Virgil Fox Legacy | Symphonie Concertante | Toccata

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Fourth Movement: Toccata
The finale (Toccata [Moto perpetuo]: Allegro moderato) is a brilliant showpiece for both orchestra and organ, with unceasing right-hand figuration in the organ carrying the movement through a series of ever more intense climaxes. This perpetual motion stops only at the very end, in a forceful coda.

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[julorg]

On September the 27th, Peter Richard Conte and The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform the Jongen Symphonie Concertante at Macy's, on the Wamanaker Organ !

[Operaman41]

This would be a perfect piece for Easter Morning as the prelude.

It has a rising theme and it also has the since of Death,Hell,Sadness being over taken by triumph!!

It would be such an improvement of what is being played in todays church with all that contemporary crap!!

Since everyone wants to clap in church let them have something to really clap about!

[DainGerrUsss]

Probably THE best Romantic period composition for organ and orchestra. Vierne and Widor wrote some good things, bu this Toccata, especially when played by SUCH a master as Dr. Fox, gives me chills every time.I hear it, Good orchestra, but I would prefer o hear it live. The organ sound is disappointing, but then again, maybe hearing it live would help.

[organgoesheavy]

@carterdriggs I really agree! My musical credo is " If You will come across, I´ll come across!"

[gsmonks]

Virgil Fox was a great reminder of LIVING classical music, and drew a generation of young people into the genre through the force of sheer personality PLUS love and true understanding of the art, at a time when classical music was being dragged down by stuffy, mind-numbing fuddy-duddies. If classical music is still around, he's part of the reason why.

[thomasmoredamian]

The one and only...

[clydesight]

Wow, I love it! It's great to see the full orchestra and watch Fox, a true master of the organ! Thanks!

[jumbobobcleo]

@Offshoreorganbuilder who said that. ??? he was exceedingly eccentric. and a

great teacher at the museum in cleveland. the little elf was the most exciting

thing you ever wanted to run away from. performance artist. but he was

a musician of magical proportion. and got away with murder because of it. he

kept the king of instruments from dying.

and excited the young to get involved in it. well, young eccentrics anyway.

[jumbobobcleo]

holy crap.  that is awsome.

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

This is surely the answer to those gripes who say that Virgil Fox was not a true musician, and had no taste. (How DID he remember it all?!)

[Danzig987]

@derCarilloneur See my response above.