VIRGIL FOX Piece Heroique (Cesar Franck)

VIRGIL FOX Piece Heroique (Cesar Franck). "Heavy Organ" (as defined by Virgil Fox) -
The reasons why Virgil Fox
turned the organ music inside out in the USA.

How does this add up? The organ music
on this compact disk is ahead of its time by
years,yet it is a recording which may well
be called historical. A name explains the
seemingly incompatible difference: Virgil Fox.

Fox was born in 1912 and died on
October 25, 1980, after having suffered
from cancer for many years. In his time
Fox belonged to the pioneers and innovators
among the classical musicians in the
USA. It was not only in his interpretations
of organ literature, explored throughout
centuries of performing pratice, that Fox
liked to do new things, for he also was very
open-minded in all respects of technical
development. Virgil Fox turned the organ
music inside out in the USA.

This did not always bring him praise and
recognition. He violated many a rule of
the music world and so it happened that
he sometimes had too oppose the prejudice
that he was, above all, a man of the show
business who for the sake of brilliant
effects would falsify sublime cultural
possessions.

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[kempedkemp]

I heard Mr. Fox play this at the dedication of a 54 rank Wicks at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester NY in 1965. It is much better on a pipe organ.