Pierre Lauwers
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If I win the lottery, Stephen, I might get them installed for you - by Klais!!
If you propone them to build a Tromba chorus with a Harmonics (also with
1 3/5' and 1 1/7' ranks), I guess they would accept the challenge with the
greatest pleasure.
Pierre
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The dissepeared (in 1938) Casparini organ of Görlitz, 1700.
Pierre
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My best wishes for 2010 include:
10 orders for new british organs on the continent by british builders
10 travels to central Germany organised for british organists
10 historic british organs rescued (from whatever period) and restored
after german standards -that is, true to the origin up to the nails-.
Pierre
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Not to forget : Thuringia !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ2pZgMSMUI
Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aW0OlI1tLM...feature=related
.....Quite different from Alkmaar & Co (without any prejudice
to their value, of course!) isn't it ?
Pierre
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There is another fine organ in Hildesheim; that of the St Andreas-Kirche. This is a IV/63 stop Von Beckerath of 1965 vintage. I remember playing this fine instument during my student days, and there is a very good Telarc recording of it from 1985, Telarc CD-80127.
The clarity of the choruses make it absolutely beautiful for Bach. An instrument worth hearing!
An historic organ, no doubt. It is to be hoped they won't imagine needs to
blow wind in the room there and change all for the sake of "things must be changed"
pathology...
I have recordings of this fine organ, but this said, as far as Bach is concerned,
it is about to the Antipodes to the organs Bach played. It is a 20th century organ,
suited to the music of the 20th century before anything else.
Pierre
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"Orgelbewegung/Authentic "
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A fine contradiction with only two words!!!
:lol: Such "Octopuses" we still have a number in Belgium today.
It was customary to glue some whistles on them (you know, that
standard cheap work, the same everywhere), or to sawn the celeste
to get a "Nazard" from it, but nobody would still do that today.
We indeed live in a noisy world today; engines and traffic, loudspeakers, have
deprived much of us of some hearing abilities, we are accustomed
to overdone effects in modern big-budgets movies, so that it needs
some effort to be able to taste Dulcianas and the like, hence the craze
for loud chamades -and the coming back of the Tuba-.
Once again, the "Baroque aequals Brightness" assumption is a false one.
It is not fair to the incredible riches of the baroque organ, a shortcut not
more to the point as "France= Froggs" and the like.
The "orgelbewegt" organ is a style in itself, just another interesting, genuine
page of the History of the organ. But it is not a "baroque" one.
Now how does sound a good Octopus like ?
Here is an example; indeed, this organ isn't an Octopus -it has 2' stops
and Mixtures- but here are only 8' used:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWkqZIE13k
(The player is Cindy Castillo from Belgium)
Van Bever (not: "Van den Bever"!) organs have big scaled fluework,
all in Zinc save the treble plus occasional ancient pipework re-used from a previous
organ.
Pierre
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As we say in my own language: Fronnlich Weinacht ze allen !
Pierre
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As far as Bach is concerned, the interesting organs
are in the "Neuen Ländern", the ex-DDR area also.
Do a Google on "Wagner Orgel"(1) and "Trost Orgel", and you
will soon find interesting contacts...Slightly less busy than
more "trendy", but less "Bach-close", places.
(1)- Use "advanced search" in order to be able to avoid the word "Richard"!!!
Pierre
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There is an historic video (from the french national archives) here,
featuring the Reims Cathedral organ presented by its titular:
This whole period, with its transnational connections, still need
to be explained.
There is the Gonzalez-Von Beckerath connection, there is the time
Von Beckerath spended with Frobenius before going back again
in France, there is the Klais "Bauhaus" style.....And probable connections between
those people and Holtkamp in the U.S. We see there a common adventure, involving
players we now see as distinct ones.
In that matter we should not forget one of the inheritors of the Von Beckerath tradition
is our host.
Pierre
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We do have a thread about the Reims organ on the french Forum.
All are conscious this is an historic organ one cannot imagine whatever
about...
There are several "northern connections" with Victor Gonzalez; through
R. Von Beckerath, it seems he also was influenced by Frobenius.
There are, in particular, some strange Gonzalez Mixtures, flutey, and
with only one break throughouth the compass, voiced by V. Beckerath,
in early Gonzalez organs.
This whole story should be investigated further. The language is so high
a barrier in France that even the Von Beckerath influence is often
ignored....
Pierre
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The 1930's period was a difficult one for the french organ, so that,
Alsace and Lorraine apart, true post-romantic french organs are seldom;
needless to say, out of this limited number, a majority have been "corrected"
by the "ta-ti-tuh-tah" tribe...
