Virgil Fox Remembered CD
Virgil Fox Remembered CD
Fox Favorites in a Fresh Recording with Stunning Fidelity!
Peter Richard Conte dazzles with his flair for the Fox Touch in this rafter-shaking collection of Heavy Organ favorites. Included are works by Bach, Reubke, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Mulet, Elmore, Hebble and Fauré!
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Recorded live at the sellout 2012 Virgil Fox Memorial Concert, using the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ state-of-the-art audio equipment.
Accompanying booklet includes essays and a complete specification. Please scroll down for the play list.
GABRIEL FAURE: Nocturne from Shylock
BACH: Toccata in F Major
ROBERT ELMORE: Night Song (dedicated to Virgil Fox)
HENRI MULET: Tu es Petra
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN: The Lost Chord
ROBERT HEBBLE: Hommage to Fritz Kreisler (Londonderry Air)
JULIUS REUBKE: The 94th Psalm: Sonata for the Organ
...Grave-Larghetto
...Allegro con Fuoco
...Adagio
...Allegro
BACH/FOX: Come, Sweet Death
Wrote Choir and Organ in its glowing 4-Star review: Once again, the brilliant Conte demonstrates his unmatched mastery of the enormous and complex resources of this great ‘one-off’. Everything is translated aptly into the organ’s vernacular, from Bach’s Toccata in F to Reubke’s Sonata (with the final fugue really hair-raising in a Stokowskian kind of way). The 117-rank string division relishes Fauré, Elmore and Hebble while Fox’s signature Bach transcription Komm, süsser Tod, conceived in detail for the Wanamaker instrument, provides the fitting conclusion. A must for Fox fans? Perhaps; but while Conte absorbs some of Fox’s stylistic idiosyncrasies (for the occasion?), the histrionics are kept at bay, even if the tempi sometimes prompt the fur to fly. A heretical thought perhaps for Fox’s admirers, but Conte is surely a greater artist.