Peter Allison

I too have that video, and also the C.C. from Redcliffe. Have you seen the Thomas Heywood Melbourne Town Hall dvd?? the quality is very good as is the 2 channel stereo sound track. I saw him at York Minster last year, amongst many things, he played the Bach BWV 542, toooooo fast, and it got muddled up in the very generous acoustic, but hearing and seeing it played on the Melbourne orga, it was excellent, I can highly recomend that one. Peter

I have bought a few items from the OHs site, have you seen the videos of Ms Roth at St. Sulpice?? the quality is very of very dubious quality, but the information and the music he plays is of the highest quality, being a "non playing" organ lover, watching the way he manouvers round those 5 manuals is wonderful

Roman Perucki sent me that CD when he recorded it, its quite good. I made a recording of him in Durham Cathedral playing the Whitlock sonata (final movement) the Reubke sonata and a polish sonata by Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz

I have a copy of that Adruian Lucas cd and its excellent, also I have an lp of a young mr Preston play it, I believe it has Liszt BACH on and I recorded it myself with a polish organist playin prelude & fugue in E flat with the mass for the parishes and other bits played inbetween. The city hall organ also plays a thrilling improvised march complete with drum rolls etc, ( a riend of mine improvised there for an hour, and I recorded it )

I have heard there are some really fine organs in and around Gdansk, a friend of mine Proff. Roman Perucki, is in charge of the "filharmonia" and is, or was organist at the Oliva cathedral. I suppose a lot of the good organs in that part of europe will have been lost during the war. There are probably some recordings of them hiding away somewhere.

thanks for that Tony, I have the sky+ system, so I will have to put it throgh the hi fi, trouble is the mrs ain't into classical music especially if it has more than one keyboard and 9000 plus pipes (and she calls me an anorak) so I will have to keep the volume down

I have not been that impressed with any broadcasts of the organ either at the A.H. or of choral evensong, I have been told that the BBC and others like classic fm as the sound is always compressed. I have recorded an organ piece of radio 3 and its at the same level , nearly, all the way through fom pp to ff. I hear Dame Gillian Weir is doing a concert at the Albert Hall in October, that should fill the hall nicely

Beverley Minster does seem to be a little underated as not a lot of people know about it as its stuck out on a limb. I was lucky to live just outside Beverley (Cottingham, Englands biggest village,,,possibly), I used to go to all the recitals there, and it is a marvelous instrument. Whilst on the subject of places to visit in East Yorkshire, what about Hull City Hall, I took a friend to play there on 2 occasions, and listning to the recording I made, it sounds excellent, and is the 3rd largest in the UK, I may be wrong tho. Now living near york, I will have to find some good instuments near here

Yes, it does seem I am out of luck, A friend of mine in Doncaster (David Rogers) has copied me his vt, but the quality is not very good. I did recentley get a dvd of Melbourne Town Hall which is excellent, thanks for the feedback

As a newcomer to this forum and as a "non playing" organ lover, I was wanting to know if anyone knows if Manders made a video diary of the rebuild at the Albert Hall, and if its going to released. I am trying to get a hold of a good copy of Gillian Weirs early BBC Tv series "The King of Instrements" and any other Organ related dvd/video product.