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841.0. "Virgil Fox on CD?" by NAC::PICKETT (Proud to be from Nashua, NH :^)) Mon Aug 03 1987 14:54

    Before I start calling around for catalog searches, I wonder if
    anyone here knows the status of these recordings. Virgil Fox made
    two live recordings "Heavy Organ: Bach live at Fillmore East" and
    a second in the 'Heavy Organ' series (the title escapes me) which
    was recorded at Winterland. Both recordings were on MCA. Both were
    formerly released on DECCA. I'd like to know if these (for that
    matter ANY of Virgil Fox's recordings) are out in CD. The live
    recordings won't win any awards for high fidelity, but the performances
    are perhaps the most energetic live performances of Bach ever recorded.
    
    
    Heavy Organ: Bach Live at Fillmore East
    
    Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
    Perpetum Mobile for pedals only (arr. Mittleschulte)
    Nun danket alle Gott (Now thank we all our God. arr. Fox)
    and more
    
    Heavy Organ: Recorded at Winterland
    
    Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
    Gigue Fugue
    Air for G string (arr. Fox)
    
    Thanks,
    dp
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841.1The Digital FoxCSSE32::RHINEJack Rhine - DTN: 381-2439Mon Aug 03 1987 22:4216
You can order The Digital Fox for $21.00 + $2.00 for postage and handling per 
order (US), or + $5.00 for 1 or 2 recordings foreign from the Organ Literature 
Foundation, 45 Norfolk Rd, Braintree, MA 02184.

It was recorded August 28-31, 1977 at the Garden Grove Community Church, Garden
Grove, California, and contains:

J.S. Bach - Toccata & Fugue in D Minor
Jogen - Toccata from the Symphonie Concertante
J.S. Bach - Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue
Franck - Piece Heroique
Alain - Litanies
Widor - Toccata from the 5th Symphony
Vierne - Finale from the 6th Symphony
Dupre - Prelude & Fugue in G Minor
Gigout - Toccata
841.2PSW::WINALSKIPaul S. WinalskiMon Aug 03 1987 23:5312
RE: .0

I agree about the live "Heavy Organ" performances.  I was at the Hartford, CT.
performance and it is one of my fondest musical memories.  I am very
disappointed by the albums, though.  First off, the sound quality is poor.
That I could live with (after all, it's a rock-concert-style live recording).
What bothers me is that the music's been butchered.  They cut pieces out
here and there to make it fit on an album.  The development section is missing
from the D-major Prelude, and the whole Prelude of the A-minor Prelude and
Fugue is missing.

--PSW