heva
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As you all know I feel rather sentimental about the old gal and I'd hate to think of her being mucked around too much (though I do remember one or two things that might profitably be improved).
Always nice to hear a man talk positive about his spouse
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My favourites are:
vol.7 - Epiphania Domine
vol.32 - Assumptione BMV (probably also the most popular form L'O.M.)
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vol.51 - Dominica XXIII post pentecosten (with the thrilling Te Deum)
Recordings:
- Vol.7 and 51 are combined on a disc by MB-Dufourcet-Hakim at Sacre-Coeur (Priory records)
- vol.32 is on a disc by Susan Landale at Caen (Calliope)
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I trust it is obvious that the above is in no way aimed at the professional players on this forum. They don't need to exaggerate anything. More likely they have the opposite problem – deciding what to leave out!
Come to Holland and have a laugh; what you mention is quite customary here:
- almost alway you read something like "organist Grote Kerk of ..." - Grote Kerk as in the main church of some village; very often "Grote" ("big" or "large") is not so big after all, and also often the position means nothing; playing some hymns on sunday (because that's what organists do here: play hymns, not much more).
- I once read of two young organist (students really) who played the entire Bach organworks; In a hospitalchapel on a small 2 decker; surely it comes up in CV's "played all J.S. Bach's organworks".
- also, it seems like you have to have your own cd-label over here; got a microphone? got a soundblaster in you pc? then your an organ-cd-producer!
"Has realesed his so-maniest-cd last year ....". (I just love to see an organ recorded with singers microphones in 'wrong' AB-stereophonic setups).
- there are about 2000 organconcerts in the summer in Holland, 90% of which I think is not needed, but boy is the KNOV (dutch organists 'union') proud of it. No, let's not concern about quality; quantity and especially 'vogue' rules in this union (can you imagine: some grocr who plays a bit calls a major soloist like Charles de Wolff 'colleague'?? gimme a break ....)
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There should therefore be no temptation to play the conclusion loudly, as is the norm!
Listening to other Buxtehude pieces should (also) prevent this (ie. loud conclusions); looks too much like gamba music to me, so register it like that.
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Saturday afternoon the film 'Hilary and Jacky' was on tv here.
Funny: Jacqueline was going to play a cello concerto in Berlin, and she was sitting on a sort of cello-soloist-stage in front of the orchestra in .....
St. Georges Hall, Liverpool.
Unmistakeble because of that organ behind her ...
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It is a great pity that none of Michael Smythe's recordings have been re-issued. Perhaps one of those enterprising people who re-master old recordings would consider this as a project, though it may not be economically viable. Mr Smythe published the whole of Rheinbeger's Sonatas at a time when their popularity was less than nowadays. His other recordings often introduced something unusual in the repertoire.
Robert Munns recorded John Cook's Fanfare (originally written for four brass bands at the Hampton Court Pageant) at Huddersfield Town Hall in 1968, when he restored the position of the fanfares to their position in the original score, rather than as in the organ transcription. 'Fanfare' is a fine piece unjustly neglected.
Are there any recordings of the Rheinberger organ concertos available nowdays? I still have the vinyls of E Power Biggs' recordings.
Barry Williams
Cook's Fanfare is also on Dame Gillian Weir's AlbertHall recording for Priory.
Pity we don't have such tubas here in NL
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Speaking of flooding: what a relief Worcester Cathedral organ was removed on time
ps. were has the phear smiley gone?
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Belgium is the place of surrealism; there is always
a joke somewhere. Would we receive a bomb from North Korea
on our heads, we'd joke about it.
We never know if we shall still exist after each vote; Mr Leterme,
supposedly our next prime minister, would like to drop the french
speaking part of the country, this bizarre southern part here, with more
deers than human beings, deep forests and 30% unemployment rate.
Are you interested ? (We do not want to be engulfed by Mr Sarkozy's France...)
For sale: 3,000.000 human beings, 2,000.000 cows and 6,000.000 deers,
and a climate a bit worse than (north western) Scotland.