One major exception is the organ of Verdun Cathedral, built by a firm Marcel Dupré
ressorted to whenever he could
Photo and specifications:
http://frederic.chapelet.free.fr/verdun.htm
Sound files are now available here:
http://www.herisson.org/Verdun,%20ND,%20prog%201986.php
.....From this Website (worth a visit, with others french organs from the Département du Nord):
Pierre
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This must be, above all, seen as an open door -for all british builders-
towards the continent.
Leiden is not far from Belgium, so that this organ will be played
and heard by belgians...
Pierre
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Of course we do not know yet how long this interest for
the british organ will last.
But in the mean time it could produce quite interesting cross-over
styles.
As I said, this nearly happened once, just before the Orgelbewegung,
for example with Stahlhuth. Oscar Walcker could have followed, but
he was himself in so "visible" a position in so *peculiar* times that
he could not.
Pierre
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"Philipp Klais explained the company had been particularly keen to secure the Auckland project because it envisaged a style of instrument closely matching Klais’ own evolving thinking on the future of the concert organ."
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YESSSS!!!
Pierre
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Ah yes! I remember Aachen well....nice fountain-sculptures and a curious round-church.
They have a bit of a history of presenting the unpallatable at Aachen. I suppose I could be persuaded to absorb the music of Herbert Howells, if the alternative was death by the sword.
So we have ONE venue where Howells was heard at least ONCE......that's a start I suppose.
MM
....I think I already mentionned Ieper Cathedral. Of course, save potato fields,
there is nothing in the Polders !
As for Aachen, this is the Hofstat of my own language, minge bester Frenn'!
(We say: "Oche"). There are even some organs there:
http://www.aachendom.de/index229-0.aspx
Moreover, Oche/ Aachen was the town of a significant organ-builder, Stahlhuth:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Stahlhuth
....A pupil of Josef Merklin in Brussels, he built after a peculiar style, uniting
german, french and british influencies. you can have, for instance, french
Flûtes harmoniques, german Principals and strings, a Tuba bought in England
and Trompettes from Mazurie, Paris, in the same organ.
It is, therefore, not surprising for such a town to be some years ahead
of others!
Pierre
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This was customary up to the end of the 19th century:
Grossquintbass (or others names) 10 2/3' was labelled: 12'
Grossquint 5 1/3' was 6'
Quint 2 2/3' was 3'
....And the 19th sometimes 1 1/2' instead of 1 1/3'.
This was so in all european Orgellandschäfte.
Of course the pipes themselves did not differ in lenght from
those of today!
Pierre
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Aethereal Bach !
Played on the former Narbonne cathedral organ,
a post-romantic Maurice Puget, in the 70's:
Pierre
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As you already know, the fashion on the continent today goes
towards the german and english romantic organs.
So there is an interest for their repertoires as well.
And besides the Tuba tunes and others decorative, circumstances-driven
works, there are the deeper-meant works the british never liked
too much (pedantry, disturbing, etc, etc, etc); this is what is sought
after this side of the Chunnel, where Grigny is preffered to Balbastre.
Pierre
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...........or maybe launch - sorry - it's early!
A
Even better: you won't get out today. (Serviceman will come on Monday, 9 A.M.).
Pierre
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Oh definitely! I feel exactly the same way about the Matthew Passion and the Messiah. With all that fugal rubbish, I'm surprised they get any audiences at all in the UK.
MM
YES!!!
From a marketing point of view, Bach must be scraped save the only "good" Toccata.
"Concentrate on value", guys. Remember: 20% of your customers make 80% of
your income, and this, with 20% of your portfolio.
So: drop 80% of your products and 80% of your customers, and so increase profits !
(Of course you'll do the same next year, and, and, and...)
Pierre
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"Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the (Schindler) heavens. "....
Pierre
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"of the contributor to the August Organists' Review who suggested that recitals should consist entirely of "pieces with tunes" and that there should be no fugues?"
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A somewhat caricatural version of my point: This is suicide !
After 25 years at work in the Marketing, I learnt something
about it, ladies and gent'....
Pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap, and after us they can eat the stones!
Pierre
The 10 Organs You Would Most Like To Play/hear?
in General discussion
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[Good choices, Bazuin ! if you like Schlagl, then it is time to launch
a big action to rise Johannes Schnetzler, euh, John Snetzler's shareholder's
value !
Egedacher's are fabulous organs. (and the Aa-Kerk as well).
Pierre