It reminds me of when I was a child and played this music on an organ at my dear grandmother Kika's funeral mass. I remember that I was playing with tears in my eyes, because I was very sorry for the loss of my grandmother. May God have her in Heaven!

This music is a prayer. Amen.

This piece is wonderful. Remembers so many things from my life, my childhood, family weddings, funerals, very meditative. And Jonathan performed it very well as usual. I get emotional whenever I hear it.

For over a hundred years, this lovely aria has been played at the end of the weekly evening song service in the great amphitheater at Chautauqua, NY. it holds a special place in my heart. Thanks so much for this beautiful rendition.

Haven’t been able to listen to this for decades, it was played at my fathers funeral and always reminds me of that. But this is a beautiful rendition and very much the organ for the music.

Magnificent---as ever ! So noble and exultant, thank you so much for all your superb and continuing efforts which are appreciated by so many of us around the planet.

This is the most beautiful pieces of music

The videography is just as spectacular as the organist!!!Bravo!!!!

Beautiful and amazing as always!!

The timing is different from the past I’ve heard,enjoyed it and the scenery inside cathedral is spectacular!!Great way to begin the day!!Thank You

I adore this piece , thank you so much for playing it .

Awe inspiring. Jonathan, you bring blessings to our lives.

Marvelous. Hope they play this at my funeral

So simple and beautiful at the same time. Two geniuses Handel, who composes, and Jonathan, who plays the king-instrument, is the supreme musical symbiosis. The Scott brothers' perfect collaboration is a huge musical and architectural gift to posterity.

Beautiful music and fantastic organ playing !

Köszönöm szépen ! Gratulálok !

What a beautiful arrangement and rendition. Suits the instrument, I guess, and definitely the cathedral. Bravo!

I once watched a documentary on the building of great cathedrals. It's still mind-blowing to me whenever I get shown those magnificent edifices. I've also seen the ruins in Scotland and Ireland, and it saddens and infuriates me to think of Henry VIII and Cromwell causing wonten destruction of such beauty, blood, sweat, and tears...

@grahamrankin

3 жыл бұрын

Quite agree, those two men have a great deal to answer for. Maybe they are still paying the price.....?

Wow!! Relaxing and majestic. Great music to begin my day. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️. Thank you

Wow!! What a beautiful performance.

wow! amazingly played

Handel's Largo has been my favorite classical piece since the 1960's. Thanks Jonathan for the beautiful rendition and thanks Tom for the always very well-done video and audio. I can't decide whether I like this one better than the performance of Largo at the Albion Church. Regardless both are beautifully done.

Absolutely magnificent. Thank you for sharing.

👏🏻. Wonderful interpretation of this magnificent composition. Thank you !

Absolutely gorgeous performance and Tom’s videography is brilliant, as always.

Thank you for this wonderful arrangement and performance. This Largo is next up in my quest to improve my piano skills, and you are providing inspiration to me.

The most beautiful rendition of an amazing work performed in a magnificent cathedral! Thank you for the masterly performance and superb visuals! I could watch and listen this over and over!!

HEAVENLY 💛💚💙💜🧡❤

Wonderful, thank you.

Bach, Haendel and Buxthehude, the best of all times

Beautiful. Thanks, Jonathan and Tom.

Another Handel's Largo video! Thank you so much! 😊😊😊

beautiful ...

Beautiful music, as always.

In questo splendore gotico...ombra mai fu!

That's a very different looking organ console, almost has a grand piano-like finish. Awesome sound.👍

-1 dislike, this is an indicator of greatness

My god! Amazing 👏

Sublime 😊

大好きな曲です💕 パイプオルガンの方が深みと哀愁があって素敵です✨✨

very nice

Beautiful! This is one of my favorite works.

Beautiful and fantastic as always Jonathan!😁👍👏👏👏👏❤

@CSLucas

3 жыл бұрын

Heel mooi

Mogę słuchać w nieskończoność...👌🎼🎵🎶Przepięknie !!

Strange that one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever created depicts the King of Persia singing about a shade tree . . . Superb, Jonathan. Thank you.

