SCHEHERAZADE IV - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - ORGAN SOLO - JONATHAN SCOTT
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- Scheherazade Op. 35 by Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Jonathan Scott
IV. Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman
Arranged and performed by Jonathan Scott at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester UK.
Jonathan Scott is Associate Artist of The Bridgewater Hall and gives a series of solo organ recitals each season.
This performance was filmed live at Jonathan's lunchtime concert on Wednesday 5th September 2018.
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Film & Sound by Tom Scott
The Organ of The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Marcussen & Søn 1996
SPECIFICATION
I POSITIV
Quintatön 16
Prestant 8
Gedackt 8
Principal 4
Blockflöte 4
Nasat 2 2/3
Octave 2
Waldflöte 2
Terz 1 3/5
Quint 1 1/3
Scharf IV-V
Tremulant
II GREAT
Principal 16
Octave 8 I-III
Gr. Flûte 8
Gambe 8
Rohrgedackt 8
Octave 4 I-IV
Spitzflöte 4
Quint 2 2/3
Octave 2 I-III
Cornet V
Mixtur VI-VII
Scharf III-IV
Trompete 16
Trompete 8
Trompete 4
III SWELL [Enclosed]
Bourdon 16
Flûte harmonique 8
Diapason 8
Viola da gamba 8
Voix celeste 8
Flûte à cheminée 8
Prestant 4
Flûte octaviante 4
Nazard 2 2/3
Octavin 2
Tierce 1 3/5
Piccolo 1
Plein jeu V-VII
Basson 16
Trompete 8
Hautbois 8
Voix humaine 8
Clairon 4
Tremulant
IV SOLO
[Enclosed]
Flûte traversière 8
Gedackt 8
Fugara 8
Unda maris 8
Salicet 4
Rohrflöte 4
Flöte 2
Clarinette 8
[Unenclosed]
Bourdon 16
Gr. Tierce 3 1/5
Cornet V
[En Chamade]
Trompete 16
Trompete 8 I
Trompete 8 II
Trompete 4
Tremulant
PEDAL
Principal 32
Untersatz 32
Flûte 16
Octave 16
Sub-bass 16
Octave 8
Flûte 8
Gedackt 8
Choralbass 4
Flûte 4
Mixtur VII
Bombarde 32
Posaune 16
Fagott 16
Trompete 8
Schalmey 4
Each time I listen to something recorded by Mr. Scott on this organ, I am astonished at the versatility of this instrument. It is a large organ to be sure, but the range not only of volume but of sounds that he gets out of its ca. 75 stops makes me think it should be an organ of over 100 stops. Kudos both to Mr. Scott on masterful registration and playing, and to the Marcussen & Son firm for an astonishing instrument! May you bring us many more delights from its console! I can only hope that the people of Manchester and England realize what a treasure they have here.
What a brilliant musician ❤
Who needs an orchestra when Jonathan is at the organ bench!!!!!Bravo, Jonathan.(and Tom)
Rimsky Korsakoff was known as a magisterial orchestral arranger, I have recordings of almost all his orchestral music, which never palls. Jonathon Scott paints his musical palette with the same mastery. Amazing.
I can't stop playing this piece and have already commented on here. Just magnificent in every respect and my favourite piece to date by him. How he turns that organ into an orchestra is incredible. He really knows how to get the best from it. I prefer this arrangement above the orchestral piece if I'm honest. And as to the pedal workboat, that is something else. Bravo maestro par excellence.
..."I prefer this arrangement above the orchestral piece"... I was thinking the same, Helen. His arrangements are delightful.
Absolutely mesmerizing performance. A wonderful rendition of an old orchestral piece we've all heard hundreds of times. Bravo!!!
So beautiful! I love this music! Thanks for everything!
Jonathan breathed new life into a cherished Old Chestnut. As usual, totally awesome!!! Bravo!!!
I cannot believe my eyes or ears. Just fantastic. Thank you Jonny.
Neither can I. Unbelievable. Incredible. How I wish I could have been there live to hear that.
Jonathan Scott took a complex orchestration and arranged it in such a way that it sounds as if he were preforming the entire orchestra! Watching him use the pedals for the timpani rolls was amazing!
What a tour de force! Glissandi on the foot pedals-I’m sure it’s been done before, but I’ve never seen it done. Playing multiple voices with four extremities, multiple manuals, stops, technical performance, and musicality-I’m a physician and a pianist, and it’s all rather mindblowing that one human being can do all that for such a sustained period when you think about,
It has been done before by other notable public performers. But Jonathan is one of the rare and wonderful performers who are in that exclusive club - and well deserved membership it is. An amazing performer, far exceeding most of the other organists of this day. Take a look at Pierre-Francois, Dub Attendi for St. Sulpice. A student of Roth.
