Carlo Curley at Chester Cathedral, England, Part 1/5

joeyboi87 Chichester organ comment is rubbish. The current organist was at Newcastle cathedral and will be playing at least as loud, when neccesary. He wouldnt have gone there if the organ had been faulty as you suggest

im sorry but i thought this performance was terrible............ very virgil fox if i may say ....

ummm...ok.

I agree, too flashy and fast, I actually heard that Carlo Curley has been banned from playing the organ at Chichester because he was using registrations that were far too heavy and caused damage to the organ!..pretty awful for an organist who is considered to be of concert level

I asked CC once why he wore only. socks. His reply (per e-mail) was that while travelling to a concert once, he forgot to pack his organ shoes and did not have time to buy a new pair at the location of the concert. he plays equally well with or without shoes, according to him

When in college a friend joked that the words to the fugue subject were "Marcel Dupre Marcel Dupre, the thing is hard as hell to play." LOL. Never tackled this! And benz303b, you're right, no one ever accused C Curley of being the picture of quietude at the console.

I had something similar to that, but it was "Marcel Dupré, Marcel Dupré, How do you play, how do you play" etc. lol

Perhaps Dupre was such a still perfomer that he couldn't be bothered to turn in his grave.  An interesting anecdote,but i hope you don't mean to infer that the perfomer must play as the composer !!

Hearing this clip made me want to track down the music by Dupre, it is fantastic peice and the perfomance was amazing to. Thank you for to whomever for posting.

Shame upon me, i didnt knew this piece of my landfellow till today. Heard it for the 10th time in little more than 1h. Thanks to u Mr Curley!

I too was a chorister at Chester and I played the organ on many occasions - the organ is not standard there is no such thing as a standard organ- the context is that it is the best organ for Chester. Any organ built has to be build according to the space of the building the acoustics etc Chester has the longest running weekly recital series in the world: David Sanger, Dupre and Ian Tracey to name a few have played here - I dont think these people would come to play a crap organ!