Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

Messiaen L'Ascension on Metropolitan Cathedral Organ

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
6,981
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Dec 9, 2008

James playing Messiaen L'Ascension on the Metropolitan Cathedral organ. Unfortunately we had to chop 3 minutes off the recording due to uploading restrictions.
It is the centenary of the birth of the great composer Olivier Messiaen on 10th December 2008

Category:

Music

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 2 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Top Comments

  • What an accomplished young player!

  • Its nice you have a decent organ on which to practice and perform. My own church I grew up in had a nice 30 rank pipe organ. Then when I was in my teens they voted to rip it out and put in an Allen digital. I'm still sad about it.

see all

All Comments (8)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • I discovered Olivier Messiaen's work when I was about 12 or 13, and of all 2-th century composers, I'd have to say Messaiaen is the one I love above all others. I do not know why, but he seems to have something to say where others are just writing notes to fill time. Even that is an odd comment since one of the things he was interested in was harmonic rhythm, very slow harmonic rhythm. I don't play the organ, but the piano. There is a wealth of piano music by this composer. Light be with you!

  • Excellent!

  • he's got the registration just perfect too, the organ in the met is not the easiest to play because of its size!

  • which metropolitan cathrdfrsal was/is this?

  • your a pretty amazing young kid, to see guys of your age playing this well is fantastic! welldone!

  • Thank you. That was a beautiful performance.

Loading...

0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more