The lost chord, played by Virgil Fox..

Arthur Sullivan wrote this famous piece.
Virgil Fox is playing the Aeolian Skinner organ, at the Riverside Church, New York City.

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[7jimmymac]

Fabulous arrangement and artist! Where can I get the sheet music for this arrangement by fox?

[silverstartrucker]

Well: Someone asked about sheet music for Virgil's recording on the Wanamaker organ of COME SWEET DEATH on my site. In a reply some said..." At the organ with Virgil Fox. Published by Alfred Publishing Company. ISBN O-7692-4192-1

The numbers may have been for Come Sweet Death though.

[GazTheMusicMan]

@silverstartrucker Yes, I was the person (not 'some') who replied with those details. However, this arrangement won't be found in that book.

[silverstartrucker]

@GazTheMusicMan - I am getting on a bit mate...the memory fails at times

[Fox7Fan]

I'm convinced that Virgil Fox has reincarnated as Cameron Carpenter. I heard Fox in live performance 7 times, and have now heard him 4 times live as Cameron Carpenter. Cameron continues to choose the "controversial": showman performer lifestyle as did Fox. Yet even in the approx 1-1/2 years between lifetimes Carpenter has developed his technique and abilities considerably beyond that which he exhibited to us all in the Virgil Fox lifetime.

[wheidelberg]

ABsolutely magnificient! Thanks so much for uploading this performance.

[cnmmnc8852]

@DavidSnyderLumierist That was the great quality of the design at Riverside when VF was there, the controls were made to enable the performer to do ANYTHING with ONE motion. I wish he could have had his controls with a reliable solid state combination action. But you're spot-on target about having 16', 8' and super couplers on any instrument attempting to realize it's potential.

[DavidSnyderLumierist]

Listen and learn! This is one example of why you need Sub,Unison and Super Couplers on organs. These you have it a secret of Virgil's and for free to those wise enough to figure out how!

David Snyder,,Lumierist

Creator of Heavy Organ Touring Productions

[DavidSnyderLumierist]

@Fox7Fan Should one compare,can one compare. No I doubt Virgil reincarnated as Cameron.He would not have been able to make his own performance shoes!! 

[noteworthy99]

Cameron is good, very good, but he has a long way to go yet to be great. Give him a few more years to calm down - if he stays with it - and he may go some way to be compared with Virgil.

Cameron's skill is undoubtedly fantastic but he cannot at this stage be compared with a man who demonstated his talent and communicated his love of organ music to audiences through a lifetime.

[AnOrganCornucopia]

@Fox7Fan - I'm not the biggest Fox fan but he had a lot more going for him than one-trick-pony flash git Carpenter. CC has phenomenal technique and a total absence of good taste.

[kasha1932]

A GREAT AMEN!!!!!!!! and Thank you!

[Hashpotato]

he puts a lot of emotion in this.

[bige002000]

One of the best renditions of the lost chord ever, made by the greatest organist of our time. Thank you

[wordsmith52]

Thanks. Great piece of work. I used to try to play this one on my old home organ but could never concentrate properly or get it right as I was thinking some ghostly happening might suddenly befall me. But this is a marvelous rendering alright. All the best.

[drpenning]

What distinguishes Fox? Others play; he is interpreting with feeling. Notice the phrasing, the crescendos, the lengthened measures, the pensive passages. It is, above all else, a Romantic rendition, in the sense of what Romanticism was and is in music--which would be a really long explanation. This interpretation transcends the written score.