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June 2010 Vodcast – Louis Vierne’s Carillon de Westminster
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You always make it look so easy and sound so great. I liked this organ work ever since I heard Virgil’s recording of it on the Wannamaker as a child. I understand the eight notes sounded by the bells of Westminster are based on an excerpt from Handel’s Messiah proclaiming “I know my redeemer lives…”
ive been working on a version of this my self ill upload it soon 🙂
Well done !!!!!!! 🙂
Molto bravo! Is it an improvvisation on the carillon theme?
Loved it! I learned this piece in college and you brought back fond memories. I can no longer play it!
Stellar performance!
Your Version of this piece is really beautifull!But that someone is right about the registration. Well, i also like this version, but look at the Version of Oliver Latry. The playing of yours is formidable but at the beginning…. there are 2′ stops with it, right? If im right, there should be some notes in the score, such as fonds 16′, 8′, 4′ . You can use this if you please ;)Greetings: MegaDani141
One of my favorite pieces of all time, and performed masterfully here by Mr. Jackson. Awesome job!
I like it – very well done, Mr. Jackson!
Excellent ! Very rithmic…
Grandios gespielt! Ich verneige mich.
lets hear YOU play it.
Très belle interprétation d’une oeuvre qui en impose. Bravo M. Jackson.
Herr Jackson, technich finde ich das, was sie machen, total super! Klingt auch sehr gut 🙂 Nach meinem Geschmack würde ich zwischen den einzelnen Klanfarben und vor allem auch Dynamiken etwas mehr differenzieren, dann fände ich es perfekt! Viele Grüße!
He’s got it. A superb performance.
WOW! And double wow!
very well executed piece!!!! Bravo!!!!
Bravo!Thank you.
Thank you for such an inspired performance – I enjoyed your effortless playing and rhythmic drive, ( often one hears this piece played too fast and without clarity).
Performance seems ok to me. Every performer is entitled to their own degree of ‘interpretation’. Whether you like the instrument itself is also up to the individual. For me, I once heard this piece being played in Westminster Abbey whilst sitting in the Quire. The chimes of Big Ben were had just finished when the performance began. Nothing else compares before or since, nothing else stands up to that performance given by Simon Preston back in the mid-1980s.
OMG! You buy a CD of organ music you like and then burble on about the organist not showing any emotion?! What is Dr Jackson supposed to do – bow and scrape at the console with a cheesy toothpaste smile on his face? Such criticisms are vacuous and unhelpful. Dr Jackson may well one day approach the stature of his namesake (retired) of Yorkminster.
One of the hardest things as a musician is to tackle a piece which is known to everyone who loves the instrument you play – and this is just one of those pieces. I imagine everyone who plays the organ thinks they know how this should go – even if they don’t play it themselves. Personally, I found this performance technically assured and musically compelling. And very enjoyable too. Congratulations!
Loved it, very well done
Dear Mr Jackson!! You played very well, but in the beginning the feft hand should play more quiet. i use only a Principal 8 in the left hand with closed recitand accouppled!! best wishes!!
Vielen Dank für Ihren Kommentar. Ich bin interessiert zu wissen, was ist Ihre Lieblings-Einspielung dieses ein. (Bitte entschuldigen Sie mögliche Grammatikfehler.)
die registrierung ist schlecht
Sigh…why do people always have to start a fight when someone criticises a performance. Everyone has the right to express his opinion as long as it doesn’t get offending. I would be careful when estimating a users competence only based on the shortness of their comment. You might be wrong…Maybe I should write a whole essay? But that would go way to far…I recommend Ben van Oosten’s recording of this piece in St. Ouen, France. There you’ll hear everything you need to know. Kindest regards.
So heartening to know that Dr. Sean Jackson has such a ready cohort of capable and qualified individuals to whom he can turn for reliable guidance on how to better his “not bad” technique and “barely any emotions” rendition!! For my part, I have enjoyed his interpretation of this splendid piece. It may be instructive that none of the critics here have identified themselves as professional organists. Always allow your understanding room enough to grow.
Forgive me for not seeing the need for the majority of this comment. “Can be” needs to be replaced with “are”, since ethnicity and talent/skill have never been at odds with each other. All ethnic groups are possessed of the same faculties. It is usually lack of opportunity (for whatever reason) that creates any misconception.
thank you for that good video. Nice playing. And thank you for the HD 720p.
Blacks can bexcellent organists, and surgeons, and singers, and bricklayers, and pilots, and attorneys, and plumbers, and engineers, etc., etc. He can improve this and make it absolutely wonderful.His pedal facility is excellent!
Indeed!
Tempo rushes in some places.No ritardando, such as at 4:39 and other places where it would be natural and welcome?Seems rushed and mechanical.At 4:24 I slightly lengthen the pedal notes.At 5:32 I do not shorten the pedal and left hand notes. I make the chords longer and more powerful.Nice, clean performance but disappointing.Wonderful hands!Well done video!
very nice, you play beautifully!
Excellent Work Sir!Wonderful tempo, registration, technique, and production both visually and sonically.Very Enjoyable!
This guy’s technique is not bad, but I have to agree with “iomanorgan” that there are barely any emotions. It’s too straight, no effects, sometimes way too fast! But it looks like the touch of the manuals tempts to play in an unmusical way…
Awesome – Brave – Wonderful!!!! Thank you!
well done
Excellent. Very professional performance…
I wanne push all those buttons ad the left and right side
but good !
where are the expressions ?!?!?
Hi Sean,
This is Karl Johnson…you played on my bass trombone recital at Juilliard about 10 years ago. My 6 year old daughter started playing the “doorbell” theme on the piano this morning and I told her that there was a really cool piece based on that theme. So I did a quick Google search and found your blog. We all watched your performance of the Vierne and loved it. You do great work and it was fun to see you in action again.
Yes indeed I remember you Karl. Good to hear from you. It sounds like your daughter is a rising talent!
I am very proud of this young Barbadian organist. What a wonderful God-given talent.
Great to see your channel on here!
Awesome Stuff!!
Sean you rock, amazing stuff!
Vierne was always one of your favourites! I simply must watch this again when I’m in Westminster later this week!! Good luck for the show in Barbados. It is almost 15 years since our concert there! That has flown by. We are heading towards middle-age. It must be time for another Barbados recital! Perhaps my son could perform on his toy xylophone. It sounds like Stockhausen……..!!
Thank you for your Heavenly music. My spirit feels the real freedom because of it. It lifts me up over worldly things and I am happy.
May our God, Jesus Christ always be with you on your roads.
Vladek.
Thank you Sean. I so look forward to, and thoroughly enjoy, your vodcasts each month. Keep up the wonderful work, and may God continue to bless you.
Sean – that was magnificent! I have to get larger speakers for my computer, for more accurate reproduction…and I just keep humming the tune – carillons just stick in my head, I guess. Have a great concert in Barbados. Bill and Elaine
Sean,
You are so talented…and this was beautiful!! I especially enjoyed the vieweing from different angles.
Great ending segment w/Justin. Best Wishes for Barbados and the rest of your concerts. Look forward to performances
from others.
Kelly