Magnificent!
This was the first contest piece I played at 14 in a local Brass Band, (NWABBA) we listened as the conductor Bob Kerwick, read the story of the ships on the Persian sea, calm waters and then rippling waves and finally being hurled against the rocks, through your playing I could hear the different sections, the tutti cornets, horns, euphonium & baritons, trombones and basses, and finally the Soprano singing out on high !! Magnificent - and big Thanks to Tom for recording this for posterity !!
Don't know how many times I've listened and watched this video and I'm always amazed at Jonathan's feat of dexterity!
Each time a renewed experiene.
Thank you Tom for your brilliant filming.
Thk you both!
By now 4 m should have listened to this performance, not 40.000.
Magnifico! Esprime gioia pura...Grazie.
Wow! Probably the best organ transcription I've ever heard.
Jonathan, deine wunderbare Musik bedeutet für manche Orgel „ neue Lungenflügel“!
Let the music speak for itself ! Amazing!
I am not finished yet to listen, but I have gosebumps.
This piece transport you in an other planet. Wonderful transposition!
I have watched all your videos. I have never heard a mistake. Amazing and thanks.
You are so talented. Wish you would come to Salt Lake City and play the organs on Temple Square!
With your sensitivity, you succeed in distilling and translating for organ the essence of every single piece of which you create the arrangement
That's magnificent!
Con la sua straordinaria sensibilità lei riesce ad estrarre e tradurre per organo l''essenza di ogni scrittura per la quale crea l'arrangiamento.
Questo è incredibile!
Beautifully voiced and played. I wonder where this arrangement was when I was a young organist in my prime.
Absolutely brilliant!
There is only one thing that would make this even more impressive - tremulant on the last section of the sustained note. All renditions of this piece in the orchestral setting use vibrato on the solo violin. That note just floats on top of the other soft chords. Without vibrato it sort of falls back into obscurity. But this is just one more piece and yet another transcription by Jonathan that demonstrate the power, dynamics and versatility of a pipe organ. Well done, Jonathan and thank you for your amazing performance.
Another brilliant performance from Jonathon, I never thought that this work would transcribe so well for organ.
How I wish I could be in that hall when Mr. Scott is playing this. Or anything. Two speakers on the computer are not enough to capture all of the nuances of the acoustics.
Jonathan's arrangements are so masterly well conceived that every piece transposed to the organ sounds as if they had been expresively composed for the instrument.
He is no less a talent for sound hue conception than Rimsky-Korsakov himself was in the field of orchestration.
Totally in agreement!!!!!!!!
Organ transcription of the orchestral work, can not replace the original orchestration ( The schherezade in particular), made by the composer. Jonathan, as usual, created a unique variation, that shouldn’t be compared to the original work.
I can die a happy man now. Scheherazade now lives through you...
Brian Laywood What else can one say about this man? Bravo Jonathon! Filming superb as usual, Excellent Tom.
Super excellent with very good interesting video
Amazing! Thank you...
Simply Breathtakingly Brilliant!
As always, PERFECTION, Jonathan!
Bravo! 👏👍
Nicely done
Wonderful, thank you!!
Amazing!
Marvelous. Thanks . Scherazarde to play!
Beautiful. Thanks Jonathan and Tom.
Well done Jon! Amazing!
A wonderful arrangement and set of registration. The video editing enhancing the subtlety and drama of the piece. Excellent
He did well considering the stark tonal architecture of the organ. It is well suited to the baroque style but not much else. There re few stops on this organ suited for solo work, no reeds on Manual I and only one Celeste. But it is full of Mixtures and even multiple ranks of Octaves. This collection of stops is comparable to car that can only be driven in 1st gear.
@@organbuilder272 IYHO.
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O . . . M . . . G . . . !!!
I look forward to the day Scott Brothers take a trip across the pond to USA. Philadelphia would be a great stop. A few great instruments are Wanamaker Organ, Kimmel Center organ, Longwood Gardens organ and John Dickinson Theatre pip organ.
Don't forget the midmer losh (perhaps with both consoles!) and kimball in Atlantic city!
And the Methuen organ!
Bravo!
Csodálatos.Magnifique.
Wonderful
Now, this I'd love to have been done on the Wanamaker organ, something Jonathan could exploit the full resources of.
