Still, Van den Heuvel very much bases his organbuilding æsthetic on that of Cavaillé-Coll, whom he unashamedly admires!  He can be seen as a worthy successor (not a mere imitator); and this organ is very much built à la Cavaillé-Coll (as is most of this firm's oeuvre...).

[Capt737AA]

So..... What organ and cathedral is this at?? Wonderful acoustics ( I LOVE reverb!!)

[suduiraut64]

It's Saint Eustache in Paris.

An Van den Heuvel/Cavaillé Coll organ.

[EccentricRichard]

Not a cathedral, merely a vast parish church...

[camplant]

Une interprétation brillantissime dans la droite ligne du Maître Jean Guillou, avec une grande métrise, la nouvelle génération est là !!!

[Karlfalcon]

I'm not so sure I agree with his choice of stops for the chorales in the Gates movement. That and I agree his glissandos and ornaments are a bit fast for the space. The arrangement is suited to a much drier room. Otherwise, very nice.

[Karlfalcon]

Also, I'm really missing Ravel's chimes at the end of the piece.

[suduiraut64]

I agree with you...

I think Gillou has destroyed this wonderfull organ.... he sound is so...metallic.

Where is Van den Heuvel's aim?

[ProgwereldTV]

Have you been to the church and have you listened to it or is this comment based on just listening to this clip? Of that is the case then may I remind you that this file is probably highly compressed and that this might have caused this metallic sound.

[suduiraut64]

No no, I've listened Jean Guillou in this church and the sound is metallic! Too metallic

[EccentricRichard]

It's a brand new organ... and the previous instrument had been so heavily rebuilt that it was an unreliable horror... and as for the metallic sound, it's all a matter of how you register it...

[kempedkemp]

The organist, composer, arranger and instrument are all brilliant. Walhain is brilliant!

[hughesmr]

Why, after all that expense, two consoles, one electric action and one mechanical, 100+ stops, does this thing have a plastic music rack?

[GJ1986]

That, my friend, is glass! :]

[EccentricRichard]

Still... would have been nice to have proper wood... ah well, I suppose it goes with the 'you can see over the top' mentality that made C-C design such consoles in the first place...

[simonsteam]

I think this organist should be applauded much more hes deffo up there with the french organists best.would love it if he came to our local cathedral to give a recital

[casavantlover]

Interesting 16' Ranquette on the Solo division.

[secretarytocapt3]

Applauds for Etienne Walhain! 5/5 stars!

[sebastianKB]

Ah, Etienne - schön gespielt! Freut mich, dich auch hier zu sehen. Wie geht es dir? Zur Erinnerung: wir haben uns bei den Zürcher Meisterkursen mit Guillou kennen gelernt.

Viele Grüße nach Tournai,

Sebastian

[octave4]

Here is another of the true professionals. No music. He plays from the heart not notes on paper. I think a little fast for the acoustics but it is a smash hit regardless. Well done. ANd let us that A. C-C for the organ to play it on. This has guts not like a N. German baroque.

[keanur1]

Il est évident que ce brillant virtuose est rompu aux exercices de pédale de Dupré qu'il dépasse sans doute par la précision et le relief du jeu. Son niveau technique est exceptionnel! Quant à l'orgue Van Heuvel de St-Eustache il est rutilant mais manque un peu de la chaleur des grands Cavaillé-Coll.

[LJBSasha]

C'est PAS suffisante d'avoir un niveau technique exceptionel si on n'a rien d'autre!!!

[2468HOTROD]

Come on everybody and give this organist a 5 star rating. He's incredible, so focused and relaxed. Thank you for these videos.

[2468HOTROD]

Awesome sound and what a fine organist. I just stumbled across this video and it made my day. Thank you!

[wimvdb]

How is it possible to play this truly extreme difficult Guillou transcription of this Mussorgsky piece? Magnificent, you're a wonderful organist, impressing, very impressing