Pierre
SInce the deers and the cows go to MM, we'll take Pierre
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Having seen UK police 'dealing' with a flood on YouTube recently (also featured here) - things look ok, don't they
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Wouldn't 'Carillon de Westminster' also be a very good piece to play "together"
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I haven't got any friends any more! :ö(
Let me guess, you're an organist
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ARGH!! No - this looked unspeakably ugly....
http://www.organrecitals.com/p/gallery3.ph...tabbeycelestial
This is about as ergonomically satisfying as having a Nigerian Dwarf Goat secured with Velcro to the side of a console, in order that it may act as a page-turner.
Hmm, the other boxes on the console are just as ugly.
Any DiscoveryChannel on the tv above the musicdesk
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And how about (yet another) 'set top box' above the left jambs (like on the right)? Seems easy ...
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Almost as a foot-note, I believe that the Acoustic Bass at St Margaret's, Ilkley, is unique in the UK, and the only one I know other than Alkmaar, which uses metal-pipes and goes down to 21.1/3ft pitch; being at proper 32ft pitch on the pedals down to low G.
Which Alkmaar is not (again).
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Hi
Thanks for this - I think it's a fairly new site -probably still a work in progress as there are no links on the portfolio page. I've added it to my bookmarks.
Every Blessing
Tony
Ofcourse it's relatively new; funny though, that it popped up on a french forum (actually Pierre's) before it's known here...
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Hi
I'm pretty sure Nicholson's don't have a web site - I've searched several times, looking to check or add info for NPOR surveys.
But then, websites are not much help if they are not kept up to date anyway, and a number of organ builders don't have details of recent instruments on their sites, let alone proposals for organs not yet built.
Every Blessing
Tony
Did you try this URL??
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Fortunately Nicholson & Co. have "some" pipework in store, not?
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Specially for you:
Latry explains one of the various way to get to the general tutti in NDP with a piece of Vierne:
1. Tutti
2. Tutti +chamades(régales)
3. Tutti+ chamades(régales) + Chamades Cochereau (slightly modified in 92)
4. The same + all couplings 8 and 16
Hmm, isn't that Widor's final of symf.VI (btw. the Latry recording on BNL is actually very nice).
There's something that intrigues me: today, young organists improvise in an x, y or z historical style. I don't recall pupils from the Dupré class doing so; indeed they studied 'historic' material hard (look i.e. at Messiaen harmonic treatise), but as far as I know they didn't do that in concert (and look at the different styles/personalities that grew there).
So how come it's considered of artistic merit these days. Personally, I don't consider it like that; too me it's an academic 'trick', a very profound (or maybe a 'real') understanding, yes, but is the ability to copy a Rembrandt or a VanGogh unmistakeble of similar value as the original masterpiece (well, if you succeed and sell, it brings more cash than any organplaying).
But since I can't compete on this level (did study harmony etc. though), I know my limitations
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Are you sure? The first track on the three-disc set l'organiste de Nôtre-Dame is the Prelude and Fugue, in C major (BWV 547), by Bach. Or do you mean the third disc?
There are similarities with the general style and some of the figuration. However, harmonically, this improvisaton has more in common with those of Pierre Pincemaille.
Indeed ,I meant the 3rd disc of course.
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As this thread is about impro, here an example of the skills of the young French organist class:
Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard improvises a sortie on "vive le vent d'hiver" (jingle bells) in december 2004 on the 42 stops Abbey organ of "St Vincent de Paul de Clichy (near Paris). He has obtained 8 first prizes at the Conservatoire national de musique de Paris.
Pupill of Pincemaille for impro and Harmony and Latry for interpretation.
Though it's an achievement, imho it's another Cochereau imitation - listen to the first track of the 3-disc set ' L'organiste de Notre-Dame' and you'll find the original for this 'style'.
BTW. by the look on his face, does he enjoy playing?
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Study/practice every day.
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Hmm, I don't play weddings anymore (besides, we don't have that many) - never liked it.
OT - there's a nice joke in Dutch language about the marital state;
The only words in Dutch that rhyme to 'huwelijk' (the dutch word for marriage) are: 'gruwelijk' and 'afschuwelijk" (horrible and afwul).
Makes you think
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If the organ overflows the current position and mostly fills the current old chapel space will it be the only organ with a toilet in it?
PJW
Nope, Rotterdam Laurenskerk has one (and a sort of salon with a piano in it) ...
Sydney Town Hall
in The Organ
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BWV565 at
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