I think Jonathan at the keyboards (Many) of the Wanamaker organ would be akin to a kid in a candy store. There is no doubt, Like Daniel Roth's performance of the Franck 1st Symphony, it would be a stunning experience.
Superbe 😂
Damn that is beautiful. So nicely done. It is a careful and accurate rendition of this orchestral piece. From whence you came I know not. but it would seem like the spirit of Edwin Lamare is guiding your musical endeavors. No one, including the Virgin Fox, since his retirement has performed as many incredibly accurate and moving transcriptions of orchestral music for the organ. It was organists such as Lamare - and yourself - who provided entertainment for the masses, played on the great organs in the town halls of England until "The Modern era" brought distractions to make such performances no linger popular. Thank you for restoring interest in this material. You and your brother stand with Virgil Fox, E. Power Biggs and Lamare in bringing classic music to the masses of appreciative people once again. Well Done, Sir.
You missed out the household names such as Quentin Maclean, Sidney Torch, Horace Finch, Reginald Foort, Reginald Dixon who provided entertainment for the masses well into the from the 20s through to the 70s.
❤
Epic. I'd see this live before I would Jimi Hendrix
Well I suppose that is somehow a compliment but showmanship is no substitute for the skills of a real musician. The comparison between a glitz rock performer and a professional organist is not possible. In any case, it is highly unlikely that Hendrix, for all his stage antics, could not play an organ,
@@organbuilder272 It is also likely that Johnathan could not perform a guitar solo. Jimmi Hendrix was one of the greatest guitar players of all time along with Carlos Santana and the flamenco genius Andres Segovia. Johnathan is not really in Hendrix's league. Still I too would rather hear and watch an excellent organist with good presentation than a great guitarist with delusions of grandeur.
@@markhorton3994 Frankly, I'm glad to hear that. There are great steaks and great hot dogs. You don't compare them.
@@markhorton3994 Flamenco, Segovia? I don't think so!
@@bengunn99 He has been described as performing flamenco . Maybe they were mistaken.
I cannot find words. Except "Thank you". Superlatives seem almost worthless.
First seconds: smurfs :D
It boggles my mind how it seems these two fine fellows are able to get to a different organ in a different country every few days! How do you get the permission to play these different organs? They are usually locked up tight as a drum. How do you foot the bill for traveling to all these places? I much prefer your videos when playing before a live audience and showing the happy faces and applause after you play. Its more exciting when there is a live audience. One of these days if you get to USA, play the John Wannamaker organ in Philadelphia, or the Atlantic city organ,in New Jersey, or the organ at Radio City Music Hall in NYC, St Patrick's Cathedral in NYC, but you ill have to get Cardinal Dolan to give you the key to the elevator to get up to the organ.
Jonathan Scott is a concert organist, they invite him there.
Add to the list the Von Beckerath organ in St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh!
What mechanism locks the drone note at 12:10? Is it a hold per key or does it hold any depressed key on that manual? I can't tell if he pushed a piston or something else to lock that one key.
It looks like he is sliding something that is placed on the key to just underneath where the key goes under the organ casing, which essentially prevents the key from lifting up. You can also see how he slides that "something" away again when the drone note is released. Not sure what it is, but it is most likely an object of some sorts. One can very easily achieve the same with e.g. a pencil.
I can see, Jonathan is slides small, flat-surfaced wedge under the key-rest board to lock a key. The side camera is showing sliding action of his finger. Pencil is does not keep up for long, as playing is making some shakes in structure ; it slides of.
@@tomazzitek2110 Give you a like Temaz but you are wrong. He does not shake anything. There is a device withing the organ chamber with gently changes wind pressure to make - or imitate - the vibrato effect. A pencil under a key will do nicely, thank you, but it is quite obvious. Scott uses a wooden wedge
@@organbuilder272 Tomaz was pointing out that a pencil is more prone to slipping out on its own due to the "shaking" of the console as it is being played.
Always excellent, but I wonder if that hall really has that much of a reverb 'tail'..... Most concert halls I have been in have little more then 1.5 seconds and LESS when the audience is present. This sounds too much like a large church hall with HARD walls and floor with NO cushions on the seating surfaces...(which most concert halls have)... Do tell ??
So few women are commenting. Going through the comments, this is very obvious. Why is that?
Вроде ничево...!
Terrible. The organ is totally unsuited to this sort of music: this player has appalling taste, time and time again. Just a show-off really, not caring for anything but his own "act"!
Would you prefer an old pump reed organ? What a disrespectful comment!