biggestelk
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With some help from Google translate...
The Minister of Culture, Franck Riester, said on France Inter that "the organ seems to be quite achieved" , while remaining cautious and emphasizing that "it is too early to make a total diagnosis" ....
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Interesting news from Sweden, and a sensible approach to the old instrument too!
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Here's the Letourneau in Selwyn College chapel here in Cambridge. I think it blends in well with its surroundings.
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According to www.southampton.ac.uk/music/about/facilities/keyboard.page
"Our 1976 three-manual tracker-action pipe organ by Peter Collins is currently being rebuilt off-site with a view to starting an exciting new life in a church building. The move has freed valuable floor space in the Turner Sims, which can now accommodate a full symphony orchestra."
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Plus a video here:... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIwVPafaWk0
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Thanks for the heads up on the Poulenc. Great fun but weren't the audience noisy or am I just getting old?!
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St Peter and St Pauls Lavenham have just said farewell to their organist - the organ there started life as a three manual Father Willis transplanted from another church, with a fourth manual Solo apparently coming from the remains of a one manual local instrument.
Wonder what the actual story is.....
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Thanks for the kind words!
Whether we make any more either videos and/or recordings depends on Anne's busy schedule and my ability to get time out of work to shoot.
We have some ideas but nothing set in stone as yet. Also we are at the mercy of the generosity of the various colleges and their chapels too.
If something comes up, I'll let you know!
Regards,
Oliver
(biggestelk)
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If I am allowed to sound my own trumpet so to speak, here is a video I made recently of Anne Page playing Bach's Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch' in Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge.
Hope you enjoy! :-)
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There is a recording from sometime ago of the Sonata by Thomas Murray played on the big Hook organ at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Boston which really convinced me of the merits of the piece. The playing is of course stunning but the organ with its clear choruses, wealth of solo sounds and generally less than romantic tendencies brings a somewhat lighter touch to the music than we often get. There is excitement, thoughtfulness and when necessary momentum but the playing combine with choice of instrument really brings a different perspective to things.
I too have this on CD and agree with you on this!
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Quite heavy when the shove coupler was on, but easy enough action to play if you can remember which blinkin notes you're supposed to be playing depending on the key!!! Not too deep, nice and positive, not spongy.
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I was very fortunate to have a quick guided tour/play on the North German School organ in the New Church, Orgryte, Gothenburg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_baroque_organ_in_%C3%96rgryte_Nya_Kyrka
Quite an experience. I haven't played a short octave, split key action before! Also, the two odd looking studs on the pedalboard, are in fact notes! -
THE ANSWER!!!!
#pipeorgan mystery solved. It was not in France or England, but in Brooklyn!! olrbrooklyn.org
thanks for your all your thoughts!
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An organ builder found the tape inside a bellow in a Gonzalez pipe organ.
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I ask on behalf of a Facebook user who runs a organ recording business in the States. He has this recording on tape but knows little more than what the piece is and that it is written in French on the tape...
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http://vandenheuvel-orgelbouw.nl/en/cds/item/340-35-jaar-van-den-heuvel-orgelbouw-bv.html
This recording is bl**dy amazing. I have family in Stockholm and have heard this beast in full flow a few times now and she makes a amazing sound! The CD was offered free with (I think) OR some time ago, and the Nuages ensoleillés sur le Cap Nègre is simply stunning, especially at the close with the big wooden pedal reed! If you need a 'listen' (mp3) let me know!
Oliver.
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I've had this in my YT favourite for ages, mindblowing stuff!
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Are they still available?
I've had a snoop around t'web and it seems not
I too have the set and the UPC (Barcode) is 3149025039729
Good luck!
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Perhaps this has been discussed before? I have recently "converted" from using my Novello version of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, a piece I have not played for some time. Now I am using the Barenreiter edition, which for weary eyes certainly is a luxury with clear and uncluttered pages, amongst other advantages. There are of course some passages notated differently from the Novello - but the one I cannot absorb is the G major chord that ends the Fantasia. Novello has a minor chord. I am aware that there are those who believe in the idea of minor key works of this time ending on major chords, but I cannot make this "fit" mentally into what has preceded it - it doesn't even offer my ears a sense of radiance after the chromatic tension it follows! So major or minor - what do others think ?
I agree, if you're going to follow straight through (so to speak) with the fugue, then it makes sense to go Minor. Mind you I prefer the tension in the minor at the end anyway! Major just seems too easy a let off after all that chromaticism!
My 2cents...
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Found a video of the descent from Pershore...
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Just ordered mine, Salisbury is next I'm told!
Oliver.
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Not Gloucester but my favourite recording (I think I've written about this on here before) of the Elgar Sonata is on the organ of the Immaculate Conception Church, Boston, USA (E. & G. G. Hook, 1863) - AFKA label by Thomas Murray. Fantastic playing on an amazing instrument. 'Not sure if available any more but if anyone is interested send PM.
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I too have this disc and love it. Old(ish) it may be, but has a wonderful warmth and clarity.
Anyone know the current fate of the organ as I believe the Jesuit 'reordering' of the church may have displaced it?
Oliver.
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Great news! 🙂