Calvary Grand Organ: Fox's Bach: Come Sweet Death

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Dan Miller plays the Calvary Grand Organ, bringing to us Virgil Fox's arrangement of J.S. Bach: Come Sweet Death... His use of registration is heavenly!

The English translation of the text is as follows:
"Come, come sweet death. Come, Blessed rest!
I would now see Jesus And with the angels will I stand.
Ah, yes it is finished, I bid the world goodnight.
I close my weary eyes, Come Blessed rest!"

Thank you for listening!

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• Calvary
• Grand
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• Bach
• Come
• Sweet
• Death
• Virgil
• Fox
• Dan
• Miller
• Pipe
• Moller
• Orgel
• Orgue

[sheps999]

Incredible.

[csheff1014]

my sentiments exactly

[449GO]

just..........WOW, this organ seems to amaze me more and more, everytime i hear it...a true beauty!

[csheff1014]

thnx... a tribute goes out to Dan Miller, for getting all the milk out of this cow in this recording!

[HeadBangerHenry93]

This piece of music inspired the late Cliff Burton when writing the intro to the song Damage inc by Metallica

[csheff1014]

Really?! I didn't know that. Thanks for the info...I think that's neat!

[dustermouse]

I love the rich sound that a pipe organ has, the wanamaker organ is top line, this one rocks!

[silverstartrucker]

I have Virgil Fox playing this piece on the Wanamaker and it is my most popular video. However; I do like this very much...

[Stefanomusicista]

non riesco ad esprimere altro che lacrime, è stupendamente meravigliosa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[plummlet]

Sublime !

[mixwizard2310]

Superb organ - superb organist - lets not cast aside the sheer Genious of J.S.Bach who brought so much human emotion of those feelings from within the soul - this piece of music must have carried him to the gates of heaven where God must have rewarded him with everlasting life......a fitting tribute.

[kb7dqh]

@kb7dqh almost forgot the warning about "low bass" and being careful about playback volume!!! My home sound reproduction equipment can take it, but I don't know about the home... If ever there was "aural soul food" This is surely a feast.

[kb7dqh]

Did I read the stoplist correctly? Thought I saw something there in the Pedal department... a 64' Fagotto Cornet V perhaps? Yikes...

I knew I could hear (feel?) something in the "bottom"...

[LJBSasha]

Good for you and to some extent them (they trip up on other things, alas, and may well end up in trouble here too if they try to be more "relevant"...). I know somebody in Canada who was being pushed by his rector (a guitarist and a "progressive" Commie) to go over to rock-n-roll against his will (and being even forbidden to play Bach's music, can you imagine that?!?!)!! At the end, if the rector hadn't left instead, that organist would have had to leave post-haste...

[LJBSasha]

[Thank you so very much, Egestus18, for adding the extra German verses - YouTube can be so finicky and difficult to deal with, especially if one's trying to change an already-existing posting. Now, if you could copy the last two verses over here in English, that would be wonderful - somehow I was allowed to put verses 2 & 3 on here but not the last two...]

[LJBSasha]

2) Come, sweet death, come blessed rest! In Heaven it is better, with all happiness being far greater, therefore I at all times for the final farewell [to the world] am ready, I close my eyes. Come, blessed rest! 3) Come, sweet death, come blessed rest! O World, you torture-chamber, ah! Stay with your calamity, in this world of mourning, the Heavens [are what] please me, Death brings me there. Come, blessed rest!