@ffc-i6n

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful dog

@IllegalMonkeStalin

9 ай бұрын

@@ffc-i6nI like children

Listening to this video (many times over due to sheer enjoyment) prompted me to also listen to other organists on KZread playing the same piece including that of Gert van Hoef. Although they - and he did a great job of playing, I think Jonathan has "nailed it" (to use the common expression). The sheer richness of the sound from 4:31 is quite amazing and simply not replicated elsewhere on other recordings. Thank you for making my enjoyment of music all the better.

@kevinosborne3528

Жыл бұрын

you are right , I agree .

magnifique, merci....!

Handell!!!!! Magnífica obra!

Very lovely, my friend. Very lovely indeed.

excellent 🙌🙌🙌

No matter how many times I have heard Jonathan play this, every time I become filled with unshed tears.

@chrismartin3188

3 жыл бұрын

Lovely sentiment Greta

Beautiful love it🍃

Bravo!!!

Simplesmente MAGNÍFICO💯

Beautiful thank you.

Super!

An aria composed by a German composer sung in Italian by a Persian king who is in love with a tree. But it is still beautiful.

Getting emotional at work... It's okay today as most are working from home (NZ level2 here). Take care all.

Very good!

❤❤❤

What a wonderful way to design shutters for the swell boxes.

@epincion

3 жыл бұрын

Those are not swell shutters but along with the abatons (lids) on the positif dorsal and main orgue are opened when the organ is in use and designed to throw the sound down the long very narrow and very high aisle. When the organ is not in use they close around the organ so it looks like a giant polished aluminum cylinder keeping the dust out.

@linddaipauls3584

3 жыл бұрын

@@epincion What a novel idea. It's breathtaking and is on par with the wonderful sound of this organ.

🎶🎵👏👏👏👏👏

This is beautiful and so is his other video of this piece

@ditto1958

Ай бұрын

But… tbh, although the Albion organ is a beautiful sounding one, Largo sounds better here in this video.

Fantastic. But the thought of hanging those banners gives me palpitations.

Come to my office today if I have to go out for

Ce largo composé par Haendel est une aria donc un air chanté, tiré d'un de ses opéras (Serse). Ce qui est extraordinaire dans "Ombra mai fu", s'agissant d'un chant profane (et donc tiré d'une œuvre profane, ni cantate, ni oratorio) à la gloire d'un vieux platane, chanté sur scène par un vieux roi Perse (donc bien avant l'apparition du christianisme 😊), ce qui est donc le côté peu banal, c'est d'une part qu'il est souvent interprété dans des églises (présence d'orgues oblige dans 99% des situations) et d'autre part et surtout, dont on a sorti l'air de son contexte profane pour en faire une hymne religieuse (avec évidemment des paroles moins romantiques et poétiques qu'un platane ombreux) Certains me diront que "arbre, roi, compositeur" sont œuvres de Dieu ; bon alors si vous le dites...! Mais pour moi "ombra mai fu" est surtout une œuvre musicale d'une telle immense beauté que pour le coup, il est extraordinaire qu'elle soit sortie du cerveau d'un humain, si génial a-t-il été. Dieu encore ? ça alors ! vous avez réponse à tout, vous mmh... ? .

Éxtasis...éxtasis...

"moving"

Please make a mistake just once 😆

@jb9652

3 жыл бұрын

Pedal part of Widor S6 1st movt, Albion church, penultimate page, pedals and manuals in unison high speed quavers: right foot catches the G# rather than the F#. IIRC. 😆 (I hope I'm right or else he might sue me for defamation of character!). That's pretty much all you're getting though (and it's totally mean of me to point it out because it's pretty much impossible to play that bit perfectly at tempo. Edit: I see you're an organist too - I think you'll know what I mean!). He's exceptionally accurate as you say! I think he's a totally extraordinary organist / musician. Not only consistently accurate, but also consistently rhythmical and musical. Really knows the music. Very rare with organists, in my experience. A great service to the instrument, and to the music, and certainly my family as a whole has very much enjoyed his regular morale boosting and spirit lifting recitals since the start of the pandemic. 🙂

Is there any rendition better suited to a rainy morning like today?

Bach, Haendel and Buxthehude, the best of all times