I love Handel, much of his music is filled with joy. It makes me smile and tear up at the same time.

This is ferociously difficult as I found to my cost having put it down once thinking that it was easy.

You did this piece supreme justice, despite it’s obvious difficulties, you played it flawlessly. Congratulations and God Bless 🙏🕊✝️🕊🛐🕊🙏

The Best FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN for Organ in KZread! Congratulations!!!

"....some simplifications and additions were made." Great job letting go of unnecessary notes and adding your own!!! Perfect!!!

I love everything about this video - The registration choices are incredible. This makes my heart happy.

@MusicSmith2

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, Tim! Glad you enjoyed it.

I can't stop playing this, it's so good😢

You are WONDERFUL!!! Thank you! Beautiful!!! Wally

I have only sung the Messiah in a choir. I have little to almost no keyboard skills. However, I know this is a wonderful and difficult piece. Wonderfully done!!

OMGoddess this performance is playing ceaselessly in my heart, and throughout all my musical sensuous comprehension. I've repeated it 11 times already. Stunning technique, and rather an ingenious indeed "sexy" arrangement, my dearest GS! Thank you. Love andrea.

Absolutely brilliant. OMG, your Hauptwerk organ is beautiful. WOW! That must have cost quite a lot of money. Your playing & interp alone is astonishing & fantastic, but HUGE kudos playing it from memory. FUTU is perhaps my favorite Messiah chorus. I think the first time I heard it was as a child with Bernstein conducting it. It was one of the many wonderful selections of a volume the annual LP from Goodyear's GREAT SONGS of CHRISTMAS. I can't recall what year, but I've loved that chorus ever since that first hearing. Even the choral score reduction for accompanying a performance of Messiah with only organ (or piano) is fiendishly difficult. There is true genius in successfully playing orchestral reductions on organ for choral works. I am always amazed at the folks who are so adept & good at it. It's not just the ability to play these scores well, but to know how to register them well on the particular instrument one is playing. My late undergrad college organ professor was brilliant playing orchestral reductions & registering them. I will never forget his playing of the Verdi Requiem score & Bloch's Sacred Service & Brahm's Requiem on organ. He was a genius playing them & achieving the orchestral nuances & sounds of each score.

BROOOO WHAT?! This is SO GOOD!!

Wonderful! Your performance of this is sublime.

So brilliant!!! Great work!!

I have played it over and over again.

Clever arrangement, nicely registered and played. Thanks for sharing!

@erichkusterer6339

Жыл бұрын

Yes, a clever arrangement.

So wonderful! love this sound. The wonderful Marcussen Sound like all Marcussen organs. So great played Grant. Thanks to you!

Absolutely amazing! The best performance I've seen and heard.

Wonderful, you are gifted ..i really want to learn

Beautiful! Soul lifting! Thank you!

Well this was a nice surprise! Good job!

@MusicSmith2

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chenier!

Excelente 🤩

Wow wow bravooo💯💯💯👏👏👏

Wow! that's amazing to see you play this carol. God Bless You!!

Wow!

Best performance to date

Great job. This is so good performance! I subscribbed! Well done!

Fantastico!!!❤

👍 Uno dei migliori brani che abbia mai sentito!! La considero una melodia "alta che incide nei sentimenti e nello spirito". Tutto questo, grazie anche all'organista molto esperto!! Grazie mille che ci hai scacciato un po' di pensieri preoccupanti!!!

@allanmoore4353

2 ай бұрын

The reason I've always loved Handel his music is almost invariably uplifting.

Just discovered this arrangement! Love it. Precise and brilliant combination of stops and amazing technique! Thank you and God bless you 😇

How I wish u can teach organ the way I love its sounding

Espetacular ! 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

Beautifully played and well constructed. Well done!

This guy is a genius...he must be a prodigy when he was a baby😂

Parabéns! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Это лучшее исполнение этого произведения на органе, которое я слышал! Браво!

@user-xg3nb7dh3c

Жыл бұрын

верно!

This performance is ok, if you like hearing someone with talent. 🙂Congratulations on a VERY WELL-PLAYED performance. Your hard work, practice, tenacity, and dedication are all on full display. You're setting an excellent example for other organists to emulate.

greetings good day greetings thank you very much

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Very difficult. I highly apreciate your effort, because I know Handel's transcriptions by Best. How long did it take to learn this piece?

They saw you coming with that monstrocity.! 🤣

I was about to ask if this was the real organ you were playing on, and then I saw the cabinets and shelves behind you and realized it's just a very sweet setup you have in your home! haha That was a truly wonderful performance. Does the real organ look like the setup you have here, with the stop knobs and everything? :-)

@MusicSmith2

6 ай бұрын

Haha yes this is a home setup. The real organ is spectacular, I recommend you look up some pictures of the Laurenskerk main organ in Rotterdam!

Just Superb!!! I'm an organist too (to as good as you...). Can I have that score?

@MusicSmith2

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I found the score on IMSLP: imslp.org/wiki/Handel%27s_Choruses_for_the_Organ_(Handel%2C_George_Frideric) . For Unto Us is no. 121.

What console maker is this?

@MusicSmith2

6 ай бұрын

Mixtuur organs in the Netherlands. A very nice console.

I do like the version but not as much as the original.

20% slower would be much better...