Virgil Fox Remembered

Virgil Fox Remembered

Peter Richard Conte commemorates the centennial of Virgil Fox's birth in a live concert given on the Wanamaker Organ, playing works connected to Fox and from his repertoire on the 464-rank organ, the world's largest functioning pipe organ.
Gabriel FaurÃ©, arr. Robert Hebble: Nocturne from Shylock
J. S. Bach: Toccata in F
Robert Elmore: Night Song (dedicated to Virgil Fox)
Henri Mulet: Tu es Petra
Sir Arthur Sullivan, arr. Peter Richard Conte: The Lost Chord
Robert Hebble: Homage to Fritz Kreisler (Londonderry Air)
Julius Reubke: Sonata on the 94th Psalm
J. S. Bach, arr. Fox: Come, Sweet Death, BWV 478
Virgil Fox Remembered
Famous for his prodigious musical gifts, Virgil Fox was an unprecedented 20th-century phenomenon. He possessed dual virtuosities as a musician and as a showman. Fox developed his musical skills with a technique that imaginatively used the full range of technical innovations in pipe organ building., including a new level of control over rapid changes in stops.. As a showman, he engaged a persona, programming acumen, and canny advisors who helped him woo the public. The combination brought the masses to mid-century pipe organ concerts in numbers that had not occurred for a decade or longer. He famously played the huge organ in John Wanamaker's Philadelphia Department Store for the national AGO convention in 1939, for which he famously arranged Bach's song, "Come Sweet Death," an experience recreated here by virtuoso Peter Richard Conte, also playing other Fox favorites. Stupendous sound!
Country USA
Manufacturer Raven Records
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2016-07-12
UnitCount 1
UPCs 034069697628
EANs 0034069697628

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Raven Records
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2016-07-12
UnitCount	1
UPCs	034069697628
EANs	0034069697628

Virgil Fox Remembered

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