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Virgil Fox Encores | 
 enlarge | Creators: Johann Sebastian Bach, William Boyce, Jeremiah Clarke, George Frederick Handel, Henri Mulet, Robert Schumann, Charles-marie Widor, Virgil Fox
Label: RCA
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 115181
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 61251
UPC: 090266125128
EAN: 0090266125128
ASIN: B000003FAY
Release Date: March 9, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | | • | 1, Allegro | | • | Aria | | • | Now Thank We All Our God | | • | Air on the G String | | • | Toccata |
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My first classical album (in 1960) October 26, 2008
S. S. Davis (New York, NY)
As a three year old, I listened to this LP album endlessly. It helped me develop a life long interest in organ music and organ building. The Riverside Church Aeolian-Skinner's sound and depth is one which I have instinctively compared most other organs to this day. Fox's charisma, style, interpretation and choice of pieces on this album I still truly love, even though I have learned to enjoy other more "traditional" approaches.
You'll never hear more imaginative but appropriate registrations, heart-felt renderings of Bach or energetic ones of Handel. As well, other pieces less well known, e.g., the Mulet and Boyce are special favorites. While Fox's style may not be in vogue today, at least academically, it was one firmly grounded in attention to technique and to a thorough understanding of the composer.
I could not think of a better album to buy for the first time, or one, like me almost 50 years after my first hearing, to download and fill out my digital music collection.
Masterpieces by the Master August 14, 2008
Joanne M. Buyniski (Worcester, MA USA)
Virgil Fox made organ music live...the nuances of his playing created mental images running the gamut from the gentle hush of dawn (Boyce, Ye Sweet Retreat) to thunder and lightning (Mulet, Thou Art the Rock) to perhaps the greatest virtuoso piece for the instrument, the Toccata from Widor's Symphony No. 5. No better introduction to the King of Instruments exists! The man was inspired -- may his music live forever!
My favorite classical music album September 30, 2006
R. Brough
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I first listened to this entire set of music on cassette in 1983 and prior to that I heard parts of it on a CBC radio program called "Gilmour's Albums" in 1979. It remains my most favorite classical music album. The range of sounds coming from the organ and the interpretation of each piece is wonderful. Having this music still available after nearly 50 years, and on CD no less, is a tribute to Fox and his outstanding talent.
 Good as an introduction to the organ (and Virgil Fox) January 23, 2006
S. Gough (New Jersey USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I hate to beat a dead horse (with 7 reviews) and to slightly contradict some of the previous opinions, but I can't agree that this CD is one of Fox's greatest. It serves as a fine introduction to those who want to hear the rich tonal palette of an organ and indeed, few are finer than Fox in the jaunty Schumann "Canon" and the oh-so-sweet "Ye Sweet Retreat." However, repeated listenings show the Little Fugue and Handel to be a bit sloppy, and the overall nature of the CD somewhat one-dimensional, with the faster pieces very fast and ending very loud, the slower pieces very slow and ending very softly.
This is not to denegrate Fox, who especially for an organist, had an unbelievable control and understanding of dynamic shading - it's more that the program itself suffers from a lack of variety. Perhaps this CD, being an RCA release, served an important purpose in getting organ music, and more importantly classical music in general, to the broader public.
But for more serious artistry, turn to recordings like Digital Fox (1978) and these unjustly underpublised re-releases of Fox playing major organs:
1) Virgil Fox at Hammond Castle -- available at organarts.com with samples and background info. Contains incredible, I mean incredible, interpretations of Franck's Grande Piece Symphonique and Reubke's Sonata on the 94th Psalm, to name only a few
2) Virgil Fox Command Performances 1963-1965 -- available on Amazon and organarts.com. Fox plays the organs of Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center (with an extremely intense reading of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor), Boston Symphony Hall, and the Riverside Church. GET THESE ASAP - THEY ARE SUPERB!
Excellent Music choice. December 12, 2003
Richard Coiner (Waynesboro, Va. USA)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Virgil Fox is without a doubt one of the most advanced organists in the new phase of Organs. As an Organist myself, there are many new changes with Organbuilding and how older Organists try to adjust and try to get used to. From the Sound of the Organ it is indeed a rather powerful Organ with what sounds like a Possible 32ft Reed!!! I do not know where this recording was held at, but You need to listen to some of the Samples that there is. There are a wide variety of moods with this organ all the way up to a very scary but demanding Full Organ! Buying this cd is a MUST. If not then at least listen to the samples. You will not consider it a waste of time.
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