Peter Allison
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I got my copy of this CD from the Organ Historical Society Webstore in the USA. I find their site an invaluable way and simple of acquiring items from countries whose language I do not speak well enough to risk ordering directly .
BAC
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
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Whilst in Gdansk last year, my wife bought me a CD:
Organy Katedry w Oliwie - Roman Perucki (DUX Recording Producers, Warsaw - DUX 0271)
which contains works by Handel, Bach, Mendelssohn, J. H. Roman (Swedish contemporary of Handel) and a couple of local guys.
I'm not sure of the availability in this country, but the organ sounds good and there is some useful information in the booklet in English.
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
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I have an LP from Salisbury's cathedral (Richard Seal playing Bach, Liszt
and Franck), recorded in January 1981. The organ was then maintained
by H&H since 1976, and before that by Noël Mander.
Was it then already "butchered"?
Ditto an LP from Hull city Hall (Peter Goodman playing Hollins, Kellner, Harwood, Sweelinck and Guilmant's fifth's Sonata), recorded in 1975 (published 1977).
Am I erring in liking it -as far as an LP can tell,I didn't hear it live)?.
Best wishes,
Pierre Lauwers.
Dear Pierre,
Why should you think you are "erring in liking it....." ? Until the thought police finally triumph and the world of George Orwell's 1984 becomes reality you are free to like whatever you wish in terms of organ timbre, action, size etc, etc. It does not matter in the slightest whether or not other people agree with you. And the impression I have gained from various postings by you which I have read is that you wish to preserve the widest possible spectrum of types of organ so that others too can have the opportunity to hear and make up their own minds, an objective which I would entirely support.
I also have both the LPs you refer to above and I like them too. I do not know Salisbury well (so I cannot judge how recorded sound compares with the reality as heard in the building)l but as a student I attended numerous recitals by Peter Goodman between 1966 and 1971 and got to know the Hull organ quite well. I think the LP conveys as accurate an impression of it as was possible to achieve with the technology at the disposal of Michael Smythe when he made the recording, bearing in mind that a single LP cannot possible demonstrate every facet of an organ of this size. If you have not already got it Priory Records PRCD 489 Organ Works of Whitlock Vol 1 is a CD of the Hull organ you ought to enjoy. You could have fun trying to identify which of the solo reeds is used in which of the pieces. I have it on the authority of Graham Barber himself that they all get an outing ! There was also once available a Priory CD of Adrian Lucas (of Worcester fame) playing various transcriptions , including the Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker with the melody on the solo orchestral bells. Is it even possible that the new Worcester organ might have a couple of percussion stops?After all Hereford has one.
Best wishes
Brian Childs
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
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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.
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Hi
If you've got access to Sky, the BBC R3 feed on there is uncompressed (except for the digital data reduction), and reflects most accurately the balance engineers' intentions. Most SKY digiboxes have an audio output that can be connected to a Hi-Fi system.
Every Blessing
Tony
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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