Virgil Fox Legacy | Bach | Fugue in G minor

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[tactilex]

about the mistakes--I blame it on the console. What a horror! For a modern console it looks absolutely unuseable. The stop buttons are almost all at full arm's reach, and the 4th manual makes him stretch. The 5th appears unusable. Looks like they took measurements at St. Suplice and then added an inch to everything. At least at St. Suplice they recognized the problem and asked C-Coll to move the Recit to man 4 from man 5.

And, remember he was a visiting performer.

[BillyRosinet]

Oh yes...that final G-major chord is as close as one can come to experiencing a musical orgasm. It's wonderful that Fox's legacy lives on in the world of cyberspace. Timeless music performed by a legendary musician.

[rasalas2x]

@SuperOldandSlow Everything you said and more...his entire repertoire was committed to memory. The connection to his music may have only been superseded by the composers themselves.

[dianemeredithbelcher]

I will always be deeply grateful to this amazing musician -- his performance of this piece is, in fact, what motivated me to learn it myself early in my studies, and spurred me on to become the finest organist possible. RIP, dear Virgil.

[2video]

@paulbinko

Yes, the organ is at NHK Hall Tokyo and can be seen (at least in Japanese language) with a Google search for NHK Concert Hall Tokyo.

[SuperOldandSlow]

I was paging through some of the comments posted by others criticizing a few mistakes that crept into the performance. My first thought was, "Picky, picky." Then I became a bit angry. The date when this performance was recorded isn't noted, but I can tell from Fox's appearance that it was while he was losing ground to prostate cancer. Given that, his performance was all the more remarkable. Lesser organists would have called it a day. Fox chose to keep going despite his situation.

[BillyRosinet]

To all you nitwits who are critical of Fox's performance, put your money where your mouths are. Let's see you manage to get one note of music out of that instrument -- and do it while you are dying from cancer. If you can do that I'll accord you some room to comment.

[ecopower78]

Virgil Fox was Der Meister the greatest Organist of the 20th century period!!!!

[paulbinko]

@2video Does this organ still exist, do you know?

[jgraif]

i feel as if i am reading comments about a mario lanza video. how dare anyone criticize the SINGULAR talent of this man. i am an organist. i am FED UP with the sarcastic, catty remarks of those who think they know better. i coubt that any of them could play at this level while wearing diapers, which is what the poor man did toward the end. listen to his early recordings. there are no mistakes. i witnessed carpenter getting LOST in the d major fugue over ten years ago. oops!!!